Tue.Aug 18, 2020

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Users Access Wages in Real-Time with Visa Direct

Payactiv

SAN JOSE, Calif. , Aug. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Recent data from PayActiv, Inc. (“PayActiv”), a leading provider of employer-sponsored earned wage and tip access, has found that four out of every five PayActiv users prefer to access their funds in real-time, 1 a capability enabled by Visa Direct, Visa’s real-time push payments platform, over all other ways of accessing wages through its solution. 2 Earned Wage Access is a payroll innovation that helps hourly workers get a

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The Evolution of Performance Management

Professional Alternatives

Hiring managers are always on the lookout for more effective methods of performance management and reinforcement of desired employee habits. Firms across the world are replacing annual reviews and making use of frequent, informal check-ins instead between managers and employees. A lot of businesses have portrayed annual reviews as an old performance management practice and have blamed them for the reduction of collaboration and innovation.

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Compensation Challenges for Family Businesses

Astron Solutions

All business has its challenges. Due to their close-knit nature, family-owned businesses have unique challenges. Since employees are often related to each other, developing and maintaining fair & appropriate compensation plans can be difficult. Additionally, COVID-19 has presented challenges for all organizations, including family-owned business.

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Working From Home 2.0 – 5 Skills for Success

HR Bartender

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article on “ Working from Home Version 2.0: 5 Things to Consider ” and honestly, it was very focused on setting up a work environment that helps you to be productive. While I believe those things are important, it occurred to me after the article published that creating a good work environment is only half of the story.

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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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Podcast: The Company Culture at Shake Shack

DecisionWise

In this episode, Matthew Wride and Christian Nielson discuss the many ways that Danny Meyer has established a winning company culture at Shake Shack, as well as his many other restaurants in the Union Square Hospitality group. “Business, like life, is all about how you make people feel. It’s that simple and that hard.” – Danny Myer.

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Virtual Youth Work Preparation Programs: Best Practices for Workforce Development Boards Q&A Interview

EDSI

Grow Detroit’s Young Talent offers meaningful work experience to local youth through an online platform by partnering with community organizations such as EDSI, who helped implement virtual programming and digital solutions to create successful outcomes.

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Location-based salaries will kill your startup’s culture

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

This startup’s founder warns that reducing salaries to save a few bucks isn’t worth the damage you’ll do to team culture and morale.

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7 Types of Tech Tools to Help Set Up Virtual Offices

Hppy

No matter what kind of industry you’re in, there are several benefits that virtual offices have over traditional ones. Virtual offices have next to no technology costs, no commute time, and lower overhead costs, which can be highly beneficial for small business owners in particular. If you want to set up your own virtual office, it’s important that you have the right tech tools in place to help improve productivity, produce a lower turnover rate, and keep your business running smoothly and effic

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HR Leaders: How the Quality of Your Direct Reports on Your Team?

The HR Capitalist

Ah yes. The leader is only as good as their team. It's true everywhere, so why wouldn't it be true in the world of HR? So HR Leaders, the question is this - how good is your team of HR direct reports? Do you have a world class team or did you settle? If you're not a leader, look around - how is the strength of the HR team around you? Perhaps the bigger question is this - how do you evaluate whether your team of HR direct reports is world-class or something far less?

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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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Ep 239 – How We Can Help Eliminate Systemic Racism at Work

Workology

This podcast interview is one of the most important I think I’ve ever done in my life. It’s also incredibly uncomfortable but necessary to help make change happen. Systemic racism is real and I am. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. This podcast interview is one of the most important I think I’ve ever done in my life.

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Combining Learning, Technology, and Culture with Christopher Lind on We’re Only Human

UpstartHR

“For me it’s always been about focusing on how we can use technology to transform the way we develop, grow, and care for our employees.” Christopher Lind, learning technology leader at GE Healthcare and founder of Learning Sharks. We’re Only Human episode 89. In today’s discussion, host Ben Eubanks digs in with Christopher Lind on how to use technology as a piece of the bigger picture of supporting the workforce from a learning perspective.

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20 Thoughtful, Low-Cost, Remote-Friendly Employee Rewards

Bonusly

Okay, we admit defeat. In an effort to keep our communities safe from COVID-19, Bonusly isn’t going back to the office anytime soon. We’re thinking many of you are in the same boat! ??. It’s been rough—I miss spontaneous banter with my coworkers, Wednesday team lunches, and the general camaraderie that comes with seeing team members at the office. But it’s also been awesome to see how we’ve adjusted to remote work.

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7 Essential Skills You Need to Work With Bots

The Muse

If you’re thinking about going into a career focused on building bots, using bots, or informed by bots, these are the skills you need to have.

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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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do I have to share my extra shifts, playing a video of my boss while I work, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Do I have to share my extra shifts with coworkers who want some? One department at my job is currently understaffed. In order to help, we have been offered overtime shifts that are premium over usual overtime. Several employees across several departments were asked if they were interested, and a few weeks later we were all offered these shifts at the same time (in the same group email).

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Look around. How many women of color leaders do you see? It’s time for action, not words.

Poppulo

Throughout my career, I’ve always struggled with belonging. I recognize that the industry I chose to develop my career (internal communications) is not known for its diversity (91% white*) but even in the organizations I worked in there was a distinct lack of color at executive level, particularly women of color. Early in my career, I rarely spoke about it as I never wanted anyone to think I was different from them or worse make people feel awkward.

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College Degree Requirements Hinder Black Workers' Earnings, Career Advancement

SHRM Resources

Because Black job-seekers are less likely than white applicants to be college graduates, degree requirements can keep them out of certain positions, despite their skills and talents, lowering their earning potential and making it more difficult for companies to create diversified and inclusive workplaces.

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7 Things Start Ups Teach Us That Will Increase Our Success!

The Tim Sackett Project

My buddy John Hill works for Techstars as the VP of Network, go connect with him, he’s completely an awesome guy who will sit down and have a beer with you and talk about how to change the world for hours! Last week he got to meet the latest crop of Techstar startups and came away motivated with some great learnings. Here are John’s takeaways from the newest Techstar startups: 1.

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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 State of the Human Experience Survey with HR.com

eni

The post The State of the Human Experience Survey with HR.com appeared first on eni.

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Why empathy can help us bridge the diversity and inclusion gap

HR Zone

Culture The empathy cure.

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Is Diversity Baked Into Your Hiring Process?

TalentCulture

A few years ago, we were asked to help a market leader that was intent on changing its culture to be more creative and innovative. (Sound familiar?) The company was spending a million dollars on messaging and elaborate company meetings to help “get the word out” and create excitement for this new, transformative initiative. But […]. The post Is Diversity Baked Into Your Hiring Process?

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Top 10 Diversity Videos

Ongig

A solid stance on Diversity & Inclusion is the foundation of many successful companies. Sharing those messages through video is becoming a popular trend. Our CEO, Rob Kelly wrote about 5 of the Best Diversity And Inclusion Videos in 2019, but with diversity taking center stage due to the recent Black Lives Matter movement, we wanted to find a few more.

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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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Leave Policies and COVID-19 “Long-Haulers” Who Don’t Recover Quickly

SHRM

There are some people who contract the virus and don’t recover in two or three weeks like most patients do, but instead continue to experience a wide array of symptoms, long after testing negative for the virus. They are not contagious, but are still suffering symptoms 100 days after falling sick. They call themselves the “long-haulers”. Common symptoms include fatigue, chest pain and brain fog.

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how can I make a good impression in phone interviews?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m currently in the middle of a frustrating and fruitless job search after having lost my job when my company shut down its local office. I have more than a decade of professional experience focused on media and marketing, but now that I’m on a job search again, I’m encountering something frustrating: companies are relying much more on phone interviews than they used to, even when the job is local and I’m in the same city as them.

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Building a Diverse Distributed Workforce

Workable

Your organization has announced a hiring slow down during the COVID-19 pandemic. So what do you do? Advanced People Operations teams are focused on projects that will impact their organization in the future. One area of focus, aided by a shift to a more distributed workforce, is increased diversity and inclusion initiatives. DE&I goals won’t go away, and as companies become more familiar with remote hiring, diverse pools of candidates will be more accessible than ever.

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should I tell a candidate she was rejected for plagiarizing her recruitment test?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work for a translation agency where I am also in charge of recruitment and selection for my team. After the initial phone screening, I send out a test to candidates and evaluate their language and translation skills. To evaluate all candidates against the same parameters, I send them the same document in English and request them to send me back the translation in my language.

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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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11 Practical Ways to Encourage Employee Self Evaluation

6Q

Employee self evaluation is one of the best ways to encourage your employees to participate in the annual performance review process and in setting both job and career goals for themselves. Below are 11 great ways to encourage employees to do this. The employee self-evaluation ensures that your employees make ample preparation for their annual performance review meeting with their manager.

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8 Tips to Manage and Motivate Senior Employees

HR Digest

The workforce is a mix of the new and the old, new recruits and young managerial staff with the elder and senior employees who have been giving their all from years. As such, the Gen X people of an organization should learn ways to motivate and manage the poll of senior and older workforce. The young and the old, both these generations have a different way of looking at things.

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8 Ways To Reduce Stress Levels

Take It Personel-ly

Introduction Everyone is bound to feel some sort of stress at any point in time — it may be a pressing deadline, bad news from a family member, or an upcoming exam that stresses you out. Though a good amount of stress will motivate you to get the job done or push you to improve […].

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