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If this is the future of robotics, then count me in

cipHR

BBC2’s recent documentary ‘Six Robots & Us’ gives us a tantalising glimpse into how robots could change workplaces – for the better. The robots that most caught my attention during the festive period weren’t BB-8, C-3PO and R2-D2 in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but Kaspar, Fabio, TutorBot and CareBot in BBC2’s two-part documentary Six Robots & Us.

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Resolutions Every Manager Should Make for 2018

Cornerstone On Demand

This article was originally published under Jeff Miller's column “The Science of Workplace Motivation" on Inc.com. I normally don't like the idea of New Year's resolutions because setting or modifying goals shouldn't be something that happens once a year—it should be an ongoing, iterative effort. In fact, treating resolutions like one-and-done projects is probably why 80 percent of them fail by February.

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Why HR Technology Needs to Integrate With Existing Behaviors

Reflektive

The best HR software understands users in their context and is designed to fit into their daily lives. Whether that’s embedding solutions that work with their current tools, or onboarding users to them discover new product features, the key is to create enjoyable, easy-to-use experiences. This ensures HR leaders get the most value from product solutions. .

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Recruiting Research: 3 Key Points in 3 Minutes [Video]

Lighthouse

Recently we at Lighthouse have published two separate pieces focusing on some groundbreaking video recruiting research we performed. Those items can be accessed below, but we also wanted to take it a step further and explore the concepts from the research in video format. The interview below is just three minutes long and is the first of three conversations focusing on how employers can make better use of video in attracting and engaging candidates for their open positions.

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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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What is an EAP? How You Can Improve Employee Mental Health at Work

Justworks

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, about 48.3 million adults in the U.S. will experience mental illness in a given year. Based on that statistic, mental health issues are likely to touch you or someone you know. As an employer who cares about your employees’ mental health and wellbeing, you may want to consider offering access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

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Tips for Hiring a Diverse Development Team

Hppy

There’s no denying that STEM fields have a problem with diversity. Despite a focus on the issue, and overwhelming evidence that diversity helps companies grow and retain the best talent, very little progress has been made overall. In 2014, analysis of large companies like Yahoo, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft showed that only 5% of these companies’ workforce was made up of African-American and Hispanic workers, and women make up around 36% of the national computing workforce and 15-17% at tech

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Event Activities at UK HR Directors Summit in Birmingham, February 6-7, 2018

Achievers

The latest report from Gallup states that just 1 in 10 UK and EU workers are actively engaged and with UK productivity seeing further falls during 2017, according to the Office for National Statistics – it is no surprise that the UK Government recognizes that the country has an employee productivity problem. The UK’s newly announced Industrial Strategy is based on “Five Foundations of Productivity”, one of these Foundations being ‘People’.

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Minimum Wage by State and 2018 Increases

Paycor

For many medium-to-small sized organizations, managing the myriad of federal compliance regulations is a top challenge. In fact, a recent Paycor survey found that 42% of organizations have negative feelings about their compliance management practices. In most instances, compliance management falls squarely on HR’s shoulders, and with limited resources and understaffed departments, keeping up with the many changes that continue to impact the current landscape is a tall task.

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#WorkTrends Recap: Pacing for Growth

TalentCulture

What’s your big plan for your business or team in 2018? We all want to stretch, improve and grow, but […]. The post #WorkTrends Recap: Pacing for Growth appeared first on TalentCulture.

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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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8 Reasons Why You Need a Great Internal Communications Plan

Staffbase

As workforces become more dispersed and mobile, effective communication can be a real challenge. Here are eight reasons why meeting that challenge is more important than ever, as well as some excellent ideas for an initiating effective internal communications plan.

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Can HR Be Trusted to Lockdown Vulnerability and Secrets From the Employee Base?

The HR Capitalist

At the end of the day, employees have to trust any HR pro enough to come forward and share bad stuff with said HR pro. What type of bad stuff? What type of bad stuff do your employees have? Hate. Addiction. Family Dysfunction. Ambition. Concerns about others. Just to name a few. All these things and more are filed under topics that employees would love to talk to someone about.

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6 Strategies for Effective Performance Management

HR Daily Advisor

A large part of working in Human Resources (HR) is regulating performance management. Creating a space where you and your employees can produce excellent work and perform to the best of your abilities is no easy task, but with the right strategies, you can make it work. Of course, effective performance management is more than just creating a work environment that works: Effective performance management is about leadership, interpersonal relationships, constructive feedback, and teamwork.

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What Is Full Life Cycle Recruiting?

TalentLyft

Full Life Cycle Recruiting is a term used for a complete process of recruitment. Full Life Cycle Recruiting encompasses 6 main recruiting stages: preparing, sourcing, screening, selecting, hiring and onboarding. Read More.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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How Tech Can Help You Put the Brakes On Workplace Sexual Harassment

TLNT: The Business of HR

Inappropriate jokes. Slurs. Unwanted physical contact. When workplace harassment takes these forms, it’s easy to pinpoint. But its official definition by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission encompasses other, less obvious forms, including wearing offensive clothing and sharing emails or texts that make others uncomfortable.

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Flowers 'AND' Weeds

NoExcusesHR

I put a lot of energy into (trying) to be a positive person. I'm talking.fired-up, today is awesome, I love everybody and everything.kind of positive. It's not fake, or insincere. It's who I am. Being Human Despite my commitment to being Mr. Positivity, I often do battle with an old nemesis when it comes to maintaining that positive focus: My brain.

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Customer Spotlight: Open Listings’ Secrets to Hiring Success

Spark Hire

As a member of the sales team, I’d pitched the following story countless times: “Your hiring process looks something like this: you put out a job ad and reviewed resumes of applicants. You get on a phone screen with an applicant. [Incorporate shameless plug for our interview scheduling tool here.] About 2 minutes into your conversation, you know this candidate isn’t right for your organization, but you can’t let the applicant know you’ve already reached your decision.

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DOL Announces New Test For Paying Interns

TLNT: The Business of HR

Last week the U.S. Department of Labor announced it was changing its test for whether a company needs to pay its interns.

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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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Most-read HRZone articles of 2017

HR Zone

Future. Most-read HRZone articles of 2017.

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Ep 122 – How Manager Onboarding Changes Everything

Workology

Episode 122: Don’t Forget About Onboarding Managers, Not Just Employees (@sharlyn_lauby) Research shows that new hires are more likely to leave companies within the first 18 months of their employment. The costs of finding, attracting, hiring, onboarding and training new employees is expensive and as the qualified talent pool shrinks, companies are spending more time, […] Source Episode 122: Don’t Forget About Onboarding Managers, Not Just Employees (@sharlyn_lauby) Research shows th

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The Situation Room: Active Shooter – What it Means In The Workplace

HR C-Suite

The day in the workplace started out normal enough. You hear the hum of office noise. People are talking on phones. Hallway conversations involve the results of the game the night before, the latest Hollywood gossip, laughter. The copier machine making its usual printing sounds. You can hear typing sounds on computer keyboards, and office […].

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Employment laws to watch in 2018

Insperity

Employment laws continue to evolve, and 2018 will usher in some big changes in two of our most populous states, California and New York. The HR world is abuzz with all the implications of implementing New York state’s paid family leave legislation and California’s ban-the-box law, both of which went into effect January 2018. If past trends are any indication, these new laws will likely spread to other parts of the country soon, so it’s good to be aware of the changes because you may see them soo

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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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Why Mergers and Acquisitions Fail (And How to Avoid It)

Quantum Workplace

Are you ready, HR? We’re talking mergers and acquisitions. After a busy 2016 and 2017 in the M&A world, 2018 has already been predicted to increase the trend line. According to a recent M&A study by Deloitte, 35% of respondents expect deal activity to increase, and 63% expect deal size to increase.

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Tips for Successful Video Interviews

EasyHire

The modern era is a time where technology plays a vital role in everyday’s tasks. Everyday something new is invented to make the living of the common people easier & comfortable. In the earlier phase, people have to travel miles for an interview but these days, everything is done online. Now you can have online video interviews, which save the time of both the recruiter as well as of the volunteer.

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my coworker screamed at me for calling my cat “my baby,” checking in about a job post-holidays, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My coworker screamed at me for calling my cat “my baby” I am a woman in my early thirties and my partner and I are childless by choice. We do, however, have a three-year-old cat we love very much. Today at work while discussing plans for after work, I said that I had to swing by the pet store and pick up some more wet food because I can’t have my baby going hungry!

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Are You In Danger of Becoming A Micromanager?

TLNT: The Business of HR

There’s so much talk about the difference between leaders and bosses, but the question in itself is flawed – it assumes that everyone in a management role falls into the same bucket. Fundamentally, the two concepts are different. Anyone, in any role, at any level in the organizational chart can be a leader, regardless of if they have people reporting to them or not.

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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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update: should I put fanfiction on my resume?

Ask a Manager

Remember the letter-writer in 2016 asking if he should put fanfiction on his resume ? Here’s the update. I didn’t end up putting the fanfiction on my resume. I mentioned in the comments that my mom thought that I should include my fanfiction. I didn’t just want to listen to my mom because she’s my mom. She’s also a very well respected business woman.

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Four ways to motivate your multi-generational team

Ceridian

The modern workforce comprises several generational groups, with Gen Z now joining the ranks. Business leaders can be challenged to keep employees engaged – with each other, with their teams, and with the company itself. Backgrounds are different. Communication styles are different. And the friction can increase when work patterns bring together employees of differing ages in constantly changing teams.

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The Value of Learning and Development in Small Business

Acacia HR Solutions

When interviewing candidates for startup or small business roles, the most common question that comes up centers around the stability of the business. For some this is a very easy question to answer. They are well funded, turning a profit and being smart about how they grow mitigating the risk of future downturns creating the. The post The Value of Learning and Development in Small Business appeared first on Acacia HR Solutions.