Tue.Sep 21, 2021

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How HR Teams Can Identify, Prevent, and Help Depressed Employees

Pathways

Depression among U.S. employees has risen steadily over the past few years. According to recent data from Pathways , over 70% of employees showed concern with depression in Q4 of 2020. Additionally, researchers from Boston University found that the depression rate has tripled among U.S. adults since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Best questions to ask in an employee survey

Homebase

You already know that a happy employee is a long-term employee. Workers are more likely to stay with your business longer if they experience job satisfaction. How do you know if your employees are happy, though? You can’t ask each one privately if you manage a larger workforce. You can gauge satisfaction by having your workers complete employee surveys, however.

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Using an Agency to Recruit Employees in Norway

Take It Personel-ly

From time to time, a business will need to hire new employees. You may need to replace some who moved on or retired. Perhaps your business has grown and you need more help to deal with the larger workload. You may have branched out into a new product or service and need employees experienced in […].

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Special Report: A guide to planning for what’s next

Engage2Excel

President Biden’s September 9 announcement of a national vaccination mandate took the country by surprise. While many uncertainties exist and legal challenges are inevitable, all organizations with 100 or more employees need to begin preparing for how they will comply. Preparing for the Vaccine Mandate provides an overview of the steps your organization needs to consider to avoid confusion and disruption on your road to recovery from the pandemic.

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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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4 Tips for Supporting Your Employees With Disabilities

Hppy

According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics , 17.9% of people with disabilities were employed in 2020. This figure is comparatively lower than in 2019 when it was 19.3%. Studies show that hiring individuals with disabilities offer a lot of benefits. From improvements in profitability, employee loyalty, punctuality, and reliability, to having more diverse customers, customer loyalty, and satisfaction, employers have several reasons to actively employ people with disabilities into th

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Want Employee Engagement? Then Get Ready to LOL!

TalentCulture

Employee engagement is a powerful dynamic and, even though it may seem as if this subject has been over-hyped in recent years, it hasn’t. Research shows that engaged employees have less turnover, […]. The post Want Employee Engagement? Then Get Ready to LOL! appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Computer Skills You’ll Need in the Workplace—and How to Show Them Off on a Job Search

The Muse

Computer skills are increasingly important for every job. Here’s how to know which ones you need, how to improve them, and how to show them off in your job search.

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11 Ways For Business Leaders To Better Establish Priorities

Forbes Coaches Council

Business leaders learn to master the pivot, constantly adapting as circumstances change. Nonetheless, determining which priorities to focus on at any given moment can still be a huge challenge.

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I’m hypersensitive to criticism — how do I fix this?

Ask a Manager

This post, I’m hypersensitive to criticism — how do I fix this? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. I’m on vacation today. This was originally published in 2018. A reader writes: I am currently working as a receptionist for the next few months until I complete my schooling. I have been dealing with what I can only describe as hypersensitivity when it comes to feedback or criticism about my work.

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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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Organisations need HR to be the change champion

HR Zone

Change Be the change champion for your organisation.

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A lost generation of working women: How can HR bring them back?

HRExecutive

Despite the inroads women have made into management positions in recent years, the majority of boards of directors are still dominated by men. Women comprise 28% of the boards of directors for S&P 500 companies and minority women make up just 10% of those seats. Since March 2020, nearly 1.8 million women have dropped out of the labor force and a survey of 1,508 women found that 69% expect to stay at home instead of returning to work.

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Onboarding Remote Gen Z Workers

Helpside

Generation Z is the newest batch of workers entering the workforce. Because of the recent changes to how we work, some of these new workers will come straight into the remote workforce without ever working in-person. This can make onboarding difficult because not only have these new employees never experienced your company culture or made relationships with your employees, but they’ve never experienced any company culture or made relationships with co-workers.

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Five Meaningful Ways To Support Diversity, Equity And Inclusion In Business

Forbes Coaches Council

While implementing meaningful DEI practices might require more thoughtfulness, education and courage than the average leader originally intended, it’s always worth the effort.

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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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Top 5 Reasons to Update Your Job Group Structure

Berkshire Associates

Are you still using the same job group structure that was developed back in the 2010s? Has your workforce grown to over 150 employees and still using EEO categories as your job group structure? It’s probably time to review that structure to ensure it still fits your organization. Just like your favorite pair of jeans, your job group structure is comfy and familiar.

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Moving Beyond Word-Of-Mouth: How To Create An Ideal Client Profile

Forbes Coaches Council

Personal referrals are serious testaments to the credibility and trusted reputation of your company, but there may come a time when you need to execute a more comprehensive marketing strategy to scale and grow your business.

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Modern benefits and perks to increase employee happiness

Homebase

It takes a lot of time and resources to attract the right talent to your small business. And once they’ve signed on, you want to do everything that you can to retain them. . Keeping your team happy is the key to retaining them at your enterprise. There are many modern benefits you can offer to fit today’s world and the new needs of your employees. Here are some benefits and perks that can boost the positive feelings they have about your company.

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‘Officism’ is Real, and It's Likely Just the Latest Threat to Your Hybrid Work Strategy | Perceptyx

Perceptyx

As more and more organizations opt for a hybrid workplace model, a new brand of location-based discrimination is popping up. Employees who are back in the office full-time are harboring ill feelings toward their work-from-home counterparts.

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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 use your employee platform to successfully onboard new hires

Jostle

If your organization uses an intranet or similar employee platform, you probably already know that it’s one of your workplace’s most powerful tools. So it only makes sense that when you’ve hired new employees, you get them familiar with it as quickly as possible, right? A smart and easy way to do this is to incorporate elements of your platform right into your employee onboarding process.

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How to Set HR Goals for Employee Retention

BackStitch

There’s no greater concern for a human resource department than employee retention. By presenting a quality pay framework and a functional and welcoming workplace environment, attracting talent is manageable. Instead, keeping your employees happy and ensuring you match or exceed expectations as an employer are the real challenges.

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RSV: What You Should Know

First Stop Health

Respiratory syncytial virus infection, usually called RSV, is a lot like a bad cold. It causes the same symptoms. And like a cold, it is very common and very contagious. Most children have had it at least once by age 2. RSV is usually not something to worry about, but it can lead to pneumonia?or other problems in some people, especially babies. So, it's important to monitor the patient and call a doctor if symptoms get worse.

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Part 3: Why Do We Have so Much Resistance to Change for the Flexible Workspace? We're Doing it the Human Way

SHRM

For the remote or hybrid market to be mainstream, some people/companies have to take risks for others, and this could give a long-term competitive advantage to them with better people retention rate. But why does it take so long to implement social innovations? As humans, we need to “see” to decide As humans - our perception is directed by our nervous system and our five senses.

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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 increase employee happiness (without a raise)

Homebase

A higher wage rate is easily the best way to keep your employees motivated to work for you. Otherwise, you may experience low morale and high turnover due to a lack of employee happiness. . But while higher pay is important to job satisfaction, increasing your labor costs isn’t always affordable. Luckily there are plenty of ways to improve the work environment for your team members and boost employee happiness.

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Building Psychosocial Safety Climate in Organizations

IO At Work

Research shows how an evidence-based intervention can help to build psychosocial safety climate to support employee psychological health.

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What Culture Are You Building Into That Hybrid Workplace?

Forbes Coaches Council

When you make the cultural decision in favor of flexibility and customization, then you start to build systems that will work with a workforce that’s variably remote rather than predictably remote.

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What can onboarding software do for your organization?

Zoho People

Onboarding employees means having to manage tons of paperwork, send regular reminders and emails, coordinate with different teams to set up the new hire's workstations, send out company handbooks, policies, resources, etc., organize orientation sessions, and many more. Honestly, using just spreadsheets to track and manage these activities can be overwhelming for your team.

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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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Part 4: Why Do we Have so Much Resistance to Change for the flexible Workplace? Some of Our Beliefs Could Slow Down the Future of Work

SHRM

Experts vary on the number of cognitive biases we may hold. The scariest list comes from Wikipedia, with over one hundred - 188 to be exact. Less than 20 permeate the workplace. People's beliefs create a corporate culture. And I wonder to what extent they might be at the root of the resistance to change that is slowing down the Future of work set up - the flexible workspace - that a large majority of people want.

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How To: Set Workplace Boundaries to Minimize Burnout

Emergenetics International

Did you know that the average workday has increased by 48.5 minutes in the COVID-19 pandemic? Even if you were not aware of the exact figure, you may have felt it day to day.

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How to deal with a difficult boss

Business Management Daily

Dealing with a difficult boss is something almost all of us have to do at one point or another in our careers. However, with a proper game plan in place, the situation can be made slightly less difficult to manage. There are countless ways a boss can be hard to work with, but we’ve taken some of the top recurring themes and looked at ways to manage and mitigate them.