In just the past year, Millennials surpassed Baby Boomers as the nation’s largest living generation and started inching their way to making up the majority of the workforce. For HR professionals, this shift in the workforce can create a challenge, as Millennials are known for job hopping more than previous generations. In fact, Deloitte reports that if given the choice, one in four Millennials would quit his or her current job to do something different. MORE

59 Awesome Employee Engagement Ideas & Activities for 2018 (Plus 10 New Bonus Ideas). The Top Employee Engagement Ideas: Align your company with a purpose. Find out what your team members are passionate about. Provide consistent coaching and training. Ditch the cubicles. Start a learning club. HR managers can agree that employee engagement and retention are at the top of their priority list. The problem? Team walks. MORE

The expert’s suggestion? Run team building exercises to increase the effectiveness of the teams chartered to deliver business outcomes. When challenged by several team leaders to be more specific, the expert suggested using Myers-Briggs and other instruments to address team alignment. The senior line executive interrupted the discussion and spoke with the expert offline. The Great Divide had just expanded. MORE

When HR professionals talk about data analytics , generally they focus on the good stuff. But every employer is at a different point in their data journey; some we work with have very little or even no people data to draw on at all, while others use a balanced scorecard to identify their financial, internal, customer, learning and growth metrics. For example, in our field of dispute resolution, a commonly cited financial metric is staff turnover. MORE

Employee turnover is an element of change that directly affects your bottom line. As such, it is important to identify the motives of departing workers and devise an effective retention strategy. Here are four of the top reasons many good employees resign: 1. Paid time off (PTO). Employee engagement may sound like another corporate buzzword, but engaged employees share a number of common traits: They seek out challenging work. MORE

It’s your responsibility to ensure your employees are paid on time, stay safe throughout the workday, and have access to benefits like workers’ compensation, health insurance, and 401k. Using a PEO to outsource HR lets you focus on your mission and operations to deliver the best products and services to your clients. In this blog, we’ll discuss the top 10 FAQs business owners have about professional employer organizations (PEOs). How does the PEO model work? MORE

There’s a phenomenon that many HR nerds refer to as the employee lifecycle, and if it’s something you’re not managing, you may be losing out as an employer. The employee lifecycle refers to the various stages of relationship that an employee has with their employer. Human resources plays a key role in every aspect of the employee lifecycle. Provide interviewer training for your managers to maintain consistency and reduce risks. MORE

When you think about having a great company culture, you think about building trust, honesty and a great team of workers. Here’s what you might be missing- employee appreciation ideas. In the United States, 20,000 workers were surveyed by the Boston Consulting Group. MORE

But which ones get the most traction and are right for you? We’ve compiled a list of the top 100 HR blogs by organic traffic they receive via Google and search engines (see Methodology below). Just to show that we aren’t “padding our own stats” as they say, Ongig’s blog didn’t even break the top 10 (we’re #19). ahrefs defines this as “The target website, subsection, or URL’s estimated monthly organic traffic from search.” MORE