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11 Ways to Rebuild HR to Support Fast Growth and Happy Employees

HR Cloud

The Human Resources department has been perceived as a static aspect of running a company that can’t be upgraded or redeveloped for heightened efficiency. But the developments in the last decade or so have completely revolutionized the function. The latest research and technologies suggest that it is possible to make it the ‘key department’ that management takes notice of.

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Uber, Lyft Ordered to Classify California Drivers as Employees

SHRM Resources

Uber and Lyft must reclassify their California drivers as employees, rather than independent contractors, to comply with the state's strict employee-classification rules, according to a California appeals court. But voters will get to weigh in before the order takes effect.

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Medallia and DecisionWise: Combining Employee and Customer Experience Data Just Got Real

DecisionWise

With the recent announcement of the global partnership between DecisionWise and Medallia, the reality of combining both employee and customer feedback just got real. Medallia is a feedback pioneer and market leader in experience management technology. Medallia brings to the table their award-winning Experience Cloud, and DecisionWise improves on this technology by being the industry leader in helping organizations listen, understand, and act to improve the employee experience.

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HR Best Practices: Getting Budget for your Key Initiatives

Reflektive

It’s that time of year again! The calendar year is almost over, and 2021 planning is on your mind. You’re interested in rolling out an HR program or technology that will help move your organization forward. The next step is to procure funding for your new program. But what’s the best way to approach your finance leader and make the ask? What kind of information is most important to these stakeholders?

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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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Workday Learning: Accelerating Fast

Josh Bersin

The $240 billion corporate learning market is one of the most complex and fast-changing worlds in HR. There are dozens of platform providers, hundreds of content companies, and an army of new ideas and innovations every day. And innovation is fast and furious. Whenever a new technology is invented, learning technologists quickly try to use. Read more» The post Workday Learning: Accelerating Fast appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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5 Cyber Security Tips That Will Make Remote Working Safe

Take It Personel-ly

When COVID-19 struck, companies were forced to shut down but most preferred to send their employees to work from home in accordance with health regulations. For the company, this meant that operations went on as normal but employees were thrown into a foreign working environment that they were not used to.In an office setup, you […].

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HR in a recession: how to improve staff morale during difficult times

HR Zone

Culture How to improve staff morale in a recession.

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3 Simple Tips for Managing Remote Employees

Jason Lauritsen

Regardless of when this pandemic ends (which feels like never to me right now), the way we work will never go back to how it was before. Sure, offices will open and some people will return to their cubicles, but many won’t. If there’s one thing we’ve learned about work over the past several months, it’s that work can be done successfully well beyond the walls of the office—sometimes even better.

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How Do You Tell if You Have a Good HR Department or a Bad One?

Evil HR Lady

On a Reddit post, I advised a poster to speak with her HR department. Several people jumped in to say no, go straight to the Labor Board, as HR is bad. This is sometimes true, and I clarified that if you had a bad HR department, you should, of course, go directly to the relevant government agency or hire an attorney. And I got an excellent question back “How can you tell if you have a bad HR Dept or a good one?

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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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I am making things with yarn and loving it

Ask a Manager

And now a word from a sponsor… A few months ago, I took up crocheting – and I love it. The first week or two were frustrating. I was teaching myself from YouTube videos, which I suspect is harder than having someone teach you in person, and I announced multiple times that I was finished trying, giving it up, not going back to it … and then for some reason I would always pick it back up and keep trying.

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5 Job Search Tips during COVID-19

HR Digest

Looking for a new job is a strenuous task in itself, and in the present COVID-19 pandemic times, this task has become more stressful. Organizations have stopped hiring in people and are resorting more to lay off their employees. This has made the present job market highly depressing with fewer jobs. Recently passed out college students and job seekers, especially, are finding the situation challenging.

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Why HR is uniquely placed to boost innovation during a downturn

HR Zone

Change HR's unique role in boosting innovation.

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Hard Skills vs. Soft Skills: What Are They and How Can You Show Them Off in Your Job Search?

The Muse

What hard skills and soft skills are, examples of each, and how you can show them off on your resume and in your job search.

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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 HR is uniquely placed to boost innovation during downturn

HR Zone

Change HR's unique role in boosting innovation.

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Top Talent Acquisition Trends for 2020 and Beyond

Cisive

The pandemic has shaken our understanding of normalcy. We don’t know what tomorrow’s “normal” will be, whether it’s putting COVID-19 behind us or learning to carry on with the virus. Those high levels of uncertainty complicate your organization’s talent acquisition strategy. COVID-19 has accelerated long-term changes in work, from enhanced health and safety protocols to increased workplace flexibility.

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why are people so relaxed about lateness, should managing be this much work, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Am I old-fashioned about lateness? I feel it is non-negotiable that — except for cases of emergency, sick kids, traffic jams — employees should be at work on time the vast majority of days. This means getting to work about 10 minutes early in time to hang up a coat, use the bathroom, etc., and be at one’s desk/station when the hour begins.

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How to Connect While Wearing a Mask

SHRM

You may have noticed it. You are pushing your shopping cart wearing your mask at the grocery store and you see another person doing the same, but you hardly bother to look in their direction or attempt to make eye contact. Before COVID, I was good about smiling and making eye contact with others. Now, not so much --unless I need their attention.

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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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How to manage the 'R number' for conflict at work

HR Zone

Culture How to manage your company's conflict 'R number'

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Workday Learning: Accelerating Fast

Josh Bersin

The $240 billion corporate learning market is one of the most complex and fast-changing worlds in HR. There are dozens of platform providers, hundreds of content companies, and an army of new ideas and innovations every day. And innovation is fast and furious. Whenever a new technology is invented, learning technologists quickly try to use. Read more» The post Workday Learning: Accelerating Fast appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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Maintaining a Work-Life Balance

MTM Recognition

Sometimes it feels like life has become a competition of who can work harder. “Oh, you only got 6 hours of sleep last night? Well, I only got 4 hours!” The reality is that what we think will make us more productive is, well… more work. But what actually makes us more productive is plenty of rest, quality time with our friends and family, breaks to stretch our body or get out of the office, and a supportive group of friendly and understanding coworkers.

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Two Types of Business Risk Analysis HR Leaders Need to Know

Workology

Are you looking for digital HR Certification courses? Look no further than Workology’s Ace the HR Exam course. What You Need to Know About Risk Analysis for the SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP Exam . Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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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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What 6 Qualities Make a Human Resource Professional?

6Q

Do you know that human resource professionals are the lifeblood of the company? HR professionals provide a healthy environment for effective utilisation of their employees’ potential. However, an HR must develop particular skills and qualities to excel in the workplace. Human Resource (HR) is the term that describes people who work for an organisation, responsible for managing resources related to employees.

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Rules for Ventilation: 6 Pointers for Keeping a Property Breathable

Take It Personel-ly

Most people are aware of the risks surrounding outdoor air pollution. From ozone to carbon emissions, poor air quality seems to make headlines every week. However, many people don’t seem to consider the air quality inside their home or office space. Within those four walls lurk toxins, particulate matter and chemicals that can compromise human […].

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New 2021 Computer Software Employee, Licensed Physician/Surgeon Exemption Rates

HRWatchdog

Start preparing now for 2021! The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has announced the 2021 rates changes for the computer software employee exemption and the licensed physician and surgeon exemption. These new rates take effect on January 1, 2021. For the computer software employees’ exemption: The minimum hourly rate of pay exemption increased to $47.48 from its previous rate of $46.55; The minimum monthly salary increased to $8,242.32 from its previous rate of $8,080.71; and

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Virtual HR Tech kicks off tomorrow

HRExecutive

For the first time ever, the HR Technology Conference & Exposition ® kicks off tomorrow in an entirely virtual format. Free to attend, the event—considered the HR industry’s annual town hall gathering—will feature four days of keynote addresses, breakout sessions and networking events, all focused on the role HR and technology will play in the quickly evolving world of work.

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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 You Can Find Enough Money for Medical School

Take It Personel-ly

If you are like most students, the thought of paying for medical school is overwhelming. Early preparation and research are key to receiving help with your tuition. Becoming a great doctor like Rachel Tobin Yale is possible if you know where to look for financial help. Stick to Your Budget Everyone should have a budget. As a […].

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eBook: Building a Training Needs Analysis

PlatCore LMS

Looking for a learning management solution? Your journey starts here. If you are considering an LMS for your organization or questioning the performance of your current LMS, this step by step guide will help you navigate the process. We will show you how to evaluate your needs with useful tools that ensure you get a solution that fits your requirements.

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What Does the Future of Work Look Like?

Quickbase

Since getting back to work, things have felt different. And it’s the small things – time, details and connections – that matter more than ever. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way businesses understand their day-to-day operations. There is now an urgency for businesses to become more flexible and agile. When we talk about getting back to the future of work , it’s not just about responding to COVID-19.