Mon.Mar 23, 2020

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What’s Wrong with Virtual Conferences? #Covid19 #Coronavirus

The Tim Sackett Project

My Spring is usually filled with travel. This year because of the “Great Outbreak’ (I used this on Twitter before everyone, once you start to see it everywhere, just know, you and I, will know where it truly came from!) I’m not traveling at all, but I’m still doing a few conferences, virtually. Virtual conferences have been around for a long time.

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2008 Financial Crisis for Dummies: The Causes and the Consequences

Take It Personel-ly

Living through history makes it hard to understand the causes and effects. If you experienced the Great Recession of 2008, you know how it felt. Figuring out what caused it is a different story. Are you wondering what happened 12 years ago to cause such a devastating economic downturn? The roots of the changes are […].

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Creative Staffing Solutions: Paid and Unpaid Leave, Layoffs, and More

Justworks

COVID-19 has caused upheaval in all corners of life, and the small business community is no exception. Business owners are facing uncertainty as to what their staffing needs will be. Remote work, while perfectly feasible for many business models and roles, may be untenable for other companies or teams. You might be having to face the painful reality of reductions in employees’ working hours, or cutting positions altogether.

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Interview Tips: Landing Your Dream Job

Professional Alternatives

A job interview can be stressful even under the best of circumstances but if you are unemployed or have some other factor that increases its importance, it can be absolutely terrifying. However, doing your research and being well prepared will certainly take a lot of the anxiety out of the process. Here are some interview tips that will help put you in the best position to succeed: — Interview Tips for Before, During, and After Your Job Interview: — In the Days Before the Interview:

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Automate Your Onboarding Process In 7 Steps

Efficient employee onboarding is more than a warm welcome—it's a catalyst for business growth. Automated onboarding transforms new hires into productive team members faster, fostering long-term satisfaction and talent retention. For HR, automation means replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, cost-effective operations. Our eBook reveals how automating employee onboarding delivers these benefits, reducing HR challenges and elevating new employee readiness.

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Are Remote Workforces Shaping a ‘New Normal’?

TalenToday

Are Remote Workforces Shaping a “New Normal”? At times like this, it can be difficult to see the light at the end of the tunnel, as our personal and professional lives are sent in disarray as we cancel, adjust and adapt. It is important to remember during this difficult and complicated time that we WILL get past all of this, and things will go back to normal.

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How to Build Trust and Community While Working Remotely

Achievers

While there is no business as usual this week, and as we all settle in to a new normal, transitioning into yet-to-be-discovered best practices can be a quite difficult. And for many of us working remotely for the first time, perhaps with kids and significant others, working from home can be awkward, clunky, and a new experience that everyone needs to get used to.

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Three Talent Engagement Technologies for a New World of Work

Allegis Global Solutions

With social distancing now a regular part of our conversations, it’s a changed world. And the impacts are far-reaching. As COVID-19 containment efforts continue to unfold, companies, and the workers they engage, face real challenges -- not only in how people function as workers, but also as human beings. Isolation is the new norm, and limitations on physical interaction are forcing many organizations to prioritize virtual work.

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How to Maintain Morale During a Crisis

Intoo USA

The coronavirus’ impact on American businesses has been sudden and dramatic. Restaurants with full reservations just weeks ago have been ordered to close their doors. Crowded offices have turned into empty rooms. Companies that were busy hiring are now busy trying to avoid layoffs. With all these unexpected changes, American employees are facing many difficult issues, from loss of income to loss of a sense of security, and dealing with emotions like fear, anxiety, and hopelessness.

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Parents Working From Home During COVID-19: How to Manage the Workday

Justworks

If things weren’t already difficult with the arrival of the COVID-19 illness itself, we’re now approaching a time when working from home is part of what’s being called “the new normal.” As we navigate the coronavirus and adjust to this new way of working, we’re faced with even more challenges when it comes to caring for ourselves and our families. Alongside the push for working remotely, schools and childcare facilities are being closed in an effort to limit the spread and risk of exposure.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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How to Maintain Morale During a Crisis

Intoo USA

The coronavirus’ impact on American businesses has been sudden and dramatic. Restaurants with full reservations just weeks ago have been ordered to close their doors. Crowded offices have turned into empty rooms. Companies that were busy hiring are now busy trying to avoid layoffs. With all these unexpected changes, American employees are facing many difficult issues, from loss of income to loss of a sense of security, and dealing with emotions like fear, anxiety, and hopelessness.

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if your hours have been cut, you can collect unemployment benefits

Ask a Manager

You should know that if your hours are cut due to coronavirus (or for any other reason), you can file for unemployment benefits in your state. I’ve heard from some people who incorrectly believed they had to be fully unemployed before they’d be eligible for unemployment. While rules vary from state to state, that’s generally not true. If your hours are cut or your work becomes more sporadic (like your company closes for just a week or two) or if you’re put on a “zero hour” sche

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How HR Professionals Use Personal CRMs To Their Advantage

Hppy

HR professionals work in the field of human resources. With this, it means that the bulk of their job also has to do with ensuring good relationships among individuals. Not only are they in charge of hiring, but they also handle everything related to work relationships in the office. This encompasses the internal team, and in some cases, even dealing also with clients and customers.

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Hiring in Time of Coronavirus: How Can TalentLyft Help?

TalentLyft

To help out those who need it the most in time of the coronavirus pandemic, we’re giving away 3-month TalentLyft subscription plans completely for FREE! Get yours now. ?? Read More.

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The Essential Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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Furloughs Versus Layoffs: Is There A Difference in California?

HRWatchdog

Employers are facing difficult decisions during this COVID-19 pandemic. Many Californian businesses are facing difficult choices during this COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic). Confronting losses in revenue and uncertainty in the future, businesses are evaluating their options for preserving their companies while maintaining their workforce.

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California Extends Special Enrollment Period

ACA Times

2 minutes read: Due to the enormous challenges the coronavirus crisis is imposing on our healthcare system, the state of California has extended its Special Enrollment period. Effective immediately, the Special Enrollment period for 2020 has been extended through June 30. According to a press release by Covered California, the healthcare exchange will be hosting two webinars explaining the Special Enrollment periods, as well as tips, tools, and resources for ensuring individuals can enroll succe

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When We Stopped Being Human

Workology

I have a sad, serious question to ask. When did we stop being human beings in the world of recruiting? When did we change the narrative to robotic behavior? We are recruiting and sourcing HUMAN. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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How to measure employee experience?

Analytics in HR

In the last couple of years, employee experience has become very popular. A Google search for employee experience results in more than 4.5 million hits. Many claim that it is currently one of the biggest HR trends. And firms that invest in employee experience seem to perform better than firms that don’t. So employee experience clearly seems very important.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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DOL guidance on the new COVID-19 paid leave law. Plus, the IRS has tax credit info. And catch the replay of our Friday chat!

The Employer Handbook

I have so much on which to catch you up from what went down on Friday — other than the few ounces of brown liquor that lovingly passed my tonsils. It was a long week, folks. Amirite? The U.S. Department of Labor’s Guidance(ish). On Friday, the DOL added two new resources to its slowly growing COVID-19 library: Families First Coronavirus Response Act: Employee Paid Leave Rights.

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12 Must-Have Tools for Remote Workers

Vantage Circle

You and your team are pumped up more than ever. Working remotely or from home is shown to increase productivity and satisfaction. Hey, who doesn’t like to cozy up in their bed with a warm cup of hot chocolate while working on the project that has been haunting you this season. Sounds good right? But wait! Where do you pick up the right tools? Don’t worry we have got you covered here.

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I think my coworker is lying about having a sick kid

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: If you were our boss, would you want to know this or I should I ignore it? I have a coworker who has a sick kid. He frequently needs to take time off. My other coworkers and my boss and I are always understanding. We have done his work when he is off, our boss advocates for his time off to be paid, and whenever he has asked my coworkers and I have donated our own PTO to him.

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Leadership, COVID-19 and Ms. Kennedy

SHRM

“Don’t be afraid.” The leader who says this to an employee either is very much afraid or lacks even a scintilla of empathy. In either case, the statement (or response) is so bad. First, it is remarkably disrespectful. Don’t tell people how to feel! Second, if employees listen to you, they may become ill (or worse). Fear is healthy now—it may keep us and those we care about safe as we social distance.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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Preparing for the impact of the new talent economy in the digital age

Digital HR Tech

The biggest challenge of the growing digital economy is building a digital-ready workforce in an ever-evolving business environment. To do so, any organization must start by filling the talent gap in technological skills, which is vital to digital strategy. Successfully acquiring, developing and deploying talent starts with a strategy that dictates what work will be done, how it will be done, and by whom.

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Managing Employees Work From Home Performance

AssessTEAM Performance Management

In the current situation, many companies, government entities, and universities have asked their employees to work remotely. While close to a quarter of the U.S. workforce already works from home at least part of the time, the policy of working from home is leaving managers physically separated from their workforce for the first time. Some organizations have a clear work from home policy that has matured through the years, but many are seeing this for the first time due to the pandemic.

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The Impact of COVID-19 for Tobacco Users (+ How You Can Help)

EX Program

With social distancing, “shelter-in-home” restrictions, stock market turbulence, and a spike in employees working from home, business as usual is no longer usual. For employees looking to quit tobacco, high stress levels in the current environment mean it’s no longer “quitting as usual,” either. The data are early in terms of the specific impacts of [.].

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Managing work from home employee performance – Coronavirus contingency tips

AssessTEAM Performance Management

In response to the Coronavirus pandemic many companies, government entities, and universities have asked their employees to work remotely. While close to a quarter of the U.S. workforce already works from home at least part of the time, the policy of working from home is leaving managers physically separated from their workforce for the first time. Some organizations have a clear work from home policy that has matured through the years, but many are seeing this for the first time due to the Coro

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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Quick Base Customers Rise to the Challenge to Serve their Communities

Quickbase

In just one short week everything has changed. There have been a few defining events in modern history, like 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis, that have shaped people and businesses. They have made us ask questions like how do we come together in a time of crisis? How do businesses support their employees and communities while also driving their business forward?

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Working from home – the etiquette guide

HRGem

Just for fun… All you folks who have never worked from home before, this list is to help you with vital etiquette when engaging with others virtually in the coming weeks. 1. Do not just randomly video call people.

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What Healthcare Compliance Officers Should Know About the New CMS Rule on “Bad Actors”

Precheck

What Healthcare Compliance Officers Should Know About the New CMS Rule on “Bad Actors” Mar. 24, 2020. Cristina Loayza Product Manager. In November 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a rule on “ bad actors.” The term refers to providers or suppliers whose histories demonstrate conduct or relationships that pose risks to taxpayers, patients or program beneficiaries.