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5 Ways To Improve Employee Experience

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6 Ways You MUST Be Measuring Employee Engagement

Quantum Workplace

Organizations are complex webs of diverse and dynamic relationships. Different types of relationships impact employees in different ways—but all relationships impact employee engagement, performance, and ultimately an organization's bottom line. When managers don't have good relationships with employees, they feel stressed. When employees give honest feedback and are unheard or turned away, they feel disrespected.

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How Long Commutes Hurt Employees

Commuter Benefit Solutions

Heavy commuting can lead to more social isolation, less exercise and unhealthy eating habits. It’s a lifestyle that can have a severe impact on a commuter , and therefore, less productivity at work. If your employees have long commutes , there’s a good chance some of them will quit. No one likes commuting, and as much as people like work, it’s becoming a significant problem in this country for people to get there without stress.

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How “Cobots” Are Transforming Jobs in Every Industry, from Fast Food to Law

Linkedin Talent Blog

A recent estimation put 40% of the world’s jobs at risk of automation over the next 15 years. That’s a major shift, but it’s nothing new — throughout history, advances in technology have replaced human jobs time and again. Between 1947 and 2014, for example, the number of U.S. workers employed by the railroad industry dropped by 86% as a result of new technology and automation.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Dallas Staffing Services for Your Company

Corn on the Job

Staffing services became a thing in the United States after the Second World War. From the 1940s, the merits of hiring temporary labor made the industry thrive, as many business owners saw their use as a more preferable option to employing permanent workers. By the year 2000, over 3 million people were employed on temporary bases in the US. The trend has become more popular because of factors such as online freelancing platforms springing up, the preference of short-term contracts by business ow

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How to Have More Inclusive Conversations

Reflektive

Workplace discrimination remains a serious problem for many companies, especially those struggling to increase diversity. Both conscious and subconscious biases limit opportunities for employees who are outside the “norm,” with the norm usually referring to straight white males. . A workplace that’s perceived as hostile to minorities has to contend with multiple issues, including the possibility of litigation under anti-discrimination laws.

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Burnout: Where Nonprofits are Leading the Charge

Justworks

People who don’t work in the nonprofit sector tend to have a few preconceived notions about the industry. One common one is that nonprofits don’t pay well, and may offer better benefits to try to make up for lower salaries. According to Rick Cohen, Chief Communications Officer & Chief Operating Officer at the National Council of Nonprofits, the low pay part of this stereotype has mostly been busted — salaries in the nonprofit sector are basically on par with those at for-profit.

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4 Areas of Focus to Boost Your Candidate Attraction Efforts

SHRM

Changing the way that you interact with candidates in your selection process is crucial to your organization’s future success. Talent shortages are growing around the world. The global unemployment rate has dropped to 5 percent, the lowest level in a decade according to the latest ILO World Employment and Social Outlook , and the current unemployment rate in the United States is near a 50-year low.

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How to Attract and Engage Millennial Talent to Your Company

6Q

We’ve probably all heard the jokes about millennials and laughed ourselves about how annoying they are. Yet, it is this generation who really understand the direction in which the world is headed and that is something that we desperately need to engage with if our organisations are to remain relevant. They are the only generation who have grown up in a fully technologically advanced society, this is their normal and they will be the ones to dictate the part that technology will play in our

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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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Here’s Where Josh Bersin Thinks HR Tech is Headed

HRExecutive

There are many solid reasons to be in Las Vegas for this year’s HR Technology Conference & Exposition , and one that will certainly deliver tangible value is the chance to hear what HR technology thought leader Josh Bersin has to say about the state of HR and technology. In his Oct. 2 keynote, Making Sense of It All: How Technology Is Shaping the New HR Agenda , Bersin—an analyst, author and educator focused on the global talent market—will explore ways technology continues to dramatically s

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What is unconscious bias in the workplace, and how can we tackle it?

cipHR

Unconscious bias can affect our decisions in all areas of life, but especially in the workplace. We explore the different types of bias, and how to reduce their impact. We may try to be as objective as possible when making important decisions, especially when these relate to work. However, as human beings, we are all subject to unconscious bias (also known as implicit bias) in one way or another, but the more we are aware of this, the more we can mitigate it.

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11 Trends In Talent Management For A Competitive Advantage

Forbes Coaches Council

The ultimate success of leadership is to influence people to execute the goals and objectives of the organization so profits are realized for maximized sustainability.

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Creating High-Performance Teams

SHRM

Every organization needs its teams to deliver a high level of performance to succeed in today’s business environment. Author Omar L. Harris offers clear guidance on how to hire for, support, and guide high-performance teams. What are some tips to hiring employees to fit into high-performing teams? My top tip for hiring employees to fit into high-performing teams is to understand the key mix of attributes that the high-performing team members possess.

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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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Texas Wins Challenge to EEOC Guidance on Criminal Background Checks

SHRM Resources

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) can’t treat its guidance on criminal background checks—which states that using such checks may not be lawful in some circumstances—as binding, a federal appeals court ruled.

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How to Manage your Growing Team

Take It Personel-ly

Many large companies, such as Microsoft and Apple, had modest beginnings that started with a close-knit group of people congregating in a garage to create a product they were passionate about. Then, after years of hard work and perseverance, these companies grew to become some of the most successful businesses in the world. However, this […].

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Vote to Bring SHRM’s Thought Leadership to the SXSW Stage!

SHRM

Today’s biggest societal issues are also workplace issues. As the voice of all things work, we have an opportunity to bring SHRM’s thought leadership to one of the most unique and influential events in the world: the 2020 South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival in Austin, TX, March 16-22. President & CEO Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, has been nominated to be a presenter at the premier global event for music, film, design, technology and business innovation.

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The Sixth Commandment Of Family Business Succession: Evaluate A Successor

Forbes Coaches Council

Certain inborn personalities have a greater draw and success towards leadership, as the characteristics of great leadership are creating the vision, implementing it, and holding people accountable to it.

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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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STUDY: People find robots as less threatening than human replacements in a job setting

HR Digest

Robots are starting to take human jobs, and it’s going to continue until machines handle 52 percent of jobs currently handled by hourly human workers. But this “robot revolution” is least concerning to human workers. Surprisingly, an automation-focused study conducted by researchers at Technical University of Munich found that most people fear losing their job to another human.

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Four Skills Every Collaborative Leader Needs

Forbes Coaches Council

Collaborating across organizations and sectors is a powerful tool to harness the smartest network of talent to address various challenges. But it isn’t easy.

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Episode 32 – Sweetgreen Offers 5 Months of Parental Leave

Workology

Welcome to the new Workology Go Podcast. In just under five minutes, we get you the HR and workplace news you need before you start your day. Get ready, get set and go with the Workology Go Podcast. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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How to Measure Employee Satisfaction

BambooHR

Are your employees satisfied? You can take a wild guess, or you can actually measure how satisfied your employees are using an Employee Net Promoter.

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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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Top 7 Strategies for Healthcare Recruiting

The Applicant Manager

In early 2019, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) confirmed that America will face a critical shortage of clinical providers by 2032. The news forced a collective sigh from healthcare recruiters around the country, who were already facing historic unemployment levels for non-clinical teams.

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Gender equality: why we need to talk about unpaid care

HR Zone

People. Unpaid care: a business problem.

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update: my boss wanted to go over my personal budget

Ask a Manager

Remember last week’s letter from a teacher whose boss wanted to go over her personal budget to spot places she could cut in order to buy classroom supplies with her own money? Here’s the update. I just left a faculty meeting and thought I’d give an update with some discoveries made. Earlier, when my boss was being weird about the supply budget, I talked to someone I knew at the district office who explained that each school did indeed have a budget for classroom supplies to be

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5 Lessons for HR Leaders from Modern Business Experience

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

By Krista Sterner, Event Marketing Director. At Modern Business Experience 2019 , HR leaders from organizations around the world gathered to discuss ways they’re navigating shifting employee expectations, emerging business models, new technologies, and so much more. For three days, attendees heard from hundreds of experts, practitioners, and thought leaders about the trends and market realities they must prioritize in order to reimagine the employee experience, support business agility, an

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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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Episode 192: Finding Humor in the Workplace

Workology

On today’s podcast, I’d like to talk about the importance of humor and fun in the workplace in order to improve productivity, innovation, and creativity. We can train our management staff on. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. On today’s podcast, I’d like to talk about the importance of humor and fun in the workplace in order to improve productivity, innovation, and creativity.

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Making Summer Memories: Insights from ALI’s Strategic Internal Communications Conference

Advanced Learning Institute

Written by: Ann Melinger, CEO at Brilliant Ink. A few weeks ago, I traveled to Boston for what is truly one of my favorite events of the year – ALI’s Strategic Internal Communications Conference. I’ve joked that it’s sort of like summer camp for internal communicators, but it’s not far from the truth! It’s an opportunity to reunite with colleagues, friends and partners for three days of workshops, presentations, networking, and even some karaoke.

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is it true that nothing in a performance review can ever be a surprise?

Ask a Manager

This comes up here from time to time and I thought it was worth a post of its own: the idea that nothing in a performance evaluation should ever be a surprise. It’s right in theory, but it’s not that simple. It’s absolutely true that managers should be giving employees feedback throughout the year and shouldn’t blindside them with criticism in an annual review that they haven’t heard before.