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Are you doing enough to leverage tech for employee relations?

HRExecutive

While she calls it “exciting” to see some employers leveraging this previously untapped data as a critical dimension to their diversity, equity and inclusion metrics, more needs to be done. “ER This year’s study was based on in-depth research from more than 125 organizations, representing approximately 4.5

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The 10 small business tools you didn’t know you needed

Homebase

Things like coordinating communications, hiring and onboarding staff, managing payroll, plus organizing shift work and time off can cause a lot of stress. When used, they can better both the staff and customer experience by streamlining processes of things like customer support, online ordering, time tracking, and timesheets.

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Three Questions to Help You Build a Better Workplace Culture — Annual Conference Takeaways

Cupa HR

Culture was at the heart of the three keynote events at CUPA-HR’s 2023 national conference, which took place recently in New Orleans. Organizations with strong learning cultures tend to have significantly higher retention rates. Make it work to your advantage by prioritizing learning and opportunity for all employees.

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Op-Ed: HR Tech 2023: A Lesson in Learning from Each Other

UKG

Op-Ed: HR Tech 2023: A Lesson in Learning from Each Other heather.vanhou… Tue, 10/31/2023 - 11:42 Main Image Background Color Teal Body HR Technology Conference and Expo is known as the largest HR reunion and knowledge-sharing event—this year was no exception. Here are five key themes from this year’s conference.

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Taking care of customers by taking care of employees, Part 2

Steve Boese

Check this excerpt from a recent Fortune piece - McDonald's Says its Wage Hikes Are Improving Service : The hamburger chain in April announced it would raise the average hourly rate for workers at the U.S. starting July 2015, with average wages climbing above $10 per hour by the end of 2016. restaurants it owns to $9.90

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4 Ways to Support Employees During a Crisis

UpstartHR

Focus for an hour? Focus for six hours? For more on this you can read some of my takeaways from Two Awesome Hours , where a doctor explains this in much more detail than I could. Over the last few weeks the environment has changed dramatically when it comes to work and life. At home, that’s not the case. You can do that.

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Sure, She Works Here. But, Do We Employ Her?

HR Daily Advisor

Essential terms and conditions can include: Hiring; Rejecting new hires; Training; Discipline; Setting pay and benefits; Establishing working conditions; Firing or demanding firing of workers; Assigning tasks; and Providing oversight or evaluations. Consider the following situation: You hired a worker through a staffing agency.