Wed.Feb 27, 2019

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4 tricky areas of employer compliance

Genesis HR Solutions

If you’re conducting business in multiple work states, you can count on the fact that you’ll have to deal with more challenges than a single-state employer. This is especially important when it comes to compliance—you need to be sure you are following the employment laws at both the federal and state level for every state you have employees in. (To add another layer of complexity, when federal and state standards are different, generally the rule that provides the greater benefit will apply. ).

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How to Integrate Recognition Into Your Everyday Work Life

Achievers

What are you doing to integrate recognition into your everyday work life? According to a 2018 report by Achievers and Aptitude Research Partners , companies identified recognition as having the greatest impact on employee engagement. This isn’t surprising considering 60% of companies plan to increase their investment in social recognition technology this year.

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What is horizontal communication?

Twine App

Horizontal communication. It sounds like it’s straight from The Big Book of Corporate Jargon, doesn’t it? Don’t let that frighten you. Jargon and buzzword aside, it’s an essential function of a successful workplace. In fact, you probably do it all the time. Things like talking to the person next to you or emailing your team – that’s horizontal communication.

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Why Workplace Daycare is Growing in Popularity

Zenefits

Traditional childcare costs can be quite shocking to first-time parents. Here are some nationwide stats, for example : Average weekly costs for infant care: Daycare $211, family care $195, nanny $580. 71 percent of families spend 10 percent or more of their total annual income on childcare. A nanny caring for one child can cost an average of $34,592 in some states.

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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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Can We Terminate an Employee on Workers’ Comp?

HR Counselor's Corner

If you are thinking about firing an employee that has just filed a workers’ compensation claim, is on a medical leave collecting workers’ compensation benefits, or has just returned from such a leave, you may want to re-think your decision to terminate.

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Answers To Your Top 10 Diversity And Inclusion Questions

15Five

By now, you’ve heard of Diversity and Inclusion. You know the benefits of having a diverse workforce and a culture that includes every possible viewpoint. But how do you create that in your business? Lever recently co-hosted an amazing webinar panel on Building a Diversity and Inclusion Program from Scratch. The speakers included, Katee Van Horn, Founder & CEO at Bar the Door, Shavonne Hasfal-Mcintosh, Inclusion & Employee Experience Lead at Shopify, and Raena Saddler, Head of Prod

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When Will HR Start Taking Advanced Analytics Seriously?

Engage2Excel

Did you know that HR technology has the power to predict the future? No, it’s not a crystal ball that can tell you where to find your next VP of Finance or how long that new IT tech will stay at your company. But it can give you the data and analytics competence you need to make reasonable predictions and more profitable decisions in situations like these.

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Top 4 Ways How AI Enhances the Recruiting Funnel

RChilli

AI. Data. Automation. These are the buzzing words in the recruitment industry. There is a complete transformation in the recruitment process with AI coming up with innovations every day. To find the right fit, recruiters should use the right tools and solutions to simplify recruitment. They identify the recruiting funnel to begin the process.

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6 Long-Term Benefits of Investing in Employee Wellness Programs

Workology

This post is sponsored by PSECU, a Pennsylvania-based credit union. See our FTC disclosure at the end. It’s been a long time since employers first began to offer health insurance to their. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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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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A Complete Guide to the Employee Experience

Digital HR Tech

The employee experience is an increasingly popular topic. Companies that invest in their employee experience are better places to work for, more in-demand among applicants, and also more innovative. However, what is an employee experience exactly, and how can you improve it? In this article, we will take a deep dive into the employee experience and provide you with everything you need to know to ace yours.

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Re-energize your workforce: 13 easy ways to get employees engaged

HR Morning

What manager wouldn’t love to walk into the office each morning to a group of smiling, eager employees, ready to take on the day? . But the reality is … that just doesn’t happen. Distracted and disengaged. Study after study shows the majority of employees struggle just to make it through the day. Presenteeism – the act of showing up to work unfocused – costs companies $150 billion a year in productivity, according to the American Medical Association.

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Scaling Up Skills

SHRM Resources

To bridge the skills gap, HR is leading the search for qualified candidates, increasing pay to attract talent, refocusing on retention and succession planning, and heightening the urgency around employee development.

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Ep 171 – Decision Making in Human Capital Investment

Workology

The psychology behind good and bad decision making isn’t just fascinating for those of us interested in human behavior. It’s also important for recruiting and human resource leaders for making better. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. The psychology behind good and bad decision making isn’t just fascinating for those of us interested in human behavior.

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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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Three Great Team-Building Activities To Help Promote Better Corporate Culture

Take It Personel-ly

Team-building has a bit of an unfortunate reputation in the corporate world, and there are a lot of negative associations linked to it. It doesn’t have to be that way, though. Used effectively, team-building exercises can make your office a better place to work, improving both social interaction and workplace culture. Here are a few […].

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How to Incorporate Design Thinking into HR Processes

HRExecutive

It’s everywhere you look these days: “modern HR, “the new HR,” the “future of work”—all of which naturally leads to discussion of new skills needed in the modern world of HR. We can’t pick up a magazine or attend a conference without seeing one of these critical skills mentioned: design thinking. What Is Design Thinking? Simply put, it’s designing with intentionality.

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HR Is the Key Battleground in the War on the Gender Pay Gap

ADP

New research from ADP Research Institute® shows the varied causes of income inequality and advises HR managers on some strategies for reducing it.

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Human Resources is the New Epicenter of Digital Transformation and Technological Advancement

SumTotal

Today we have a guest blogger, Michael Rochelle the Chief Strategy Officer and a Principal HCM Analyst for the Brandon Hall Group. Human Resources teams are not fully leveraging technology, analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve their organizations. Consider the following Brandon Hall Group research: Less than 10% of organizations can use data and technology to create “what-if” predictive planning.

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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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Sonic Employees Walk Out. Here’s Why.

Evil HR Lady

Employees from the Circleville, Ohio, Sonic quit–as a group. They were fed up with new management, and walked out together, leaving this sign behind: What happened here and how can you prevent it from happening in your own business? To keep reading, click here: Sonic Employees Walk Out. Here’s Why. The post Sonic Employees Walk Out. Here’s Why. appeared first on Evil HR Lady.

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When Do High Expectations Decrease Performance?

IO At Work

When expectations are high and people face early setbacks, they are likely to feel embarrassed, make excuses, and withdraw from a project.

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Traits Of The Top 3% Of Future Leaders

Forbes Coaches Council

Even when armed with the knowledge of which characteristics are likely to be most critical, organizations need to be strategic in how they go about shaping their workforce.

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my coworker plans to work a second job during our work hours, without telling our boss

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work at a mid-sized SaaS company as a data analyst. One of my coworkers, also a data analyst, is wildly overqualified for our position — he just completed a master’s program in business data analytics, and we are doing glorified data entry. He has admitted to me that he’s bored with the position, and I expressed surprise that he was wanting to stay at our company because of the nature of the work.

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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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Your Inner Voice Is Your Power: A Woman's Journey To Positive Conversations In Life And Business

Forbes Coaches Council

We must re-program ourselves to reflect differently and re-train our brains to recognize these chances for positivity by thinking about what we think about.

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Teaching Self-Control – Incorporating Social-Emotional Skills into the Classroom

EverFi - HR

I can still remember the moment when I realized teaching self-control is essential—it was my first year teaching, and a brawl broke out in my 5 th grade classroom when one student knocked a pencil off another’s desk. It was a wake up call for me. I had been focused on teaching reading and math standards, but in that moment I realized that if my students weren’t able to negotiate conflict in a healthy way, they would struggle to be successful in life—no matter how well they could read.

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What is the Transit Benefit Program?

Commuter Benefit Solutions

Confused about what is the transit benefit program? Let’s dive right in. Transit benefit programs provide transportation benefits for commuters. Different municipalities and other governments have slightly different variations on what is a transit benefit program. What each has in common is a reimbursement component to employees to encourage them to use mass transit.

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16 Resources to Help Your Students Develop Self Regulation Skills

EverFi - HR

Today’s students can come from all different types of backgrounds, situations, and diverse cultures that we as teachers can’t always relate to within this ever-changing society. Self-regulation skills are especially valuable to teach in these diverse environments to help students manage stress and regain control when they may feel like nobody understands them.

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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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The Future of the Enterprise with Ray Wang

Workday

Ray Wang, principal analyst and founder of Constellation Research , came to the Workday Studio to talk with Joe Korngiebel, Workday senior vice president, enterprise technology. They discussed how the open source/platform dichotomy leads to more innovation, how organizations need to think about their data to drive business outcomes, and where the industry is at in terms of artificial intelligence maturity.

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Physicians Need a Personal Brand Too

NoExcusesHR

A lot of time and energy is spent discussing the need for leaders, professionals, and just about everyone who is interested in advancing their careers to develop a robust personal brand. Make fun all you want.personal brands matter in the modern world of work. Physicians Are Actually Small Businesses The need for us as leaders to grow our brands is critical as we navigate the relatively new and fast-paced digital world that dominates life.

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Life Lessons: 7 Ideas for Teaching Kids About Charity

EverFi - HR

In our digital age, kids and teens are often profiled as self-consumed and in need of near constant instant gratification. As teachers, we know this stereotype is simply too flat. Our students have incredible potential for giving and kindness when it is both taught and expected, and we can develop or strengthen their empathy muscles though teaching kids about charity.