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How To Accept an Apology at Work

The People Equation

Has anyone ever said anything to you at work that was really hurtful or snarky? It’s an experience we can all relate to. Sometimes it’s an intentional slight or power-play. But here’s the thing. More often, it’s an unplanned quip and your colleague wishes they could take it back. There are a couple of different ways you can go when this happens. Personally, I advise going the civilized route—if they apologize, accept.

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5 Essentials To Build A Productive Workplace In  The New Normal

Hppy

A productive workplace is the mainstay of a successful company. The pandemic has redefined workplaces as the hybrid model becomes a norm. But HR managers need to make sure that employees give their best, whether they operate from the company office or home. It may sound overwhelming to you as an HR professional. But the good thing is that securing productivity across physical and digital setups is pretty much the same.

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Your 2021 payroll questions answered.

Business Management Daily

Although things are starting to calm just a little, the impacts of pandemic-related legislation, sudden moves to remote work, and more are still being felt. Now is when the flood of confusing legal questions arises as businesses start to try to return to normal (and perhaps realize that normal doesn’t quite exist anymore). Regardless, you can’t put payroll on hold simply because things are confusing.

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Digital Transformation is Rewriting Work

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. I’m sure that the title of today’s article isn’t really a surprise to anyone. Technology has been disrupting business and the economy for quite some time. However, one of the things I’ve been hearing consistently since the pandemic became front page news is how unprepared organizations have been for digital transformation.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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The C Sheet | July 23, 2021

Visier

1. Is the four-day work week here to stay? It is in Iceland! Their four-day work week trial was a glowing success: Productivity levels remained the same, while employees reported an improvement of overall health. Find out which countries may follow suit. Four-day week ‘an overwhelming success’ in Iceland (BBC News). 2. Keep your unlimited PTO, I’ll take a new car.

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Don’t downsize your office before considering these key factors

Business Management Daily

Today we get to don our interior design hat, not something we often get to do in business. However, it’s an important topic of conversation right now for businesses returning to “normal operations.” Many employers are looking at how their workplaces are configured and assessing whether they can downsize since more employees will be working from home at least a few days a week.

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Employee Productivity Means Having a Healthy Relationship with Technology

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. I’ve been seeing a lot of articles about stress and burnou t lately. I’m sure you have too. All with some sort of advice on how to manage and minimize it. However, there is one consistent thread in all the articles – technology. Technology is an important part of our personal and professional lives. There are wonderful technology tools that can help us save time and money.

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How to Lead with Data: A Conversation With Andrea Derler

Visier

With a background in management research, science, and human capital consulting, Andrea Derler brings her fascination with human dynamics in organizations to lead our research efforts. Learn more about our new Principal of Research and Value in this profile! Andrea Derler, Ph.D. Andrea Derler is a researcher at heart, a woman in business, and a mom of two kids.

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How Company Culture Drives Employee Performance

Achievers

When you work in the HR department, it’s easy to become enmeshed in all the ins and out of compensation, benefits packages, and employee performance reviews — it’s a big part of the job! But money isn’t everything, and employees know it. In a survey of talent trends , three things in particular rose to the top of employee wish lists: flexibility, wellness, and purpose. .

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Automate Your Onboarding Process In 7 Steps

Efficient employee onboarding is more than a warm welcome—it's a catalyst for business growth. Automated onboarding transforms new hires into productive team members faster, fostering long-term satisfaction and talent retention. For HR, automation means replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, cost-effective operations. Our eBook reveals how automating employee onboarding delivers these benefits, reducing HR challenges and elevating new employee readiness.

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What Are the Seven Steps to Succession Planning?

Intoo USA

Succession planning—a process for creating and maintaining a talent pipeline —is a necessary part of talent management, and is something you’ll appreciate having done especially when faced with a sudden, unexpected event. While the process is not complicated, following these seven steps to succession planning will ensure an outcome with a greater potential of acceptance by all those affected by the change, as well as a better opportunity for business continuity.

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How to Attract Rockstar Talent for Your Business

PeopleStrategy

As hiring rates increase post-pandemic, companies are feeling the pressure to acquire talented employees to integrate into their teams. These new hires must be both highly skilled and committed to improving company performance in the long term, not just filling an open position. In fact, according to HR Exchange Network, the most common estimate shows … How to Attract Rockstar Talent for Your Business Read More » The post How to Attract Rockstar Talent for Your Business appeared first

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New Research Reveals Financial Services Skills Crisis

Visier

Financial services organisations are used to dealing with change since adapting to macroeconomic upheaval comes with the territory. But they now face a new, looming threat: The Great Resignation. This article was jointly written by Visier team members Robert Sullivan, a Business Development Representative, and Joseph Honess, an Account Executive. Employee resignations are on the rise , and data indicates that financial service workers are considering their career options–in significant numbers.

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A New Category Emerges: The Creator Platform For Corporate Learning

Josh Bersin

Many of you have heard me talk about TikTok as a learning platform, and you probably thought I was talking about the entertaining videos. No, it’s much more. TikTok is not just entertainment, it’s a Creator Platform. TikTok development tools are amazing. Today millions of young people (and old) are building interactive videos, extravaganzas of.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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Key Ways to Boost Construction Productivity with eSignature

SutiHR

In the construction business, the mobility of specialists is intense. For every new construction site and a new project, the team of specialists can vary. Hence, it is crucial to keep employment documents intact. Before starting, the work contracts should be drawn up properly. Paperwork has been a critical aspect of business and can be time-consuming.

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4 employee value proposition examples to survive the Great Resignation

Workable

A Microsoft study from earlier this year found that 41% of the global workforce are considering leaving their employer this year, and those intentions are becoming a reality already. The number of workers who quit their jobs in the month of April alone was the highest it’s ever been since this metric started being recorded about 20 years ago; nearly 4 million people quit, pushing the quits rate to 2.7% of those employed.

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Six ways to keep employees engaged and motivated over the summer

HR Zone

Culture Keeping spirits up through another Covid-19 summer.

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HR Tech Is White Hot: Is Every Vendor Now A Unicorn?

Josh Bersin

The HR Tech market is as hot as I’ve ever seen it, with most of the funding announcements showing $ Billion valuations. As I like to tell my neighbors, a Billion Dollars ain’t what it used to be. But it’s still a lot of money. Why the growth? Virtually every economic signal points toward more. Read more» The post HR Tech Is White Hot: Is Every Vendor Now A Unicorn?

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The Essential Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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A Step-by-Step Guide for Choosing the Best Help Desk Software

SutiHR

No doubt, selecting the right help desk software for your organization can be an overwhelming process. Every software development company in the market provides its own set of unique traits and features. On the other hand, the customers are an integral part of your organization. The features and solution you provide must be tailored to the needs of the customers.

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2 must-haves for a strong hybrid work plan from a Stanford expert

HRExecutive

Pre-COVID, remote work was embraced only by a handful of employers. Now, of course, that model has grown exponentially due to the pandemic—and it will likely stay that way for the foreseeable future. Nicholas Bloom. “Working from home completely exploded,” Nicholas Bloom, William Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University and a remote work expert, said Tuesday during an HRE webinar.

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To Ace Your Next Interview for a Management Position, Be Ready to Answer These 10 Questions

The Muse

Be prepared for these common interview questions for manager roles with advice on how to answer them and how to choose and tell the right stories to land the job.

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5 Strategies for Onboarding New Hires Virtually

TalentCulture

It is imperative to establish a robust onboarding procedure for building a productive, engaged, and cohesive workforce. However, a small portion of new employees agree that their company does a […]. The post 5 Strategies for Onboarding New Hires Virtually appeared first on TalentCulture.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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Résumé Red Flags: Post-Pandemic

Hospital Recruiting

As the talent market tightens, many institutions are loosening their requirements to hire. Three to five years’ exact experience has shifted to one to three years’ relevant experience. This might be a good thing – opening up facilities to a larger applicant pool that is just as qualified and capable. While casting a wider net is important, make sure you’re not overlooking obvious or subtle red flags on the application or résumé.

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HR Tech Conference 2021: Why EX is at the forefront of HR technology

HRExecutive

If you can, and I understand if this is difficult, think about what your primary work-related goals and HR technology strategies and plans were prior to March 2020. Seems hard to think back that far, even though in “normal” times, it was not really all that long ago. While you consider the question, I will share a major theme that was on my radar in March 2020 as I was planning the agenda for HR Tech 2020, which, like most conferences and events in the past year, transitioned to a fully virtual

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8 Clever Ways to Welcome New Staff to the Team

6Q

Getting the right employee for your business costs time and money. And after searching for, interviewing and hiring the right one, don’t risk losing them with a poor welcome. How well staff are received can directly affect productivity, morale and retention so it is important to welcome new staff in the right way. First impressions do matter so the welcome should showcase who the organisation is.

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How to uncover hidden workplace conflict and facilitate constructive conversations

HR Zone

Culture How to uncover hidden conflict.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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companies incentivizing returning to work, shaking your hair out in a meeting, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, companies incentivizing returning to work, shaking your hair out in a meeting, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Companies incentivizing vaccines and returning to work. My company is providing a return-to-office incentive to pay for office supplies if you’re staying home or wardrobe updates if you’re headed back to work.

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How data and storytelling can work together under the new SEC rules

HRExecutive

As the pandemic ushered in myriad shifts for employees, many leaders responded by leaning heavily on one skill: empathy. Advertisement In fact, according to a recent Businessolver report, employees this year rated both leadership and their organizations higher on an empathy scale than they did before the pandemic. Now, as organizations strategize for what the post-pandemic workplace will look like, many are striving to embed a more “human” approach—an effort that experts say can be elevated by a

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What Can You Do With a Math Major? 10 Great Jobs to Explore

The Muse

If you have a math degree, you have plenty of choices when it comes to jobs. Here are 10 to consider—plus the math major skills most coveted by employers.

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