HR Bartender
MARCH 30, 2018
I know the open office concept is all the rage right now. And I’m not opposed to it. I can see the advantages it brings in terms of collaboration and team development. However, it’s important for organizations to realize it can also contribute to workplace distractions. The same is true for technology. I love my tech gadgets and toys as much as the next person, but they can also be distracting.
Compensation Cafe
MARCH 30, 2018
Editor's Note: There is a lot to be gained by examining the lessons of other fields - particularly the sciences - and applying them to ours. Stephanie Thomas is particularly gifted at this and has written a number of posts featuring insights from the field of physics. Today's Classic takes a fascinating look at multidimensionality and space-time. Enjoy!
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Linkedin Talent Blog
MARCH 30, 2018
In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. When You Start a New Job, Pay Attention to These 5 Aspects of Company Culture -- by Allen H.
Justworks
MARCH 30, 2018
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear “work-life balance?” Is it an unlimited vacation policy, or catered lunches? Maybe you think of remote work opportunities. Or that not being in the office equates to time with friends and family, and being disconnected from work entirely. Work-life balance is almost always referred to in the abstract.
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Kazoo
MARCH 30, 2018
The Aon 2018 Global Employee Engagement Trends report was just published, and if you are an HR professional or company executive looking for fresh, fascinating insights on employee engagement, look no further. From its impressive data set — over eight million employee responses were considered — many high-level trends in employee engagement were found.
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BambooHR
MARCH 30, 2018
How are you feeling right now? Calm? Burned out? Somewhere in between? Unfortunately, many of us go through most of our day in a cloud of work-related stress. In fact, the American Institute of Stress found that 40 percent of employees said their jobs were very or extremely stressful. But it’s just been a busy […]. The post How to Deal with Stress at Work appeared first on.
Limeade
MARCH 30, 2018
Stress happens. And everyone feels it. Whether it’s pressure at work, problems at home or things not going your way, stress can creep up quickly without you even knowing. According to a study by the American Institute of Stress , the main causes of workplace stress stem from workload, people issues, juggling work with personal lives and lack of job security.
TLNT: The Business of HR
MARCH 30, 2018
The deadly 2002-2003 SARS outbreak remained an epidemiological mystery for over a decade. The source of the disease — which killed 774 people worldwide — was unknown, and there was no vaccine.
SutiHR
MARCH 30, 2018
Creating an engaged workforce is a challenge for many organizations. Though higher pay and better benefits generally improve an employee’s satisfaction and overall commitment, they don’t truly promote engagement. Businesses can improve engagement by paying more attention to their employees – ensuring that they feel valued and emotionally connected to their work.
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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.
Select International
MARCH 30, 2018
Remote work is hotly debated. Is it good for business? Does it hurt business? Are employees more motivated or less motivated? Another common question that comes up when discussing a remote workforce is, "How do managers best lead remote teams? To answer this question, I decided to take a deep dive into the existing I/O literature. There have been a number of studies conducted to determine whether it takes a different set of traits, skills, and abilities to manage a remote workforce than it does
WEX Inc.
MARCH 30, 2018
Do you know which benefits your employees find valuable? Which benefits they like the most? The least? Do you have the mechanisms in place needed to help collect this constructive feedback? Use the following five steps as a guideline to earn employee feedback to improve your company benefits package.
Criteria Corp
MARCH 30, 2018
I don’t think most females in sales think they are unique (myself included), but we are. We are in the minority. Women account for only 39% of all sales staff in the United States. Take it one step further, and we make up just 25% of the tech sales workforce. The numbers are even more dramatic when you look at management, where women make up just 12% of sales leadership roles.
Steve Boese
MARCH 30, 2018
For a 'If you are working it's probably a good day to goof off a little and listen to a few podcasts' Friday, I wanted to alert and update readers as to what has been happening on what I like to call The HR Happy Hour Podcast Network. As a reminder, about 18 or so months ago, we launched three new podcasts - 'We're Only Human', with Ben Eubanks; 'HR Market Watch' with George LaRocque; and 'Research on the Rocks', with Madeline Laurano and Mollie Lombardi.
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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.
Workable
MARCH 30, 2018
This third party harassment policy template can be tailored to your company. Use it in combination with a complete workplace harassment policy to protect your employees and provide guidelines on reporting and addressing harassment. The post Third party harassment policy appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.
Total Employee Recognition
MARCH 30, 2018
Their time. Their energy. Their personal lives. Every day healthcare workers make major sacrifices just so they can help strangers in need. Their hard work and commitment shouldn’t go unrewarded. Years of service awards provide a unique opportunity to thank those very people who make the success of your healthcare organization possible. And they’re not the only ones who benefit.
Ask a Manager
MARCH 30, 2018
It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please don’t repost it here, as it may be in the to-be-answered queue.
HR Daily Advisor
MARCH 30, 2018
Over the past few years, a trend in charitable giving has emerged across the nation. While individual charitable giving has decreased, corporate giving—both employee volunteerism and more traditional grants and monetary donations—has grown, with smart companies leveraging purpose-driven corporate social responsibility programs as a way to empower individuals and build stronger corporate cultures.
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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?
HR Morning
MARCH 30, 2018
The opioid crisis has invaded the majority of workplaces, and for HR pros, controlling this growing problem can seem like an impossible task. In this guest post, Ian Cook, head of workforce solutions at Visier, offers three critical steps HR should be taking to deal with the opioid crisis. When it comes to dealing with opioid addiction in the workplace, it’s not always immediately clear what’s needed most from HR: Is it compassion?
Accu-time
MARCH 30, 2018
Accu-Time Systems is introducing our own Android integration platform that allows software solutions to run their Time and Attendance Software or port their Android app on an Accu-Time clock terminal. We’ve built a comprehensive set of tools, utilities and API libraries that allow you to install, customize and manage your solution on any of our Android-based terminals.
Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud
MARCH 30, 2018
“It is expensive to be mediocre in this world.” - J. Erwin Miller, former CEO of Cummins, a quote shared by Rubies award winner Fabio Fukuda of Cummins during his keynote. This year’s Oracle HCM World was chock full of companies pushing boundaries to accelerate their workforce into the future. It is clear that many of today’s HR leaders are not stopping at mediocrity.
Accu-time
MARCH 30, 2018
Accu-Time Systems is introducing our own Android integration platform that allows software solutions to run their Time and Attendance Software or port their Android app on an Accu-Time clock terminal. We’ve built a comprehensive set of tools, utilities and API libraries that allow you to install, customize and manage your solution on any of our Android-based terminals.
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.
TLNT: The Business of HR
MARCH 30, 2018
Just days before the the first wave of new H-1B applications begins to arrive, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services suspended premium processing. It’s the second time in two years the government halted the expedited handling program. It expects the suspension will last through Sept. 10.
HR Morning
MARCH 30, 2018
If an employee is “aggressive, rude and disrespectful,” you have a pretty good reason to fire them, right? But what if that behavior is cultural, and they claim discrimination? That’s exactly what happened at a Canadian restaurant. A French waiter, Guillaume Rey , filed a complaint with British Columbia’s Human Rights Tribunal, saying his employer discriminated against his culture by firing him for his behavior.
The Employer Handbook
MARCH 30, 2018
Image Credit: Pixabay.com ([link]. Ok, enough with New Jersey for this week. Today, I blog on a lighter note. It’s Career Builder’s list of “The Most Unusual Things People Have Done in Job Interviews.” When you’re interviewing a job candidate, how long does it take you to figure out whether that person is a good fit for the position?
The Tim Sackett Project
MARCH 30, 2018
Have you heard of the dating concept called, “Stashing”? Here’s the Urban Dictionary definition of stashing ( editor’s note : you know you’re about to read a great HR post when it starts with a definition from Urban Dictionary!) : “Stashing is when you’re in a relationship with someone and you refuse to introduce them to your friends and family ; mostly because you view the person as temporary, replaceable, and/or you’re an assh@le.” Ther
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.
ADP
MARCH 30, 2018
A recruitment agency may be able to find the right candidates for your open positions, but ask these three questions before outsourcing this crucial task.
Effortless HR
MARCH 30, 2018
As a manager, HR manager or CEO, how engaged with your business would you say that your leaders are? By leaders, I’m referring to your people in power, including your team leaders, supervisors, line managers or anybody who operates with your business and is reported to by staff working beneath them. You might actually find it surprising that Gallup claims that 87% of all employees are not engaged at work, and in the UK alone this costs businesses around £340 billion a year.
The Employer Handbook
MARCH 30, 2018
Image Credit: Pixabay.com ([link]. Ok, enough with New Jersey for this week. Today, I blog on a lighter note. It’s Career Builder’s list of “The Most Unusual Things People Have Done in Job Interviews.” When you’re interviewing a job candidate, how long does it take you to figure out whether that person is a good fit for the position?
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