Thu.Apr 09, 2020

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Watched Everything On Netflix Already? Maybe This Disney+ Dream Job Is For You

marenated HR

Social distancing in front of your television? Join the club! Let’s face it, there’s not a whole lot else to do besides stream your favorite shows. Maybe you’ve already binge-watched Tiger King and the new season of Ozark, but did you know there’s a way you can literally get paid to watch TV? Reviews.org will pay you $200 (in a Visa Gift Card) and supply a year-long subscription to Disney+ (also via gift card) to 10 lucky applicants.

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How you treat your Employees will determine the FATE of your company

Brigette Hyacinth

I am saddened to see so many companies quick to terminate employees—companies making profits, who don’t have to terminate staff and still choose to do so. Tough times reveal our true colors. Why not work together to find solutions to keep staff on hand for this temporary situation —going to a 3 day work week, cutting salary by x%, management taking a salary reduction, etc.

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my coworker insults me when I ask questions, talking to my boss about ADHD, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Company ordered people to quarantine, then told them to use PTO for it. A few weeks ago, we were informed by a client that they were possibly exposed to COVID and were seeking a test. As a precaution, everyone who works with that client (almost half the team) was instructed by the owner to quarantine at home, and would be informed when the test came back or when they could come back in.

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How to Help Employees Navigate Unemployment During COVID-19

SHRM Resources

?As coronavirus-related claims for unemployment insurance reach historic levels, state systems are. overwhelmed, laid-off workers are frustrated, and anxiety is mounting.Employers can't solve all these problems, but they can provide support to make the employees' transition as smooth as possible. That begins by recognizing there may be a stigma around collecting unemployment benefits even in these unique times.

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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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How HR as the ‘critical friend’ can combat unconscious bias

HR Zone

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How to Recruit When Hiring Is on Hold

SHRM Resources

?Employers have suddenly gone from frantically trying to find scarce talent to pumping the brakes on hiring.According to recent research from global risk management and advisory firm Willis Towers Watson, 42 percent of surveyed organizations have frozen or reduced hiring, and another 28 percent are considering doing so. "My sense is that most employers are pushing the pause button on hiring for now," said Brett Schneider, a labor and employment attorney in the Boca Raton, Fla., office.

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when should employers disclose food or fragrance restrictions to job candidates?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: When during the interview process should an employer disclose that they have food or scent restrictions in their office? I know on the employee side you recommend waiting until you have an offer or have started the job, but as the employer when should they bring up that the office is nut-free or scent-free? What about if the allergy is more obscure?

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Desperate Need for COBOL Programmers During COVID-19 Underlines Importance of Workforce Planning

SHRM Resources

?Connecticut, Kansas and New Jersey are among states relying on decades-old computer systems to process an onslaught of coronavirus-related unemployment claims. Sites are crashing, and it's hard to even find people familiar with the 60-year-old computer language known as COBOL— Common Business-Oriented Language—on which the systems rely. New Jersey, for one, is calling for volunteers to help resolve the issue.

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HR Advice for Small and Medium Businesses

HR Partner

Are you a small business without in-house HR expertise? You’re not alone! Most small and many medium sized businesses have to figure out the Human Resources side of business as they go along. . We surveyed hundreds of HR consultants to find out the most crucial HR advice for small and medium businesses that they most frequently find themselves giving.

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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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4 Hiring Trends to Watch in 2020

Fond

Job seekers are expecting more out of the recruitment experience — are you answering the call? Understanding what job seekers wanted from a new job used to be simple. For decades, the lure of a bigger salary was enough to attract top talent in any industry, but recently things have changed. Studies show that people are seeking out opportunities for career growth and flexibility above pay raises. .

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A Health Insurance Solution for Employees in Multiple States

PeopleKeep

In today’s environment, it's common for large and small organizations alike to expand across state lines or hire remote, out-of-state workers. Organizations in this position are able to hire the best talent in the country regardless of where they live. This also brings new HR complexities. For example, companies with employees in multiple states often face obstacles when it comes to finding health insurance coverage.

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Unique Tools to Boost Your Social Media Sourcing

Pragna Technologies

We live in a connected world and with the advancement of technology in terms of social media it will more connected tomorrow. Social media is a valuable platform for any recruiter that acts as a wide source of information. Over the last few years social media recruiting has taken epic leaps. On an everyday basis recruiters are connecting to more and more people to find talent via social media.

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3 Ways Baystate Health Revamped its Recognition Program to Fight Turnover

WorkHuman

Workhuman client, Baystate Health, shares the three ways they’ve revamped their recognition program to fight turnover. Click to learn more on FierceHealthcare. .

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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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How to Engage Employees During COVID-19

Quantum Workplace

Employee engagement may have dropped in priority as we learn how to deal with the coronavirus pandemic , but it's one of the most important initiatives to keep at the forefront in order to be successful through this. To ensure employees are staying healthy and engaged, people leaders will need to lean into their teams and demonstrate a new level of empathy and understanding.

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How to Stay Mentally Healthy During the COVID-19 Pandemic

SHRM

Since the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak became a global concern, the world has experienced a whirlwind of unexpected events and emotions. In every direction I turn to, I get a heartbreaking report about the spread of the virus. I hear about new cases of infected patients, the troubling death rates, and the scarcity of healthcare resources to manage patients.

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The New (Not So) Normal (i4cp login required)

i4cp

Several years ago, I suggested to my co-founder that I adopt the title “futurist.” I got cards printed, added it to my bio on the i4cp website, even updated my LinkedIn profile. I thought it was a great idea at the time—not so much anymore. This became very apparent when he said to me the other day, “Hey futurist—now would be a good time to write about the future.

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5 Must-Have Talking Points in a New Employee Orientation

Take It Personel-ly

Most companies offer an orientation for new employees. You have a lot of information to cover with thee employees during this orientation. After all the paperwork is completed, it’s time to let your employees know all of the important intel. Here are 5 must-have talking point in a new employee orientation. Attendance Policy Every company […].

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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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COVID-19 and Its Impact on Nursing and the Nurse Licensure Compact

Sterling Check

A conversation with Jim Puente, MS, MJ, CAE, Director, Nurse Licensure Compact, National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN). Recently, Sterling’s Healthcare team sat down with Jim Puente, Director of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC), to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting nurses, and in particular, nursing in states that have implemented the Nurse Licensure Compact.

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Avoiding Debt Relief Scams

Take It Personel-ly

Is there any lower form of individual than one who would take advantage of another person’s misfortune? While it’s likely everyone would agree it’s difficult to get any lower than that, the fact remains such people are out there. Worse, they’re often really good at making their offers look promising — until you realize they […].

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Tips to Motivate in Trying Times

SumTotal

What’s happening in the world with the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented, and as a manager of people, it requires a different approach. Even if you’re used to managing a remote team, some adjustments need to be made to keep your team motivated and productive. Specifically, managing the morale of the team members is of high importance in maintaining performance.

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Tesla Cuts Pay and Furloughs Employees after Closing Factories

HR Digest

Whether you want to stay up-to-date on HR news, read in-depth HR articles, or find new ideas on strategy, innovation, and leadership, The HR Digest Magazine is here to suit your needs and help you stay more informed. Tesla has decided to halt operations in all its U.S. factories until May 4 due to the COVID-19 spread in the country. The company will also be implementing pay cuts ranging from 10 to 30 percent for regular employees and furlough workers, starting from April 13.

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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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How to Build a Culture of Appreciation in the Workplace 

C. A. Short Company

Employee engagement is an emerging culture that will continue as long as humans seek acceptance. Until organizations are managed by robots, your employees’ feelings will be as much, if not more, motivation as their paychecks.

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The Emergency Savings Crisis Shows Why We Need Financial Literacy

EverFi - HR

A record number of workers are now unemployed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. As of the beginning of April, over 6.6 million unemployment benefits claims had been filed. Though $1,200 stimulus checks from the federal government are on the way for many individuals, worries about financial insecurity are mounting. The sudden financial hardships facing many Americans have brought another hidden crisis into sharp focus: nearly half of adults don’t have enough emergency savings to cover an u

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Five Ways To Commercially Position Your 'Feminine' Strengths

Forbes Coaches Council

It’s essential to contextualize to leadership how applying your people strengths contributes to your company’s commercial goals, helping them connect them to "commercial dots.

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5 Best Practices for MRX Professionals, from MRX Professionals 

Remesh

To better understand the impact of COVID-19 on the world of market research, we held a Remesh conversation with more than 100 qualitative and quantitative research professionals, across a range of organizations and industries of all sizes. Here are 5 best practices that emerged from that conversation.

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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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OFCCP Receives OMB Approval for New Scheduling Letters

Berkshire Associates

This week, OFCCP released the new scheduling letters for compliance checks, establishment reviews, and Section 503/VEVRAA focused reviews. The new letters are available here.

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This Week: Onboarding Remotely, Crisis Comms, and Making Your (Virtual) Presence Felt

Betterworks

This week, we hear how an L&D leader manages remote teams, pick up simple tips for standing out in video meetings, learn how to onboard remotely during times of separation, and nail the key components for communicating in a crisis. . This week’s growth quote: “Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.” James Cash Penney.

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The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act: An employer’s guide

Insperity

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act is the $2 trillion federal stimulus package you’ve heard about in the media. Known more commonly as the CARES Act , the legislation was signed into law on March 27, 2020, and went into effect immediately. Designed to address the economic and health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic , the law provides relief for small- and medium-sized businesses facing unprecedented challenges.

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