Fri.Jul 17, 2020

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An Update on Small Business as COVID-19 Cases Rise

Homebase

As we did in June , we took a look at Homebase data to get a better understanding of what small business activity looks like as some areas of the United States experience a spike in coronavirus cases. . With over 60,000 businesses and one million active hourly employees, we were able to see how the spikes are impacting currently Main Street. . Here are our most recent findings. .

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Do You Need to Reboot Your Morning Routine?

WeSpire

For most of my life, my alarm has been set for 5-something am. During a rough patch at WeSpire, it even moved to 4am. I am a morning person, but I am also an avid student of habit formation and behavior change. Behavior experts are consistent across the board: how you start your day matters. From there, opinions diverge. The One Thing school of thought encourages blocking to do your “one things” tied to each personal goal.

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How to decide when to re-open your business

HR Zone

Change Step-by-step guide to re-opening your business.

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7 Secrets For Female Leaders to Boost Self-Confidence

Thrive Global

Women’s confidence has taken a blow because of years of oppression, discrimination, struggling for basic rights, safety issues, and other obstacles. A woman might hesitate to speak up in meetings, fearing that her contributions will be more closely scrutinized than those of her male counterparts, or she might even refrain from applying for promotions because of a lack of faith in her qualifications.

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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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Seo Tips For Your Recruitment Consultant

Take It Personel-ly

Recruitment sites should be designed and developed in such a way that they sustain the process of recruitment. This is done by attracting more talent as well as bringing more applications from candidates who are looking for new possibilities. Nevertheless, having just a great designed recruitment web site is not enough. To make sure that […].

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Adopting The Mindset Of A Resilient Organization

15Five

Resilient organizations are positioned to perpetually grow and evolve. They have the ability to bounce back in uncertain and exponential times and are more likely to achieve business results, attract investors, and retain top talent. Organizational resilience covers a number of things: a strong balance sheet; secure supply chains; and a digital-first approach, but the most important element is having the right mindset. 5 critical mindset shifts to be resilient.

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ACA’s Expansion of Medicaid Takes Hold in Oklahoma

ACA Times

3 minute read: In late June, Oklahoma joined 37 other states and the District of Columbia in expanding Medicaid under the ACA. Better late than never and in good timing as the state’s COVID-19 cases continue to rise. The narrow passing came after 50.5% of voters approved to expand Medicaid amid the largest health crisis of our time. Oklahoma is officially the first state to expand Medicaid during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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4 Tips For Creating An Efficient Organization

15Five

In a pre-COVID world, successful companies remained profitable despite their inefficiencies. As we navigate towards a new normal, companies must maximize efficiency in preparation for future business disruptions; whether that be another global pandemic, the accelerated adoption of exponential technologies, or the complete dismantling of the previous work paradigm.

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How to Develop Resilience During COVID-19

Achievers

COVID-19 has turned our lives upside down in a way that has never happened before in all of human history where the entire planet is undergoing a very similar type of suffering and inconvenience. We have all been forced to make major adjustments to our comforts, lifestyle and social interactions in way we had probably never imagined. No doubt, many are suffering both physically and emotionally due to these unforeseen changes this virus has brought upon us.

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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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Has COVID-19 Propelled Us Into The Future Of Work?

15Five

I caught a glimpse of the new wave of work as the world was recovering from the global financial crisis in 2008. In the decade that followed, I joined a movement of forward-thinking individuals and companies trying to inspire the world to a “new normal.” We empowered company leaders to dive into opportunities with emerging technologies, the sharing economy , and the connected generation.

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Transparency in Leadership

ExactHire

Increasingly, people in all areas of society are seeking transparency in leadership. We want to know the “why,” “how,” and “who” of decision-making, especially when those decisions affect us. Furthermore, we want to trust that decision makers are taking our interests into account when arriving at decisions. The desire for transparency is so strong that many leaders may feel pressure to vet, check, and double-check every decision with every stakeholder.

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It's time to embrace online benefits enrollment

PeopleStrategy

As an HR leader, you’ve undoubtedly had to deal with a lot of process changes in the space of just a few months – in many cases, making more adjustments than other parts of your organization. With a larger percentage of the workforce continuing to work from home for the foreseeable future and open enrollment … It's time to embrace online benefits enrollment Read More » The post It's time to embrace online benefits enrollment appeared first on PeopleStrategy.

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Transparency in Leadership

ExactHire

Increasingly, people in all areas of society are seeking transparency in leadership. We want to know the “why,” “how,” and “who” of decision-making, especially when those decisions affect us. Furthermore, we want to trust that decision makers are taking our interests into account when arriving at decisions. The desire for transparency is so strong that many leaders may feel pressure to vet, check, and double-check every decision with every stakeholder.

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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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RPO Implementation Best Practices - Get Prepared

Engage2Excel

When looking to implement an RPO program, it’s important to know that no two RPO programs are the same. This is not a ‘cookie cutter’ situation. An implementation should be adapted to your organizations needs and with any project, solid preparation can save time & minimize risk in the long run. There are several moving parts with implementing any type of RPO program.

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3 Ways Structural Racism Could Be Hurting You at Work—and How to Navigate Them

The Muse

As people of color, ending structural racism should not be our burden to bear. But we still need to recognize it and take action to survive professionally.

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PeopleStrategy Partners with FinFit to Bring Financial Wellness to Small and Mid-Sized Employers

PeopleStrategy

EDISON, N.J., July 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — FinFit, a FinTech company that provides over 150,000 employers with a unique financial wellness benefit platform, today announced a partnership with PeopleStrategy, Inc.®, a full-service brokerage and provider of comprehensive, cloud-based human resource (HR) solutions. FinFit’s platform is now available to more than 200 PeopleStrategy clients, offering complete access to essential financial … PeopleStrategy Partners with FinFit to Bri

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A Look at Work’s New Normal

WorkHuman

Workhuman’s VP of Global HR Niamh Graham writes about how the workplace and workplace cultures will shift following this pandemic and what her hopes for the future are. Click to read the full article on HR Zone. .

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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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Employee Recognition & Rewards During COVID 19

Engagedly

Employees and organizations all over the world have started working remotely for quite some time now due to the unprecedented COVID-19. A year back, no-one would have even thought of working from home for months altogether. While everyone is still adjusting to the new normal, at times the employees might not still have the same level of energy or enthusiasm while working from home.

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Regular Rewards and Recognition Can Boost Employee Engagement During Coronavirus

WorkHuman

Workhuman’s Principal Solutions Architect Rob Schmitter’s participation in WorldatWork’s 2020 Total Resilience Virtual Conference and Exhibition is quoted, as well as Workhuman IQ research. Read the full article on Employee Benefit News. .

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Zapier’s Roadmap for Successful Work from Home

HR Digest

To save lives from COVID-19, governments around the globe had to issue lockdown orders. The toll on human relationships has been debilitating, with people forbidden from visiting family in hospitals, and people forced to isolate themselves. As we open up, complex social distancing measures will continue to force us apart, and new waves of the coronavirus will likely keep us at home again.

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How to Create Psychological Safety at Work

Limeade

A work environment that welcomes vulnerability has many business benefits, including creating a sense of psychological safety for your employees. Psychological safety at work means your team is unafraid that their authentic selves will be at odds with company culture. Employees are comfortable bringing their whole selves to work and taking risks that drive innovation.

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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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it’s your Friday good news

Ask a Manager

It’s your Friday good news, with more accounts of success even in this weird time. 1. I just received a glowing performance review, and I credit much of it to the things I’ve learned from reading your site! One thing I’ve taken to heart and tried to implement this past year was approaching my job as if I were a consultant (this was the first tip in your post “how to make your boss adore you” ) and it has completely changed the way I do things.

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When staff remains remote: Navigating the dynamics of a split office

Business Management Daily

As states begin allowing employers to bring office workers back into the physical workplace, employers are running into conflicting guidelines from local, state, and federal authorities. Redesigning workplaces for social distancing, virus containment and general safety is proving daunting and expensive. No wonder some employers are rethinking whether to reopen—especially if their employees worked effectively from home during mandatory lockdowns.

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weekend open thread – July 18-19, 2020

Ask a Manager

This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. Here are the rules for the weekend posts. Book recommendation of the week: I Capture the Castle , by Dodie Smith. A very amusing but penniless family lives in a crumbling castle in 1930s England, but everything changes when two rich American brothers become their new landlords.

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3 Tips for Scheduling Staff with Safety and Productivity in Mind

Workforce Software

In response to today's constantly changing workplace and business climate, here are three tips for scheduling staff with safety and productivity in mind.

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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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CDC: COVID Testing Strategy Considerations for Non-Healthcare Workplaces

HR Workplace Services

Clear here to view the CDC’s “SARS-CoV-2 Testing Strategy: Considerations for Non-Healthcare Workplaces.” The post CDC: COVID Testing Strategy Considerations for Non-Healthcare Workplaces appeared first on HRWS.

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UK-based Wagestream Raises USD $25.1 Million for Its On-Demand Pay App

WorkTech

Globally, on-demand pay has been a rising trend in HR tech for several years. On-demand pay allows employees to access some percentage of their earned wages instantly, which can be […]. The post UK-based Wagestream Raises USD $25.1 Million for Its On-Demand Pay App appeared first on HRWins by LAROCQUE, LLC.

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COVID-19: CARES Act Changes for HSAs, FSAs, and HRAs | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) was passed on March 27, 2020, allocating $2 trillion in relief for American businesses and workers. Yet it also adjusted certain requirements for HSAs , FSAs , and HRAs that make it easier for people to pay for everyday medical care. Here’s what you need to know about these changes.

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