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should I bring my (expert) mom to work, we have to re-interview for our jobs, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Should I take my (expert) mom to work? I am a first-time duty manager in my mid 20s, one year into my job at a small museum, with everyone at my level at least 10 years my senior, and most of my staff 10-20 years older too. As part of my side duties as a manager, I’ve taken up the position of Health and Safety Officer to represent on behalf of staff to senior management.

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Career Development: 5 Activities You Can Do Today

HR Bartender

Right now, many of us are concerned about our career. Maybe you’ve been furloughed or laid off. Maybe you’re still working but are starting to hear rumors. Or maybe you’ve been thinking about making a career change for several months. Regardless of your situation, you should be thinking about your career and how to position yourself for opportunities.

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Healthcare Organizations Maximize Staffing Agility, Success with Workforce Dimensions from Kronos

Empower Software

Kronos delivers agile solutions and services to more than 3,500 hospitals and 10,000 post-acute providers, including more than 1 million essential healthcare workers adopting Workforce Dimensions and its flexible, easy-to-use suite of human resources (HR), pay, scheduling, talent management, and timekeeping solutions.

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5 Benefits of an HR Management Platform

Justworks

Millions of Americans are now working from home in a nationwide effort to flatten the curve of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a shift that poses unprecedented challenges to employees, managers, and businesses across the country. In a time of such sweeping change, it has become a top priority for organizations to quickly adapt to the range of challenges posed by the crisis.

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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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How to Avoid the Trap of Short Term Goals as a Leader

6Q

Have you struggled to decide between making time for short term or long term goals? Every leader will face the dilemma of choosing to spend energy on current needs or future vision. “If I don’t focus on this project now, we won’t hit our target this quarter. But spending time on this project won’t help us in the long run. What do I do?” you ask yourself, pulling your hair.

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USCIS Rolls Back Controversial H-1B Policies

SHRM Resources

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will rescind certain policies for H-1B visa workers placed at third-party worksites. The agency’s action follows a pair of court decisions rejecting its interpretation of the employer-employee relationship for H-1B workers contracted out to third-party clients.

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‘Reach Out And Touch’ Diana Ross And Daughter Rhonda Ross On Tour Before COVID-19: Part 1

Thrive Global

Earlier this year before the pandemic hit and ‘Reach Out And Touch’ was the norm, Rhonda Ross and iconic mom, Diana Ross, were touring the country. Photo by Austin Montier/Trillion Management. May 10th is Mother’s Day. This two-part series about mom-daughter duo, Rhonda and Diana Ross, is dedicated to Moms everywhere. A few weeks before community spread and social distancing mandates, I attended a Diana Ross concert with no idea who the opening act would be.

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Total Rewards Communication

HRsoft

Your company may have spent a considerable amount of time crafting a total rewards program that will allow your business to thrive in competitive markets. Putting the right benefits package together can be an exhaustive process. Once in place, you might think your program is self-explanatory and will attract talent. Assembling an effective communication strategy, however, can be just as essential as the reward package itself.

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Why it is important to voice your opinions against injustice?

Thrive Global

While many organisations are working towards providing equal rights to all, discrimination still prevails. Although there are laws that are in place to prevent such injustice, but incidents still happens. It happens not just in America but all around the world. It is not limited to racial discrimination, it spread further to classism, ageism, homophobia, sexism, stigma on people suffering from mental health issues and in worst cases it ends in death.

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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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The Top 40 Warehouse Job Titles [with Descriptions ]

Ongig

What are the best Warehouse job titles for you and your team? I reviewed 190 Warehouse job titles searched for by candidates (and employers!) to find the best titles for you to choose from. This is the latest chapter in Ongig’s series called Job Titles: The Definitive Guide. Below you’ll find: What are Warehouse jobs? — Best practices on roles and department names.

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The 7 Spiritual Laws of Success

Thrive Global

It’s hard to commit to being spiritual in our often stressful lives. We are consumed by distractions – self-imposed and unintentional – all the time. Most of us use distractions in a healthy way to cope with the ugly parts of our lives. For example, listening to music, reading, watching YouTube videos, and Netflix are all solid distractions (in moderation) that we use to diminish our anxious thoughts.

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Heavy industry needs more diversity. Here’s why

Fast Company The Future of Work

Data from McKinsey show that companies in the top quartile of gender and ethnic diversity were 25% and 36% more likely to financially outperform those in the bottom quartile, respectively.

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Corona – Friendships Revived

Thrive Global

Virtual connect. I am about to attend the N th video call with my college friends.Through the weeks, we have piled up topics that need to be discussed in the next one. The list is growing every day.Probably, quite natural when you have 15 years of catching up to do.Yes, you got that right, we finished our engineering in 2005 and went our own ways.We have been connected on social media.Met 1-1 when we were in the same city but never all together, not even virtually.

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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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Heavy industry needs more diversity. Here’s why

Fast Company The Future of Work

Data from McKinsey show that companies in the top quartile of gender and ethnic diversity were 25% and 36% more likely to financially outperform those in the bottom quartile, respectively.

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How Indoor Plants and a Greener House Can Improve Your Mental Health

Thrive Global

Houseplants are important for your well-being — and not only for their visual excellence. You know Why? They basically do opposite to what we do when we inhale: discharge oxygen and ingest carbon dioxide. This just only freshen up the air, yet in addition wipes out hurtful poisons. Studies have shown that indoor plants improve focus and efficiency (by up to 15 percent!

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Heavy industry needs more diversity. Here’s why

Fast Company The Future of Work

Data from McKinsey show that companies in the top quartile of gender and ethnic diversity were 25% and 36% more likely to financially outperform those in the bottom quartile, respectively.

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5 Top Tips For Marketing Your Business Online In Today’s World

New to HR

Effective marketing is a crucial component of successful businesses everywhere. Whether you’re a massive conglomerate or a basement start-up, an essential step towards succeeding as a business is to reach your consumers through creative and efficient channels. Have a look. The post 5 Top Tips For Marketing Your Business Online In Today’s World appeared first on New To HR.

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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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Heavy industry needs more diversity. Here’s why

Fast Company The Future of Work

Data from McKinsey show that companies in the top quartile of gender and ethnic diversity were 25% and 36% more likely to financially outperform those in the bottom quartile, respectively.

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How to Rise Above Your Own Burnout to Help Your Team with Their Burnout

HR C-Suite

Even though the latest world pandemic took us all by surprise, it also came with valuable lessons we all have learned. We have learned that we must stand in solidarity with the ones most affected and try to offer help to people who need it. The coronavirus outbreak changed the way we live, eat, and […].

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Heavy industry needs more diversity. Here’s why

Fast Company The Future of Work

Data from McKinsey show that companies in the top quartile of gender and ethnic diversity were 25% and 36% more likely to financially outperform those in the bottom quartile, respectively.

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New Definitions for Living A Simple Life

Thrive Global

Do you remember a time when folks jokingly said that in order to escape the fast pace of everyday life they’d like to live in a grass shack on the beach…or in the woods amongst the flowers and the tress enjoying nature? It was the solitude and peacefulness of those locations that had us yearning for a slower pace in life. As my Grandmother would say: Be careful what you wish for!

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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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Heavy industry needs more diversity. Here’s why

Fast Company The Future of Work

Data from McKinsey show that companies in the top quartile of gender and ethnic diversity were 25% and 36% more likely to financially outperform those in the bottom quartile, respectively.

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The Transition Humanity Must Lead

Thrive Global

Humanity is going through a major transition, mainly in how we communicate with one another. . The virus came to help us reach this new level of communication. If we were all concerned more about one another and the entire society, we would all be healthy. Throughout history nature has always pushed us from behind using various formats. We didn’t know what was happening with us in those transitions.

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Heavy industry needs more diversity. Here’s why

Fast Company The Future of Work

Data from McKinsey show that companies in the top quartile of gender and ethnic diversity were 25% and 36% more likely to financially outperform those in the bottom quartile, respectively.

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Who am I?

Thrive Global

A friend called me the other day telling me that a colleague who was much higher in the hierarchy called her Natalie during a meeting. . Well, her name is not Natalie,it is Marie …So she turned to her boss who was also attending the meeting and asked the guy why he was calling her Natalie and he said bluntly. “Oh, I call all black chicks Natalie… For convenience.

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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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Heavy industry needs more diversity. Here’s why

Fast Company The Future of Work

Data from McKinsey show that companies in the top quartile of gender and ethnic diversity were 25% and 36% more likely to financially outperform those in the bottom quartile, respectively.

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Winning Strategies You Can Use For Online Poker Tournaments

Take It Personel-ly

Online poker has become one of the most popular games to play on the internet. Also one of the pillars of real casinos, it has reached the same, if not surpassed, its own fame in its virtual form. Many casual and avid players are hooked to this game that tournaments were held online, with people […].

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Heavy industry needs more diversity. Here’s why

Fast Company The Future of Work

Data from McKinsey show that companies in the top quartile of gender and ethnic diversity were 25% and 36% more likely to financially outperform those in the bottom quartile, respectively.