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HR leader’s mental health counseling background helps her lead culture, engagement, and talent development at Fortune 500 company

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That’s certainly the case for Michelle Reaux, VP of culture, engagement, and talent development at Insight Enterprises. It fits really well with what I do today because you’re looking at how people work, how groups work, how teams work, and that's really what I was trained on,” she said. I truly have the best job at Insight!

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Microsoft cuts some of its DE&I staff

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“True systems change work associated with DEI programs everywhere are no longer business critical or smart as they were in 2020,” they wrote, before arguing that all corporate DE&I initiatives are at risk due to conservative political agendas, IGN reported. Microsoft would not disclose how many employees were impacted by the layoffs. “As

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Paramount is ahead of the curve on Eldercare

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In 2010, only 3% of employers provided any kind of subsidized eldercare benefits, according to a 2014 survey by SHRM. We really look at and listen to the feedback that we get from employees, and we were hearing a lot about the struggles with eldercare,” said Martin. So you really [have to] look at it from different ways.”

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A good internal comms strategy is crucial to employee engagement and retention—but employers aren’t getting it right

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And this doesn’t just apply to George coming clean to Martha about what really happened at last year’s endodontist conference in Pasadena—it goes for companies and their employees, too. That said, some companies are doing a poor job at employee comms, a new study from USC Annenberg and Staffbase, an employee communications platform, suggests.

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5 Culture Trends for 2019

As we approach 2019, major shifts in the work environment will continue to affect the ways companies do business. Companies that are looking to attract, engage, and retain top talent should leverage these trends to create workplaces where employees thrive.

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LinkedIn has transformed HR over the last 20+ years. Its execs have big plans for its AI-powered future.

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One of Hari Srinivasans first projects at LinkedIn was to help design the platforms profiles. Look at the profile today. Theres a lot happening [at] LinkedIn, but that human-to-human connectionwas always an insight that stuck with me, he said. based company in 2014. He imagined the first encounter between two networkers.

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One decade after SHRM launched its HR certifications, who gets the most value from them?

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Questions, ranging from which conflict resolution to provide or which steps to take before purchasing an applicant tracking system (ATS), are designed to test HR pros competency, a focus SHRM claims was a key driver for launching its certifications. I know people want to look and compare and contrast at the end of the day, Alonso said.