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Stop the Presses: California’s Freelance Journalists Await the Pinch of AB 5

SHRM Resources

A California law that takes effect Jan. 1 limits publications from accepting more than 35 pieces a year from each freelance writer, photographer and newspaper cartoonist. Here’s how the new law may affect employers and freelance journalists.

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17 Mind-blowing Statistics on Performance Reviews and Employee Engagement

ClearCompany HRM

Constructive feedback is vital to an employee’s ongoing development. A Players and underperformers alike need timely, specific, and helpful feedback to reach their full potential. Positive feedback helps build confidence, while constructive criticism clarifies expectations and allows people to learn from their mistakes. 96% of employees said that receiving feedback regularly is a good thing.

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How to Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle at Work

PeopleStrategy

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle can be challenging in general, let alone at work. You’re constantly thinking, focusing on multiple tasks and projects, staring at computers and eating lunch out and on the go. While living a fast-paced lifestyle and juggling multiple things, it is easy to let your healthy living practices slip away from you. But there are some ways you can alter your daily routine to take better care of yourself while on the job.

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2020 Recruiting Trends: Technology and Human Connection Drive Recruiting Success

Engage2Excel

At the HR Technology conference this year, HR analyst Josh Bersin observed that while HR technology is rapidly changing across the board, the most dynamic area of growth is in recruiting technology. New advancements in AI, assessment, sourcing tech and mobile functionality have radically altered the recruiting experience for both recruiters and candidates.

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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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Don’t Sugarcoat Performance Reviews

SHRM

By far one of the biggest mistakes that managers make is inflating grades on annual performance reviews. Wanting to minimize confrontation, many managers give "meets expectations" scores to underachievers or workers with records of poor behavior. This documentation can come back to haunt managers should the organization later look to terminate the worker's employment.

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Learning Technology Evolves: Integrated Platforms Are Arriving

Josh Bersin

The enormous market for training and learning tools is very fragmented. Today there are more than 200 LMS vendors, more than 30 LXP vendors, and thousands of vendors who build collaboration tools, mobile learning tools, content development tools, and analytics tools. (Roughly 12% of the $240 Billion corporate training market is spent on tools.). While.

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2020 Talent Predictions That Probably Won’t Happen

Allegis Global Solutions

There’s not a whole lot in talent acquisition that anyone can actually predict (its inherent unpredictability is what makes recruiting fun, after all), but that doesn’t stop every prognosticator and pundit in the TA and HR Technology business from trying. Perhaps the most predictable thing in the entire business of talent are the specious, spurious and soporific “prediction” posts that proliferate on pretty much every editorial calendar in the industry.

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How to Do Employee Performance Reviews for Beginners

Hppy

One of the most important parts of being an employer or manager is doing performance review. If you have recently stepped into the managerial position, it’s ok to feel a little pressure when judging people based on their performance. Where your MBA degree might have taught you a little about motivating and managing people under your supervision, it doesn’t prepare you for the hardest part of your job: performance review.

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Can We Terminate an Employee on Workers’ Comp?

HR Counselor's Corner

If you are thinking about firing an employee that has just filed a workers’ compensation claim, is on a medical leave collecting workers’ compensation benefits, or has just returned from such a leave, you may want to re-think your decision to terminate.

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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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The Problem With HR

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

For 30 years, we’ve trusted human-resources departments to prevent and address workplace sexual harassment. How’s that working out?

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Working Well: Building a Future-Proof Employee Experience

TalentCulture

Next Gen employees. Greater flexibility. Increased global collaborations. Quicksilver turnarounds. Remote teams. Expectations of transparency around process and purpose. An engaging, consistent experience that provides employees with the means to achieve more and stay with you longer. A clear purpose and the means to pursue it. These are just some of the focal points in the world of work right now, and as you read this you’re likely considering a few more factors for the […].

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5 Steps for Creating an Effective Performance Improvement Plan

ClearCompany HRM

Organizations are looking towards HR to help better manage their employees. Today, the key to having self-motivated employees is effective coaching. Coaching Strategies for Performance Improvement. By combining the two main aspects of coaching, feedback and goal setting, employees are presented a concrete roadmap of performance initiatives that they want to achieve, along with developmental training on how they can succeed throughout their role.

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13 Employee Engagement Trends for 2020

Vantage Circle

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change. -Charles Darwin. Darwin might not have quoted the above line with respect to business, but his words seem to echo in the business world, now more than ever. And managing people is no exception. Employee engagement is a very abstract concept. It is the “emotional connect” that an employee feels towards its organization.

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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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HR Carnival: 2020 HR Trends

Workology

Workology is proud to host the November edition of the Carnival of HR. Our topic is 2020 HR Trends. Find posts on how 2020 HR trends are impacting the workplace, be it in recruiting and hiring, Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Ace tech recruiting: advice from recruiters and candidates

Workable

Finding great employees is never easy. But tech recruiting, specifically, has challenges of its own: you need to look into the right places, have a stellar approach and pitch your company culture, if you want to attract the best developers out there. And you have to be fast, because competition for tech talent is particularly fierce compared to other disciplines.

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Supporting staff through the menopause: what employers need to know

cipHR

Talking about this life stage and educating all staff will benefit your organisation and those experiencing symptoms. We all know someone who has been through, will experience or is currently going through it – but what do you really know about the menopause, and how it affects the person experiencing it? Reproductive health is still a taboo subject in the workplace, yet the effects of the menopause can adversely affect performance.

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Diversity and inclusion: gendered ageism and how HR departments can address it

HR Zone

People HR's role in stopping gendered ageism.

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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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Recruiting with AI: How New Tools Improve Efficiency and Lower Costs

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Many organizations I talk to find recruiting to be complicated and challenging. According to Monster.com , 71 percent of recruiters say they struggle to fill a position because of candidate skills gaps. Simultaneously, job candidates also expect a more positive experience with a potential employer, and organizations are looking for ways to improve candidate experience.

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HR Trends Organizations Need to Prepare For in 2020

TalentLyft

There are a host of HR trends in 2020 that will change the way HR teams work in and amongst themselves and with the corporate environment at large. Check out the list of these HR trends and learn how to adapt to them! Read More.

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The 7 hidden benefits of team-building activities

HR Morning

Team-building activities can strengthen company culture and provide a wide variety of benefits. You probably already know that team building creates a stronger bond between employees, improves team communication and encourages collaboration. But how about some of the other, lesser known benefits that aren’t discussed as much? Here are seven hidden benefits that will provide value to your company’s culture when you invest in team-building activities.

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What are the Benefits of Having Mindfulness Programmes at Work

6Q

Listless employees, poor performance, and stressful workplace environment are not new to any manager. We can resolve this if we adopt mindfulness which can work wonders in developing employee well-being, motivation and productivity. When mindfulness is integrated into an organisation, challenges to boost team motivation enough to achieve business goals becomes history.

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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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Measuring the Business Benefits of Flexibility: A Win for All Sides

TalentCulture

As always, I’ve been following the trends that are really going to change the way we work. Among them: the need to continue evolving our concept of the workforce and the tools changing how, where, and when we work. Generation after generation is moving closer to a completely digitally-enabled form of working. We’re now welcoming the first wave of Generation Z into our organizations.

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4 Ways Performance Management Benefits the Manufacturing Industry [Infographic]

ClearCompany HRM

HR technology has continued to make appearances in the manufacturing industry from recent years. Employees play a vital role in operations and the overall success of the industry, so it’s important to keep them wanting to come back to your workplace, and focusing on their engagement will do just that. Not only do engaged employees outperform those that aren’t by 202%, but they are happier and want to see their contributions benefit the company's long-term goals.

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Everything You Need to Know About Pulse Surveys

Bonusly

Surveys, surveys, everywhere! As consumers, we're constantly asked to take surveys. Prompts for surveys line the bottom of most receipts and come at the end of almost every customer service call. At work, on the other hand, we're rarely prompted to share our opinions. ??. "Most organizations (74%) will still use formal, large-scale surveys to gauge how employees feel about their jobs and workplace." – Gartner.

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Gratitude Is A Part of Employee Recognition Too

Engagedly

The holiday season is upon us. And in most parts of the world, gratitude and the holiday season go hand in hand. But while we are comfortable with gratitude on the outside, in most organizations, there tends to […].

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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Hiring a sales team? Avoid these 4 candidates

Workable

Do you seem to fall flat day in and day out when you hire sales reps? Hiring a sales team is no easy feat. Your candidates looked good on paper – or even seemed great in person – but once they actually started working for you, they became a walking disappointment. So what’s going on here? Maybe you didn’t catch the red flags when they came up. There are many different red flags to look for when hiring a sales rep.

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27 Excellent Ways To Foster And Boost Happiness At Work

Vantage Circle

In the corporate workplace culture, happiness plays a crucial role in determining the productivity and satisfaction of a workforce. It also enhances the image of a company and improves its ability to retain its employees for the long term. So, it is fair to say that happiness at work is indispensable. Yet, the concept of happiness at work has only started to gain prominence in the past couple of decades.

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Financial wellbeing: Why 2020 should be the year that employers offer financial education

HR Zone

Change Taking financial wellbeing seriously in 2020.

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