Wed.Jul 01, 2020

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Agencies should prepare for permanent COVID-19 driven growth of the contractor and temp market

Etz

The job market numbers make for compelling viewing, even if it is from behind the sofa. Anticipating key trends of the recovery could help your agency adapt faster. We have to play the field in front of us. In March 2020 there were 752,000 company vacancies, but just 318,000 were available in May. This represents a drop in opportunities for candidates of around 60%.

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5 Topics to Communicate to Employees Before Going Back to the Office

Achievers

Now that more of the United States is opening up, millions of Americans are returning to work. However, after the COVID-19 shutdowns, “back to the office” doesn’t necessarily mean “back to normal.” To help employees adjust to office life post-quarantine, you’ll need to be ready to communicate important changes and new procedures so they feel safe and comfortable being there each day.

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Agencies should prepare for permanent COVID-19 driven growth of the contractor and temp market

Etz

The job market numbers make for compelling viewing, even if it is from behind the sofa. Anticipating key trends of the recovery could help your agency adapt faster. We have to play the field in front of us. In March 2020 there were 752,000 company vacancies, but just 318,000 were available in May. This represents a drop in opportunities for candidates of around 60%.

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Labor Statistics and the Future of the Gig Economy

Allegis Global Solutions

April saw a job loss of historic proportions in the US. The May jobs report brought a surprise turnaround. What does that mean for the future of work?

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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Pay Equity Laws Abroad are Rapidly Evolving. U.S. Employers Should Take Note

Trusaic

Pay Equity is increasingly becoming a major operational imperative for businesses at home and abroad. Achieving Pay Equity means eliminating unlawful discrimination from the wage-setting process. The rising importance of Pay Equity for employers globally can be attributed to rapidly evolving laws regulating the payment of wages. In this article, Trusaic takes you on a world tour, surveying how countries abroad have tackled one of the most important issues of our time.

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Boese: Tech tips to give wellbeing the attention it deserves

HRExecutive

A few months ago, I set out to articulate the most pressing short- and long-term challenges facing HR and business leaders from the coronavirus pandemic: business agility, wellbeing and leadership. Today, considerable uncertainty, stress, anxiety and even “pandemic fatigue” remain as the crisis continues to weigh on employees, HR professionals, leaders—heck, everyone.

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Nearly 5 Million Jobs Gained in June; Unemployment Rate Drops Again

SHRM Resources

The U.S. economy showed positive job gains for the second straight month in June, adding 4.8 million jobs, and the unemployment rate fell to an approximate 12 percent (after being adjusted for a misclassification error) from an adjusted 16.4 percent in May, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). A significant rebound was reported in industries such as leisure and hospitality and retail, sectors that once experienced the greatest jo.

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my boss asked me to reflect on my conflicts with coworkers and I don’t want to

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’ve worked for four years in a research laboratory and my supervisor is an associate professor. Her husband is a professor and a director of the research group (and that’s how she easily got her position). As part of standard procedure, the university requires all employees to complete what is called a performance development review.

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HR job hunting in a pandemic: how to be a change driver, not a passenger

HR Zone

Change HR job hunting in a pandemic.

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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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boss asked me for solutions to awful morale, using a personal cell phone for work, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My boss asked me to create a list of solutions to awful morale. I genuinely like the work that I do. It’s an important service and I feel good about my work. But the company itself and the people I work with are incredibly disorganized, with terrible communication between departments, staff with absolutely no defined duties or roles, pretty obvious favoritism, no consequences for bad behavior, etc.

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Virtual internships: Why ‘engagement and experience’ are key

HRExecutive

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series related to internships and employee recruitment in the era of coronavirus and priorities for HR leaders. *. As most employees remain working from home in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, internships are also following suit and going virtual. But, moving to an online setting isn’t as easy as just creating a series of Zoom meetings.

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What COVID-19 Can Teach Us About Diversity

Advanced Learning Institute

Originally posted by Leslie Stevens , guest author for the Integral blog and toolkit #4. Leslie is a Masters-in-Residence Scholar at NYU Steinhardt’s Media, Culture and Communication program, DEI researcher, and friend of the firm. . Diversity now means something completely different than it did a few weeks ago, when most of us still occupied the same physical space every day.

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How this global nomad used her experience to manage the COVID crisis

HRExecutive

Sixteen years ago, Mai Lan Nguyen started as an HR intern at Schneider Electric. Since then, she has worked for the global energy management solutions provider in various HR roles in France, China and Brazil. Several years ago, she moved to the U.S. and now serves as the organization’s senior vice president of HR, North America. Nguyen considers herself a “global nomad” and speaks five languages, including some Russian.

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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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Key IR35 Considerations for April 2021

Allegis Global Solutions

In 2000, the UK government put into effect the IR35 tax legislation – officially known as the Intermediaries Legislation – to stop contract workers from running their payments through limited companies or partnerships to avoid paying income tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs.).

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Mobile Workforce Management Made Easy With Our Advanced App

Replicon

Manage Your Field and Mobile Workers’ in Real-time With Our Purpose-built App Now more than ever, accessible mobile capabilities play a critical role in today’s workforce. Whether employees are remote or essential and out in the field, organizations must be able to communicate with resources in real-time to ensure everything can continue to run as […].

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5 Ways To Improve Employee Development

McQuiag

What does it take to build a strong employee development program? These days, many companies offer some sort of employee development to their staff but not all programs are created equal. Some companies view development as just one of those things they have to do every now and then. A box to be checked on your way to your annual review. But companies who invest in development as a way to drive new ideas and new innovation within their ranks see a very different impact of providing these sorts of

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11 Essential Travel Safety Tips Everyone Should Know

Take It Personel-ly

Traveling allows you to have a broader worldview and gives you a massive sense of freedom once you’re out and about. It’s exciting and unique. Hence, it’s advisable to travel outside of the country at least once in our lives. But despite the good things that travel brings, it also comes with several risks. When […].

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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This Scientist Found Meaning by Pivoting to a Teaching Career

The Muse

Joey Patterson, a science and math teacher at Success Academy in New York City, left his research job and found a fulfilling career teaching children.

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5 Fundamental Steps to Creating a Culture of Safety in Your Workplace

Take It Personel-ly

No one wants to imagine going to work in the morning and never coming home again, yet the latest statistics reveal over 5,000 fatal workplace injuries per year. The workplace should be a safe place but that’s not always the case. How can a company make its workplace safe? By creating a culture of safety. Read on […].

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Video: How can leaders better support Black employees in the workplace?

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

Video production: Andrew Kennedy Lewis. During this very human movement — amid social demonstrations, protests for systemic change and public outcry against acts of violence and police brutality — it’s important to also think about how people are impacted in your organization. Leadership should create a safe space for meaningful conversation and posit the organization as a place where Black people and people of color can feel supported, according to Charlene Wheeless, CEO of advisory company Cha

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Get Instant Cash for Your Phone

Take It Personel-ly

If you’ve been throwing away your old electronics in the past, now is the time to stop that bad habit. Electronic waste poses dangers to the health of people and the environment, so it’s important to dispose of electronics properly. If you want to dispose of your phone responsibly and put a little cash in […].

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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The Worst Hire You’ll Ever Make!

The Tim Sackett Project

A crazy thing happens almost every day in professional sports, and it’s the one thing that separates great teams from the pack. Talent selection will make or break a team’s success and in professional sports, it’s about getting the right talent for the right price. The problem with most professional sports teams, regardless of the sport, is they continually try to improve their roster incrementally.

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Could Vaping in the Workplace Thwart Your Company’s Reopening Plans?

EX Program

As the U.S. begins to reopen, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) emphasizes that every shared space, including businesses, will have to keep public health strategies in mind. Significant aspects of successful reopening, the CDC notes, will be developing and implementing a plan for keeping public spaces like workplaces clean and disinfected, and ensuring that [.].

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Willa Raises $3M to Guarantee Freelancers Get Paid On Time

WorkTech

Willa announced a $3 Million Seed Round for its app that guarantees freelancers will be paid on time. Freelancers and contractors, known as the contingent workforce, have become increasingly permanent part of the workforce strategy for businesses of all sizes. The trend is undeniable: The contingent workforce is nearing 50% of the total workforce. 47.8% […].

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Tip Sheet: Impact of Vaping in Manufacturing—What Employers Can Do About It

EX Program

The issue of vaping is a much bigger problem in the manufacturing workplace than most employers think. New proprietary Truth Initiative® research shows: 59% of manufacturing workers perceive that using e-cigarettes in the workplace decreases productivity for those who vape 53% say it decreases productivity for those who do NOT vape 87% of manufacturing workers [.].

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Future-proof your I-9 compliance for 2024

Speaker: Join I-9 Experts:

Got I-9 compliance on your mind? Spending endless amounts of time ensuring you stay compliant? Get your questions answered with an expert panel from WorkBright. During this one-hour webinar, Workbright will dive deep into I-9 best practices, navigate the nuances of the new 2023 'alternative procedure,' and learn actionable ways to ensure your audit trail is squeaky clean.

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Covid-19 Retailer Testing Partnerships Extended by HHS

HR Workplace Services

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) partnered with retailers shortly after the onset of Covid-19 to provide better access to testing. These partnerships have been extended by HHS with organizations including Walgreen Boots Alliance, Kroger, Walmart and CVS Health – scaling up testing at more than 600 sites across the Nation (70+ percent of testing sites in areas with moderate-to-high virus vulnerability).

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Adapting Hospice Care During COVID-19

Partners in Leadership

Deb Shumway, CEO of Hospice of the Valley, tells how a strong culture helped her staff care for patients amid uncertainty, fear, and daunting challenges. The post Adapting Hospice Care During COVID-19 appeared first on Culture Management Experts.

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Why you need stories in employer branding right now

Stories Incorporated HR

Reading Time: 6 minutes. At Stories Inc, we are often asked why we focus so intently on stories in employer branding. Uncovering compelling employee stories and bringing those stories to life in engaging content may seem to be a narrow concentration of expertise. However, the impact of stories in employer branding and recruitment marketing reveals why stories are our vocation and passion.