Wed.Oct 05, 2016

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Why Small Businesses Are Outsourcing HR

Cornerstone On Demand

For eight years, Mickey Swortzel, founder of vehicle control systems start-up New Eagle, watched her employees' health-plan costs steadily increase. Then, in 2016, she made the decision to outsource her one-person HR department to ADP, one of the largest companies in the quickly growing market of Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs).

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HR in 2017: New Bersin by Deloitte report predicts most disruptive year ever

Everwise

If anyone has a crystal ball into the trends that will shape and redefine how HR leaders approach their work, it’s Josh Bersin, Principal at Bersin by Deloitte. Yesterday, Bersin released his annual predictions report titled “ HR Technology Disruptions for 2017: Nine Trends Reinventing the HR Software Market.” As one might expect, this year’s report includes a strong bent toward disruptive technology and Bersin predicts that HR leaders will continue to focus less on products that automate and in

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Key Learnings From the 2016-2017 Sierra-Cedar HR Systems Survey Results

Reflektive

The results from the Sierra-Cedar HR Systems Survey were debuted at HR Tech in Chicago on Oct. 5. The first time “cloud” was mentioned in the survey was nine years ago. Topics covered include payroll, benefits, workforce management, performance management , integration and implementation. This year, 1,528 organizations participated. with an average 13,551 employees.

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#HRTech Conference – Bigger and Badder Than Hurricane Matthew

What is Paul Thinking

SEO link bait aside, the headline still stands. I’m in Chicago this week for HRTech. I’m one of the designated “bloggers” for the event which means I get a pass to the event and … well… that’s about it. I say that up front just to be clear there is not pay to play or other exchange. Transparency achieved. The conference continues to get bigger. Every year there are more companies on the floor exhibit.

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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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Top Talent Have These 5 Traits In Common

Hppy

You’ve heard it a million times. Building extraordinary value in an organization requires amazing people. You can have the most innovative technology and the coolest products and services, but without the people layer to transform these capabilities into value, they are worthless. How do you recruit people who will create unbelievable performance for your organization?

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How Not To Talk About Diversity/Inclusion - If you Want to Actually Recruit Diverse Candidates

The HR Capitalist

Most of us have work to do related to optimizing the diversity/inclusion that exists in our organization. That's just the way it is - even if you're in good shape overall, there's always room for improvement in specific areas. No organization is perfect. For some HR and recruiting pros, you may have the added challenge of recruiting diverse candidates to areas of the country that are. let's just call it WASPY.

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Six Important D&I Trends

ATD Human Capital

Diversity and inclusion (D&I) has to continue evolving and changing in response to changes in demographics, socioeconomics, and politics. D&I practitioners, talent professionals, and leaders need to stay current on trends that will likely have a pivotal impact on the workplace, and the practice of D&I. Here are six D&I trends that are becoming increasingly important: 1.

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Bringing a More Mindful State to the Work Environment: Corporate Yoga and Meditation

Everwise

You’ve probably noticed that over the past few years, the practice of yoga and meditation has quickly gained traction and interest. According to a recent Yoga In America report , “The number of American yoga practitioners has increased to over 36 million in 2016, up 76% from 20.4 million in 2012.” Additionally, “28% of all Americans have participated in a yoga class at some point in their lives.

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Being a Small Business Can Be a Big Recruiting Advamtage

Entrepreneur

Small companies can offer prospective employees important advantages they won't find at a larger organization.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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What Hard Skill Do Recent Graduates Lack More Than Any Other?

ATD Human Capital

No, it’s not data analysis, industry-specific software skills, or coding. According to PayScale’s 2016 Workforce-Skills Preparedness report , the most challenging hard skill to find among recent college graduates is writing proficiency. Per the report, 44 percent of managers ranked this skill among their most difficult to find, followed by public speaking at 39 percent.

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Please! No more Icebreakers: 5 Ways to Get a Group Connected Without Icebreakers

Conversation Matters

I read a New York Times article a few days ago praising the benefit of icebreakers, while acknowledging that they are embarrassing and we all groan when someone from the podium announces, in a cherry voice, “Get ready, because we’re going to do an icebreaker.” We’ve all be subjected to, “Two truths and a lie” or “What would you be if you were an animal?

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Culture, Brand, Engagement: How Benefits Support HR’s Three-Legged Stool

TalentCulture

You know the old three-legged stool metaphor: you can’t sit down if one of those legs is off. In HR, that means culture, brand and engagement. All three are closely, intrinsically related; even more so given the new world of work. In the Deloitte University Press’ Global Human Capital Trends 2015 report, the news shows palpable gaps between perceived weaknesses in all, and the capability to solve them.

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Opioid Addiction is Real

Laurie Ruettimann

My friend, Lars Schmidt , lost his brother to an opioid addiction. I always wonder — how does that happen? Where does that begin? If you’re middle-class and generally educated, how do things go wrong? Well, it goes wrong pretty easily. Or so I’m told. If you’re interested in learning more about opioid addiction — how you can help, how you can get yourself help, how you can get more information on what it’s doing to our society — check out Lars’s tr

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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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Namely Rated as Top Core HR Platform on TrustRadius

Namely

We’re excited to announce Namely has been named a top rated core HR solution for mid-sized companies in the TrustRadius 2016 Core HR Buyer’s Guide. “With the emergence of HR technology designed specifically for SMBs and the mid-market, buyers at these company sizes now have more choices than ever before to help them manage things like payroll, benefits, time, and performance,” said Emily Sue Tomac, TrustRadius Research Analyst and author of the guide.

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Should Companies Incentivize Alternative Transportation?

Workology

Issues concerning the mental and physical health of employees are constantly on the minds of human resource professionals. They are frequently working on ways to improve these things within the office as a means of building a healthy community and reducing the number of sick days, which helps both employees and the business. Among the list of potential health motivators is offering some sort of incentive for employees that get to work through active transportation.

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These EEOC wellness rules kick in Jan. 1: Are your plans ready?

HR Morning

Jan. 1, 2017 may still seem pretty far off, but now’s the time to make sure you’ll be in compliance with the EEOC’s new wellness rules that kick in on New Year’s Day. Here’s why. Health and wellness plans tend to go hand in hand. That means as you’re putting a bow on your health plan in preparation for open enrollment, it only makes sense to do the same for your wellness plan.

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Piece of Your Action

NoExcusesHR

Quick poll: how many of you have executives running around your organization getting into everyone else’s business? These same leaders are often focused on their own popularity instead of tackling the real issues facing organizations in a thoughtful, intentional way. …and how many of your other colleagues wish “ someone ” would do something about it?

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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 Keep Working Parents Working For You

TLNT: The Business of HR

Becoming a new mom or dad can present trials for both employees and employers. Working parents are looking for more work-life flexibility in order to continue working, but not completely sacrifice being a good parent. An August FlexJobs survey of 1,200 parents found 91% of working parents say having children living at home affects their interest in a flexible job.

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is your AOL or Hotmail address hurting your job search?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: Does it really matter which email provider you use to apply for jobs? I ask because I was reading an online discussion recently where people said anything other than Gmail makes a candidate look computer illiterate and/or less intelligent. Essentially, according to this discussion, AOL is for old people or people who can’t use a computer; Yahoo and Hotmail are slightly better, but not much; and Gmail is the provider of choice for intelligent candidates who are computer sav

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From collaboration to innovation - strengthening talent to thrive in retail

HR Zone

Development. Strengthening talent to thrive in retail.

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an employee walked away from me while I was trying to talk to him

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I manage a small staff of admins, which includes one technical support person. Yesterday our tech was doing some non-crucial updates to the phone system, which required him to check each phone in the office. When he got to the conference room, another employee was already in there taking a call on his cell phone. The tech proceeded to walk into the conference room anyway to check the handset in there.

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Trending Payroll Statistics

Staying up-to-date on the latest decisions and payroll statistics ensures businesses can remain compliant and efficient. B2B Reviews research compiled the latest data to help businesses stay on top of payroll in 2024 and prepare for the future.

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The “Liquid Leadership” That Change Management Demands

TLNT: The Business of HR

“Leading change is a critical business capability,” agree 95% of business leaders and others. Yet, says Tyler Durham, “Change is usually over-managed and under-led.”.

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It’s Never About Having the Best Product… or Is It?

WorqIQ

“It’s never about the best product, and always about the strategy”. Indeed, it’s always about searching for the best strategy to deliver a cohesive, well defined product. Well, while this is largely accepted, our work with some of the most celebrated companies in the world has uncovered that the opposite is also true. In other words, that it is always about searching for the best product to execute on a well-defined strategy.

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A More Human Workplace Makes For A More Involved Workforce

TLNT: The Business of HR

Recognize This! – The practices that make a workplace more human are also the ones that can position a company to successfully adapt to future change.

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Would You Like a Really Cool Job? Even If It Involves Trail Mix and No Showers?

Evil HR Lady

I like hiking as much as the next slightly overweight, middle-aged woman. That means, I like to ride the gondalbahn to the top of the mountain, and then walk around, taking in the lovely views. This job is not for me. Columbia is hiring two Directors of Toughness. You’ll hike, you’ll ski, you’ll sleep outside, and subsist on trail mix!

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Bridging the Gap: The Intersection of DEI Initiatives and Employee Benefits

Speaker: Jaye Johnson, CBP

Unlock the secrets to transforming your organization’s employee benefits into a strategic tool for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). During this informative session, we will discuss common pitfalls in traditional benefits and then delve into the essence of DEI in employee-centric benefit offerings. This involves not only defining DEI in the workplace but also understanding the pivotal role that employee benefits play in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.

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#OD – Nothing but pragmatic 

101 Half Connected Things

It was the CIPD OD Conference yesterday so I got to hang about with some OD types and talk. If you don’t know what OD is then I’m going to let you Google that all by yourself and then once you come up out of the rabbit hole with a big grin in two years we can chat. There were a few thoughts I had on the day… Organisational Development vs L&D was one of the discussions – as though it was a West Side Story ‘Jets and Sharks’ situation in some organisations.

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6 Skills Recent Graduates gain working in Insurance.

Corn on the Job

Gaining transferrable skills is one of the most important things a new graduate should look for in their first few jobs after graduation. Chances are the first job you take will not be your dream job. It may not even be in the industry you ultimately want to work. Like many things, ‘life is what you make of it’. Never is this quote truer than in the first few years after graduation.

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How ‘declined offer’ interviews can help sharpen your hiring process

HR Morning

You’ve slogged through dozens of resumes, set up and conducted multiple rounds of interviews and, finally, you’ve extended an offer to the perfect candidate. Except she decides to go with another company’s offer instead. . Most companies just face the music and let things lie there. But Ben Dattner, an organizational development consultant writing on the Harvard Business Review website , says you should be conducting “declined offer” interviews.

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