Mon.Jul 17, 2017

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#HotInHR: Improving Diversity Rates @Pinterest, Where Are All the Men in HR? Intern Takes Over Railroad’s Twitter

Advos

Get HR Funding News Delivered To Your Inbox. Every week we send a summary of funding announcements, M&A and partnership news from the HR marketplace. Sign up now. Week in Review – Popular Content. What We Learned from Improving Diversity Rates at Pinterest – HBR. In today’s workplace, diversity is more than just a buzzword; it’s a way to build a stronger business.

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HR PROBLEM: When LinkedIn Recruiter Doesn't Work For Your Team.

The HR Capitalist

Here's a new world take on an old-world saying: "No one ever got fired for buying recruiting services from LinkedIn". That's a spin off on what our boomer fathers/mothers/grandparents used to say back in the day: "No one ever got fired for buying IBM". New world. Same type of saying. If there's one thing that's true, it's that LinkedIn is ubiquitous these days when it comes to recruiting.

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EEO-1 Reporting Complications Creates ACA Reporting Efficiencies

ACA Times

At first glance, it’s a nice reprieve that EEO-1 reports for the 2017 tax year have been postponed. Reports were slated for a September 30, 2017 due date for all employment data from July, August, and September pay periods. The new deadline to file EEO-1 reports is March 31, 2018, albeit with more complexities. Gone are the days of simplified pay period info; welcome to more extensive information consolidated into annual periods.

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Measuring the Employee Experience

Kazoo

What does measuring the employee experience look like? We recently introduced Kazoo Surveys – giving our customers easy-to-use surveys within our employee experience platform that provide a quick view of their employees’ opinions and engagement levels. (This is just the start of what’s to come – the future will bring more tools to give your employees a voice, empowering them with ways to give and get the right feedback at the right time to fuel engagement and performance.).

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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Managers Are the Key to Good Work Culture

Reflektive

Cold-pressed juice machines, company picnics, in-office yoga…these perks may sound appealing to an employee but when it comes down to building excellent company culture, it’s great management that makes the difference. Sure, company perks are important to employees , but studies now show that it isn’t the number one tactic. What matters is great management and the methods used to keep employees performing at their highest potential.

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How to Recruit Like the World’s Best Companies

TalentCulture

The world’s best companies are mission-driven, and they make more money than their competitors. Mission-driven companies have 30% more innovation and 40% higher levels of employee retention. These companies know that to achieve their mission, they need the kind of staff that will get them there; the kind of people who are highly engaged. But in 2015, this was only true for 32% of employees.

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13 Fun Team Building Ideas That Employees Will Enjoy

Justworks

Team building is important for uniting coworkers, working on strengths and weaknesses, and boosting employee morale. So how can we make team building exercises less mind numbingly boring? Believe it or not, activities do exist that are fun, unique, and unite coworkers together. They can range from a simple game to start off a meeting to a day-long offsite.

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#WorkTrends Preview: Leverage a Digital Workplace for Better Engagement

TalentCulture

The traditional workplace as we know it has changed. Everything is more global, more mobile and more digital. The smart companies that have embraced change in this digital environment have improved productivity, innovation and cultural alignment. The digital workplace also helps solve core challenges related to communication, collaboration and employee engagement.

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Working from home? Research finds employee self-regulation is the key to success

HR Zone

Employees. Employee self-regulation key to working from home.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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Could Better Tech Help Public Agencies Recruit Millennials?

TLNT: The Business of HR

The biggest generation in U.S. history is now the largest generation in today’s labor market, yet in the public sector, millennials are a minority.

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Company Values: The Foundation of Effective Hiring

WorqIQ

When it comes to hiring new employees, a bad hire can cost you up to five times the employee’s annual salary. Poor hiring choices set Zappos back $100 million, which is why the company began offering people money to quit. When Amazon bought Zappos, it adopted the “Pay to Quit” policy. Zappos and Amazon want to weed out the employees who are just there for the money—employees who don’t share the company values.

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Reduce the Trauma of a Layoff Or Firing With an Offboarding Plan

TLNT: The Business of HR

Staff reductions involve multiple moving parts. You make gut-wrenching decisions about who’s being let go, HR drafts severance agreements, and your legal department assesses compliance with federal labor regulations. That’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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Résumés are nonsense (and we all know it)

The Chemistry Group

Deep down, we all know that the résumé is total nonsense. Please sum up the entirety of your professional career and every important thing you’ve ever done at work onto one page. Your livelihood pretty much depends on it. Go! Seriously, do this for me: ask yourself if this is the best way to marry people to employment. I bet it took you exactly 2/10ths of a second to answer, ‘No, of course not.

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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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Gamification Isn’t Playing Games; It’s Making Work More Fun and Workers More Engaged

TLNT: The Business of HR

Employee engagement can often be one of the more difficult metrics that human resource leaders are tasked with growing in their day-to-day work. While it can be one of the more crucial elements of workplace culture, HR leaders struggle to find new ways to keep employees engaged.

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7 Tips for Moving to a Pay-for-Performance Culture

Compensation Today

Companies have seen a bit of a revolution in performance-based pay in the past few years. Most have removed the rank-and-yank style of performance management. Some are removing performance ratings altogether to emphasize the future-looking, coaching-based conversations managers should be having with employees. If the intent of performance management is truly to improve performance, the old ways of doing performance evaluation just don’t cut it.

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Understanding the Benefits of Continuous Feedback

TalentGuard

Understanding the Benefits of Continuous Feedback. Employee productivity is innately tied to employee engagement and motivation. Yet increasing employee engagement continues to be an elusive achievement for many organizations. This is often due to a problem with performance management methodology. Traditional models of performance management, such as the annual review, are outdated and do not work well to increase engagement among the newest generation of workers.

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The Journey to Digitization: The Executive View

HR Zone

Future. The Journey to Digitization: The Executive View.

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Are There Gaps in Your HR Policies?

Putting the right HR policies in place can help your organization grow smoothly and help your company culture thrive. Use this essential HR checklist to cover the basics and make sure there aren’t any gaps in your HR functions.

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I think an employee is sending nude Snapchats to his coworkers … with animal filters

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have a bizarre question that I’m honestly not sure how to handle. I am the lone HR representative for a small company with a very liberal/laid-back culture — sometimes too laid-back. A lot of the employees are friends outside of work or follow each other on social media. A team of seven employees sit outside of my office in an open floor plan space (I have an enclosed office, but the wall facing them is made of glass so it’s pretty easy for them to see if I&#

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How Your Job Descriptions Can Drive Company Culture

HR Daily Advisor

The troubling dysfunction of San Francisco based Uber Technologies, Inc.’s corporate culture is a testimony to the workplace mantra that “culture is set from the top.” Did Uber’s management really think that a hotline for anonymously reporting illegal behaviors or the nomination of a prominent woman to its board of directors would be enough to turn its culture around and make its problems go away?

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The Human Math Behind Your Company Culture

Great Place to Work

How does a company with a high-trust culture have 3X higher revenue growth than a company with lower trust? The initial answer is in the data. In 2016, London School of Business did a study using our data from leading companies and found a compelling business case linking a high-trust culture to business revenue. But this research doesn’t tell us the whole story.

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New to HR? Start By Learning the Tools for Success

Workology

Human Resources is the area of an organization that deals with hiring, firing, administrative work, and training of a company team. It’s a career that you must love in order to deal with all of the crazy that happens on a daily basis. HR is rewarding in many ways; it has more career paths to try […] Source.

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Managing Your Recruitment Agency Spend in 2024

Feeling overwhelmed by a juggling act of internal recruiting, agency relationships, and direct hire spend? You’re not alone. In today’s competitive talent landscape, building a dream team requires strategic orchestration. Recruiting agencies and search firms provide invaluable services, but managing them effectively alongside your internal team can pose unique challenges.

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5 Ways the Best Workplaces Boost Work-Life Balance

Great Place to Work

Based on the Best Workplaces in New York. Helping employees align the demands of work and home life is a challenge anywhere. But in New York, it’s especially tough. Big Apple commuters average more than six hours in transit weekly, giving them the longest workweek in the country. Plus, the region is known for its competitive, fast-paced work culture.

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Form 5500 Regulations: Don't Make This Costly Mistake with Your Employee Retirement Plan

Paychex

Form 5500 regulations require retirement plan sponsors to deposit employee deferrals as soon as administratively feasible, but no later than the 15th business day of the month following the month in which the contributions occurred. Read on to see how integrating your plan with your payroll service can help you avoid costly fines that can happen as a result of missing Form 5500 deposit deadlines.

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my staff keeps calling me when I’m off work, my anxiety caused a work problem, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My staff keeps contacting me when I’m off work. I am the assistant supervisor at a nonprofit animal shelter. I have a staff of about 18, with only 13 being scheduled a day for varying shift times. My issue is that when the supervisor and I are out of the office, whether that’s due to vacation, illness, or just regular days off, my staff constantly contacts me and the other supervisor.

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Eight companies with amazing company culture

Reward Gateway

5 min read. What makes amazing corporate culture? It’s not always one who pays big salaries or offers awesome employee perks like free lunches – although those things certainly contribute to employee engagement and happiness.

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Future-proof your I-9 compliance for 2024

Speaker: Join I-9 Experts:

Got I-9 compliance on your mind? Spending endless amounts of time ensuring you stay compliant? Get your questions answered with an expert panel from WorkBright. During this one-hour webinar, Workbright will dive deep into I-9 best practices, navigate the nuances of the new 2023 'alternative procedure,' and learn actionable ways to ensure your audit trail is squeaky clean.

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The 4 Questions That Could Make You Invaluable

45 Things

Recently the New York Times staff protested cuts to the copy editor staff, saying in a letter to management that they believed such a move would damage the quality of the product. One senior reporter described the copy editors as " the immune system of this newspaper, the group that protects the institution from profoundly embarrassing errors, not to mention potentially actionable ones.

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The Case for Human Resources in a Startup

Acacia HR Solutions

I met with a HR professional thinking of branching out on her own last week and had a great discussion around startups and human resources. The question we were pondering was why startups, and in my experience many small businesses for that matter, not think about HR early in the process. I’m not sure we.

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Ignore Parity. This Ain’t NASCAR!

Compensation Cafe

Organized sports work best when the teams are competitive. Rules that ensure parity exist for nearly every successful league. This is because close competition is a big part of the product. Real fans are all about commitment and passion. This is reinforced by giving every team a "chance to win." The sports that do this best makes the most money (another goal of any organized sport.