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Top Funding News in the HR, Recruiting and Benefits Space | 2016

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The recruitment marketing platform Smashfly started off 2016 raising $22 million. Lever Secures $20 Million in Series B Funding to Help Companies Reinvent the Way They Recruit and Hire. Millennial wellness site Greatist raises Series A. Glassbreakers raises further funding for diversity and inclusion platform.

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The Daily Rundown: Hiring Rates Plummet and Drug Use in the Workforce Rises

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To celebrate, we’ll look at how SBOs are coping with hiring freezes, the impact of the Travel ban on small businesses, and increasing marijuana use in the workforce. Small business owners freeze hiring, get creative in face of economic slowdown. The Quote: “ We have frozen hiring until we know what’s happening.”. durin 2018.

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Why Skills-First Hiring Is Better Than Traditional Hiring Models

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The pandemic made organizations all around the country rethink their hiring strategies. With labor shortages happening in conjunction with the great resignation, it started a necessary change by shifting to skills-first hiring that has already begun to benefit companies and employers everywhere. Skills-first vs. traditional hiring.

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7 Productivity Drains That Impact Your Business

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You’ve armed your staff with state-of-the-art gadgets and software, signed them up for the latest workshops and webinars, and outfitted their workspaces with the most modern furniture. Related: Top 7 Tips to Increase Employee Productivity in 2017. #2. Are you running out of ideas as to how to boost workplace productivity?

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

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G2 Crowd, Glassdoor for software reviews, gets $30M from Accel, LinkedIn. CornerJob bags $19M to keep growing its blue-collar hiring platform. MBO Partners, Provider of Independent Workforce Solutions, Receives Growth Investment from Primus Capital. Businessolver VP Leads Victorious Team at THOTCON 2017.

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Should Employers Rethink Their PTO Policies Under COVID-19?

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Paid time off (PTO) has been a strong hiring, recruiting, and retention tool for employers. Bureau of Labor Statistics (based on 2017-18 data), 66% of U.S. Additionally, employees at almost 3,000 companies submitted about 63,000 requests to take vacation from April to May, according to data from Zenefits.

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5 Ways to Master HR (and 5 Tools to Help)

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The phrase “wearing multiple hats” isn’t a new idea in 2017. That’s where HR software comes in. In order to do so, we’ve built 5 tools that will make employee management (and all the wonderful nuances that come with it) much easier to manage. You can also create questions for your new hire when they self-onboard.