Wed.May 06, 2020

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Why SMBs Should Offer Outplacement

GetFive

Hey, HR pros in small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs): Does your company offer outplacement services? No? We’re respectfully going to say that’s a mistake, but an all-too-common one. There’s a common misconception that outplacement services are for large companies laying off hundreds, if not thousands, of workers. And that’s true; it’s vital for a company laying off a wide swath of the workforce provide outplacement and career transition services to those employee

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Termination Letter: What is it and how do I write one?

BerniePortal

Making a decision to terminate an employee is stressful for all parties involved, but as an employer, it's a necessary part of business.

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A Perfect Storm: The Macro Forces Impacting Global Companies

Workday

In business, everything changes, everything evolves—yet nothing can compare to the levels of disruption and uncertainty leaders are facing in 2020. Even before the coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) pandemic, a variety of political, economic, social, environmental, and technological factors were percolating, creating a perfect storm for disruption. These macro-forces continue to challenge the ways organizations think about doing business, raising many questions about what the new normal will look like whe

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Returning to Work: Rehiring Employees After COVID-19 and the Impact on ACA Compliance

ACA Times

4 minute read: As states begin to relax their stay at home orders and businesses look to reopen post COVID-19 Pandemic, Employers should start thinking about how bringing back furloughed or temporarily laid off employees affects their ongoing ACA compliance obligations. As a reminder to employers in conjunction with the Employer Shared Responsibility Payment (ESRP), the ACA’s Employer Mandate, employers with 50 or more full-time employees and full-time equivalent employees are required to offer

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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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Back to Business: Guide for Small & Medium-Sized Businesses Returning to Work Amidst COVID-19

Netchex HR Blog

Back to Business: A Guide For Small Businesses Returning to Work Amidst COVID-19. May 6, 2020. As some states begin to re-open and relax restrictions and other states work closer to doing the same, businesses are beginning to strategize back to work plans. Needless to say, things have changed (that’s certainly an understatement) and businesses must be prepared for the new world amidst COVID-19.

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Are We Losing the Art of Recruitment?

Allegis Global Solutions

Long before recruiting and hiring had evolved into the data-driven science that it’s become today; long before the rise of algorithms, AI and automation, before programmatic advertising, platform plays and point solutions, recruitment was considerably less commoditized.

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What’s the Key to a Faster Hiring Process? Communication

Essium HRM

The average time to hire in the US is 24 days, stretching up to 32 days for some industries. To some staffing pros, this isn’t all that surprising. Others may be scratching their heads, wondering how to shave off a few days on their time to hire. Still others may have just realized that they should be tracking their time to hire in the first place! Whichever camp you fall in, the truth is that most companies need to streamline the hiring process.

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How can you optimize recovery through a smart talent-acquisition strategy?

Engage2Excel

All organizations today are preoccupied with two paramount objectives: keeping employees and their families safe and maintaining business operations during the worst crisis since the Great Depression. Although the death toll and economic consequences of the crisis have been devastating, business leaders must now balance workplace and public safety with financial accountability.

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The Rise of the Generation ‘R’

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

As the world anxiously waits for the lockdown to end, a new generation of workers is evolving and getting ready to take on the new world of work. Today, the global workforce as we’ve known it has been made up of five diverse generations —each with their own unique working styles and preferences. However, recent worldwide lockdowns have forced these individuals into a new, but identical, lifestyle of remote work.

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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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Signs That Prove You Are A Micromanager!

Engagedly

Micromanagement can be defined as a particular behaviour that managers tend to showcase when they closely observe the work of their team members and try to be overly-controlling. Though some might think this approach works well for their […].

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Employee engagement: How to keep furloughed employees engaged and motivated

HR Zone

Employees Keeping furloughed employees engaged.

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How to Answer “How Do You Plan to Achieve Your Career Goals?” in an Interview

The Muse

Read our career advice article, How to Answer “How Do You Plan to Achieve Your Career Goals?” in an Interview.

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What Makes A High Performance Team?

Engagedly

There are teams and then there are high performance teams. High-performance teams or HPTs, as they are commonly known in organizational development are teams whose performance is generally above par, when compared to other teams. Not only do they outperform […].

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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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Sumser: It’s time for new approaches to engagement

HRExecutive

The headlines are appealing: Employee-engagement scores are up across the board. It’s both true and not the whole story. Your engagement questions from six months ago probably won’t tell you much about what is really going on with employees in the middle of a pandemic. With U.S. unemployment surging towards Depression-era highs, anyone who has a job is grateful.

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Volcano -- Are You Ready for the Post-Pandemic World of Work?

SHRM

If you’ve taken any bit of time on Social Media (and I know we have), you can’t help but see the up and downs that stay-at-home orders are having on everyone’s psyches. So many are brimming just below the surface needing to know what’s next and wanting to get to it now. What will life look like once we’re back up and running? This is the $64,000 post-pandemic question (if that’s not enough money for you, blame the 50’s for the context).

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Updated Job Search Tips for New Graduates

GetFive

This year millions of college graduates donned a cap and gown and reached out on that stage for the diploma they’ve worked so hard to earn. Now comes the real adventure: getting a job in their chosen profession. Of course, before the job comes the job search. Well-meaning friends, parents, and relatives are all ready with insight and guidance.

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These Companies Are Great for Working Parents—And They’re Hiring Now!

The Muse

Read our career advice article, These Companies Are Great for Working Parents—And They’re Hiring Now!

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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 I Zoom from my patio, coworker is violating shelter-in-place, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Can I Zoom from my patio? What are the stipulations around Zoom calls and location? Weather in my area has been very nice recently and I enjoy working outside when I don’t need my full monitor. My apartment has a private patio space — not huge, but enough for my dog to run around in. I have furniture outside to work on.

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Effective Spend Management Starts with Procurement Software

SutiHR

Managing spend is a long process of collecting, categorizing, and assessing data spend habits in order to cut down on procurement costs, improve efficiency, monitor workflows, plus regulate compliance. The procurement cycle also involves various other activities such as requisition processing, inventory management, and sourcing. Every organization, regardless of size or type, spends lots of time and resources currently managing their spending.

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Underrated Power Traits Of Compassionate Leaders

Forbes Coaches Council

In a world where dominant, command-and-control leadership is still a norm, compassionate leaders can be underestimated or overlooked.

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THE HR FAMOUS PODCAST: E13 - Fat Fingered Americans + Airbnb Pays New Grads Not to Show Up Until 2021.

The HR Capitalist

In episode 13 of The HR Famous Podcast , long-time HR leaders (and friends) Jessica Lee, Tim Sackett, and Kris Dunn try to defeat boredom and come together to talk about quarantine listening habits, Airbnb’s hiring practices, unpaid internships, and Netflix doc American Factory. The team discusses their feelings and thoughts on Airbnb’s postponed hiring, unpaid internships and other working experiences, and the documentary American Factory.

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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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UK-based StaffCircle Raises USD $828.3K Seed Round for Its Culture and Performance Management App

WorkTech

UK-based StaffCircle raised a USD $828.3K seed round for its culture survey and performance management app. In a press release Blackfinch Group, the VC, positioned the app as “an communications, performance and culture platform that enables companies to manage employees across many locations.” We’re seeing more funding announcements look to leverage the distributed and remote […].

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What to Pack (and What to Toss) When Moving to Cloud-Based HR and Payroll — Part 1

ADP

Here is what needs to come along and what needs to stay behind when organizations make the move to cloud-based HR and payroll.

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Purpose-driven CSR: why an integrated approach is the way forward

HR Zone

Culture An integrated approach to CSR.

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How Are You Showing Up When It's Not 'Business As Usual'?

Forbes Coaches Council

Right now, business is unusual. Let's embrace the strangeness and dig to see what these uncharted waters can bring for each of us — together.

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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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Good ways to show appreciation to essential workers

Zoho People

It was International Workers’ Day recently, and there’s no better time than this to reflect on how essential employees everywhere are working hard to make our lives easier during this pandemic. Essential workers, including healthcare professionals, pharmacists, police officers, social workers, journalists, farmworkers, grocery store employees, delivery agents, and more have continued to go to work and serve the community.

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HRsoft Named Ultimate Software’s Partner of the Year

HRsoft

We are proud to announce HRsoft received Ultimate Software’s Partner of the Year Award! This award was presented in March at Ultimate Software’s annual Customer Conference, Connections, in Las Vegas, Nevada. HRsoft has partnered with Ultimate Software since 2017 to help UltiPro customers with their advanced compensation management needs. “HRsoft is honored to receive Ultimate’s prestigious Partner of the Year award,” said Ezra Schneier, Corporate Development Officer of HRsoft.

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updates: the Blue Lives Matter flag, the handshake avoider, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s a special “where are you now?” season at Ask a Manager, when I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Here are three updates from past letter-writers. 1. Should I ask my employer to take down a Blue Lives Matter flag? As many of your commenters realized, the company was forcing me out. I was asked to resign around the time the letter was published.