Wed.Apr 29, 2020

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Why It’s Okay to Hate Working from Home

Digital HR Tech

In the past, survey after survey showed that the majority of people want to work from home. Well, now we’ve had a chance. For the past six weeks or so, every job that could be done from home has been done from home. And you know what? It’s okay to hate it. While this world-wide shutdown didn’t happen to test out just how effective working from home is, it’s been a nice side effect.

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Powerful and Proven Tips to Improve Your Employee Engagement Plan

Pragna Technologies

Engaged employees are more dynamic, more customer-oriented and more devoted to company’s success and organizations with high levels of employee engagement are more successful. Employee engagement is one priority always on top-of-mind of HR industry experts. Considering the present situation retention is equally as important as recruitment. Organizations are focusing on different methods to better engage workers who might otherwise go elsewhere seeking what they perceive to be “greener grass.”.

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Furloughing – different approaches and impacts around the world

Analytics in HR

National differences between countries’ responses to Coronavirus are fascinating. A global experiment that no-one would have wished for is happening right now, testing how our social & economic systems adapt. National differences affect government policies, organizations, and how employees are treated. These will have impacts on how well people, organizations, and economies recover afterwards.

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Could innovative recruitment agencies close IT skills gaps?

HRExecutive

With almost 1 million job openings in the technology sector near the end of 2019, many businesses wonder how to attract tech talent. Tech giant Amazon recently started growing its own talent when it partnered with Virginian public universities and community colleges to offer a degree in cloud computing. Most businesses, unlike Amazon, can’t walk into universities demanding tech degrees built around their business needs.

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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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The New Normal for Hiring Hourly Employees!

The Tim Sackett Project

Not many of us are actually doing a ton of hiring right now. How do I know? There are 25 million people who applied for unemployment! That means there’s probably another 75 million that are currently under-employed or utilized. This means that when we all get back to the ‘new normal’ of working, a bunch of stuff is going to change!

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Visier COVID-19 Case Data Available on GitHub

Visier

Visier is committed to helping organizations react, respond, and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. To assist with data-driven decisions for crisis management and workforce planning, Visier is providing curated COVID-19 data to the general public. Visier has made this data publicly available via GitHub under a creative commons license. This allows all organizations and individuals to have access to curated and daily refreshed COVID-19 dataset.

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How To Conduct The Best Performance Review Of Your Life

15Five

Performance reviews are rarely something either employee or manager is excited for. But that may be because they’re not doing them right. At 15Five instead of traditional performance reviews, we do something called the Best-Self Review®, and we do it quarterly. For us, learning is the goal – it’s not an evaluation or the time where people “prove” themselves. .

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my employees don’t want to return to work because they’re making more from unemployment

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m a small business owner who had about 45 employees before the COVID-19 shutdown hit us hard. We laid off or furloughed the entire staff, and we’ve now been approved for and received a PPP loan. Here’s the problem — most of my furloughed employees are making more on unemployment than they did when they were at work (because of the $600/week supplement from the federal government on top of regular benefits) , and now don’t want to come back to work before their unemployme

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After COVID-19: Improving Your Employee Wellness Program

TalentCulture

The impacts of COVID-19 and the measures governments and organizations are taking to contain it right now are unprecedented. The hourly breaking news headlines of outbreaks and cancellations have our heads spinning and have kept the wellness of our families, friends, and co-workers top of mind. Companies like Google led the way in implementing work-from-home policies to keep their employees safe; now remote work is mandatory as part of stay-home, stay-safe policies.

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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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THE HR FAMOUS PODCAST: e12 - Getting Paid to Not Work

The HR Capitalist

In episode 12 of The HR Famous Podcast , long-time HR leaders (and friends) Jessica Lee, Tim Sackett and Kris Dunn come together to talk quarantine watching habits, unemployment insurance coverage and the Payroll Protection Plan. The team brings up the challenges and nuances individuals might be facing when working through their unemployment insurance and PPP. .

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11 companies that have adopted unlimited holidays (and what they found)

Workstars

The premise is simple. Work hard, get everything you’re tasked with completed and spend as much time as you’d like on paid.

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Collaborative Leadership in a Virtual World

SHRM

As an organizational psychologist, I’m curious about the role of leaders in a virtual work world with uncertain futures. Leaders are looked to for guidance during these uncharted times, but assuming we have to revert to command-and-control leadership to get everything done is wrong. Collaborative leadership is desperately needed at this moment in history.

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The Secret to Managing a Remote Team

Emergenetics International

At Emergenetics International, I have the privilege of leading the three teams that are responsible for marketing, sales and relationship management. Together, we make up the Client Experience Cohort. Formed nearly two years ago, we have all worked very hard to become a highly effective and extremely connected group. Our staff has long enjoyed the […].

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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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Freelancing? Here’s What It Means to Work From Home

Take It Personel-ly

Working from home. It’s something that most individuals dream of. However, you might find yourself thinking about what exactly the benefits are and how people manage their time effectively. It can be a big choice to make, so in this article, we are going to talk about what life is like working from home as […].

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Smart On-Boarding Practices That Go A Long Way

Engagedly

At some point or the other, we have been in a situation where we were nervous about our first day at work but were equally excited. Imagine that excitement and enthusiasm fizzing off because of feeling unwelcome at […].

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How To Establish And Break Through Your Energetic Income Level

Forbes Coaches Council

How can you identify that you may have reached "your limit" or that you even have an energetic income level? Here are some of the signs.

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How to Practice Empathy When Leading in a Crisis

Partners in Leadership

A meaningful way to build trust and connection in the workplace. The post How to Practice Empathy When Leading in a Crisis appeared first on Culture Management Experts.

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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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H-1B Filers Rethinking Their Petitions After Pandemic

SHRM Resources

?2020 was already positioned to be a novel year for H-1B visa processing with the introduction of an electronic registration system for the annual lottery, which some worried would be overwhelmed due to the relative ease of submitting registrations. Then COVID-19 struck, shutting down the economy, creating a surge in unemployment, disrupting business plans and delaying immigration processing.The dramatic changes to the U.S. economy between March 1—when employers entered the H-1B lotter.

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How Data Intelligence Is Reinventing HR

HR C-Suite

Data intelligence is the analysis of information that can be turned into knowledge and in turn, into value. It can help a business increase productivity, expand services and grow investments, all of which contribute to driving profits up. With technological developments, including cloud storage and data mining, we have access to greater volumes of data […].

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Be Somebody who makes Everybody feel like Somebody.

Thrive Global

I was speaking to a friend and she told me something that I’ll never forget. “For the first time, I feel important doing my job.” She’s a delivery driver and said she always felt like a nobody since many people never acknowledged her and treated her quite poorly. Now with COVID19, people treat her quite different than before – with respect and appreciation.

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10 Tips for Successfully Managing Remote Workers

SHRM Resources

?Stay-at-home orders prompted by COVID-19 are creating a challenge for managers—including those in HR—at a time when many companies are implementing telework policies for the first time. Nearly three-fourths (71 percent) of employers are finding it difficult to adapt to telework as a way of doing business, according to recent research from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).SHRM RESOURCE SPOTLIGHTCoronavirus and COVID-19"If this is the first time that managers are in.

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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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How To Make Your Business Irresistibly Attractive To Your Customers

Forbes Coaches Council

Whether you survive or you perish as a business will depend largely on your ability to attract customers to your business.

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should I ask out my former boss, employee cc’s me on everything, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Should I ask out my former boss? From 2015-2017, I reported to a wonderful boss who I really clicked with personally and professionally. After I left the organization for other reasons (and he left the industry) we remained good friends. He and his wife are now divorcing, and I’m wondering … once everything is more settled, would it be terrible to ask him out?

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Shortlister Spotlight: Meet Aratrika Dev, Manager Human Resources

Shortlist

In this instalment of Shortlister Spotlights (a Q&A series to get to know some of our team members) meet Aratrika Dev, Manager- Human Resources from Mumbai office! At Shortlist, we love building our team almost as much as we love building yours! We have some pretty amazing people across our three offices who have a […]. The post Shortlister Spotlight: Meet Aratrika Dev, Manager Human Resources appeared first on SHORTLIST.

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updates: the adoption, telling my boss she risks losing me if she doesn’t hire help, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s a special “where are you now?” season at Ask a Manager, when I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Here are three updates from past letter-writers. 1. Talking about my pregnancy at work when I’m placing the baby for adoption (first update here ). Since I sent my first update before I had gone back to work after my maternity leave, I felt like I could give you a quick second one now that I’ve been back in the office (well, working—I wasn’t in the of

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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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How GDPR Is Changing the Way Organizations Reward & Recognize Employees

Madison

Feeling appreciated and recognized at work is a wonderful thing—and not just for the employee, but for the company as well. In fact, organizations investing in strategic recognition programs can increase employee engagement scores up to 37 percent, according to a recent report from Reward Gateway and Josh Bersin , an independent global industry analyst and dean of the Josh Bersin Academy.

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PROOF that the DOL is enforcing the FFCRA. Plus, who needs a PPP Plan B? And details on Friday’s Facebook Live!

The Employer Handbook

By Yatko – From [link] , CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link. No burying the lede today. Join me and an extra special guest for a Facebook Live HR/COVID-19 chat this Friday at 2 PM EDT / 11 AM PDT. It will be here over at The Employer Handbook Facebook Page. Who is this special guest? Want a hint? I grew up not that far from this person. Main Street Lending Program – The Next Gold Rush?

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Return to Work & the Workplace Resources (i4cp login required)

i4cp

The following resources are being curated by i4cp's research team to assist leaders, managers, and employees in their planning and strategizing for return to work and the workplace. Corporate Practice Guides, Toolkits, & Playbooks From Cushman & Wakefield: THE SAFE SIX: WORKPLACE READINESS ESSENTIALS From Cushman & Wakefield: RECOVERY READINESS A HOW-TO GUIDE FOR REOPENING YOUR WORKPLACE From Klean Kanteen: Return-To-Office Planning Considerations From Klean Kanteen: COVID 19 Threat-