Thu.Dec 17, 2020

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Number of the day: Employees who want a hybrid workplace

HRExecutive

92: Percentage of employees who want flexibility around where they work. Just 8% of those surveyed this fall would prefer to work either at home all the time (6%) or at an office all the time (2%), according to Smartway2 ‘s global Returning to Work Survey: How do professionals really feel? The remaining 92% would prefer one of the following: to work mostly from home with occasional office time (40%). to share their time equally between home and office (31%). to work mostly at the office w

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Top 10 Creative Strategies to Improve Employee Retention

Hppy

Hiring the right employees takes time and can be costly, both in terms of the recruitment fees, time taken to interview and the onboarding and training process. It is key for a business to focus on retaining employees to ensure that valuable knowledge remains within the organisation and the investment in the right people is worthwhile. When turnover is high in a business, it can have a negative impact on the culture, which in turn means that attracting the best talent is compromised.

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How (and why) to develop employee career paths

Insperity

A generation ago, the typical employee career path was the classic “ladder,” with a series of clearly defined rungs for employees to climb. Now, with new technologies and disruptions creating the need for new skills and roles, career paths aren’t so clearly defined. Your organization may benefit from defining career paths within your company, to keep your people engaged and loyal and to decide how to invest in your employees’ development.

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How to Provide Constructive Feedback That Improves Performance

TalentCulture

For previous generations of workers, employer feedback too often consisted of some variation of “Don’t screw up!”. But in today’s workforce, employees need and want a lot more detail. They […]. The post How to Provide Constructive Feedback That Improves Performance appeared first on TalentCulture.

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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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Workplace mental health: Support your employees through the deep dark winter

Workable

And seasonal affective disorder – also known as the winter blues – coupled with flu season and reduced ability to visit with family during a normally festive season, will amount to a very difficult winter for employees, especially in the more northern climes. These days, the line between work life and home life is increasingly blurred by the shift to remote work and an intense social and political environment worldwide (Black Lives Matter, Brexit, the pandemic itself) that ultimately spill over

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Tips on How to Understand Taxation

Take It Personel-ly

While studying taxation, how do you study to ensure that you understand the various concepts? Do you strive to memorize concerns such s tax rates, various rulings, tax base, among others? Taxation is a set of accounting models dealing with the preparation of tax accounts and returns. Excelling at taxation can be a little tricky, […].

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How to Create a Positive Working Environment: Make Employees an Army of Success

6Q

Every company starts small. Every billion-dollar-worth company had humble beginnings. What earned their place and popularity is the process of development and a positive working environment. The ones that survive are those that make the most significant impact. So, a big question imposes – what makes any business expand through the steps of development?

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Is it Time to Outsource? 5 Ways It Benefits Your Business

Take It Personel-ly

For any growing business, there will come a time where you have to consider making changes to how you operate. One of the most difficult decisions for expanding businesses is whether or not to outsource aspects of the business. While increasing your own in-house staff has benefits, there are many arguments for outsourcing, and some […].

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2021 Corporate Board Diversification Deadlines

HRWatchdog

This year, California continued its push to increase diversity on corporate boards of directors — a push that began in 2018, when then-Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed SB 826 into law. SB 826 required any publicly held corporation with principal executive offices in California to place at least one female director on its board by December 31, 2019.

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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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Beginners Guide to Forex Fundamental Analysis

Take It Personel-ly

Forex is called the foreign exchange industry, where people are buying and selling currency pairs every day. They have to buy a pair and sell it after holding it for a given length of time. You may also hear it as the currency market. Traders in this industry perform two types of analyses to predict […].

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Who Are Your Business Case Heroes And Heroines?

Babette Ten Haken - Human Capital & Industrial IoT

Who are the business case heroes and heroines you leverage when working with colleagues and clients? Consider that every business case you create includes a cast of characters you either include or exclude. Possibly because you never even considered these people as part of your story. Or, if there is going to be a hero or heroine, and it is not your products or services, then, voila!

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What is Internal Communications in 2021?

SocialChorus

It’s 2021, and our workforces don’t look like they used to. Thanks to technology tools , globalization, and the impacts of COVID, internal communicators face a lot of new challenges. Doing internal communications right means happy, effective, productive employees that positively contribute to the employee experience; while doing it wrong can leave employees confused, unproductive, and disconnected from company initiatives.

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Employee Holiday Safety Tips in the Age of COVID-19

BackStitch

As we enter the holiday season, it’s important to not let revelry and celebration get in the way of your employees’ safety. If you’re planning on hosting any kind of holiday work celebration, COVID-19 prevention should be at the top of your priorities.

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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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Marketing Operations Analyst

WeSpire

WeSpire is an online technology platform that allows world-class enterprise organizations to design, run, and measure positive employee programs in areas such as sustainability , wellbeing , social impact , and inclusive culture. WeSpire’s mission is to inspire people to create a better working world. With that mission in mind, WeSpire is hiring a Marketing Operations Analyst who will help us deliver operational excellence within our B2B sales and marketing team.

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Health Insurance Explained: How age impacts your insurance costs

PeopleKeep

The Affordable Care Act was signed into law almost 11 years ago, but there’s still confusion about how health insurance premiums are calculated. Health insurance is famously difficult and confusing to shop for, and our support team is constantly getting questions about which plan someone should choose. We want to help clear things up. Read on to learn how your health insurance premium is calculated and what role your age plays in the calculation.

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Senior Marketing Manager – Temporary Position

WeSpire

WeSpire is an online technology platform that allows world-class enterprise organizations to design, run, and measure positive employee programs in areas such as sustainability , wellbeing , and corporate culture. WeSpire’s mission is to inspire people to create a better working world. With that mission in mind, WeSpire is hiring a temporary (February through June) Senior Marketing Manager who will help us to lead our marketing efforts alongside sales.

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Virtual Holiday Celebration Ideas

Cloverleaf

The year is winding down and the holidays are right around the corner. I think we can all agree that this year has forced us to be creative with the way we work. For a lot of us, the holidays at work will look different than in years past, and celebrating them will require that same creativity. But, just because we might not be adorning our offices with lights or collecting funny objects for white elephants, the magic of the holidays does not have to be lost.

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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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State background check laws that are changing in 2021

Homebase

Before making a hiring decision for your business, you may consider looking into each candidate’s criminal history. However, there are employment laws in place in states across the country that prevent private employers from looking into an applicant’s criminal or credit histories. . In fact, most states—and some cities—have laws in place either allowing criminal background checks or forbidding them in some way during the application process.

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The COVID Effect: Webinar Recap

Criteria Corp

Earlier this week, we hosted a webinar to discuss COVID-19’s impact on hiring this year. For this webinar, we were joined by three experts on Criteria’s team who each bring a wealth of knowledge about the hiring landscape and the experiences that everyday hiring professionals face. The panel included Criteria team members Josh Millet, the CEO and co-founder; Ashir Badami, the Director of Product Marketing; and Kayla Mulligan, a Strategic Enterprise Customer Success Manager.

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Having Trouble Unplugging?

Compensation Cafe

Taking time off? You may be feeling reluctant, even though you're tired. Closing the books on merit increases may be on schedule, but there are always loose ends to clear up before you get slammed with Q1 bonus and incentive work. This is not just any year, too, and you may not be the best one to judge when and how to take time off this holiday season.

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15 Ways That Leaders Can Sharpen Their Active Listening Skills

Forbes Coaches Council

Successful business leaders understand that they need to listen as well as they communicate. Hone your active listening skills as a leader with these expert tips.

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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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updates: the invasive client, the missing chocolate egg, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Here are four updates from past letter-writers. 1. Client wants to monitor our work in a weird and invasive way (#3 at the link). It’s crazy, my original email feels like a lifetime ago. But here’s how things went down.

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4 Safety Measures to Provide Your Employees for COVID Office Protection

Take It Personel-ly

Are you ready to bring your employees back to the office? While the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 hasn’t gone away, many companies are making the difficult choice to re-open amid the pandemic. The good news is that you can still keep your employees safe without shutting down or working remotely. Try these four safety […].

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How to Help an Employee Who Misses Open Enrollment | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Open enrollment is so important that it’s hard to imagine that an employee would miss out on electing their benefits. However, with employees under more stress than ever and working from home due to COVID-19, it’s very possible that the open enrollment deadline can easily pass them by. Here’s how employers can respond.

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How to Have a Successful First One-on-One With An Employee

Quantum Workplace

One-on-one meetings are a crucial part of the manager’s toolbox. They are an opportunity to build manager-employee relationships and ensure the team is aligned and on track. A study by Microsoft Workplace Analytics found that “employees who got little to no one-on-one time with their manager were more likely to be disengaged. On the flip side, those who get twice the number of one-on-ones with their manager relative to their peers are 67% less likely to be disengaged.”.

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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 is Mobile Backend as a Service beneficial for building your applications?

Take It Personel-ly

With all the advancements in the world of computers, the devices are getting smaller day by and. It has made mobile phones very strong to handle all the short to medium level tasks efficiently. It is one of the biggest reasons most users prefer using a mobile phone instead of a computer to use it […].

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10 Surprising Things We Learned About Ourselves This Year

Thrive Global

As 2020 comes to an end and we reflect on a year that presented us with so much uncertainty, it can certainly be tempting to dwell on the negative. But this tumultuous year has also allowed us to look inward, grow , connect with others in new ways, and live our lives in ways we never could have imagined. And as we look forward to 2021, it’s important that we take a moment to reflect on what we learned about ourselves this year.

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office holiday gift-giving stories: worst gifts and weirdest gifts

Ask a Manager

We have so many updates this year that I’m going to be posting six to seven times a day this week — so keep checking back throughout the entire day. In the spirit of the season, let’s hear about workplace gift debacles. Did a game of Secret Santa end in tears? Did a coworker throw a tantrum when she didn’t win a raffle? Did your boss try to give you Hanukkah balls ?

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