Wed.Dec 13, 2017

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Meeting Healthcare Needs with Advanced Scheduling

nettime solutions

Healthcare in the U.S. has been a hot topic for some time with congressional showdowns, insecurity around costs, and the steps that providers and organizations take to meet the rising tide of need. As a whole, the healthcare industry is growing. In fact, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), healthcare occupations are expected to continue to have the fastest employment growth among all industries through 2024.

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updates: the maternity clothes, the nude snapchats, and more

Ask a Manager

Here are updates from four people who had their letters answered here this year. 1. My boss doesn’t like my maternity clothes. My situation ended up taking a very unexpected turn. I took your advice and went to HR. The first person I spoke with was absolutely horrified about the situation. She asked to see the emails and ended up calling her boss into our meeting.

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The Future Is Freelance: Why Companies Should Be More Strategic About Working With Solopreneurs

Cornerstone On Demand

The phrase “gig economy" has been bandied about quite a bit in the past five years, and for good reason: according to Upwork's Freelancing in America survey , there are currently 57.3 million freelance workers in the U.S., and that number is predicted to reach 86.5 million by 2027. HR professionals and management teams have complex relationships with freelancers.

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Why HR Needs Mid-Level Analytics Projects

Visier

The most exciting stories of people analytics involve big data yielding surprising findings that deliver an enterprise-wide impact. The least exciting stories involve essential, but basic metrics such as dashboards with accurate turnover data. However, these stories from the extremes (advanced and basic) completely overlook a crucial area: mid-level wins.

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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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Why to Be Strategic About Working with Freelancers

Cornerstone On Demand

The phrase “gig economy" has been bandied about quite a bit in the past five years, and for good reason: according to Upwork's Freelancing in America survey , there are currently 57.3 million freelance workers in the U.S., and that number is predicted to reach 86.5 million by 2027. HR professionals and management teams have complex relationships with freelancers.

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Create Happy Habits

CONCERN: EAP

From the CONCERN: EAP Resilience LibraryThose who are consistently happy tend to follow a set of habits that generate a more lasting sense of contentment in their lives. Introducing impactful, happy habits into your day can help you build a fulfilled future. Here are some guidelines for building small habits incrementally.Start small and be specific.

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IRS Penalties for ACA Non-Compliance Can Be Costly

ACA Times

The IRS has announced the penalty amounts for companies with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees that do not comply with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for the 2017 tax year. This information takes on more importance now that we know the IRS is going to enforce the employer mandate for the ACA. The Letter 226J , the notice that proposes an employer shared responsibility payment, or ESRP, for failure to comply with the ACA and instructions on how to respond.

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Create Happy Habits

CONCERN: EAP

From the CONCERN: EAP Resilience LibraryThose who are consistently happy tend to follow a set of habits that generate a more lasting sense of contentment in their lives. Introducing impactful, happy habits into your day can help you build a fulfilled future. Here are some guidelines for building small habits incrementally.Start small and be specific.

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Five Tips on Identifying and Hiring Creative Thinkers

TalentCulture

Hiring creatives is not an easy job. There is no shortage of talented graphic designers, illustrators, video makers, writers, you name it. But, how do you know who the real creative thinkers are? And where can you find the most appropriate creative candidates to join your team ? If you are not in the industry, or you are not an artistic person yourself, identifying these individuals can be particularly difficult and expensive for your company.

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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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Create Happy Habits

CONCERN: EAP

From the CONCERN: EAP Resilience LibraryThose who are consistently happy tend to follow a set of habits that generate a more lasting sense of contentment in their lives. Introducing impactful, happy habits into your day can help you build a fulfilled future. Here are some guidelines for building small habits incrementally.Start small and be specific.

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update: I didn’t get a job because I was a bully in high school

Ask a Manager

Remember the letter-writer who was blocked from a job by someone who she’d bullied in high school ? Here’s the update. I know you didn’t solicit an update, but I felt compelled to send one. I’d written you in the spring because I was having trouble breaking into a niche industry in which a high school classmate I’d bullied was a rock star.

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Create Happy Habits

CONCERN: EAP

From the CONCERN: EAP Resilience LibraryThose who are consistently happy tend to follow a set of habits that generate a more lasting sense of contentment in their lives. Introducing impactful, happy habits into your day can help you build a fulfilled future. Here are some guidelines for building small habits incrementally.Start small and be specific.

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How Salespeople Can Adapt and Thrive in a Rapidly Changing Sales Profession

TalentCulture

The workplace is changing , and technology is the catalyst. The shifts are widespread, impacting everyone from those in the C-suite to the sales team. The sales process is so different today than it was a decade ago. Not only is there an entirely new set of rules, it’s almost an entirely new ballgame. Why? Customers are in control, they know how to find the information they seek and they are super far along in the buying process before they are ever interested in sitting through your online demo

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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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Bitcoin 401K Rollovers - What the #### Could Go Wrong?

The HR Capitalist

This appeared in my gmail as a paid ad today (Email subscribers, click through to see the poison below): I'm not a financial advisor. There's probably money to be made in Bitcoin, although the SEC has issued investor warnings. The vast, vast majority of your employees aren't qualified to evaluate Bitcoin as an investment option. When ads like this pop up, I'm assuming they aren't offering Bitcoin as a speculative 5% of someone's portfolio - I'm assuming they want to cram all 100% of that rollo

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How to Develop Leaders in 2018: 5 Top Trends in Leadership Development

FlashPoint

Photo by Steve Huntington on Unsplash. Successful leadership development functions will need to keep up with these 5 trends. Each year, learning and development professionals face similar questions: Where should we invest our time and budget? What development methods should be high priority this year? What leadership capabilities must we be developing?

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3 More Creative Digital Recruiting Programs To Use

Workology

In my talk, Digitizing Talent: Creative Strategies for the Digital Recruiting Age, I talk a great deal about taking the playbook directly from corporate marketers to recruit candidates and engage. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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The Future of Work is More Human Than You Might Think

The Muse

Three predictions about work in 2027 from WeWork, The Muse, Google, and more.

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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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How Walmart’s Financial Wellness Program Will Change the Game

DailyPay

Business owners in minimum wage industries face unique challenges that can be difficult to remedy - especially when the struggles involve payday.

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update: my coworker won’t stop telling me that I smell

Ask a Manager

Remember the person whose coworker kept insisting that she smelled ? I really wanted an update on this one, and here it is: So, this is actually hilarious. After posting to AAM, I decided to try one final de-smellification and see what happened. I found a relatively cheap unscented body wash, and, since the weather had finally turned hot for the summer, got my summer clothes out of storage.

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Why Startups Need an Automated Onboarding Process

SutiHR

HR recruitment is a challenging and time-consuming process. When coming to startups, it becomes difficult to keep a balance between core HR tasks and recruitment functions. Many startup companies overlook the significance of a well-structured onboarding process, due to limited resources. With poor onboarding processes they may face challenges in workforce engagement, productivity, and retention.

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HR 101: Simple Steps HR Can Take to Promote Inclusion

TLNT: The Business of HR

It should be pretty obvious to anyone reading the news that many women and minorities don’t feel fully comfortable at work. From Hollywood to Silicon Valley and from factory floors to government halls, too many women and minorities feel they are not treated fairly and lack sufficient opportunity for advancement.

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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 Reflektive’s Customer Success Helps Companies Transform HR and Grow

Reflektive

The energy at Reflektive is electric! We have good reasons to celebrate and it’s not just because the holiday season and new year are upon us. As 2017 comes to a close, we’re grateful to serve incredible customers across many industries. With our December 12th announcement , we shared details about how Reflektive solutions and the Customer Success team are empowering hundreds of thousands of employees to drive company and career growth while also reducing attrition costs.

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My journey from IT to wellbeing with Parkinson's disease

HR Zone

Change. My journey from IT to wellbeing with Parkinson's.

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my boss refused to send a dying coworker flowers, people keep stealing food for meetings, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My manager refused to send a dying coworker flowers. I work in a department that does project-based work for other departments in a large, successful company. I’m currently working on a project with another department, and I’m the only person from my lane on the project. A few weeks ago, I got word that the lead on the project from the other department (with whom I’ve worked closely from the start of the project, let’s

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7 Tips for Making Your New Year’s Resolutions and Goals Stick

Tandem HR

New Year’s Resolutions and Goals. Every January you make resolutions and goals. This is going to be the year of less stress, eating better, exercising more. You start out strong. Then life happens. Your resolve starts to wane. The next thing you know you are cramming a fast food meal into your mouth five minutes before a stressful, high-profile project is due while your shiny new gym membership card gathers dust.

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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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A Little More Conversation, Please

RecognizeThis!

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Building relationships through conversations, appreciation and feedback is fundamental to the human condition. With apologies to Elvis, we need a little more conversation. Conversing together, sharing with each other, is a hallmark of what it means to be human. And yet, many of the interactions we have at work are action-oriented, outcome-driven, or meeting-based (and very few meetings in my career have fostered true interpersonal conversations).

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what are my obligations to a client when a project drags on?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: What are a consultant’s obligations to a client whose project timeline is just dragging on indefinitely? For background, the client expected work to be completed over a short amount of time (about 6 weeks) around September and October. I was paid a lump sum for the work as detailed in the original scope of work. After the first part of the work was completed, my entire scope of work changed based on findings/new information.

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Regulatory & Legal Alerts – Dec. 2017

Peopletrail

Peopletrail actively tracks the regulatory and legal environment that surrounds employment and criminal background screening. This helps you remain compliant with the FCRA, EEOC, and other regulatory standards or agencies. The following includes recaps of the most significant updates impacting the screening industry in recent weeks. State. California.