Tue.May 12, 2020

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Creating a High Trust Culture: Who is Responsible?

Culture University

Right now, organizational trust is being stretched to its limits, perhaps even more so than following the 2008 financial crisis. In addition to the massive disruptions across all societal institutions caused by the current pandemic, this crisis has brought even more attention to the critical importance of organizational trust as reported by SmartBrief here and here.

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After COVID Isolation: A Roadmap to Navigating the New Normal

LifeSpeak

By Health Psychologist, Nicole Loreto, PhD. Returning to the office? How are we going to live this new normal? There is no question that COVID-19 has affected our lives in a way like no other. How does one bounce back from a crisis that has affected everyone in the world and live this new normal? Change affects everyone differently, and there is no one formula or recipe that can get one back to the “normal” that existed before COVID-19, where we felt relatively safe and secure in going back to t

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How Mindfulness & Productivity Are Connected

Take It Personel-ly

The art of slowing down is picking up traction in workplaces across the country. While it may sound counterintuitive to start, studies show that practicing mindfulness will make you more productive. If your to-do list has you wondering when you’ll find time to breathe, then that’s likely the very first thing you need to do: […].

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Coping with Unexpected Staffing Changes: More From the Experts

Justworks

As COVID-19 continues to impact companies everywhere, many employers are wondering how they’ll take care of their teams. Given this uncertainty, Justworks partnered with customer Octave to host a webinar that aimed to help answer some of the small business community’s most pressing questions on coping with staffing changes. Together, Justworks’ HR Consultant Moses Balian and Octave’s Chief Clinical Officer Dr.

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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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Germany-based Zenjob Raises USD $30 Million For Its Job Board Marketplace Matching Students With Temp and Contract Jobs

WorkTech

Germany-based Zenjob raised USD $30 million for its job board marketplace that matches students with temporary and contract jobs. They told EU-startups that they plan to use the funds to expand further in Germany and then look to begin international expansion. They consider themselves a “digital staffing service” and claim to place more than 15,000 […].

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COVID-19 Business Recovery: Unify Human Resources Functions to Lower Costs 20%

SwipeClock

Human resources functions are critical for business recovery. HR is tasked with redesigning processes for safety and compliance. They must also lower overhead. For some companies, survival depends on it. How can Human Resources functions reduce labor costs? Let’s suppose you need to reduce expenses by 20%. You can’t move forward without bringing back the employees you furloughed.

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Webinar: Managing the Employee Experience While Returning to Work

DecisionWise

Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 Time: 3:00 pm Eastern / 12:00pm Pacific Presenters: Matt Wride, President; Dave Long, VP of Assessment Services; and Christian Nielson, VP of Consulting Services Cost: Free. As the world economy begins the process of reopening, the question arises: How can we strengthen the employee experience while simultaneously bringing back a significant part of the workforce?

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Managing Work Stress in a Changing World

Achievers

These last few months have shown us how quickly our world can change. The ability to be adaptable and flexible has taken on a new perspective. Information, plans, teams, and customers have shifted at a dizzying pace, accompanied by a higher level of fear and anxiety. Managing work stress is becoming a big priority for many. Most of us our working from home now, home schooling our younger children, monitoring online schooling for our older children, and living constantly with our immediate family

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Preparing Employees To Return To Work: A New Playbook | Perceptyx

Perceptyx

COVID-19 is not the first pandemic of the century … but it is the first one to require a new employee playbook. The COVID-19 pandemic is not the first viral pandemic in the 21st century; that distinction goes to the 2009–2010 H1N1 influenza pandemic. However, these two pandemics differ sharply. An H1N1 vaccine was approved in September 2009, five months after the first case was reported.

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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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Return to work: HR must prioritise mental health as lockdown eases

HR Zone

People Back to work: where’s your head at?

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Workhuman Launches Moodtracker™

WorkHuman

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., and DUBLIN – May 12, 2020 – Today, Workhuman ® , the world’s fastest-growing social recognition and continuous performance management platform, announced Moodtracker , its solution for helping businesses stay in tune with the voice of their employees and act accordingly, which is part of the Workhuman ® Cloud suite of human-centered products.

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Working From Home: Can You Give Me Some More Energy Please?

The HR Capitalist

We know that post-COVID, more work from home is reality. We'll still have offices, but it's going to be hard to get all the way back, right? How do we know that Jenny and Mike aren't feeling great and maybe aren't giving it everything they need to on a random Monday? . Simple! Emotional Recognition Software! One provider in this field has the following stats since call center reps went to mostly virtual work during COVID-19: --Average Customer Experience Scores have fallen by 4%.

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What is Certain During These Uncertain Times?

Julie Winkle Giulioni

I was speaking with a colleague recently who said, “If I hear or read ‘these uncertain times’ once more, I’m going to scream!” And now, everywhere I turn, I’m aware of these words as well – in the news, business articles, podcasts, and advertising. While there’s no argument that the uncertainty is real, perhaps it’s time to shift the focus of our attention and conversations to what is certain.

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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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Workhuman Mentioned in How Amazon Web Services is Supporting People and Organizations in Their Response to COVID-19

WorkHuman

Workhuman’s recent release of Thank You Healthcare was highlighted in a story about how organizations are using Amazon Web Services (AWS) in their responses to COVID-19. Click here to read more. .

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Employer Spotlight: Asana’s Kayla Vatalaro on Building and Leading Mission-Driven Teams

The Muse

Our Employer Spotlight Series features employer branding best practices in action. Check out these insights from a company that's totally crushing it. This month, we chatted with Kayla Vatalaro, Global Head of Talent at Asana.

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Business Lessons from the New Normal

Allegis Global Solutions

A couple of weeks ago – admittedly, a lifetime when it comes to content – analyst firm Forrester reported that nearly half of all US workers – approximately 42% – were afraid to go back to the workplace, a staggering spike from 29% in a similar survey conducted only two weeks prior. Of course, these workers were surveyed from March 17-19.

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A Greatness Undone

NoExcusesHR

faith and work and charity and healthy eating and being productive and working out and caring for everyone and reading and listening and learning and growing and mentoring and leading and pushing and resting and balancing and reaching out and always being there. Do you sometimes feel as if you've lost your greatness? As I think about all of the things I tell myself that I'm supposed to be and do and think.I wonder if mine has slipped away?

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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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how do I respond to colleagues who are jealous of my furlough?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m furloughed, along with about 98% of my organization (~35,000 people), the vast majority of them public-facing retail. When the corporate furloughs came, one of the “reassuring” points leadership widely circulated was that, at some compensation levels, with unemployment plus the federal stimulus and our company paying our insurance premiums, an employee stands to make more money while unemployed.

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How to engage remote employees with a virtual onboarding experience

Davis & Company

You are here Home RSS feed. How to engage remote employees with a virtual onboarding experience. Focus on making meaningful connections. After hiring a new employee, you want that person to feel confident and ready to make a contribution to your organization. An effective onboarding process will help him or her build the relationships needed to be successful and feel ready to jump in.

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Employee Engagement Best Practices for Highly Engaged Cultures

Quantum Workplace

Do you have an employee engagement program that isn’t really moving the needle on engagement? You’re not alone. Many organizations have recognized the importance of employee engagement but aren’t sure how to make meaningful progress. We surveyed hundreds of organizations about their strategies to find out what tools, tactics, and employee engagement best practices help them maintain their highly engaged cultures.

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Top 3 Takeaways from O365 for Internal Communications

Advanced Learning Institute

How many of us can say that they use Office 365 (or Microsoft 365, as it is now known ) now more than ever before? Communication and company culture are large factors in retaining and gaining engaged employees. With a greater emphasis on a remote workforce, you’ll need to consider how you will continue to improve employee engagement and create a unified workforce even when apart.

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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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PayActiv & Uber Rides for Essential Hourly Workers

Payactiv

Essential hourly workers' transportation needs are met during COVID 19. Come see how PayActiv and Uber make a difference! The post PayActiv & Uber Rides for Essential Hourly Workers appeared first on PayActiv.

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update: my boss makes me wear her clothes, eat her food, and say I’m grateful for my job

Ask a Manager

Remember the letter-writer whose boss made her wear the boss’s clothes, eat the boss’s food, and say she was grateful for her job ? Here’s the update. First of all, I want to thank you and your readers for all the wonderful advice. I’m fairly new to the professional workforce and that, coupled with ADHD and anxiety led to me believing this environment was normal and I was just a failure for being overwhelmed and stressed.

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Best Articles on COVID19 and The Future of Work (A Round-Up)

Remesh

Since COVID-19 fundamentally changed our work lives in late March, there has been an influx of content covering the topic. Although much of the content on the employee experience – from Zoom calls to town halls – has thoroughly explored the variations of this experience, a few pieces stood out.

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13 New Companies on The Muse You Need to Know About

The Muse

Read our career advice article, 13 New Companies on The Muse You Need to Know About.

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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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Workhuman Mentioned in Amazon’s Actions to Help Employees, Communities, and Customers Affected by COVID-19 Article

WorkHuman

Thank You Healthcare , pioneered by Workhuman and built on Amazon AWS, mentioned in Amazon’s Day One blog. Click here to read more. .

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New Resource: Career Site Playbook

Hireology

A strong career site is critical to the success of your hiring process. The most engaged job applicants take the time to research and apply to open roles via company career sites , rather than simply clicking “apply” on job boards. This is because motivated job seekers are eager to learn more about potential employers, the opportunity their open roles present and whether or not they’re truly a fit before applying.

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Here’s What It Takes to Be a Great Manager

The Muse

Read our career advice article, Here’s What It Takes to Be a Great Manager.

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