Tue.May 05, 2020

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3 Hard A** Photos About Change During the COVID Lockdown.

The HR Capitalist

You see it every day - change is a given during the COVID Lockdown. . With that in mind, I present 3 photos (with links as appropriate) from the last week that made me go hmmmm - and make me wonder where we are headed when we get to the new normal. (email subscribers click through if you don't see the images below). PHOTO ONE - The Vampires have come for the restaurant industry , and was unrelated to COVID, happening before the pandemic.

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How to Make Your Home More Inviting and Attractive

Take It Personel-ly

There are many ways to make your home a place that people are drawn to. You don’t even need to shell out too much cash to create the perfect atmosphere you have always dreamed of. You only need to get your creativity going and consider a few tips to help you out. Give your living […].

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Return to work starts with thinking outside the digital box

HRExecutive

COVID-19 has ushered in an entirely new era of work, workplaces and worker engagement challenges. A recent WorldatWork poll found that 55% of U.S. companies are requiring non-essential employees to work from home and 43% have sent their entire workforces to work from home. What was an occasional perk for many employees last month is now an economic necessity for most organizations.

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Uber and Lyft Face Employee Misclassification Lawsuit in California

SHRM Resources

California officials are suing ride-hailing service giants Uber and Lyft for allegedly misclassifying drivers as independent contractors instead of employees. Coronavirus concerns have raised more questions about the Golden State's strict independent-contractor test and whether it should be amended.

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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Leadership in a Time of Fear; The Need for Compassionate Leadership

Pinsight

Since the COVID-19 outbreak, the need for effective leadership throughout all organizations—not just at the head of government—has never been more critical. This pandemic has brought worry and fear to almost everyone – including leaders – for both personal and professional reasons. On top of the fact that many of us have experienced isolation, alienation, and a general sense of social disconnect while working from home, many of us also agonize over our finances, fear losing our job o

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Cloud-Based Time & Attendance for Satellite Offices

nettime solutions

Organizations are always looking for ways to improve processes. Many leaders prioritize efforts that increase sales, or maximize ROI on marketing efforts. They also care about enhancing the way employees connect, collaborate, and sync up across different locations, including satellite offices. Time and Attendance Software for Satellite Offices. These days, business happens almost anywhere, and at almost any time.

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Get Out of Your Head – Start Leveraging Feedback

DecisionWise

Have you ever had the uncomfortable experience of hearing your own recorded voice played back to you and thought, “Yikes, do I really sound like that?” We go through life hearing ourselves from the inside of our own heads. Yet, when we listen to a recording, we realize that we experience ourselves differently than those around us. It is helpful to expand this realization beyond just our physical voice and to consider how our entire approach is experienced by others.

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New AI-Powered Video Assessment Gives INTOO Outplacement Users a Competitive Edge

Intoo USA

Finding your next career opportunity after a layoff or termination can be daunting even in the best economic climate, but even more so now as the world grapples with the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic. We’re excited to announce that starting today, Intoo Outplacement users now have one more tool in their arsenal—the power of artificial intelligence.

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Leadership: how to prepare your workforce for the post-pandemic future

HR Zone

Change The post-pandemic workplace: how to prepare.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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New AI-Powered Video Assessment Gives Intoo Outplacement Users a Competitive Edge

Intoo USA

Finding your next career opportunity after a layoff or termination can be daunting even in the best economic climate, but even more so now as the world grapples with the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic. We’re excited to announce that starting today, Intoo Outplacement users now have one more tool in their arsenal—the power of artificial intelligence.

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4 ways to foster inclusion in a remote work environment

HRExecutive

Most organizations have shifted to remote work in an effort to protect employee health and ensure the continuity of operations during the COVID-19 outbreak. And this shift to remote work doesn’t look like it will go away once the pandemic ends. Gartner analysis finds that 48% of employees will work remotely after the pandemic, compared to 30% who worked remotely pre-pandemic.

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Working Remotely? Try These 35 Tools for Better Communication, Collaboration, and Organization

The Muse

Read our career advice article, Working Remotely? Try These 35 Tools for Better Communication, Collaboration, and Organization.

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Life After the Lockdown

SHRM Resources

?Portals that emit UV lighting designed to disinfect people as they walk past were installed, along with an air-quality monitoring system devised to detect viral pathogens in real-time. A self-disinfecting titanium dioxide coating was applied to multiple surfaces, including desks and monitors. And a new nontoxic cleaning product that uses a saline solution will routinely scour the workplace.

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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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How to be inclusive of working parents during times of crisis

HR Zone

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can I ever repair my bad reputation with my manager?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’ve been working IT support for a company for nearly four years, and I wish I could say I’ve been a better employee but I can’t. Around the beginning of 2018, my mental health began to take a severe nosedive after the end of a very long personal relationship, and in late 2018 I was diagnosed with severe depression, anxiety, and adult ADHD.

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The wellbeing framework: a useful tool to support leaders and their teams in difficult times?

HR Zone

People How wellbeing frameworks can help your people.

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US Women’s National Soccer Team Loses Pay Dispute in Court

Evil HR Lady

The United States Senior Women’s National Soccer Team (WNT) is a crowd pleaser and they won last year’s World Cup Title. Their paychecks, however, were a lot less than the United States Senior Men’s National Soccer Team (MNT). So, they sued under the Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Code. A judge just tossed out the Equal Pay Act portion, allowing the Civil Rights claims to continue.

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Managing Your Recruitment Agency Spend in 2024

Feeling overwhelmed by a juggling act of internal recruiting, agency relationships, and direct hire spend? You’re not alone. In today’s competitive talent landscape, building a dream team requires strategic orchestration. Recruiting agencies and search firms provide invaluable services, but managing them effectively alongside your internal team can pose unique challenges.

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Tactical Fixes do not help Clients make Strategic Hard Calls

Babette Ten Haken - Human Capital & Industrial IoT

Do you propose tactical fixes for your clients’ biggest strategic issues? Or, is your own need to close a contract overshadowing the real issues clients struggle with? Because you both need to put food on the table, maintain cash flow and prevent employee and client churn. While this dialectic existed pre-pandemic, well, the current and future business scenario puts this scenario on steroids.

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When It Rains, It Pours: Financial Resilience During COVID-19

Payactiv

Rhonda’s story isn’t unique, as the realities of our world in the midst of COVID-19 is one of emotional struggle and economic strain. The post When It Rains, It Pours: Financial Resilience During COVID-19 appeared first on PayActiv.

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Being Alone Together: The Social Pandemic of Loneliness during COVID-19

LifeSpeak

By Dr. Nasreen Khatri, PhD, Registered Clinical Psychologist, Gerontologist, and Neuroscientist. As a clinical psychologist and neuroscientist, I am often asked about loneliness. What is it? Who is lonely? Is being lonely actually bad for your health and if so, why? What can we do about it? Now, more than ever while observing social distancing due to COVID-19, it is essential to learn the facts and adaptive coping mechanisms regarding loneliness.

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How Do You Lead in Times of Chaos?

Newmeasures

One of my core values as a leader is authenticity. I have always tried to be transparent and open with my team, no matter the circumstances. I’m finding this particularly challenging during the COVID-19 crisis, as I work to balance being vulnerable and sharing my own fears and struggles, and also being a comfort and demonstrating stability for my team.

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Unlocking Global Payroll Potential

This whitepaper examines the rise, and subsequent challenges, faced by U.S. companies expanding globally, and explores best practices for achieving seamless and compliant global payroll operations.

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Leading In Difficult Times

Forbes Coaches Council

When a crisis occurs, it's time to unify your team and do what you can to help those around you with the difficult and important decisions that must be made.

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How to Have a Difficult Conversation With an Employee

Quantum Workplace

Like it or not, the workplace is home to a number of difficult conversations. Discussing topics such as pay and benefits, inappropriate behavior, or underperformance can be uncomfortable. But having successful one-on-one conversations is what separates great managers from ineffective ones. Difficult conversations may not be fun, but leaders who navigate them successfully can build stronger relationships with their employees and provide needed guidance and correction on workplace performance or b

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Implementing And Enabling A Virtual Workforce

Forbes Coaches Council

The movement toward more virtual work is not stopping. In fact, it is speeding up. In the 1970s, virtual work was an innovation; in today's world, it is simply the way we work.

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3 Factors To Remember When Setting Employee Goals

Engagedly

Goal setting is one of the most important aspects of employee performance management. But do you think that employee goals are effective enough for your organization to achieve success? Well, goals give us a sense of direction and […].

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8 Pillars of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts have long been a priority for companies, but the pandemic has made the need to increase these efforts even more apparent. As many companies have doubled down on efforts, how can they transform promises into company-specific actions? This eBook shares what a comprehensive commitment to DEI looks like at every part of the employee lifecycle.

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In a Crisis, Diversity Requires Inclusion More Than Ever

Thrive Global

As COO of a communications firm, a core part of my job is to be a voracious consumer of the news — no matter how disturbing it may be. And as a person of color, who has long felt an acute personal and professional responsibility to those who look like me, this week’s news is especially harrowing — among the most troubling of my career. You may have read about how Black and Hispanic Americans are dying at twice the rate of their white counterparts in New York, about how 70 percent of the Covid-19

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The Future of HR Is Here—Are You Ready?

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

COVID-19 has disrupted business continuity, affecting HR professionals across the globe and pushing them to the forefront to lead organizations through unprecedented situations. Current uncertainties have forced organizations to quickly adapt, while building a future-ready workforce, including transitioning to digital workplaces. This breeds new considerations that guide their understanding of today’s market dynamics: An empathetic and stable approach to the workplace, where modern technol

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Nine Tips to Strengthen Trust with Remote Teams

Emergenetics International

“Extending trust is the ultimate act of leadership, the defining skill that transforms a manager into a leader.” – Stephen M. R. Covey As many businesses explore new ways of working with remote or distributed teams, managers are being called upon to lead differently. Without a direct line of sight into their employees’ work, it’s […]. The post Nine Tips to Strengthen Trust with Remote Teams appeared first on Emergenetics International Blog.