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Pilot Groups or Sandboxes: Which Is Better for Your Implementation

HR Bartender

It’s always a good idea when we’re creating change or implementing something new to make every attempt to mitigate our mistakes. In software development, many organizations use a process called agile to do that. Agile is when a larger process is broken down into smaller steps or milestones. After each step, the development team debriefs their progress and makes any necessary revisions moving forward.

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3 Ways to Automate HR Operations.

Call Experts - HR

HR professionals play a critical role in driving growth, change, and providing support! Whether it is attracting and retaining world-class talent, managing employee absenteeism, or supporting communication during an emergency, it’s essential to focus on tools that help your HR operations team optimize their output. . HR operations can be somewhat complicated.

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IRS Releases New ACA Filing Information for the 2020 Tax Year

ACA Times

2 minute read: The IRS has published various Affordable Care Act Information Returns (AIRs) documents for the 2020 tax year with which employers will need to familiarize themselves before electronically filing for this year. Last updated on September 10, 2020, the agency made available documents pertaining to Known Issues, Form to Schema Crosswalks, XML Schemas, and Business Rules for the 2020 Tax Year.

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5 Best Virtual Practices AJC’s Can Use to Help Jobseekers Overcome Barriers to Employment. Bonus Freebie: downloadable barriers checklist!

EDSI

Learn about the latest advances workforce boards and American Job Centers (AJCs) are implementing in order to better serve in-need populations looking for work as well as innovative community resources and service strategies that all jobseekers, including Veterans and youth, can connect with remotely. Download our Barriers to Employment Checklist, a helpful document which can be used by workforce development professionals to help their clients identify, and eventually overcome their barriers.

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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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Are Your Strategic Business Stories too Ambiguous?

Babette Ten Haken - Human Capital & Industrial IoT

What happens when strategic business stories become too ambiguous to everyone, including you? Yesterday, we explored whether your compelling business stories are too specific and tactically focused. Today, let’s explore what happens when your stories get lost in the strategic clouds. When strategic business stories are too ambiguous, decision makers ask: “What do you expect me to do with this information?

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How to align recruitment with company values

HR Zone

Acquisition Recruiting for values.

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Here’s a preview of the Sierra-Cedar/Sapient Insights survey

HRExecutive

Each spring, Stacey Harris spends considerable time and effort getting the Sierra-Cedar/Sapient Insights HR Systems Survey off the ground. The project is the HR industry’s longest-running, most distributed research effort, collecting insights on the adoption and deployment of HR technology, and the innovative tech strategies organizations are implementing.

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How to Improve Employee Engagement

Quantum Workplace

Employee engagement is a hot topic. And it’s no wonder. Employee engagement is linked to lower turnover, increased productivity, and improved business performance. But improving employee engagement isn’t always simple.

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14 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Display Human-Centric Leadership

Forbes Coaches Council

Business leaders are only human, and so are their people. The key to success today is taking a human-centric approach to leadership. These Forbes Coaches Council members offer tips to help light the way forward.

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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 Recognition is an HR Must-Have

WorkHuman

Workhuman’s VP of Global HR Niamh Graham writes about how leaders and HR professionals can support employees through these difficult times and keep them engaged through the power of recognition. Read Niamh’s full article on HR Zone. .

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Symptoms of the Times: Occupational Burnout, Career Fatigue and Mental Exhaustion

Rise

Most would describe 2020 as a difficult year. In a session from the Home Debate Club , the word most chosen to describe this year was “chaotic.” From raging wildfires to a global pandemic to worldwide political and human rights issues, 2020 has been chaotic indeed—and it’s no wonder that employees are experiencing more occupational burnout, career fatigue and mental exhaustion than ever before. .

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The Importance of Saying ‘Thank You’ in Times of Crisis

WorkHuman

Workhuman’s VP of Brand Marketing Dr. Patti Fletcher discusses the importance of appreciation in the workplace, especially during times of crisis. Watch on Cheddar. .

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A Beginner’s Guide to Calculating Incentive Program ROI: New Ebook Release!

The Incentive Solutions News blog

A Beginner's Guide to Incentive Program ROI | Incentive Solutions. Incentive Rewards. Our Incentive rewards inspire motivation in your participants and produce the most ROI for your brand. Choose from online rewards or gift and debit card rewards. Incentive Programs. Our incentive programs are strategically designed to help produce measurable growth for your business.

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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 I Passed SHRM-CP (During the COVID-19 Pandemic)

SHRM

It was around February 2019 that I started doing research on the SHRM certifications and I listed the approximate costs in one of my many notebooks for my thoughts. With mounting costs, especially with the inclusion of any prep course (face-to-face or virtually), I did a quick Google search to see what others recommended as the best path to passing the exam.

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Ep 245: How Customer Experience Starts with Accessibility

Workology

Sometimes the business case might get in the way of just doing the right thing. This happens a lot in my opinion when we are looking at accessibility and diversity and inclusion efforts. We often get. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. Sometimes the business case might get in the way of just doing the right thing.

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Financially Preparing for Life’s Important Milestones

Take It Personel-ly

Achieving certain milestones in life are always events to be celebrated and proud of such as starting a family, getting married, or purchasing a home. Because these milestones are so special and important, it can be easy to get caught up in the moment. However, it is important to remember that these certain milestones sometimes […].

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12 Expert Tips On How To Responsibly Evaluate Business Risk

Forbes Coaches Council

In entrepreneurship, taking risks is both essential and unavoidable. Learning how to evaluate potential impacts to your business before making a decision will make it easier to see if a risk is worth taking. To help, check out these expert tips from Forbes Coaches Council members.

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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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Here’s Why Your Employee Rewards & Recognition Fails

Engagedly

“People work for money but go the extra mile for recognition, praise and rewards” — Dale Carnegie, Leadership Training Guru and Author. Everyone loves to be recognized and rewarded for their efforts, be it at work, among friends, or at home. It gives them an affirmation that what they do is acknowledged and valued. Studies reveal that rewards and recognition programs work wonders for employees when it comes to boosting their motivation and improving employee engagement.

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Can domestic partners participate in an ICHRA?

PeopleKeep

According to the FindLaw legal dictionary, a domestic partnership is: “Legal recognition of unmarried homosexual couples and heterosexual couples, offered by some state and local governments. Domestic partnerships offer some of the same benefits enjoyed by married persons -- including the right to share health insurance coverage, and rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).”.

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Your corporate diversity and inclusion content needs employee stories

Stories Incorporated HR

Reading Time: 5 minutes. We watch a ton of recruitment marketing videos (and not just the ones we create for our clients on the daily), and we consume a great deal of corporate diversity and inclusion content. Lately, we have been watching a lot of culture videos that try to communicate their companies’ unique approaches to diversity and inclusion.

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5 Healthy Habits to Help You Live Your Best WFH Life

The Muse

Here’s how to solve five common work-from-home problems you may be facing.

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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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Maryland Salary-History Ban Takes Effect Oct. 1

SHRM Resources

?Maryland employers will be prohibited from requesting or relying on a job applicant's wage history to make decisions about employment or initial pay rates, beginning Oct. 1.We've rounded up resources and articles from SHRM Online and other outlets to provide context.Provisions of the LawThe new law imposes several restrictions on inquiring about or using salary history in the hiring process, including requesting or seeking an applicant's wage history, either directly from the applican.

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PTO Donations Program: Donor Form Template

Paycor

In times of crisis, businesses—and their employees—naturally find themselves searching for ways to help. One easy way to provide support to those who need it is a PTO (Paid Time Off) Donation Program. Employees can donate the value of the time off they have accrued but not yet used. Depending on how your program is set up, the recipient could be a specific employee, a company-wide pool or an external charity.

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OFCCP Releases Web Pages with Information About New Types of Reviews

Berkshire Associates

By now you have probably heard OFCCP released new Corporate Scheduling Announcement Lists recently. Included in this round were two new types of reviews: Promotion Focused Reviews and Accommodation Focused Reviews. To provide contractors some initial insight into these two new types of reviews, OFCCP has launched new landing pages for them. These landing pages provide an overview of the reviews and answers to Frequently Asked Questions.

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Manufacturers Face Hiring Challenges Despite the Pandemic

SHRM Resources

Even as America struggles to recover from a deep economic decline and the rapid loss of tens of millions of jobs, manufacturing CEOs are still greatly concerned about training, retaining and finding the best people. That's because, despite the new prospect of double-digit U.S. unemployment stretching into 2021, many chiefs are starved for good workers.

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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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Are You A Leader Or A Manager? Here’s The Difference

Forbes Coaches Council

If there’s anything we’ve learned in recent years, it’s that a title or position alone does not make you a leader.

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The Evolution of LinkedIn in Personal Branding and the Workforce

Thrive Global

Until a few years ago, having a robust LinkedIn profile did not matter. Most LinkedIn profiles represented a resume dump. Conversations, visibility, and social reach were limited and deemed unimportant. With over 700 million users on the platform today (up several hundred million from just two years ago), LinkedIn has become the number one resource for job seekers, entrepreneurs, businesses, and all professionals.

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Identifying And Enhancing Your Employer Brand

Forbes Coaches Council

When people have a negative impression of a brand, the organization in question is usually in trouble. The same applies to your employer brand.

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