Mon.Oct 12, 2020

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Are You Required to Give Employees Time Off to Vote?

Patriot Software

As a small business owner, you may offer types of paid or unpaid time off to employees. But when election day rolls around, do you give employees time off to vote? Read on to learn about offering time off to vote, voting leave laws by state, and whether you can refuse voting leave. Giving employees […] READ MORE.

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SCOTUS Nominee & ACA Compliance Complications

ACA Times

2 minute read: With the potential of Trump’s nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, becoming the newest justice on the U.S. Supreme Court in time for the November 10, 2020 hearing on the latest attack on the ACA, there has been a lot of speculation as to what this means for the survival of the ACA. This is particularly acute given Ms. Barrett’s criticism of the majority opinion in 2012 to uphold the ACA in National Federation of Independent Business v.

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Virtual Services & Workforce Webinar Partnerships

EDSI

In the world of workforce development, creating reliable partnerships with other organizations is crucial, especially when offering virtual webinars. These “partner webinars” have been a key element in attracting more participants to attend these impactful discussions.

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HR Head turns “Delivery Boy”

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

Who doesn’t like gifts? And who doesn’t like surprises? Especially in a lockdown, a gift is the last thing someone would expect that too, wrapped with love and affection. Here is a love story from ECGroup, and on how it delivered happiness to its employees during this still world.

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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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B2B Customer Experience Best Practices

Qualtrics HR

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Company culture: is your organisation a BFF or a frenemy?

HR Zone

Culture Company culture: BFF or frenemy?

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Reasons Why We Should Take Care Of Our Mental Health

Take It Personel-ly

In the wake of the COVID-19 global pandemic and other current events, health has become everyone’s top priority. Aside from the threats to your physical health, the “new normal” can also take its toll on your mental health. Fear and anxiety can develop or worsen when worrying about avoiding infections when in public and ensuring […].

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Coaching Your Team on Responsiveness: Don't Focus on What's Fair, Focus on the Game.

The HR Capitalist

If you're a manager of people, at some point you're going to get an escalation that sounds something like this: "I just heard from Sharon, Rick isn't answering her emails and she's rightfully frustrated.". Boom. There's a lot packed into this, so let's examine what the concern is: --You have an employee who is reportedly not responding to someone. --The assumption is this is a performance issue.

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Virtual Hiring Guide for Managers and Leaders Post-COVID-19

Cisive

After furloughs, layoffs, and hiring freezes, many HR and hiring managers are now pivoting to scaling up hiring efforts in a post-COVID economy. We’re faced with recruiting and hiring in a very different landscape that may be mostly or fully remote, meaning that we have to use technology to help us find the best candidates, engage them, build relationships, and perform outreach digitally.

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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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Sleeping with the Enemy: When HR and Payroll Make the Worst Bedfellows

Robin Schooling

A dear friend is starting a new job today as an HR Manager – joining a company with ~300 employees. It’s a cool opportunity with a cool company and she’ll be doing all the typical human resources stuff – workforce planning and recruiting, total rewards, employee relations, compliance-stuff, and…payroll. That’s right; she’s in one of those organizations where payroll rests firmly in HR’s domicile.

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team is meeting in-person despite company rules, counting school as work experience, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My team is meeting in-person despite mandatory telework requirement. I’m lucky in that I work for an organization that recognized the importance of telework early on in the pandemic. Nationally, almost everyone has been moved to mandatory telework, except for rare instances of “critical” work. My team is not critical.

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The State of Unconscious Bias in Healthcare and Patient Care

Precheck

The State of Unconscious Bias in Healthcare and Patient Care Oct. 13, 2020. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. Medical history is fraught with racial disparities in healthcare, and the problem persists today. Pregnancy-related mortality rates for black women in the U.S. are three times higher than mortality rates for white women, and black patients are dying of COVID-19 at more than twice the rate of white patients.

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Keeping a Large Office Clean and Sanitary as Your Employees Return to Work

Effortless HR

As more people return to their jobs, it is important to provide a work area that is clean and hygienic. While there are many products and practices you can use, establish a basic routine that involves everyone to maintain a safe and healthy work environment. Commercial Cleaning. You can hire a professional commercial cleaning crew to prepare the workplace and do daily sanitizing.

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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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Auto dealer marketing: How to Boost Your Internet Car Sales

Take It Personel-ly

Car dealerships are a lucrative industry, especially those that market themselves well. These days when we talk about marketing, we talk about the internet. Many buyers are now online. However, from the point of view of your ideal customer, buying a car online can be a daunting process. That’s where you come in. You have […].

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Learn How to Say "No" at Work

45 Things

When the job market is tough like it is now, it's very difficult to say "no." You don't want to say "no" to a request from a colleague for fear of not being seen as a team player. You don't want to say "no" to a boss for fear of being fired. You don't want to say "no" to a customer for fear of losing that customer. There's a lot of fear and angst these days, and that's understandable being that we're in a global pandemic.

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Job Crafting: What HR Professionals Need to Know

Digital HR Tech

Job crafting can be a great way for employees to customize their job until it fits them like a glove. But how exactly can they do that? What role does HR play in this? That’s what we’ll take a look at in this article. We’ll also share a few job crafting examples and how to get started. Here goes! Contents What is job crafting? Job design vs. job crafting Examples of job crafting What role can HR play?

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Top Four Trends in Employee Performance Management

SutiHR

The performance management process has been experiencing a significant shift in view and effectiveness over the past few years. The introduction of new generation employees has driven a lot of change in workplace behaviors. Annual rating-based performance appraisals are slowly fading away to continuous performance monitoring. While the annual approach is still used in most companies, an increasing number of organizations have concluded that their performance management approach and methods are b

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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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The Role APIs Play in Securing the Safety and Success of your Payroll Integration

Immedis

Integrating your HR system is an essential requirement for large organizations today, but what does it entail? Technology vendors use the term integration glibly. They say on their websites that they integrate with “market-leading HCM providers” – but what does that really mean, and how can you be sure that the integration won’t compromise your HR system?

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Stop Settling for 2%

Human Workplaces

I feel like the default planning rubric in the association world is “last year plus 2%.” That’s not literal, of course—every association will pick its own growth targets each year for things like membership, attendance at the annual meeting, total sponsorship revenue, etc. But more often than not, the targets all end up in the category of “a little bit better than last year.

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Study Shows Relationship Between Organizational Identity and Workplace Conflict

Pollack Peacebuilding

Summary of: Mikkelsen, E. and Humle, D. “Dynamics of overt and covert conflict in organizations: The power of organizational identity” (2020). Group & Organization Management, Vol. 0(0) , 1–40. Background & Theory: Many studies have examined the various roles overt conflict has on the workplace, but few have examined the role of covert conflict in the workplace.

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NYC’s Paid Sick Leave Law Amended to Match State Requirements

FingerCheck

Last month, the New York City Council enacted Int. No 2032-A , aka paid safe and sick leave law , which days later was signed into law by the mayor. The new law amends the city’s paid sick leave requirements , on the books since 2014, and aligns it with the state’s recently enacted paid sick leave law. The New York state fiscal year 2021 budget legislation establishes a statewide paid sick leave law that requires employers to: Allow employees to begin accruing sick leave effective S

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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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Coaches’ Perspective on Job Search Coaching in the Pandemic

GetFive

How has job coaching changed during this pandemic? What are job seekers most in need of now? We asked our nationwide team of coaches about some of the trends and challenges they’ve seen over the past few months. Some of their answers might surprise you. Here are some key takeaways: Reignite. The marketplace is changing. Even if there isn’t widespread hiring right now, it’s a great time for job seekers to look at reinventing themselves.

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A Guide to High-Performance OKRs For People Operations/ HR

Engagedly

People operations is one of the most underrated yet dynamic departments of an organization. They fulfil various functions from creating and implementing effective workplace policies and procedures to building the company culture, performance management, compensation & benefits management, compliance and training etc. When it comes to setting goals for one of the most dynamic departments of your company, OKRs are a great way.

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Traveling During the COVID-19 Pandemic

First Stop Health

Stay-at-home orders and travel restrictions have been relaxed in many places around the U.S. and in some overseas vacation destinations, as well. As the holidays approach, many Americans will want to take advantage of the opportunity to travel for the first time in months. If you are planning a trip, here's what you should know.

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Sweden Planning to Introduce the Economic Employer Approach in January 2021

Immedis

The Swedish Government has released a proposal to introduce the economic employer approach at the start of 2021. If passed, these changes will have a significant impact on the way foreign companies and employees operate in Sweden. Organizations may face a large increase in the number of employees liable to pay tax and we may also see a dramatic rise in the number of foreign companies that will need to register to make tax deductions.

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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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Transformational Leadership: The One Missing Trait

Forbes Coaches Council

At first glance, the necessity of this quality is not obvious. In fact, it would be easy to dismiss it. But in reality, it's analogous with going into a boxing match with one hand tied behind your back.

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when you’re inexperienced, how can you know if something is worth complaining about or leaving a job over?

Ask a Manager

I’m off today, so this is a reprint of a post from 2013. A reader writes: If one is unhappy at their work, whether it’s due to their actual responsibilities or problems with their bosses, coworkers, clients, etc., how would one then determine whether it’s a legitimate grievance that grants the right to action, such as speaking to one’s manager, looking for another job, or even resigning without having found another job, or whether it’s a normal part of the working c

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14 Authentic Ways To Demonstrate Empathy When Leading Remotely

Forbes Coaches Council

If you are a leader working remotely, you might need to find new, more effective ways of displaying empathy in online interactions with your people. Here, 14 Forbes Coaches Council members provide expert tips on how to show empathy when you are leading teams in a virtual environment.