Tue.Jul 21, 2020

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Contact Tracing for #COVID19: What HR Needs to Know

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. Kronos and Ultimate Software have announced the formation of the Equity at Work Council (EWC) , a group of innovators and practitioners working together to understand diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

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Tips on How to Improve Your Office

Take It Personel-ly

Many companies are realizing the importance of physical office spaces more so than ever before. The impact that physical premises can have on a business, employee productivity and employee satisfaction are factors that are being taken into consideration during physical space planning. Companies are looking to create more aesthetically appealing areas to conduct their businesses. […].

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Reinvention and the Road Ahead: Healthcare Hiring

Sterling Check

As a result of COVID-19 , the healthcare industry, and indeed the world around us, have changed significantly. The way we live and work is drastically different than it was just a few months ago. Sterling Healthcare’s Vice President of Client Success, Jenn Tomassi, and her team have talked with many clients and industry leaders about how healthcare talent management has changed, adapted and been reinvented since March.

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Infographic: 5 Ways to Engage Remote Workers

DecisionWise

Download the PDF for the infographic, “5 Ways to Engage Remote Workers” While working remotely can be a challenge, here’s how to make it a positive experience for your employees. 1. Create a Sense of Normalcy. When our world turns upside down, sometimes we instinctively abandon anything that resembles the way we’ve been DOING things. If you actively resist this tendency, your people will be better for it.

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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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Performance Management Programs for Different Workforces

Reflektive

The events of 2020 have had a profound impact on how businesses operate. Specifically, companies have had to make major decisions on where and how employees work. Some firms have decided to keep employees at headquarters (HQ). Others have allowed workers to be remote while maintaining a HQ presence. And still other organizations have decided that their workforce should be entirely off-premises.

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The Future of Work: 5 Post-Pandemic Workforce Strategy Shifts

Allegis Global Solutions

As companies begin to move past the initial layoffs, lost business, and dislocation that came with the outset of the pandemic, they’re also wondering what’s next.

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3 Ways You Can Extend the Work Lifecycle of Older Employees

SHRM

One of the biggest biases we have as leaders is ageism. If you’re 35 years old and running a department and you are looking to fill a position on your team that will be your righthand person, the last thing you’re looking for is a 55-year-old to fill that spot! That’s just me being real for a second. You and I both know that a 35-year-old hiring manager is looking for a 25 – 28 year old to fill that spot.

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5 shifts to build workforce resilience

HRExecutive

The need to build organizational and workforce resilience has been on the C-suite’s radar for years. In fact, words like “ agility ” and “adaptability” have been used so often in board rooms and town hall meetings that they have almost become meaningless–buzz words that garner more discussion than action. The dialogue, while well-intended, has failed to translate into the productivity gains organizations expected.

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my employee thinks coronavirus is a hoax

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: One of my employees has been vocal about the coronavirus being a hoax. I had to have a talk with him during our last few days in the office at the end of March because he was openly criticizing and mocking coworkers for “being afraid of the flu” and practicing social distancing. While the rest of us isolated and worked at home, he went on two different vacations out of the state and did not isolate upon returning as required.

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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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How to nurture a company culture that embraces creativity and innovation

HR Zone

Culture How to nurture a creative culture.

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HRE’s number of the day: time wasted on HR tasks

HRExecutive

40 million: the number of hours employees waste each month completing HR-related tasks. Employees not only hate doing tasks like reading benefits information or submitting PTO requests and expense reports, they waste hours of time on such tasks, according to data from Topia, an HR tech company. The time employees waste on completing HR-related tasks adds up to 40 million hours each month and about $8.15 billion in lost productivity across large companies in the United States and the United Kingd

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10 Common IT Interview Questions and How to Answer Them

The Muse

Here are common non-technical interview questions to prepare for before your next IT interview—plus example answers!

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70 Best Compliments For Coworkers

Vantage Circle

Do you compliment your coworkers for their good job? Or, when you are in a team, do you recognize your coworker’s efforts? If you do, then how often? We invest most of our time and energy at work, yet more often we treat each other like outsiders. And when it comes to verbal compliments, most of us lack in that effort, even though we know that it doesn’t cost us any money.

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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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my company has strict language protocols that my coworker won’t follow

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work for a company that produces highly specialized products to very exacting standards. Our work is extremely high-stakes and errors could be extraordinarily costly for our clients in terms of money and even human lives. Although my specific department is not directly involved in any of that work, the company still expects us to adhere to the same language and security protocols as those in line with production.

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Onboarding remote employees: how to get it right

Insperity

If your company is embracing work-from-home options for your team, you may find yourself needing some sensible strategies for new staff onboarding – namely, a process for onboarding remote employees. While it takes a bit of extra effort and creativity, onboarding remote employees doesn’t have to be as difficult as it may sound. After all, plenty of all-remote companies have been making employees feel welcome and included from a distance for several years.

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Trim Your Grocery Bill by Using a Coupon Database and These Other Savings Hacks

Take It Personel-ly

The average US household will spend thousands of dollars on groceries this year. That number will continue to trickle up on the back of inflation. If you’re seeing your grocery bills rise beyond what you can handle, the good news is that there are levers you can pull to get your food expenses in check. From understanding […].

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Leading While Black: Leadership During The Racial Injustice Awakening

Forbes Coaches Council

I choose in this moment to set an example, help others develop and continue to speak up for what I believe in order to support the equality and freedoms all humans have a right to experience.

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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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How to Prepare for a Background Check During COVID-19

Accurate Background

As businesses begin to reopen, companies will start to hire. With more than 40 million unemployed in the United States as a result of the COVID pandemic , many people are applying for jobs, perhaps for the first time in a long time. In that situation, it might come as a shock when their prospective employer performs a pre-employment background check.

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Leadership Coaching Has Evolved: Is Your Organization Keeping Up?

Forbes Coaches Council

Leadership coaching has evolved as a way to develop high-potential talent, ease the transition of a new leader and even provide a much-sought-after perk to highly valued employees.

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A Kaizen Approach to L&D in 2020

Sirenum

The year 2020 will not be an easy one for any of us to forget. We’re just over halfway through, and it feels like more has happened in the last 6 months than the last 10 years. This year is being considered by many as the year the earth stood still. Holidays, events, social plans [.]. The post A Kaizen Approach to L&D in 2020 appeared first on Sirenum.

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Berkshire Hires Thomas Carnahan, Ph.D as Pay Equity Manager

Berkshire Associates

Berkshire is pleased to announce the appointment of Thomas Carnahan, Ph.D as our Pay Equity Manager. With more than 15 years of experience in r esearch methodology, data analysis, and HR process development, Thomas brings to Berkshire advanced-level data capabilities, and an extensive background that will serve to enhance our pay equity solutions.

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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 Look and Feel More Confident

Take It Personel-ly

Did you know that people who are truly confident tend to exhibit more signs of success in life and business? The reason why is obvious — people who are confident are more likely to try new things and push themselves further because they believe their efforts will have a positive outcome. This concept, known as […].

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Spain-based Payflow Raises USD $1.84 Million for Its On-Demand Pay App

WorkTech

Barcelona-based Payflow is the latest on-demand pay app to join the increasingly crowded tech category. Source: Barcelona-based Payflow raises €1.6 million to provide financial wellbeing and to disrupt payroll […]. The post Spain-based Payflow Raises USD $1.84 Million for Its On-Demand Pay App appeared first on HRWins by LAROCQUE, LLC.

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New York Leads in COVID-19 Problems and Solutions

Sterling Check

The coronavirus had the cataclysmic effect of literally driving people apart, emptying out office buildings, restaurants, and any place that people used to congregate. But at the same time, it’s had a unifying effect, reminding us just how interdependent we all are, globally and locally. In that spirit, on June 26, I participated in an online panel discussion assembled by architectural design firm CannonDesign entitled, “ Round 2: New York, New Perspective, Making Way for a New Reali

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Gem Raises $37 Million Series B for Candidate Sourcing and CRM

WorkTech

Gem announced a $37 million Series B for it’s app that includes candidate sourcing, CRM, and in-app analytics. They join a crowded market of incumbent and emerging leaders. It’s an […]. The post Gem Raises $37 Million Series B for Candidate Sourcing and CRM appeared first on HRWins by LAROCQUE, LLC.

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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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Investing in the Most Important Things in Life, a Career Success Story

GetFive

To get in shape, it can help your efforts to hire a personal trainer. When you’re a home buyer, you hire a real estate professional to find your dream home. When your child wants to get into the best colleges, you send him or her to a tutor to prepare for the SATs or ACTs. You work with experts for the most important things in life, so it makes sense to work with a career coach when you’re looking for a new job.

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Sora Raises $5.3 Million and Becomes the First Mover in Low-code No-code Solutions for HR

WorkTech

Sora announced a $5.3 million initial funding round for its low-code/no-code solution for HR. Low-code/No-code solutions give businesses the ability to develop automated workflows using pre-packaged blocks of code that […]. The post Sora Raises $5.3 Million and Becomes the First Mover in Low-code No-code Solutions for HR appeared first on HRWins by LAROCQUE, LLC.

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3 Guidelines to Help HR Leaders Rethink Diversity in the Workplace

Fond

The importance of diversity in the workplace isn’t news — with decades of supporting evidence, today’s HR leaders are well aware that this issue is important and has real returns for companies that are able to deliver effective solutions. However, that’s an accomplishment most organizations are yet to meet. . Over the past couple months, the Black Lives Matter movement has shed light and sparked discussions around the pervasive discrimination experienced by BIPOC in almost all aspects of life, w