Fri.Sep 01, 2017

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3 Benefits All Generations Value in The Workplace

ClearCompany HRM

There are as many posts about generational differences in the workplace as there are 17-year-olds at Starbucks discussing Game of Thrones battle strategies (dragons? no-dragons?). Friends, if you don’t know, that number is pretty big. So, today I thought I would flip the script and talk about what workers of all generations actually value. Specifically, what benefits make all generations want to follow their own Jon Snow (CEO) into a battle with the White Walkers.

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Are Customers Always Right? Reasons to Stand by Your Employees

Hppy

One of the most common maxims heard in business is “The customer is always right.” The consensus seems to be that keeping customers happy is essential to maintaining your company reputation and attracting more business. Clients in all industries may be difficult and demanding because they feel privileged simply due to the fact that they’re spending money.

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Here’s What the Health Insurance Renewals Process Looks Like

Justworks

If your company provides health insurance plans to employees, or is considering offering it for the first time, you’ll have to become familiar with the annual renewals process. Health insurance renewals are a yearly occurrence in which companies adjust their rates and offerings and allow employers to select the best plans. The process includes insurance companies, employers, and employees at various stages.

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How to Effectively Tell Your Employer Brand Story

TalentCulture

As competition for top talent continues to heat up, here’s a recruitment strategy worth embracing—tapping into your company’s biggest assets, your employees. By now you’ve come to realize that for better (or for worse!), the people who work for your company double as corporate ambassadors. They’re “ the living, breathing embodiment of what you stand for as an employer ,” writes Adam Glassman, a recruitment strategies manager.

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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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21 Of the Worst Ways to Give ‘Constructive’ Feedback

TLNT: The Business of HR

If you’re like most managers — and most people in general — giving feedback is one of your least enjoyable experiences. It is also one of the weakest links between managers getting the output and outcomes they want and what they actually end up getting.

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All in! Diversity and inclusion programmes aren’t just for big businesses

HR Zone

Culture. Diversity programmes aren’t just for big companies.

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We Want Meaningful Work and a Meaningful Paycheck

TLNT: The Business of HR

I’m going to stop fighting. For years I’ve been fighting morons who claim that millennials would rather do “meaningful work” than making money. That is actually one big lie, I believe perpetuated by employers who don’t want to pay market wages! (Conspiracy Theory Alert!!!) Actually, it showed up on a bunch of studies that were poorly worded and confusing.

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Top Payroll Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

Ceridian

We all know that getting paid is awesome. But that wouldn’t be possible without the people who make it happen. Cue National Payroll Week (Sept. 4-8 in the U.S.), a campaign that celebrates payroll professionals. It highlights the crucial role they play in the oversight and accurate and timely payment of workers, particularly at a time when human capital management is evolving with greater use of technology.

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Cafe Classic: Reward Plan S.W.O.T. Analysis

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: In our efforts to make our reward plans more agile, more responsive, more strategic, we do well to study and draw lessons from our colleagues in the strategic planning field. One classic business strategy tool is the S.W.O.T. analysis. In this Classic post, we look at how this process could be applied to a review of our reward plans.

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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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Reschedule interview with candidates email

Workable

To make clear to candidates that you’re not canceling the interview, suggest a new date and time, if possible. If you don’t know when to reschedule the appointment to (e.g. the hiring manager who’ll conduct the interview is sick), let candidates know that you’ll get back to them as soon as possible. Note that it’s best to call, instead of email, candidates if you have to reschedule right before your appointment, so that you make sure they learn about the change promptly.

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How to decide when to make a technology decision and what level to invest in seven simple steps

HR Zone

Change. How to decide when to make a technology decision.

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Finance Assistant job description

Workable

Use this Finance Assistant job description template to attract junior candidates with financial and accounting skills. Customize this template with your specific job duties. Finance Assistant responsibilities include: Updating financial spreadsheets with daily transactions. Preparing balance sheets. Tracking and reconciling bank statements. The post Finance Assistant job description appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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PODCAST: #HRHappyHour 294 - Labor Day Special: Talking about Work

Steve Boese

HR Happy Hour 294 - Labor Day Special: Talking about Work. Hosts: Steve Boese , Trish McFarlane. Listen to the show HERE. This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, for a special Labor Day 2017 weekend show, Steve and Trish share some of their experiences of work, workplaces, bosses, and more. Bad jobs, great jobs, crazy jobs, great bosses, horrible bosses and more.

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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 Workplaces Do to Create and Sustain an Innovative Culture

HR C-Suite

Innovation is not a process that happens overnight, it takes time. Here is the list of five indicators you can use to bring innovation in your organization. Organizations in this era of modernization have to innovate themselves in every possible manner. However, it becomes difficult to follow the path of innovation sometimes. In reality, organizations […].

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The Gig Economy and the Importance of Effective Leadership

Select International

Since the seemingly overnight sensation of companies like Uber , people are talking about the “new” gig economy. Of course, we all know that the gig economy has always existed, but now, advancements in technology have allowed large organizations like Uber, TaskRabbit , Care.com , etc. to embrace freelance workers as their main source of “employees.” Now more than ever, people of all ages have the ability to go out on their own, decide when they work (and when they don’t), and decide how much mon

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Keep Health Care Costs Down Regardless of Looming Legislation

Evil HR Lady

More than half of small business owners identified health care costs as a “critical issue,” according to a report from the NFIB Research Foundation. And business owners are in an uneasy state because health laws could change at any time. Is there anything you can do to help keep health care costs under control, regardless of what goes down in Washington, D.C.?

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Dream Jobs Are A Lie!

The Tim Sackett Project

I hate that we are meant to feel that we should have our dream job. It’s drilled into our society at nausea from mass media, our celebrities, our teachers and spiritual leaders. It’s all basically complete b t, but we eat it up like it came directly from G*d. It didn’t. Whichever G*d you believe in, she/he never said ‘Thou shalt have your dream job’, never.

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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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Can You Ever Legally Deduct Pay from an Exempt Employee?

Evil HR Lady

If there’s one thing I’ve tried to beat into your brains, it’s that you can’t deduct pay from an exempt employee’s paycheck, no matter how much you want to. Well, there are a few exceptions, but they really are a few, and no one is every going to complain about getting too much money. Anyway, to read about these exceptions, click here: When Can You Legally Deduct Exempt Employee Pay?

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How to Dig Into Compensation Analytics to Answer Specific Questions

Compensation Today

This is a lesson from our forthcoming ecourse on compensation analytics, and builds on our previous post on five comp analytics to track. Be on the lookout for the course launch, which includes helpful examples and insightful exercises — coming soon! In the last lesson, we overviewed five compensation analytics that help track whether your organization is moving in the direction you’re targeting.

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New Survey Finds Only 32% of Employers Offer Paid Family Leave

HR Daily Advisor

Does your company offer paid leave for the birth or adoption of an employee’s child? If so, you’re among the 32% of employers who say they offer this benefit, according to a new survey released by Standard Insurance Company (The Standard)—in conjunction with the Disability Management Employer Coalition (DMEC). . Of the 320 employers surveyed, 32% currently offer paid family leave (PFL) programs, 64% of which include bonding time with a new child.

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The Department of Labor Announces Actions in Response to Hurricane Harvey

Berkshire Associates

The Department of Labor has announced several actions it is taking in light of the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey, including exemption and waivers of some provisions of Affirmative Action regulations for contracts entered into to provide Hurricane Harvey relief.

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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 Recruit Generation Z Graduates

ADP

In 2017, organizations will be faced with the challege of recruiting graduates from Generation Z.

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HR Expert: Jacqui Vader, Senior Organizational Development Consultant

CultureAmp

With a geography major, Jacqui Vader - yes, she’s heard all the Darth-related jokes - thought she was destined to be an urban planner, until one day someone mentioned she might be good in HR.

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Is your Physical Work Environment hurting employees?

Jason Lauritsen

Yesterday, I spent some time at the WELCOA Annual Summit. If you aren’t familiar with the work of WELCOA , you should be. They are one of the leading voices in corporate wellness in the world and they are boldy leading the practice of workplace wellness into the future. One look at the Summit agenda will reinforce this. Topics included finding purpose, inclusion, emotional brain training, gratitude, neuroplasticity, and love.

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5 Tips to Ensure Your Employees Are Protected

Effortless HR

Businesses, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations help people live their lives more easily. Grocery stores stock thousands of fresh foods, drinks, and household supplies. Governments’ departments of human services provide people with financial assistance, helping them stay alive. St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital provides life-saving treatments for kids in need whose families can’t afford treatment.

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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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U.S. Federal Court Strikes Down Obama-Era Overtime Rule

Paychex

A federal court in Texas struck down an Obama-era rule that would have expanded overtime pay eligibility to as many as 4.2 million workers, according to the U.S. DOL. Read on to learn what this means for businesses.

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6 Chances to Meet the Namely Community

Namely

At Namely, we believe the future of HR is open source. We think there’s a certain magic to HR professionals coming together to share their learnings with one another. We see it happen all the time within the Namely community, and we’re excited to bring this experience to a number of cities this fall. Each of our upcoming events offers insight into the challenges faced by today’s HR professionals—from talent management to scaling a business.

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Watch webinar on demand: The business case for well-being

Limeade

Many people think investments in employee wellness and well-being don’t show a clear ROI. We’re not one of them. In this 30-minute webinar (& 30-min Q&A), Limeade chief people officer Dr. Laura Hamill dives into why great companies focus on well-being and employee engagement. Takeaway: Successful programs foster participation and help people build habits that improve their well-being.