Sun.Nov 13, 2022

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Revamping global productivity: Why your HR processes are the key

Bob

Burnout, frustration, and changing priorities at work are having a major impact on businesses all around the world. Namely, they’re affecting employee efficiency and making people less productive. These dips in motivation and engagement aren’t local phenomena but are truly global. According to Klaas de Vries , an economist at The Conference Board, employee performance worldwide—defined as GDP per hour worked—stagnated in 2021.

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Age of stress and anxiety: one in three of us has had counselling

WorkHuman

Workhuman’s joint report with Gallup is cited in this Independent.ie article, which emphasizes the stress and anxiety overwhelming many Irish employees as three in 10 employees report feeling burnt out “very often” or “always” The post Age of stress and anxiety: one in three of us has had counselling appeared first on Workhuman.

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my boss keeps weed in the office, should I warn coworkers about my chin tuck, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, my boss keeps weed in the office, should I warn coworkers about my chin tuck, and more , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My boss keeps marijuana plants in the office. I live in Texas where cannabis, recreational or medical, is enough to get you sent to jail. It also doesn’t help that we’re in a conservative rural town with law enforcement eager to take you down for such a thing.

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Atlanta Amends Anti-Discrimination Ordinance to Include Protections for Gender Expression and Criminal Histories

SHRM Resources

The City Council of Atlanta, Georgia recently passed an ordinance that amends its existing anti-discrimination law to include protections on the basis of criminal history status and gender expression. The ordinance is effective immediately.

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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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25 Fun Team-building Activities For Employees

HR Digest

Team-building is the foundation for success in every organization. For companies to thrive, they need teams that can work together effectively. By organizing team bonding activities for your employees, they will be able to collaborate and support one another. In this article, we discuss some fun employee engagement activities that you can try out to boost team performance.

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How to Change the Culture of Your Workplace

Workify

Workplace culture is increasingly recognized as a vital aspect of successful businesses. Indeed, it has become a key focus for employees and job seekers, particularly in the current environment. A lack of worker respect, minimal flexibility, overwork, and too few benefits are all cited as influencers of the Great Resignation. Each of these components tend to have clear connections to how strong and supportive a company’s culture is.

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Employee Experience Strategy Steps, Best Practices, Advantages

Darwinbox

The ideal employee experience (EX) requires purpose-driven processes at every stage of the employee lifecycle to ensure a harmonious work culture. However, most old EX practices have all been played out. Now is the time to rethink, redefine, and reinvent your employee experience strategy.

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Actionable Security Hacks To Make The Most Of Remote Work

HR Management

The sudden shift to remote work during the pandemic opened up new opportunities for organizations. Business owners who were always apprehensive about letting employees work from home suddenly realized the immense benefits of the model. Not surprisingly, more and more companies are keen to embrace it for the long haul, even after the pandemic is over.

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Three Trips (at least)

Everyday People

I know I’ve been writing about the adventures of our daughter becoming a homeowner. It’s because I’ve always been someone who experiences and sees stories come from more of everyday life than life-altering shifts. Those monumental occurrences happen so rarely compared to the beauty of what we encounter daily. A few weekends ago, my wife and I traveled to Indianapolis for the next project on the list.

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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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Companies Want Diverse Teams. Remote Work Is Making Them Possible

Linkedin Talent Blog

As companies wrestle with the future of remote work, at least one noted executive has made headlines by insisting that in-office work helps elevate corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. The data suggests that this isn’t the case. A new analysis of LinkedIn Self-ID data found that there was a 20% increase year over year in the share of women applying for remote jobs, and a 10% jump year over year in the share of women who accepted a job offer for a remote position.

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The Case for Unlimited Vacation Days

Zenefits

Once upon a time, vacation time was doled out judiciously, even stingily depending on the point of view. Today, that’s not the case, particularly when it comes to tech companies and forward-thinking startups. For these businesses, unlimited vacation time has been the norm and that’s beginning to trickle over into other industries. Why, though? What does unlimited vacation time offer and what are the benefits of adopting it?

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“Play Games with your Future.”

Thrive Global

-Gaming and the job market of the future-. Gaming. What images come to your mind when you hear this word? AdobeStock_415.jpeg Beautiful Hispanic woman playing video game holding controller afraid and shocked with surprise and amazed expression, fear and excited face. Players glued to their screens on end? A dark room with flashy keyboards? Cups of coffee left here and there, and empty pizza boxes?

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The Kaizen Way of Changing Your Workplace: Continuous Improvement

Zenefits

If you become 1% better every day for a year, how much better would you be at the end of the year? The answer would be a surprising 37 times better than when you started the year. At the start, the 1% improvement each day doesn’t seem much, but it adds up over time. That’s what Kaizen is all about. Even the name Kaizen, invented in Japan, means continuous improvement.

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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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The Only Person You Should Compete With Is Yourself

Thrive Global

Sure, competition is healthy is small doses (and certain situations). It can increase your drive, but should never occur at the expense of collaboration. When we have too much competition, particularly in the workplace, we see unhealthy behaviors begin to develop. When we become too competitive, we move solely towards our individual goals and away from teamwork.

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KFC’s Apology For Sending Promotional Message To Germans Provides 7 Crisis Management Lessons

Forbes Leadership Strategy

KFC’s apology for a message it sent to German consumers provides business leaders with timely lessons about best practices for preventing, managing and communicating about a crisis.

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Employee Appreciation on a Budget: 10 Gift Ideas for Employees

Fond

There are a number of ways employers can demonstrate their appreciation for employees, and gifts are a great choice. Compared to some other strategies, gifts can be affordable, are easy to budget for, and are nearly always well-received by the recipient. Gifts can be spontaneous or planned around a specific occasion, such as a work anniversary or holiday.

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Seven Ways To Create Brand Recognition From Benihana

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Today, Benihana's 116 restaurants serve about 18 million guests each year, and according to CEO Tom Baldwin, Benihana has 90% brand recognition. That’s incredible.

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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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10 Things Independent Contractors Wish Their Clients Knew

Zenefits

Independent contractors are self-employed individuals who are hired for taking on various types of projects. Also known as freelancers, this population of the workforce is usually hired on a contractual basis. When a client or company is on a small budget, considering the implications of a new project for their employees, or needs to complete a project outside of the skill scope of their existing team, they’ll usually hire a freelancer.

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An Insider View Of 20th-Century Politics & Leadership With Former Canadian PM Brian Mulroney

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Former Canadian PM Brian Mulroney shares an insider view into leadership, and the global political landscape of the late 20th century.

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6 Ways to Create a Parent Friendly Workplace

6Q

Many employees are parents first. Find out how you can create a parent friendly workplace and improve productivity among your parent employees. Employees have many labels both in and out of the workplace: manager, director, contributor, parent, and partner, among others. For employees that are also parents, their job as a parent typically takes precedence over their role in an organisation.

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Top Ten Most Annoying Corporate Jargon Phrases

Forbes Leadership Strategy

While they serve a purpose, there’s a downside to business buzzwords. Here are the top ten most annoying corporate jargon phrases.

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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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6 Ways to Create a Parent-Friendly Workplace

6Q

Many employees are parents first. Find out how you can create a parent-friendly working environment and improve productivity among your parent employees. Employees have many labels both in and out of the workplace: manager, director, contributor, parent, and partner, among others. For employees that are also parents, their job as a parent typically takes precedence over their role in an organisation.

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Preparing Successors For Top Jobs: Too Little, Too Late?

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Too often, senior executives take on roles and learn about problems, issues, and challenges after the fact. Fair or not, too many feel like a bait-and-switch has happened.

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The Economy Is Sick

Forbes Leadership Strategy

With inflation, households are strapping themselves just to get by.