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Your definitive guide to employee training: Why, when and how

Insperity

Employee training is one of the most significant investments in time and money that your organization may make, but it’s also one of the most critical initiatives impacting the long-term success of any business. In short, there’s always something new for employees to learn that brings value to themselves and businesses.

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Flooded with sexual-harassment complaints, VICE publicly apologizes for its “detrimental ‘boy’s club’ culture”

The Employer Handbook

And that remorseful high-level manager voluntarily confessed to sexually harassing a subordinate — before the subordinate had even registered a complaint — with an apology so genuine and sincere that you got a little choked up. The Times is planning to run the story online shortly. Yeah, me neither.

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Employment laws to watch in 2019

Insperity

One interesting twist in mandated leave trends: Vermont now requires that employers give crime victims time off to recover. A patchwork of state and federal laws was eventually replaced when Congress set minimum age requirements with the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938. Legislation and unions helped change that. Pay equity.

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Erika Tingey of Backbone: “Individuals?—?Lift each other up”

Thrive Global

I always say I “grew up” at Intuit, and because of our focus on understanding customer problems by spending time watching them work, I learned to solve those problems in innovative ways. Also, I also love learning. Learning a new industry, especially one as special and community-oriented as cannabis, was really appealing.

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6 big soft cost savings associated with HR outsourcing

Insperity

Employers always want to improve business efficiencies, of course, and today they are doing so by prioritizing opportunities to improve recruiting strategies, strengthen employee engagement and better navigate the increasingly complex compliance issues that they’re often faced with. How much money will I save?

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Christine Spadafor On How We Need To Adjust To The Future Of Work

Thrive Global

Employees, particularly younger ones entering the workforce, are prioritizing corporate Purpose when selecting prospective employers. They want to work for companies committed to establishing ESG strategies and goals?—?and and executing on them. They want to work for companies showing results on DEI goals. and living it?—?are A WWII vet.

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A Guide to Startup Risks and How to Manage Them

Embroker

When anyone talks about startups, one of the first things that gets mentioned is the now-infamous failure rate that’s quoted in just about every tech blog and magazine; the ultimate startup statistic that 90% of them end up failing. That’s why the number of new startups continues to grow year after year. Unclear Product or Service Goals.