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Is Remote Work Here to Stay?

BambooHR

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, asking the question,“is remote work here to stay?” can feel moot. With seemingly every news source proclaiming remote.

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7 Ways Mindfulness Meditation Improves Your Loneliness

Thrive Global

I always feel lonely – What can I do? In modern individualist societies, more and more people are exposed to loneliness than ever. We have heard, that mindfulness meditation helps many of our personal problems, loneliness included. But is that really true? If you ever feel lonely, you know what I mean. It’s such an unpleasant feeling as if we are incomplete.

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How To Improve Manufacturing Line Safety

New to HR

Safety is essential in all areas of your business, but especially in the high-risk areas. After all, when it comes to the thickness of your health and safety officer’s folders, his manufacturing line and kitchen risk assessment folders are sure. The post How To Improve Manufacturing Line Safety appeared first on New To HR.

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5 Ways Lowering Stress is Effective in Business Development

Thrive Global

5 Ways Lowering Stress is Effective in Business Development. At first glance, lowering stress might not seem like it has anything to do with business development but after a closer look, it’s obvious how much of an impact lowering stress can have on business development and growth. You might be asking yourself… “ But, how?” Stress is the cause of all diseases, right?

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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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How To Support Employees Who Suffer With Migraines

New to HR

It can be hard to support employees who suffer from migraines if you’ve never had one yourself. You may not know that much about them, or you may believe one of the many common misconceptions about migraines. You might even. The post How To Support Employees Who Suffer With Migraines appeared first on New To HR.

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Selling Your Business? These Are The Main HR Considerations.

New to HR

You have many responsibilities as a business owner, and there are a lot of things to consider when you are thinking about selling your organization. For example, your employees will be working under a new owner and have new policies. The post Selling Your Business? These Are The Main HR Considerations. appeared first on New To HR.

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An Interview with Author Elise Schiller

Thrive Global

All citizens who have routine interaction with populations that are using opioids should carry naloxone, the overdose prevention drug commercially known as Narcan. This goes well beyond traditional first responders. A person overdosing can die within 4–5 minutes, and police, EMTs, and fire department personnel are not always available. I recently heard a riveting story about someone who was carrying naloxone on the subway when someone overdosed.

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Employee Onboarding Strategies

TalenX

When a candidate attends an interview, both the employer and the candidate hope to see it succeed. At the end of the interview process, the offer is made if the employer finds the candidate to be a suitable fit for the role. The decision to accept or reject the offer rests in the hands of the candidate. If the candidate declines the offer, the organization will have to go ahead with another round of an expensive hiring process.

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Avoid Stress And Overcome Obstacles The X28 Way!

Thrive Global

The X28 program with Gee Bryant & Jason Lobdell is one that has helped dozens of individuals over the years to achieve their health goals and achieve success in life. Today, the team at X28 share their thoughts on topics such as stress relieve, motivation and overcoming obstacles. Drawing Inspiration; Inspiration is generally referred to as the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something otherwise deemed insurmountable.

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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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Keeping Track of Your Appointments While Working Remotely

Vantage Circle

Remote work was a trend and became an urgent need. The whole world was not ready to solve such several pressing issues at the same time, but the first wave of panic and uncertainty is already over. All that remains for us is to adapt and hire and interview potential candidates remotely. In this article, we will tell you how to keep your appointments in order, feel productive, and work from home.

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Rising Star Filmmaker Linda Chorney: ?For pursuing anything, you are the only one who can make it happen; And if you really want to do it, don?t quit?

Thrive Global

For pursuing anything, you are the only one who can make it happen. And if you really want to do it, don’t quit, and climb Everest to get there. …As for music, the industry has changed so much, my advice these days is not to go into music expecting to make a living. But if you should get lucky, don’t let the bullies get to you. Find the humor in everything.

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What is HR Analytics?

TalenX

When one hears of the term ‘human resources,’ they automatically think of that section of the organization which handles hiring and extending jobs to potential employees. Not many know that the functions of an HR team extend much beyond what is general knowledge. HR analytics is a method used to create and assess insights into the workforce, to determine the contribution of every employee towards generating revenue for the organization, reducing overall costs, modifying risks, as wel

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Confessions of a Dyslexic Kid Living in A Mixed Up World

Thrive Global

School was a nightmare for me, especially elementary school. I hated going to school. You would not know it though as I developed the ability to hide my emotions from just about everyone. Showing your emotions was weak and cowardly or at least that is what I thought at the time. I was already a hide-and-seek aficionado with my feelings. I was lucky.

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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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Edenred Commuter Benefits Expands on the East Coast by Acquiring the RideECO Commuter Benefit Program [Press Release]

Commuter Benefit Solutions

The post Edenred Commuter Benefits Expands on the East Coast by Acquiring the RideECO Commuter Benefit Program [Press Release] appeared first on Commuter Benefit Solutions.

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How To Include More Nature In Your Life During Times Of Physical Distancing

Thrive Global

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than one seeks.” – John Muir. In the last stage of an anxiety relief meditation that I do, I think of a person or place that I love, allowing that feeling to fill me up, and slowly letting it expand out of me. Sometimes I think of my family and my time with them for this. But most of the times, it is my time at the Radhanagar beach, the pristine white sand beach in the Andaman Islands.

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Working From Home. It?s Now A?Thing.

Forbes Leadership Strategy

We are in the process of moving from “working from home because there is an emergency” to “working from home because I prefer to, because I have made the necessary arrangements to make it comfortable, and because I can still enjoy the benefits of an office when I want or need to.”.

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I Am White. I Am Privileged.

Thrive Global

I am white. I am male. I grew up homeless on the streets of Los Angeles. I have trauma. I was adopted into a multicultural family—with a father who was born in Mexico — in the same city as the Mexican revolutionary, Pancho Villa. My mom was White Dutch. She hated racism so much, that she would publicly humiliate us and try to get anyone who exhibited racist ideology fired from their jobs on the spot.

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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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Technology Can Help Organizations Reduce Racism, But Will It?

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Unlike humans, computers don’t care about your race, gender, or religion: they don’t have a fragile self-esteem they need to boost by bringing other people down, and they don’t need to bond with other computers by stigmatizing certain groups of humans (or computers).

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Happy Mommy, Happy Dad

Thrive Global

At this point, I’ve written about the kitchen bar conversation a hundred times (at least that’s what it feels like). For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, the quick version goes like this: after years of burnout, I sat at the kitchen bar with my husband, Mr. Weisman, and told him I had to quit medicine. Rather than pull his hair out, he dropped two extremely important pieces of wisdom 1) The world will always need doctors, so I can always go back to medicine and 2) Don’t quit

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Profit Over Prophet? The NFL?s Apology Is Meaningless Until Colin Kaepernick Returns

Forbes Leadership Strategy

In 2016 the NFL considered Colin Kaepernick a problem. Now he looks like a prophet. Does the pro league's apology go far enough to make things right?

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Fault Lines

Thrive Global

Clay Banks on Unsplash. There’s been a kettle on the stove of America for quite some time. It’s been brewing, ever there, but it has been ignored. This kettle is filed with vileness, injustice, and oh we’ve stirred that pot many times, but we forgot, we didn’t tend to it, and now, it is boiling over, spilling out into a place that we have no way of cleaning up.

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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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Why Putin Wants Russia To Vote On New Constitution Sooner Rather Than Later

Forbes Leadership Strategy

This year has not gone as planned for Vladimir Putin. By naming the new date for a postponed vote on key changes to the Russian constitution, he has made a move to get things under control—perhaps before they get worse.

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7 Ways to Transform Fear

Thrive Global

It’s not difficult to notice the amount of fear that is arising during these most unusual and challenging times. Fear can be a useful ally. It can focus us, keep us safe, even at times keep us alive. Fear of illness or injury can motivate us to stop smoking, to exercise, and to eat healthier food. In our communities, it can motivate us to make our air and water cleaner, our bridges and levees stronger, our workplaces safer.

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Do The Right Thing And Fight The Power

Forbes Leadership Strategy

How Chuck D of Public Enemy helped me, a white guy from Canada, understand so much about inequality and racism.

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?5 Things You Need To Do To Build A Trusted And Beloved Brand?, with Designer Mich?le Jochem Yunus

Thrive Global

Be trustworthy. It really is the old adage, “treat others as you’d like to be treated”. Listen, we’re not all perfect, but we can strive to do the right thing. I remember brainstorming ideas in notebooks about how I wanted the company to look like. Scrapping entire ideas was necessary, because in the end I didn’t want to compromise on how our garments were made.

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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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Small Businesses Get PPP Fixes in Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act

Zenefits

On June 5, President Donald Trump signed into law the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020 (PPPFA). . The legislation relaxes some of the earlier provisions of the Payroll Protection Program (PPP), which now has between $127 to $130 billion left in federal funds for private loans to small businesses disrupted by the coronavirus. The PPP also offers loan forgiveness eligibility. .

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4 things to do when your friend confides in you that he is gay!

Thrive Global

Photo by sept commercial on Unsplash. I have a small circle of friends. They are the ones who know me to the core. We discuss everything under the sun. They are the joy in my little wins and a sounding board when I feel low. I feel the same about them too. Therefore, I ensure I am always available for them when they need me, like a 2am friend. We have the coziest of get-togethers, hot chocolate evenings, movie dates, mindless couch gossips, intellectual debates and stories of longings and yearni

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How PPP Loan Changes Make Rehiring Much Easier

Evil HR Lady

President Trump on Friday signed a Paycheck Protection Program reform bill into law–and with it just gave millions of businesses some extra time to bulk up on staff. Approval of the Paycheck Protection Flexibility Act , which unravels many of the PPP’s more onerous restrictions, should make it easier for small business owners to turn the loan into a grant that they don’t have to repay.

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