Wed.Dec 28, 2016

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10 Recruiting Dos and Don’ts for 2017

ClearCompany HRM

2016 is coming to a close and whether you feel it was good or not, one thing we can all agree on is recruiting has continued to advance. From. digital recruitment. marketing efforts to AI and more, it’s tough to keep up. This is also the best time to start preparing for any other changes that may come your way. What can you do in 2017 to help your recruitment endeavours?

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These Tech Trends Will Transform Work by 2020

Cornerstone On Demand

This year will go down in history — but it may be nothing compared to the next four. Before the next race for the White House, we're poised to witness a big jump in technological advancement: the widespread rise of social media, artificial intelligence, an extreme increase in devices and sensors, advanced digital avatars and more. While this election felt personal to almost everyone, Peter Diamandis, founder of the X Prize and Singularity University, thinks the next election will be literally p

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7 Factors That Determine Workplace Happiness Levels

Hppy

Take a look around your office. Who’s happy? If everyone looks like they’d rather be at the dentist than at their desks, you’ve got a problem. You may offer competitive salaries, but money isn’t everything when it comes to workplace happiness. Workplace happiness doesn’t always seem important on the surface (after all, work is work!), but most people spend a third of their day doing their job, which can add up to a lot of unhappiness during their lives if they’re unsatisfied at work.

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2 Steps to Reduce Voluntary Turnover to Zero

RecognizeThis!

by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! – Understanding the importance of the work and the people doing it make work matter and make work more human. The new year is nearly upon us (and I, for one, am ready to put paid to 2016). With the new year often comes the opportunity for evaluation of our lives and our priorities. Many of us start a new year with new ambitions, goals for change, ideas for improvements.

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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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What is Performance Management?

EmployeeConnect

Performance management is essentially overseeing the relationship between organisational objectives and the skills, experience and capabilities of an organisation’s employees. Overseeing this linear relationship will involve drawing and analysing the aligned results developed. These results emerge from different stages through business activity – either the middle of productivity or at the end stage.

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The IRS’s Cost-of-Living Adjustments: An Infographic

ACA Times

The 2016 calendar year is closing out, and with it comes a variety of healthcare care related fee adjustments happening for 2017. The ACA Times has revealed the amounts we know thus far, along with a comparative analysis of the year prior. Print this infographic and keep it handy. There’s more to come in 2017. We’re committed to helping companies reduce risk, avoid penalties, and achieve 100% ACA compliance.

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The Definitive Guide to the Employee Pulse Survey

EmployeeConnect

There’s a global trend of organisations embracing the employee pulse survey. So the obvious questions which come up include, what are these surveys exactly, and what benefits can organisations expect out of them after the employees undertake these surveys? Also, as an employer, you need to know what questions to ask your employees before you start rolling out the survey and also you need to know what steps you take to make your survey a successful one.

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7 Companies Committed to Having Women at the Top

TalentCulture

Here’s a list of companies that get high scores for female representation in management from the women working directly at the companies. Equal gender representation in top management is crucial for working women. In fact, a lack of female representation in management is a big reason why only less than nine percent of women in the U.S. hold top management positions.

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Looking Back at 2016: How We Improved the Justworks Product This Year

Justworks

2016 has been a big year for everyone. And it’s been no different for us here on the Justworks team. We’ve been busy building new features and making improvements to make it easier for our customers to concentrate on the important stuff: running and growing their business. In case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the things we did this year: Benefits New Benefits Center and Partners We brought you a brand new benefits center and partnered with some pretty cool companies to bring.

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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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Slack for Recruiting? You Betcha!

TalentCulture

Slack has created a name for itself as a tool for communication, collaboration, and file-sharing amongst team members in a business or organization. But did you know tech-savvy HR directors are jumping ahead of the curve to adopt Slack as a recruiting tool? Slack interfaces with a host of other messenger and collaboration apps—including Facebook, Twitter, GDrive and Gmail, and Asana—so you can reach out to people where they already are.

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Learn About Organizational Culture: The Top 10 posts of 2016 on CultureUniversity.com

Culture University

The interest in culture continues to grow but this growth comes with a proliferation in over-simplified and incorrect information about culture and culture change. CultureUniversity.com launched in 2014 to cut through this misinformation and it has grown to be a great resource for leaders and change agents to learn about organizational culture. Over 30 organizational […].

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Best of TLNT 2016: Here’s What HR Must Do To Have The Business Impact CEOs Want

TLNT: The Business of HR

Editor’s Note: It’s an annual tradition for TLNT to count down the most popular posts of the previous 12 months. We’re reposting each of the top 25 articles between now and January 2nd. This is No. 15 of 2016. You can find the complete list here.

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Improve Employee Retention Rates with These 7 Tips

HR Daily Advisor

by Miranda Nicholson, director of HR, Formstack. Employee retention is not only valuable to company culture, but essential to the bottom line: turnover can cost a business as much as 150% of a position’s annual salary. The Human Resources team is essential to maintaining employee satisfaction and engagement, and their work is never finished. With that in mind, here are seven retention strategies to make sure your employees continue to grow with your organization. 1.

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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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7 Employee Engagement Myths You Should Leave Behind in 2017

SocialChorus

Employee engagement is a phrase heard frequently among HR and Internal Communication professionals. There are a lot of assumptions about the best ways to engage employees but don’t believe everything you read – below are 7 employee engagement myths that you should leave behind in 2017. When it comes to employee engagement, everybody wants the same thing.

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my favorite posts of 2016

Ask a Manager

Here are my favorite posts of 2016. 10. Do you have to control your emotions to be professional ? Because this comes up so often for so many people, and it’s not always intuitive. 9. Here are things I’ve changed my advice on over time. Because it was fun to look back and see where I’ve changed. 8. Whoever told you to be creative in your cover letter has led you horribly astray.

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4 Growing Payroll Trends Likely to Continue in 2017

Paychex

Payroll management has modernized significantly over the past few years, thanks in part to innovations such as cloud computing, mobile devices, and new software that allows for better integrating payroll with other HR functions. Here are four payroll trends expected to keep growing in 2017.

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The dumbest things employees, applicants did in 2016

HR Morning

A new year is upon us, which means it’s the perfect time to reflect on some of the dumbest things managers, employees and applicants did in 2016 to make life difficult for HR. . Behold … the best of the worst — according to you, our readers: Meet 2 nominees for Worst Manager of the Year. You may have dealt with pranksters in the past, but you’ve probably never dealt with what these two managers made their employees endure.

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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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Embracing Workforce Fluidity In 2017

Workology

Change is hard and can make us uncomfortable. That may be why 80 percent of New Year’s resolutions fail in the first week alone. But, change is upon us and it is here to stay. Every year, the Oxford. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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On Social Media and Return to Work

HRExecutive

Employers are understandably worried when workers use third-party social media sites such as Facebook to communicate with each other about work matters. A recent personal experience has given me a different perspective. In some cases, I believe, these social platforms can provide benefits for both employers and workers. I was diagnosed with a brain tumor late in November and had surgery on Dec. 2, followed by intensive physical rehabilitation to restore nerve-muscle connections on my left side.

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6 Simple Strategies to Reduce Stress at Work [Infographic]

Workstride

This is a guest post by Jeff Murphy, Director of Communications at SnackNation. There’s a silent killer in your workplace. It lurks in the shadows, depleting your energy, sacking your concentration, and shaking your confidence. Your co-workers talk about it in hushed tones (if at all), and your boss is in denial of its very existence… Its name?

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Racist code names for customers are bad. And, so is firing someone for complaining about it.

The Employer Handbook

These are the key allegations underpinning Googles “underpinning” yes, underpinning a complaint filed in California against luxury retailer Versace. Tell us more, Mayra Cuevas reporting here at CNN.com: Can you fire employees for complaining about discriminatory treatment of customers ? No, dude. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees who oppose discrimination at work, as long as the employee was acting on a reasonable belief that something in the workplace may

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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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How to Keep Your (Employer) Brand Hot Like Pepper

Papirfly

In 2015, Millennials surpassed Generation X to become the largest generation in the US workforce according to Pew Research Centre. On a global scale, Deloitte predicts that Millennials will make up 75% of the workforce by 2025. This generational shift has strong implications for employers as they will need to rethink how they attract and retain this generation.

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Oriole Park Concession Employees Strike Out with FLSA Claims

HR Daily Advisor

by Kevin C. McCormick. In a recent decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit found that the employees who worked concessions at Oriole Park at Camden Yards were not entitled to overtime compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) because a concessionaire is an “amusement or recreational establishment” exempt from the overtime requirement.

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Champagne Taste on a Beer Budget: Finding the Right Talent for your Budget

Compensation Today

Let’s talk about taste – Human Resources, hiring managers, and recruiting tend to have different preferences and priorities. Often, these separate groups with specific tastes are attending the same compensation party, each with a thirst for something. All are focused on building relationships and impacting the human capital that makes every business function.

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A New Year's Business Checklist for 2017

Paychex

With the end of the year quickly approaching, it's time to be thinking about your business' New Year's checklist. Take a look at this high-level checklist that business owners and payroll managers can use to successfully launch for the year ahead.

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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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VACATION REWIND: Dunbar is the reason all social networks eventually become horrible

Steve Boese

NOTE: I am out of pocket more or less until the New Year, so I thought I would re-air a few pieces that I liked from earlier this year for folks who may have missed them the first time. Hope you are having a great holiday season and a Happy New Year! From March - Dunbar is the reason all social networks eventually become horrible. In this week's episode of 'As the social networks turn', many big users and brands that are active on Instagram are in collective freak out mode about the (Facebook ow

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my boss made an insensitive pregnancy joke, I ghosted at the end of an externship, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Boss made insensitive pregnancy joke. I am not really sure what to make of a situation with my manager. About a year ago, I needed to take some scheduled time off to attend various medical appointments related to infertility. After a rough and emotional few months in that process (which I know is nothing compared so what some other couples go through), my partner and I decided it’s not for us.

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D.C. Approves Paid Family Leave Bill

HR Daily Advisor

The District of Columbia (D.C.) Council approved a bill on December 20, requiring employers to give workers 8 weeks’ paid leave for the birth, adoption, or foster placement of a child. Employers will pay for the leave through a payroll tax. In addition to the 8 weeks of parental leave, the Universal Paid Leave Amendment Act of 2016 also provides 6 weeks to care for a family member and 2 weeks for an employee’s own serious health condition.