Fri.Nov 18, 2016

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It’s not too late to ask your questions.

nettime solutions

Join stratustime® for this important Bloomberg Webinar. Whether you’ve already got a plan in place or are scrambling to catch up, this is your chance to hear from an industry expert about the new overtime regulations – and ask questions. To help you prepare, here are a few questions you might ask about your business prior to the webinar. What’s the best way to assess the potential labor cost increases under the new thresholds?

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Terminations: How managers rationalize putting them off — and then screw them up anyway

HR Morning

Managers will go to great lengths to avoid the dreaded “termination conversation.” And when the confrontation finally happens, they often screw it up. Here are some suggestions to solve both problems. First, a few of the more common rationalizations supervisors use to avoid dropping the axe – and why these avoidance tactics don’t make sense: ‘Maybe they’ll improve’.

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Quick Shots for #HR and #Business Pros – Payroll Edition

HR Bartender

I received this note from an HR Bartender reader recently: An employee’s home address is Texas. He works in North Dakota. He is being terminated. Should the guidelines for his final check be in accordance with Texas or North Dakota? Good news! We’ve actually answered this question in a previous post. Attorney Andrea Paris spoke about it in “ Employment Laws” Where Employees Work or Live.

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5 ways to engage your leaders so they engage your employees.

Kazoo

Inspiring action and change is a challenge for most organizations, especially when it comes to positively impacting employee engagement and company culture. Pulse and engagement surveys are approaches intended to help leadership listen to employees and measure engagement, but listening without action is simply hearing. The key to transitioning from listening to action, is engaging your people leaders.

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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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[Infographic] How to Improve Productivity

Hppy

Maintaining a productive workforce is a tricky task. Especially considering the varying personalities that sit on your office floor; each one accustomed to their very own way of working. But productivity is an important factor in any businesses success. To help better understand workplace productivity, Armstrong Appointments , put together an infographic looking at when worker productivity is at a high and when it dips.

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How to Think “Strategically” about Workforce Planning

EDSI

SWP is critical because it helps maintain a focus on longer-term workforce development and business goals. We all know it’s easy to get caught in the weeds and tough to get out. SWP is the framework around which companies can build a longer-term plan to overcome fire-fighting tactics. This powerful tool has the ability to cause significant change and, perhaps most intriguing, truly align workforce planning activities with business goals.

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Overtime regulations - making a plan

nettime solutions

With a December 1, 2016, effective date the time to adapt is running short. These changes may result in difficult decisions and administrative tasks that can quickly consume your schedule. That’s why it’s important to have a plan in placeto help with the effects of the new regulations. With a solid plan, you can make the necessary adjustments to mitigate disruption to your business operations.

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CAPITALIST PODCAST: The Top 5 Recruiters in the Sports World.

The HR Capitalist

Great college & pro sports coaches have more in common than just expensive suits—they've all got the same recruiting chops. And those recruiting chops are the same ones that your best recruiters have. So who are the best of the best when it comes to recruiting for sports? And what exactly makes them the best? During this brand new episode of Talent Sniper Radio (The Kinetix Podcast), I'm joined by Kinetix Recruiting Director David Bach and we take a deep dive into the top 5 recruiters of the

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Join us for a webinar on the new overtime regulations

nettime solutions

More than 4 million additional workers will qualify for overtime December 1. Are you ready? It’s not too late! Join us December 12th for this must-see Bloomberg Webinar on the expanded overtime regulations: - Understand how the new overtime thresholds will affect your employees. - Learn about strategies you can use to keep potential costs down. - Ask questions.

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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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How Oracle HCM Cloud is Delivering the HR User Experience of the Future

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

More than 40% of organizations are looking to improve or develop a new strategy for enterprise HR systems this year, according to the results of a recently released survey from Sierra-Cedar. The 19th annual survey , which includes input from more than 1,500 organizations, annually tracks the adoption, deployment approaches, and value achieved from HR technologies.

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Who Is and Isn't Covered Under the New Overtime Rule

nettime solutions

The Department of Labor's final rule expanding the federal overtime regulations is scheduled to take effect on December 1, 2016. But the overtime rule won’t necessarily impact all exempt employees, so make sure you understand which employees may be affected.

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The Hijacking of the Words Diversity and Inclusion

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Have well-intentioned people destroyed the word “Diversity?” I read an interesting article the other day in The Atlantic titled A Person Can’t Be Diverse. The article references the director of the movie, “Selma,” Ava DuVernay, as stating, “ We’re hearing a lot about Diversity, I hate that word so much.” Her rationale is that “…it’s a medicinal word that has no emotional resonance, and this is a really emotional issue…It’s emotional for artists who are women and peo

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HR in retail: 5 trends HR leaders should watch out for in 2017

HR Zone

Employees. 5 retail trends HR leaders should watch out for.

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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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Weekend Disconnect: The Science Behind Working Less [Infographic]

WorqIQ

Studies show that Americans have a bad habit of taking their work with them when they have time off. If you’re one of these people, it may be time for a weekend disconnect. The Opposite Effect We all want to be successful. We want to impress the boss. Maybe we want to earn a few extra […] Read more. Read More» The post Weekend Disconnect: The Science Behind Working Less [Infographic] appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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5 Tips for Finding Diverse Candidates That Make Dollars and Sense

Entrepreneur

It is critical for business leaders to learn how to effectively hire diverse candidates.

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How to boost your employer brand in 2017

HR Zone

Acquisition. How to boost your employer brand in 2017.

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Building A Brilliant Office That Will Dazzle Clients And Attract Employees

Take It Personel-ly

When you’re at the starting point of setting up your business, you’ll need to establish your office. Or, a particular place you can work from and these days that doesn’t necessarily mean renting or buying a building. You might find that you can run your business quite comfortably from home. This will only work for … Continue reading Building A Brilliant Office That Will Dazzle Clients And Attract Employees.

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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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Talemetry and HealthcareSource Partnership A Sign of Things To Come for Recruitment Marketing Tech?

WorkTech

Talemetry and HealthcareSource Partnership Reflects Trends Identified In Recent #HRWINS Employer Research. The timing of the announcement that HealthcareSource is integrating its talent acquisition and talent management platform with Talemetry’s recruitment marketing platform was particularly interesting to me. I just returned from the inaugural Talent Acquisition Technology conference in Austin, and the discussion was overwhelmingly about recruitment marketing and candidate experience.

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Coffee Break: Empathy, employee surveys and HR dark arts

HR Zone

Culture. Empathy, employee surveys and HR dark arts.

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Well-Being Is a Trend Because It Makes a Difference

TLNT: The Business of HR

High turnover is an issue in any job market — especially in the medical field where time and training really can’t be wasted. It’s critical to understand what’s causing the turnover.

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Black Friday Statistics and Tips for Retailers

Paychex

Business experts forecast strong consumer performance on Black Friday, November 25, 2016. If you haven’t planned for this major shopping holiday yet, keep these tips in mind.

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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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Too Many Tools Are Killing Your Recruiting Effort

TLNT: The Business of HR

You’ve heard of this concept of the inverted-u curve , right? It’s fairly straightforward. In the beginning, you have nothing or very little. As you increase the resources you begin to become more effective. Eventually, as you add more resources you’ll actually reach maximum potential.

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Workplace Perks: What to Look For and Why They Matter #Infographic

Take It Personel-ly

Today’s workers want more out of their careers. Younger generations especially crave jobs that are fulfilling and fun, not just sitting at a desk all day. Workplaces are responding with incentives packages designed to appeal to talented workers and help them maximize their productivity. What could be wrong with that? Well, it turns out, the … Continue reading Workplace Perks: What to Look For and Why They Matter #Infographic.

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Budgeting Comp For a Blended Workforce

TLNT: The Business of HR

One of the key missions of a CHRO (or those who want to become CHROs) is to create a compensation plan. This has become increasingly complicated and dependent on other departments (like procurement) as the workforce has drifted to a more contingent/permanent blend.

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I Believe I Can Fly: Leadership that Inspires Innovation

DDI

Learn the three conditions that we as leaders should be setting for our teams to create and execute innovative change.

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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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Staying competitive: One tweak you should make to your PTO policy

HR Morning

If you’re still making employees wait one-to-three months after being hired to use their paid time off (PTO), you may wind up losing top talent to the competition. . That’s because more than half of employers (56%) allow employees to start using their PTO the day after they’re hired, according to a recent WorldatWork report. Plus, another 9% allow employees to start using this time at the beginning of the next pay period. 90-day waiting period still common but ….

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AI and jobs - the view from HBO’s Westworld

HR Zone

Future. AI and Jobs - the View from HBO’s Westworld.

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Hiring in California? You Might Need to Update Your Employment Contracts!

Ceridian

By Julie Palmer, Technical Writing Manager, Ceridian. Do you hire in California? If so, you’ll need to take another look at your employment contracts (including ones that will be modified or extended in the new year) to make sure that they adhere to legislation taking effect January 1, 2017. The legislation in question prevents employment contracts from including provisions that apply another state’s laws, or require appearing in another state’s court system, if the employee resides and works pr