Tue.Jun 16, 2020

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7 Ways to Use Rewards Programs to Boost Employee Morale

Hppy

Your employees likely work hard and strive for excellence. They are making an effort to reach their goals and make you proud. However, the day to day grind can get tiring, leaving employees in need of a necessary boost. Your workplace morale has a huge impact on performance. By making sure employees are enjoying the time with their coworkers, you can promote stronger teamwork.

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3 Unexpected Problems Solved by Risk Management Software for Banks

360 factors

Whenever there is a paradigm shift within a domain it is necessary to change our perspective of what is possible accordingly. Whenever we set the standards and accepted performance levels of any process, we look at all the current available tools, technologies, and strategies to determine what will be the ideal we need to progress towards. Most banks have standards and requirements set out for risk management within their organization and many of them meet these internally set expectations.

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Updated Paycheck Protection Program FAQs

Zenefits

To address concerns over the original Paycheck Protection Program, signed by the administration in March, an update was recently updated to increase flexibility and participation by small and medium-sized businesses. The Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act, signed on June 5, outlines changes to the original Act and provides more options for business owners to participate in the loan program necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Succession Planning Checklist: How to Make a Business Succession Plan

Intoo USA

Planning for the future is a task easy to put off, but an essential measure to ensure the continued success of an organization. Succession planning allows organizations to not only prepare for unexpected events and manage risk, but also to develop sustainably by identifying and nurturing talent to fill leadership roles. . What is a succession plan? A succession plan is a set of company guidelines to ensure business continuity in the case of sudden or expected personnel changes, such as those due

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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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Performance Reviews in 2020: Best Practices During Times of Uncertainty

Reflektive

As HR teams around the world align and prioritize during this time, they’re re-thinking traditional performance programs. Many of them had 360 reviews scheduled, and are unsure how to proceed. Do they hold performance reviews as normal? Do they postpone reviews until the pandemic ends? Reflektive has consulted with dozens of global customers on reviews during this time.

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Why You Need Storytelling for Diversity and Inclusion Success

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

Thought leadership on the business need for diversity and inclusion in workplaces, explained by CultureCounts's expert diversity and inclusion consultants

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How People Analytics Delivers Financial Impact [New Report]

Visier

The value of people analytics is different for each organization. However, the financial impact of having this data is something that organizations can’t afford to ignore. Customer research shows there are moments that matter that drive value from people analytics. These are the employee lifecycle activities from hiring to retention, as well as organizational effectiveness activities from optimizing planning to optimizing productivity. .

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we’re supposed to forfeit all our vacation days if we’ve worked from home

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: As an HR person for a small employer, I take to heart a lot of your advice and work hard to push the management here to do better. They had plenty of issues before all this, but I truly believed they were trying to change. But with COVID-19, things went downhill fast and the management team has shown they are all talk when it comes to a positive culture.

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Intermittent FMLA leave under FFCRA: When firms must allow or can deny

HR Morning

For many benefits pros, intermittent FMLA leave can be burdensome, but now it’s even more complex as to when to allow employees to take the incremental time off under the new Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). During the pandemic, the DOL is encouraging firms to be flexible in allowing employees who have children at home the intermittent time off.

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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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Can You Trust the U.S. Unemployment Rate?

SHRM Resources

Erica Groshen discussed with SHRM Online how the monthly unemployment rate is calculated and how the misclassifications occurred and said it would be “basically impossible” to tamper with the reporting or the data without detection.

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my abusive former boss is still contacting me to berate me, months after I left

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: A few months ago, I finally left a job where my boss was abusive, thanks in great part to the advice you shared on your website. My new job is incredible, with just the most amazing and supportive manager and team. I was with my old job for a decade in various roles, and it was my first professional experience, including my internship experience from college.

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How to Use Continuous Performance Management With Your Team

6Q

It is standard practice in organisations to follow up on the performance of the employees. This assessment determines the areas that require improvement. However, this usually happens only once a year, usually at the end of the business year. This is where continuous performance management comes into play. The problem with performance reviews happening at the end of the year is that you don’t get to know who is underperforming throughout the year.

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Looking for a High-Paying Sales Job? Here are 7 Roles to Consider

The Muse

Check out seven of the highest-paying sales jobs you can pursue—and what you’ll need to get your foot in the door.

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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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Culture change in the coronavirus era is about ‘meteorology’, not ‘archaeology’

HR Zone

Culture Why culture change is meteorology.

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Can You Chew Out an entire Team via a Zoom Call?

The HR Capitalist

Here's the situation. The team is slacking overall, and you feel like the ole' team pep talk might be called for. You know, you're going to chew them out via a team meeting. But wait! There's a pandemic going on my friend! What's that? It's been 3 months and you're tired of people mailing it in? I feel you. Before you do that team meeting, answer the following 3 questions: 1--Does the team have enough to work on?

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5 Employee Engagement Statistics All Leaders Should Know

Fond

When it comes to employee engagement , there’s no longer a question of whether it’s important. The research has been clear since the 90s , and the term has evolved from trendy buzzword to a permanent tenet of thriving companies. Nonetheless, discussing employee engagement is challenging, complicated, and sometimes imprecise. As a result, many leaders still have only a shaky understanding of how to support and encourage it.

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10 ways to save time at work

cipHR

It can often feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done. Reclaim your precious time by working smarter, not for longer, with these helpful time-saving tips. UK workers are under more time pressure than ever; according to a 2017 survey by TotalJobs , two-thirds (68%) of UK workers skip their lunch breaks because they have too much to do or have to deal with unexpected, urgent tasks.

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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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4 Tips for 2020 Career Development

Compensation Cafe

What happens when you disappear raises, slim down bonuses, freeze salaries and/or jack up benefit costs? Career development no longer has to share the total rewards spotlight, and it becomes the go-to form of employee recognition. Looks like we're in for that kind of year. And while employees are going to sorely miss the dollars, they'll be thrilled that you'll finally be giving attention to their career.

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Brightside Raises $35 Million Series A for Its Financial Wellness App That Includes a Financial Product Marketplace

WorkTech

Brightside announced a $35 million series A for its app that looks to combine financial wellness with a financial product marketplace. Financial wellness is one of several components in the emerging Employee Total Wellbeing category, which we explored in the HR Federation 2020 HCM Trends Report. Wellbeing is increasingly an important part of the employee experience, […].

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What You Need to Know About the Supreme Court’s Decision for LGBTQ Workers

The Muse

Here’s a short list of must-reads to help you understand the landmark decision, the context around it, and what’s next.

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Don’t Do These 4 Things During A Performance Review

Engagedly

It’s that time of the year again. Yes. But love them or hate them, performance reviews are here to stay. So you better understand their importance and educate your employees about it. Employees usually feel that performance reviews […].

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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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employer wants us to help with loan fraud, offering to talk about salaries with coworkers, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Employer wants us to help with loan fraud. I thankfully work in a field that hasn’t been impacted by COVID, at least not yet. Some of our clients have, but this hasn’t been an issue regarding money coming into our business (yet). My boss went ahead and applied for the PPP loan and was granted the money.

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Reward Stories: Real Employees, Really Great Employee Incentive Program Ideas

The Incentive Solutions News blog

Here at Incentive Solutions, not only do we develop, build, and manage employee incentive programs for our clients- we use one ourselves! Recognized back in March by Atlanta Journal-Constitution as one of the Top 150 places to work in 2020 , we have no doubt that our employee incentive program ideas and execution have helped earn this title. Today we have a special treat- employee recognition story time with three of our very own ISI employees!

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Rethinking Your Money Mindset

Forbes Coaches Council

What belief work do you need to do so you can have an abundance mindset and shed beliefs around money that no longer serve you?

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Trade Hounds Raises $3.2M for Its Construction-focused Professional Network – Plans to Launch Job Board

WorkTech

Trade Hounds announce a $3.2 million Seed round for its professional network focused on trade workers. The firm announced plans to launch a job board as part of the service in July 2020. In the HRWins 2019 Global HR Tech Lookback we looked at the large investments made in job boards, the leading HR tech […]. The post Trade Hounds Raises $3.2M for Its Construction-focused Professional Network – Plans to Launch Job Board appeared first on HRWins by LAROCQUE, LLC.

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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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OSHA Compliant Safety Incentives: Why is Workplace Safety So Important?

C. A. Short Company

Most employers would agree that it’s important to be proactive when it comes to workplace safety. But, do you know why it is so important to identify, measure, and improve the most significant leading indicators, so you can prevent safety incidents before they occur? Capturing historical data, developing predictive trends and determining ROI will help to keep your employees safe and this derivative is crucial for many reasons.

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How Can Employers Limit Pandemic Legal Liability? | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

With many employers considering reopening their places of business during the pandemic, employees and customers alike may be at greater risk for infection and spread. What can employers do to limit their legal liability in the event that a breakout occurs among their staff?

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Firms need to review PTO policies, as days pile up

HR Morning

An increasing number (42%) of employers are making changes to their PTO, vacation and sick day policies , as employees are reluctant to take days off during the unstable times of the pandemic. As unused vacation days pile up, some employers (16%) are requiring employees to take time off to reduce the year-end build-up, according to a Willis Towers Watson survey.