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Important Things If You Want To Recruit Generation Z In Your Company

HR Management

Generation Z, also known as Gen Wii or the iGeneration is making their first step towards employment. The successors to the Millennial generation, people belonging to Gen Z were born between 1996 and 2012. In other words, some of them are now mature enough to seek out job opportunities. What’s interesting about Gen Z is that they’re also referred to as Digital Natives.

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4 Tips to Avoid Getting Sick at Work

Justworks

It’s an exciting time when the holiday season comes around. You get to look forward to holiday parties, savory meals, and some vacation time. You’re finishing up end-of-year projects and want to finish the year strong, so you want to make sure you are your best self at work. But the last thing you’d want is to end up sick during this time. With the weather changing and stress levels rising, this is the prime season for getting sick at work.

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U.S. Baristas Share Salaries in Hopes for Higher Pay

Trusaic

Baristas all over the United States have taken to an anonymous Google spreadsheet to compare their salaries. The spreadsheet originated in Philadelphia and contains information on workers’ wages, benefits, tips, years of experience, among other details. Hundreds of coffee shop employees have filled it out with their often-low wages. It has opened the discussion around wages that various baristas are earning, since they vary vastly from company to company.

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Leap year! How to handle 27 biweekly payrolls in 2020

Business Management Daily

Employees paid biweekly are paid 26 times a year. Except when they’re not. And they’re not every 11 or 12 years, when there are 27 biweekly pay periods. Employees paid weekly experience an extra pay period every five or six years. What’s up with this math? Well, nothing. The 27th/53rd pay period phenomenon is real and can cause havoc if you’re not prepared.

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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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How over-communicating can help avoid hysteria during change

Craft My Content

“Wait, what? We’re moving?” “Will I still have a job?” “What if I’m not interested in doing the duties of my new role? I never asked for this.” Change communication – can’t live without it. So, why is it that organisations never seem to get it right? Without effective workplace communication , your change process will probably fail. You’ll p**s off a lot of employees, you’ll probably p**s off your customers then, too, and you’ll probably lose a bit of money as a result.

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How Deep Do You Need To Dig On New Employees

New to HR

The process of hiring a new employee has changed dramatically over the last ten years. Once upon a time, you could walk into a role with a quick interview, a little bit of on the job training, and that was. The post How Deep Do You Need To Dig On New Employees appeared first on New To HR.

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Offsite Meeting: Why it is Important and its Benefits

Vantage Circle

Day to day meetings within the organisations are paramount in enabling your business to move forward. However, frequent meetings can become too tedious and productivity gets reduced. It becomes hard to get the desired outcome because of the fact that employees often lose interest in meetings. To get the best out of meetings and keep things interesting, offsite meetings are the best possible way that you can resort to.

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THE BE, DO, HAVE PRINCIPLE

Thrive Global

As I started on my healing journey to eradicate the workaholism (my Warrior path towards wholeness), I quickly learned that I had the creative process of the Universe — that which is needed to build a successful business, or create anything else for that matter — up-side-down and backward! Most people in most cultures believe that we first have to “have” something — time, money, love, confidence, influence — in order to “do” something — write that book, take that tr

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Finland – Income Tax Filing updates 2020

Immedis

The Finnish government introduce income tax filing changes to reduce the administrative burden on small businesses and NGOs. Coming into force from 1 January 2020. Reporting to the income register will be made easier for small operators in Finland from 1 January 2020. The Finnish government have agreed changes that will reduce the administrative burden on small businesses and NGOs.

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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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Small Business Cash Flow Crisis: 8 Best Solutions Available Nowadays

Thrive Global

The simplest rule of running your own business is knowing that in order to make money, you need to spend it first. Most of the time, this will be a real balancing act, so you’ll need to educate yourself on the ways to solve (and prevent) a cash flow crisis. First and foremost, be honest with yourself: are you here to learn something new, or are you already facing money issues?

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Regular Feedback Helps Keep The Wheels Turning In Your HR Department

HR C-Suite

At a time when information is all around us and available to us at lightning-fast speeds, it’s hard to believe that so many companies are in the dark about what is going on with their employees. People are afraid to speak up and tell the truth about how they are feeling, what they are struggling […].

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Why Bad Managers Lead To Burnout

Thrive Global

In my role as a burnout advisor and coach, I hear countless stories of people’s struggle with burnout, and one aspect I am seeing quite a spike in the cause of their burnout, is the environment where they work. Work demands are getting worse, and it’s been this way since the last recession of 2008/09. If you have forgotten that time period, let me open up an old wound for you.

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Being Good Enough

Sergio Caredda

Taking part in a recent event , one of the speaker at a certain point mentioned a sentence that made me think. We need to have the courage to settle for Good Enough Results sometime. Good Enough seems a sentence that underpins a failure, not reaching results. But this is only apparent. We indeed need to accept that we can’t be on top of performance every day.

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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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On Greece, Sustainability and Living Your Life to the Fullest: Iliada Kothra

Thrive Global

That’s why I began my interview series with changemakers that share refreshing ideas on topics that we all see as a core of our fragmented reality. One of the first changemakers I sit down, is Iliada Kothra, activist, women’s rights advocate and a founder of Living Postcards. You are such an inspiring face in Greece – advocate for women’s rights, activist and an entrepreneur.

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Talent Management Trends for 2020 and Beyond

Cisive

Disruption is the new normal. We face disruption from economic changes, new working styles, technology — every aspect of work has either been a disruptor or been disrupted, and talent management is no exception. The modern workforce is evolving at a rapid pace. Job categories and roles are being transformed or eliminated completely, while acute shortages in other areas emerge.

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DON’T LET YOUR LOSS DEFINE YOU

Thrive Global

When my husband Peter died over four years ago, I was cloaked in a shroud of grief. Grief surely defined me in every aspect of my life. I was “the widow Grad.” I submissively carried this heavy moniker wherever I went. In the grocery store, I would start crying and blurt out “my husband died.” When I was invited to dinners, I deferred because I couldn’t face the pain.

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What California AB 5 Means for the Gig Economy and Beyond

Patriot Software

In 2018, California came up with the ABC test to determine whether an employer could classify a worker as an independent contractor. And in September 2019, the court approved the new California AB 5 (Assembly Bill No. 5) to push the ABC test’s effects into motion. The new 2019 law significantly limits the ability of […]. The post What California AB 5 Means for the Gig Economy and Beyond appeared first on Patriot Software.

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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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Why ‘following your bliss’ won’t help you find your true purpose

Thrive Global

I’ve always found the idea of following your bliss unhelpful, especially as an instruction for finding our life purpose. It’s caught on in spiritual circles, though, and it’s a common idea among coaches. I get it. It sounds like a pretty fun way to live. But here’s why ‘following your bliss’ isn’t half as fun as it sounds. If you insist only on following the light and avoiding your darkness, there’s no way you can live an authentic life.

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Is Culture The Ticket To HR's Seat At The Table?

Human Workplaces

This article was written by Jamie Notter for Forbes.com - the original can be found here. From what I've seen, human resources has been clamoring for a seat at the table for decades. While other functions, like marketing or information technology, have jumped ahead and secured positions in the C-suite, HR seems to be frequently left behind. I spend a fair amount of time at HR conferences, where every year, leaders in the field shake their fists and make their business case for why HR should be v

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10 Ways Strong-Minded People Think Differently

Thrive Global

To be a successful in business and life you need to be strong-minded. The most successful people focus on building a strong mindset to help them navigate the fears, failures, experiences and obstacles that come with growing a successful business and life. Their strong mindset helps them transform their past experiences, be they good or bad, and their feelings about them into measurable criteria for future growth.

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Video: Have You Filled A Bucket Today?

Avid At Work

Children’s books contain great wisdom don’t you think? Charlotte’s Web. The Giving Tree. The Cat in the Hat. Here’s another one with a simple yet profound message.

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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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Signs You Need a Break When You’re Caregiving

Thrive Global

Photo by rawpixel/unsplash. I didn’t realize how much I needed a break until I had a nervous breakdown after my best friend died by suicide. What followed was endless PTSD symptoms such as out of my body feeling, physical pain, flashbacks, numbness and more. I learned the hard way that self-care needed to be a daily part of my life to recover. In my recovery, I have found a calling in sharing my path to help other medical parents.

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5 Tips to Boost Your Business Credit Score Quickly

Zenefits

It can be tempting to focus all your financial energies on improving your personal credit score. It’s an understandable mission, considering how often lenders, insurance companies, utility companies, and landlords ask to see your personal score. If you run a business looking for low-cost capital, however, your business credit score can be as important in determining what products and rates you qualify for.

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How to Overcome the Expectation of a Perfect Holiday as a Sensitive Parent

Thrive Global

Deep love, overwhelm, perfectionism, anxiety, and exhaustion sum up being a highly sensitive person and a parent. Then add in the stressors of the holiday season, and you have overwhelm on another level. Our intention as a parent to create a special holiday for our family can often lead to exhaustion. If you watch the Hallmark Channel or many of the holiday movies like I do, you feel the pressure to have the perfect holiday.

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How to Effectively Set Goals With Your Direct Reports

Zenefits

As we ready ourselves for a new year, we know your employees have performance reviews , pay raises, and bonuses on their minds. Before you sit down with each of them, you’ll need to do two things. The first is to evaluate their performance over the past year, and the second is to consider a few priorities to focus on in the upcoming year. Both of those things depend upon concrete, measurable employee goals.

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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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The Power of Gratitude

Thrive Global

We frequently struggle with stress because we lose perspective. We fixate on how life fails to meet our expectations. We either worry about what could go wrong or ruminate on previous failures. As a result, we become trapped in a web of anxiety and forget to appreciate the blessings in our life. Gratitude is a powerful emotion that allows us to combat stress.

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Amazon, Walmart And Target Go Head-To-Head

Forbes Leadership Strategy

It’s happening again, only this time instead of an amenity in the form of a mint on the pillow or a newspaper, it is in the form of convenience.

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The P word: stop being a perfectionist and start enjoying your start-up

Thrive Global

Just one more time… Are you a serial tweaker? Someone who can never leave well alone? That person who, when you’ve produced something that’s 85% on point, keeps pushing for the elusive 15%? When you’re starting out running a new business or building up a freelance portfolio, the impulse to get everything 100% right, all the time, is strong. You have standards to set, expectations to meet, clear water to create between you and the rest of the competition.

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