Fri.Dec 15, 2017

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Companies Need Jobs, Employees and Scheduling – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

Today’s Time Well Spent from our friends at Kronos reminds me of that old saying, “ Good, Fast, or Cheap – Pick Two ”. The saying represents the idea that we can get quality quickly, but it will cost us. If we want it quickly and inexpensively, then it might not be that good. And to get something good at a low price, it might take some extra time. In this case, we’re applying the concept to staffing the operation.

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Are Full-Time Employees of Staffing Companies Exempt? It Depends

HR Daily Advisor

A new 6 th Circuit case sheds some light on whether full-time employees of staffing companies are considered exempt from overtime. In Perry v. Randstad Gen. Partner (US) LLC , 2017 U.S. App. Lexis 23297 (6 th Cir. Nov. 20, 2017), three full-time employees of Randstad claimed that a district court had erred in granting summary judgment to Randstad on the basis that they were covered by the administrative exemption.

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Help Your Customers Find the Best Time Clocks For Their Needs

Accu-time

The first big win customers experience when moving to electronic time clocks to collect the data flowing into your time and attendance system is more accurate payroll. With the American Payroll Association estimating that manual time collection translates into a 1-8% error rate in payroll, a key selling point for any time & attendance solution is realizing the direct and indirect savings of a more accurate payroll – to mention nothing of better relations between employees and the company.

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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. How This Fast-Growing Software Company Hires the Best Employees (and Keeps Them Happy) -- by Emily Canal. 2.

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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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Essential Facts to Know Regarding Sexual Harassment Training

UpstartHR

With the current discussion surrounding sexual harassment and sexual allegations, it’s more important than ever for HR professionals to cover all the bases when it comes to compliance training. Even though behavior that might be considered sexual harassment might seem rather obvious in this day and age, it’s often more nuanced than most employees might consider.

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HR Technology: Three Routes on the Roadmap to Automation

TalentCulture

HR and talent technology is evolving at a breakneck pace. Financial and resource investment in this area is also growing, as technology has created the real opportunity for HR to drive impactful business growth. While HR technology once centered around the applicant tracking system (ATS) and human resource information system (HRIS), we’ve seen it mature to include various innovative solutions that can be implemented to enhance the entire employee journey; making certain each touchpoint has techn

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Five Reads On How AI Is Transforming the Workplace

Workology

It seems like all we talk about lately is how AI and machine learning are changing HR, so…here are five more reads on the topic? But more seriously, here are five new perspectives or. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Wellbeing Trends We’ll See In 2018: Vending Machines, Standing Desks and Nap Rooms

TLNT: The Business of HR

It’s no secret: Over the last few years, corporate well-being programs have really come of age. Continued advances in technology and a renewed cultural interest in health and well-being are largely behind this big shift.

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update: my boss keeps invading my personal space

Ask a Manager

Remember the letter-writer whose boss kept invading her personal space when they talked ? (#2 at the link) Here’s the update. I’m not sure I have a terrific update, but I have learned a lot more about my boss since I wrote to you. I rearranged my desk one Friday after my boss left. Now the bottom of the “L” holds my phone and printer, and the monitor and keyboard take up the space on the long side of my desk.

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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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How recruitment and hiring trends will evolve in 2018

Ceridian

Companies competing for the best candidates have multiple ways to find and entice job seekers to work for them. Traditionally, recruiters would sift through resumes, tap their network or check specific keywords on LinkedIn. That was then. Recruiting, like many other industries, is facing change thanks to a blend of technology, attitudes and expectations, and it’s a competitive landscape for employer differentiation thanks to an increasingly inefficient job market.

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update: my employee drastically changes her appearance in the middle of the workday

Ask a Manager

Remember the letter-writer in June whose employee would frequently drastically change her appearance in the middle of the workday (different clothes, hair, and makeup)? Here’s the update. Thank you for your response and to the commentariat for their responses. As it turns out, the situation changed the day after I wrote in to you. A manager several levels above me asked to speak to Michelle when she was visiting our office for a meeting.

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How to Cut the High Price Of Employee Stress

TLNT: The Business of HR

Every manager wants to fill their ranks with ambitious go-getters. We’re all on the hunt for those who would describe themselves as ‘perfectionists’ in an interview, and who are constantly competing against themselves to improve their game and excel in new and exciting ways.

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Steve's Holiday Gift Recommendation #5 - For the corporate design geeks like me

Steve Boese

We are grinding down to the end of the year pretty quickly, and glancing at the calendar I think this will be the penultimate one of these holiday gift recommendation Friday posts. Then we can get back to the normal important things we do around here like ranking types of food and making even more connections between work and the NBA. This week's recommedation is slightly different, in that the actual gift won't be available until the Spring, but once I heard about it and checked it out I had to

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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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Healthy Eating Tips For The Holidays

Take It Personel-ly

Keeping up with your healthy eating plans can be challenging during the holidays. With so many temptations this time of year at the office, at home and while out at restaurants it can be easy to let healthy eating habits slide. The following tips can help you navigate the holiday season and stay on track. […].

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Go ahead and pull those old employee handbooks out of the trash!

The Employer Handbook

Just be sure to wipe off the coffee grounds. And cross out all of those outdated references to MySpace and Friendster in the social media policy. What gives, Eric? Well, yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board continued its mad dash to erase all of the last several years of questionable jurisprudence. Along with obliterating Browning-Ferris Industries and reinstating the prior joint-employer standard — more on this next week — the Board established a new standard for workplace

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How to Prevent Toxic Leadership

Select International

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve had quite a bit to say on this topic lately. It started with an introduction to the concept ( How to Recognize Toxic Leadership ), because it is about more than just disagreeing with your boss or working for a micromanager. Toxic leadership occurs when a person in power negatively affects the organization and its people with their words or actions.

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6 Tips for Capturing Amazingly Accurate and Useful Employee Benefits Feedback

Jellyvision

Gathering employee benefits feedback after open enrollment can be tricky if you’re not careful. Good data can help you shape your benefits strategy for the year to come, but bad data can send you spinning off in the wrong direction. To help you collect the most useful intel you can, we put together these six survey-building tips with the help of the good folks at Harris Poll , the data science wizards who helped us conduct our most-recent financial wellness survey and benefits communicatio

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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 can I defend myself if I’ve been falsely accused of sexual harassment?

Workplace Coach

Q. With all the media frenzy about sexual harassment, I feel like every man in America has a target on his back. All a woman has to do is cry sexual harassment, and even if it didn’t happen or supposedly happened years ago, the guy is toast. So now I have to live in fear that I’m going to tick off some woman who’ll get back at me by claiming I harassed her and I’ll be deep-sixed by my employer?

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Best Practices In Starting a Continuous Performance Program

TLNT: The Business of HR

Ongoing performance check-ins are shaping the future of talent management. Held weekly between managers and their direct reports, these brief meetings – just 10 minutes or less – are used to track weekly goal progress, identify bottlenecks, and exchange feedback with the purpose of improving performance.

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Replicon In The News: Time Is Your Company’s Greatest Asset, But It’s Overlooked and Underutilized

Replicon

Time is your company’s greatest asset, but most business lack the Time Intelligence™ to use it as such. Replicon co-CEO and co-Founder Raj Narayanaswamy sounds off on why time is your business’s most overlooked and underutilized asset in his piece “Time Is Your Company’s Greatest Asset, But It’s Overlooked and Underutilized” for HR Daily Advisor. […].

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Online Coaching Supplants Traditional Methods

HR Daily Advisor

On-the-job training, or OJT, is a practice as old as the wheel, and it hasn’t been until recently that technology has caught up with it. Advances in online coaching have provided unprecedented growth and expansion in OJT to become a more efficient and effective tool for employees and managers. The benefits of online coaching are in its versatility, flexibility of use, and accessibility.

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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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What is Einstein Wave?

ClaimVantage

Einstein Wave is a branch of Salesforce Einstein, which we have previously discussed , that encompasses the analytical tool powered by Einstein. Essentially, Einstein Wave is a Business intelligence Platform that enables Salesforce users to dig deeper into their data to make data-driven business decisions. For us at ClaimVantage, this will allow us to build Domain Specific Analytics to deliver intelligent insight into claim data, so our customers can make data-driven business decisions.

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updates: the interviewer’s gossiping wife, the employee who wore a blanket, and more

Ask a Manager

Here are updates from four people who had their letters answered here this year. 1. My interviewer’s wife is telling people about my job search. I reached out the interviewer via email this morning. I told him that my co-worker heard these details from his wife, and that as I stated in my interview my boss was unaware I was interviewing elsewhere.

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5 Must-Read Articles of 2017

Manufacturers Alliance

See the most popular content from 2017; the impact of hurricanes on the economy, infrastructure investment, encouraging diversity and inclusion in the workforce, the impacts of the GDPR, and the new language of digital.

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solve your office gift shopping dilemmas with Staples

Ask a Manager

And now a word from a sponsor…. If you’re planning to give holiday gifts to colleagues this month and you’re stumped on what to get them, Staples has loads of fun and affordable options that you should consider! You might think of Staples as your go-to place for office supplies, but they have great gifts as well – especially when it comes to office-appropriate gifts.

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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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Hogwarts Sorting Hat or Myers-Briggs? Which is Better?

Evil HR Lady

I am a Ravenclaw. I’ve taken numerous online quizzes to sort me into my Hogwarts House and they all come back consistently Ravenclaw. I agree with this. I ‘m too wimpy to be a Gryffindo r, too snarky to be a Hufflepuff, and not ambitious enough to be a Slytherin. Also, I’m pretty academically oriented and take my rejection from a fast food restaurant where the manager told me that my GPA was too high as a badge of honor.

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open thread – December 15-16, 2017

Ask a Manager

It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please don’t repost it here, as it may be in the to-be-answered queue.

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How to achieve diversity in your boardroom

Sage HRMS

In today’s society having a diverse boardroom is a huge asset to your business growth and brand reputation. If properly led, the more diversity around you, the more blind spots will be covered, the more biases will be challenged, and the more decisions will be interrogated and improved. That’s a good thing – diverse boardrooms […]. The post How to achieve diversity in your boardroom appeared first on Sage Advice US.