Fri.Oct 18, 2019

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Stay away from my emails

HRGem

I run a lot of wellbeing workshops and manager training. In most sessions, the subject of email use will surface at some point. Often, someone will suggest that organisations should prevent email from being sent outside of office hours.

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Cafe Classic: Promotable But Unworthy of the Pay

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: I give you Jim Brennan's Classic post on the enduring pay bias by which we (and the leaders we serve) undervalue and therefore underpay internal candidates. . Relative pay bias dominates the compensation field. Inferences made from comparative relationships overwhelm the minds of practitioners and cause them to make rather irrational decisions on matters of great import.

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Five tips for dealing with an inconsiderate coworker

Workplace Diva

Do you work with someone who is highly inconsiderate, and it's driving you crazy? We have all worked alongside the coworkers who -- to put it mildly -- don't seem to give a rat's ass about their coworkers as they go about the work day. The question is, what can you do about it? When a coworker leaves you high and dry Consider a letter to Miss Manners about the coworker who always hogs the microwave during the lunch rush: Our office has one microwave.

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How HR Can Help Organizations Handle the Unthinkable

TalentCulture

A natural disaster. An active shooter. A turbulent political situation in a foreign country where your organization does business. No crisis is exactly alike, but leadership is always crucial to guiding an organization through the unthinkable or unimaginable. So how can we prepare for the unknown? This week we speak with Eric McNulty, co-author of “You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When It Matters Most,” on the steps we can take to help […].

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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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Sirenum Secures First External Funding Round

Sirenum

Dynamic Workforce Management technology leader announces injection of funding to drive growth into new geographies and industries along with improvement and expansion of its product suite LONDON, UK, 18 October 2019–Sirenum, the leading UK-based provider of technology solutions for innovative temporary staffing agencies, is proud to announce its first round of outside investment, led by [.].

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Enhance the Career Experience with eCards

Engage2Excel

It’s officially the time of year where “Hocus Pocus” seems to play on a loop 24/7. This iconic film sets the tone for the beginning of the holiday season and offers some delightful quips and quotes from the Sanderson sisters. One quote that might speak to some employees is Winifred Sanderson jeering, “Oh look, another glorious morning. Makes me sick!”.

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5 Things Employers Should Know About Negotiating Severance

Intoo USA

While companies are not required by federal law to provide severance pay, offering a severance package is one way to better ensure an amicable split with departing employees. Severances packages generally include a continuation of pay for a period of time after employment ends. Typical packages may also include a continuation of health benefits, expedited vesting for stock options, and non-monetary benefits, including outplacement services.

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5 Perks To Boost Employee Engagement and Morale

Engagedly

Morale and employee engagement go hand in hand. If employee morale is high, then you can assume that employee engagement is going to be high as well. But consequently, when morale is low, employee engagement is impacted as […].

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Standing Ovation: Recognizing Exceptional Employees | Matt Wrona

WEX Inc.

Employee Recognition Program. Benefitexpress is proud to be a company that honors exceptional performance. So, we decided to create the Standing Ovation Award - an award that's given to several employees each quarter to honor and recognize their efforts of going above and beyond to fulfill our Community Pillars. Nominations are submitted by fellow peers, and are tallied, read and carefully considered before being awarded at our company-wide 'Town Hall' meetings each quarter.

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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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Best Practices for Building Relationships with the People You Don’t Hire

SHRM Resources

?A job candidate you don't hire today may still be a viable—or even a top—candidate tomorrow. Savvy HR pros know this, but they still may not stay in touch with these candidates who don't get interviews or job offers."Today's candidate that you turn down may be tomorrow's candidate or maybe tomorrow's client or some other connection," said Jay Meschke, president of CBIZ Talent & Compensation Solutions, an executive recruiting and consulting firm based in Kansas City, Mo.

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Mastering the End-to-End AP Process with Automation

SutiHR

Managing accounts payable process requires you to understand the end-to-end process clearly. Every AP process includes four steps – invoice capture, invoice approval, payment authorization, and execution. Manually managing these steps would result in errors, limits visibility into invoice payments, and gives you no visibility into cash-flow. How manual processes limits visibility?

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Grow as you go with a mobile app that keeps your people connected

Bob

Flexibility has resurged as a top job perk that allows employees to achieve the ever-so coveted work-life balance they so deserve, while allowing employers to brand themselves as understanding and compassionate towards time needed to be spent out of the office. Flexibility and an “on-the-go” way of working have helped the modern workforce reprioritize; we’ve decided to embrace working from different locations and outside of standard office hours for reasons that include pursuing a better work-li

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Employer Spotlight: Sally Bolig on Yotpo's Culture Of Feedback and Keeping it Real

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 Sally Bolig, Head of Talent Acquisition at Yotpo.

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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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What dates to know - open enrollment 2020

PeopleKeep

It’s that time of year again. Open enrollment for most states is starting soon and in some states it’s already begun. You may be wondering why open enrollment matters and which deadlines apply to you. Open enrollment is important because it’s the only time consumers can sign up for individual health insurance without experiencing a qualifying life event.

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[NEW!!] Discover Your Team's Culture

Human Workplaces

NEW! We have developed an awesome workshop for individual teams to help them analyze and discuss workplace culture at the team level. In our work with organizations, we have seen how culture patterns that lie just below the surface can cause friction and mess with success. We love to tackle those issues from the outside in (that’s the full culture assessment and action plan that we do in our Culture Design project), but we realized that it can be just as effective to start working on it from the

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15 Employee Feedback Best Practices for Managers

Semos Cloud

Category. All. 15 Employee Feedback Best Practices for Managers . Employee feedback is crucial for employee motivation, engagement and productivity. Giving feedback for employees’ work is not an option anymore. It is something that employees expect from their leaders. October 18, 2019. By Kristina Martic. Employee feedback is crucial for employee motivation, engagement and productivity.

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Why You Should Let Your Employees Work from Home

HRIS Payroll Software

Working remotely is quickly becoming a more common perk of employment. Many employees request that at least some, if not all, of their work be remote as part of their contract. But it’s not just the employees that benefit from working at home. There are a lot of advantages for employers, too. Communications Technology Makes it Easier than Ever. Now that most communication is done via e-mail or over the phone, it’s easier than ever before for employees to stay in touch with coworkers and quickly

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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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open thread – October 18-19, 2019

Ask a Manager

It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please do not repost it here, as it may be in my queue to answer.

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Why Your Content Isn’t Driving the Results You Want

Aberdeen HCM Essentials

Content has become the foundation for so many of your most critical marketing tasks. If it’s not effective enough, things like demand generation, mid-funnel engagement , account-based marketing, and top-of-funnel lead generation will suffer. But consistently creating quality content for every stage of the buyer’s journey is easier said than done—and there’s new research that shows just how difficult it can be.

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How Leadership Is The Key To Your Franchise's Success

Forbes Coaches Council

It is imperative that leadership is not addressed as an afterthought but as a foundational component of your business strategy.

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Work-Life Balance: Top Tips to Unwinding After a Long Day at Work

Take It Personel-ly

After countless hours of working in the office, you’re probably exhausted by the end of the day. While you may be looking forward to driving home and plopping onto your sofa for the rest of the night, it’s important that you learn to take time for yourself in various ways. Unwinding after work doesn’t have […].

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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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Is Your Payroll Processing Provider Accurate?

Asure Software

In light of another publicized incident of duplicate payroll deposits into employee accounts, the question arises again: is your payroll… The post Is Your Payroll Processing Provider Accurate? appeared first on Asure Software.

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Should You Let Your Employees Work From Home?

New to HR

On the face of it, letting your employees work from home might not seem like the best idea. You might have worries that they’ll be distracted, that the workflow and productivity will suffer and they won’t take things seriously. However, The post Should You Let Your Employees Work From Home? appeared first on New To HR.

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Getting Uncle Sam Off Your Back: How to Deal With Your Tax Debt

Take It Personel-ly

Tax debt isn’t fun. It’s stressful and can be a big reason why you can’t sleep at night. It may be of some consolation to know that you’re not alone. In 2009, over 8 million Americans owed more than $83 billion to the IRS in back taxes. That number has stayed steady in the years since. There […].

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The power of a professional thank-you note

Business Management Daily

If the last time you remember penning an actual thank-you note was at age 10 when your mother insisted you couldn’t spend the birthday money Aunt Helen sent until you wrote one, you’re missing out on a simple way to connect with others—and enhance your own life. “Taking the time to be grateful to someone and to express that gratitude literally changes your brain chemistry when practiced consistently,” says Patti DeNucci, author of The Intentional Networker.

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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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6 Ingenious Reasons Business Professional Should Get a TOGAF Certification

Take It Personel-ly

Have you or anyone in your company ever worked with someone with a TOGAF certification? If not, it should be the next thing you do because TOGAF certification means you are working with a top-tiered IT architect. An IT architect uses The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). The architect uses TOGAF for their planning, designing, and development […].

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Make Work Better for Recruiters, by Helping Them Work Better

SHRM Resources

?Talent acquisition is evolving, responding to the forces of economic changes, new technologies and innovative practices.SHRM Online recently spoke with Daniel Chait, the CEO and co-founder of Greenhouse, one of the fastest-growing recruiting software providers. Chait discussed the importance of streamlining the recruiter experience, how hiring will change in the next recession and what recruiters need to learn to stay relevant.SHRM Online: "Employee experience" is t.

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Four Lessons In Business Every New Entrepreneur Should Know

Forbes Coaches Council

Some lessons in business we learn in the classroom or from a mentor. Here are those you learn the hard way.