Wed.Sep 23, 2020

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How to cheer up your workforce during a challenging 2020

Hppy

Many UK businesses are still operating remotely with no sign of heading back to the office – this means there is a very real risk that employee morale could slip. It is important for organisations to ensure they routinely boost the morale of their workforce in order to keep productivity levels up and to retain staff. . According to The Fintech Times many people feel that they are much more productive when working remotely, however other sources suggest that loneliness is kicking in for oth

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The pros and cons of hiring independent contractors

Business Management Daily

When filling a role in your company, there are many decisions to make. Not only do you want to find the right candidate to complete the job, but you want to ensure that you hire them under the best category to fit your business needs. Choosing to hire an independent contractor or an employee is a significant decision since today more, and more companies choose to bring on independent contractors – and for a good reason.

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The Impacts of Working from Home on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Trusaic

As the pandemic rages on, many companies have implemented working from home orders extending into 2021. The situation has been difficult for employees, and has had disproportionate effects on employees of color. In March, when stay at home orders were widely implemented across the United States, workers of color faced a unique challenge, particularly with regard to the nature of their work.

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Performance Management in 2020: Key Finance Industry Insights

Reflektive

This summer, Reflektive launched a Performance Management Benchmark Report to identify both consistencies and changes in how companies run their performance programs. While the analysis in the reports spans all industries, we decided to share interesting trends in the financial services industry in this blog post. Our responses from 445 HR professionals and business leaders uncovered some similarities between finance and other industries, such as approaches to performance conversations and the i

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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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Six Best Practices to Get the Most Out of Your AP Software

SutiHR

The way you manage your AP processes can have a significant impact on your organization’s cash flow, fame, and growth. To be effective, accounts payable must be accurate, competent, and cost-effective. Rather than just being a necessity, AP departments are taking a new approach and incorporating AP automation software to help future proof their accounts payable operations.

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The Competitive Advantages of PEOs for Remote Teams

Justworks

Feeling a bit overwhelmed with the idea of leading an expanding remote team? Distributed teams are not a trend or a passing fad. The world of business has changed; those organizations that adopt new ways of doing business designed with the needs of a remote workforce in mind are the ones that will thrive. That’s exactly the advantage a professional employer organization (PEO) can provide to small business and startups.

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You’re Invited to the World’s Largest Virtual HR Conference

BambooHR

Whew, what a year! Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, events of all sizes—from neighborhood cookouts to the Olympic Summer Games—have been postponed or canceled. But.

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Why HR professionals are most at risk of burnout

HR Zone

People How to avoid HR burnout.

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Workflow Learning with Conrad Gottfredson

Looop.co

At the beginning of 2020, David James spoke with Conrad Gottfredson, pioneer of Workflow Learning and The 5 Moments of […]. The post Workflow Learning with Conrad Gottfredson appeared first on Looop.

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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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4 Methods to Shortlist Candidates for a Perfect Hire

Vantage Circle

One of the most crucial responsibilities of an H.R. is hiring. It makes up for a large part of the job and rightfully so. Hiring the right people is a pre-requisite to a successful business. After all, it is the workforce that does all the work, so you must have the right individuals in your group. It is for these reasons why hiring is a must-have talent for all H.R. managers.

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Building a Diverse & Inclusive Marketing & Creative Team

Celarity

What’s the beauty behind diversity? It is often stated that diversity brings great benefits to an organization by leveraging different perspectives to make better decisions. Recent studies suggest that there might be a correlation between diverse businesses and real performance benefits when compared with businesses that do not value a diverse workplace.

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How can you tell an employee from an independent contractor? I’ll explain in about two minutes.

The Employer Handbook

Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay. Employee versus independent contractor, who cares? The U.S. Department of Labor , that’s who. (And that means you should too.). Misclassified employees may not receive minimum wage or overtime or family and medical leave. When that happens, the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) gets angry. And you wouldn’t like it when the WHD gets angry, because the WHD often vents its anger with employer audits and lawsuits.

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my employee resigned but now isn’t leaving

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I recently took over as manager for a small team. One of the employees on the team, Jane, announced that she was leaving and had a new job lined up. Jane’s replacement was hired but before she could start, there were some problems with Jane’s new job. This is no fault of Jane’s, but as a result, she has remained on.

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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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5 Things We Need To Do To Close The Gender Wage Gap

WorkHuman

Workhuman’s VP of Brand Marketing Dr. Patti Fletcher discusses what’s needed in order to close the gender wage gap. Read the Authority Magazine article on Medium. .

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does it look unprofessional to draw in meetings?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am a college student in my low 20s, two years in to my absolute dream job. I work for a medium-sized nonprofit that functions as an umbrella organization for six branches. I am the first assistant to one of these directors, and I’ve known her for years. The executive director (my boss’ boss) is known to be very serious and no-nonsense.

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Role of HR in supporting mental well-being at work

HR Digest

Mental health in the workplace is an important aspect. It is of growing importance across many organizations, and many of them are taking practical steps to promote the mental well-being of their staff. Mental health is also one of the crucial health issues that affect both employee and business performance. When it comes to mental health, there is a deep-rooted stigma associated with it that makes it the biggest hindrance to solving.

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Feeling Isolated? 13 Ways To Combat Loneliness In Entrepreneurship

Forbes Coaches Council

Entrepreneurs are notoriously lonely people, but it doesn't have to be that way. These Forbes Coaches Council members offer 13 ways to beat loneliness, maintain your health and well-being and enjoy the ride on your ascent to the top.

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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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These Fortune 1000 Companies Are Hiring Right Now

The Muse

Working for a Fortune 1000 list has many perks—including stability. See which ones are hiring right now.

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How To Stop Your Boss From Micromanaging — And Stay Sane

Forbes Coaches Council

You cannot change the way your boss leads. However, you can shift the way you interact with them to address their underlying concerns and alter the dynamic for the better.

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Environment Control Empowers Its Cleaning Workforce, Manages COVID-19 Operations with Kronos Workforce Ready

Empower Software

Environment Control, one of the largest commercial building cleaning organizations in the U.S. and a provider of essential services during the COVID-19 pandemic, transformed its employee experience while successfully managing unexpected workforce processes and COVID-19-specific regulations with Kronos Workforce Ready.

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OSHA: Guidance on Working in Heat and Humidity with Face Covering

HR Workplace Services

A few weeks back, HRWS posted a reminder about OSHA’s “Keeping Workers Safe in the Heat” campaign. The administration has recently added guidance for working in the heat (both indoors and out) while wearing a face covering. Click on the link(s) below to view the appropriate guidance: The Use fo Cloth Face Coverings while working OUTSIDE (in hot and humid conditions) … The Use fo Cloth Face Coverings while working INSIDE (in hot and humid conditions) … About HRWS.

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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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Remote Team Building Activities to Boost Engagement

Paycor

Keeping employees engaged isn’t easy—even when you’re all together under one roof. For remote teams, maintaining company culture and team spirit is an ongoing challenge. The longer you remain in a remote-first environment and onboard new hires who have never even met their colleagues in person, the tougher it gets. Engaging Remote Teams. The good news is, even when restricted to Zoom, there are tried and tested ways to liven up your virtual workplace.

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Can you offer health insurance to certain employees only?

PeopleKeep

One way small employers rein in health insurance costs is to only offer the benefit to full-time employees. Many employers have asked us whether they can take this approach a step further, and offer different levels of benefits to different employees.

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Our plan of action for an inclusive and anti-racist workplace

ThoughtFarmer

The killing of George Floyd last May—along with the subsequent protests against racial and social injustice around the world—deeply challenged us as an organization as well as our sister company OXD. Diversity and inclusion had always mattered to us, but these events made us realize that there was so much more we could be—and should be—doing. Like many organizations, we wrestled with how to respond.

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How to support your employees’ mental health during the ‘Fall reset’

Qualtrics HR

More than 6 months (and counting) into the thick of the pandemic employers and leaders are facing a new challenge: the Fall reset. Here’s what you can do to support your people. As Brené Brown explains: “We’re neuro-biologically wired for something to happen in September… it’s our new year. Work ebbs and flows in the summer. We have this really deep excitement and anxiety reduction when we get back to [routine].

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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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Being ‘Human’ May Not be the Best Target

hrQ

Humans Being Humans. I recently came across a post on LinkedIn in which a hiring manager was sharing her experience with a candidate who needed to help her toddler during an interview. It ended with sharing the importance of being flexible and displaying care. Comments were anywhere from applaud and sharing impact to culture, to telling the author she was bragging, and that the person likely didn’t get hired anyways so what’s the point of the story.

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World Gratitude Day: What Are You Grateful For?

WorkHuman

Workhuman’s CEO Eric Mosley quoted discussing the power of gratitude and the incredible movement it can have. Read the full article on Concur. .

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Removing Barriers of Entry - Inclusive Job Postings will Attract Diverse Talent

SHRM

Too often, I’ve heard job seekers talk about obstacles that prevent them from applying for jobs with a company they’re genuinely interested in because they don’t feel like that company’s job postings speak to them. As HR professionals we struggle with candidate connection, but less-than-inclusive job postings might just be the reason it’s so difficult.