Thu.Mar 12, 2020

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Coronavirus: Employer Resources to Stay Informed & Prepared

PeopleStrategy

Like the rest of the world, PeopleStrategy is closely monitoring the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. As a full-service broker and HR technology solution provider, we serve employers and, more specifically, HR, benefits and finance professionals. During unsettling situations such as the one we face today, employees rely on HR to provide guidance on how best to protect their health and that of their families.

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Tactics for Career Development: How You Can Become More Successful with an Executive Coach

GetFive

When all of the Best Places to Work rankings come out every year, whether it’s from Glassdoor or Fairygodboss or Fortune, you can see a few common threads running through the top-ranked companies. One of them is internal career pathing. Another is employee development. Together, they give people a roadmap of where the future might take them within their organizations, and the tools and skills needed to get there.

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my employee calls in sick after negative feedback

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: For the last two years, I’ve managed Fergus, who had been doing the same tasks day in and day out for about a decade. He hadn’t adapted to new technology, best practices, or industry trends. My first order of business as his manager was to coach him on the fundamentals and challenge him to grow and learn. For more than a year, we built up a great trajectory.

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) company policy

Workable

In this Coronavirus (COVID-19) company policy sample, you’ll find all the essential guidelines employees should follow during the coronavirus outbreak and temporary alterations of existing sick leave and work from home policies. The post Coronavirus (COVID-19) company policy appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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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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Plan for COVID-19 Workplace Response

Affinity HR Group

The World Health Organization (WHO) has now classified COVID-19, also known as coronavirus, as a worldwide pandemic. While other countries are seeing more fatal impacts than we are in the US, the situation here grows more serious and wide-spread every day. With COVID-19 impacting people and businesses across the country and around the world, many companies are trying to figure out their options of how best to balance business needs with employee health.

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WOH 77: Implementing the Agile Talent Acquisition Methodology at BBVA

UpstartHR

Agile talent acquisition? What’s that? . Many of the talent leaders we encounter have heard of agile as it pertains to the software development industry, but what lessons does this methodology have for today’s talent leaders? . Agile, at its core, is about prioritizing (ruthlessly) on the things that need to get done. In agile talent acquisition, managers hold more power to set priorities.

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5 Tech Tools That Are Changing The World of Remote Work

15Five

Some organizations think even a temporary shift to remote work can be scary. Many leaders fear that employees will have difficulty staying focused on their daily duties, and the relationship between managers and employees can suffer. The reality is a remote team can have a ton of benefits if managed well. The transition to managing remote employees can be made easier with advances in technology and a belief that your employees will be just as productive, and maybe even more so when you give them

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Tech & IT that will revolutionize your staff wellbeing

Hppy

In the last several years, employee wellness strategies have received greater focus from companies and organisations across the UK. It’s only recently, however, that we’ve seen the rise of wellness technology solutions to facilitate these corporate health initiatives. As innovations crop up in this sector of employee management, the need for forward-thinking IT in staff wellness grows.

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Creating a People-Centric Culture of Recognition: Part Two – Decentralized, Personal Recognition

Engage2Excel

In Part One of our series on developing a people-centric culture of recognition, we talked about what it takes to create a culture that values recognition, incorporates it from top to bottom and includes all employees.

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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 to Talk about Your Layoff at a Job Interview: Tips from a Career Coach

Intoo USA

Layoffs are one of the most challenging topics for job seekers to talk about during a job interview. The prospect of addressing past job loss brings up many urgent questions for candidates: Should I bring it up? How much detail should I go into? What can I say to frame my work history in a positive light? To get some answers, we talked to Intoo career coach Natalie , who has more than 19 years of experience helping people find new jobs and careers.

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More Governments are Encouraging Pay Equity Through Transparency

Trusaic

Effective April 2017, the United Kingdom set a global example on the issue of pay equity by requiring organizations to publish 12-month snapshots online accounting for their gender pay gaps. The pay data reports are publicly accessible online. One critical idea underlying the pay data reporting obligations in the UK is that transparency serves to debias systems that maintain or perpetuate the gender pay gap.

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How to Talk about Your Layoff at a Job Interview: Tips from a Career Coach

Intoo USA

Layoffs are one of the most challenging topics for job seekers to talk about during a job interview. The prospect of addressing past job loss brings up many urgent questions for candidates: Should I bring it up? How much detail should I go into? What can I say to frame my work history in a positive light? To get some answers, we talked to Intoo career coach Natalie , who has more than 19 years of experience helping people find new jobs and careers.

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5 Ways to Bridge the Generation Gap Between Employees 

Achievers

Diversity makes for a stronger workforce. However, different generations approach tasks with different attitudes, and the resulting communication gaps can lead to gridlock or worse. Since more than one-third of the workforce is made up of millennials and one-quarter is baby boomers, you may get called upon to bring some unifying magic to a team that’s at loggerheads due to generational issues.

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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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Day in the Life of a HR Officer

Hppy

Max Johnson is a HR director for a large software development company based in Boston; he provides a guide to a typical day in his job. My work is nothing if not varied and today is going to be no exception judging by my schedule: a management meeting to kick off, a session to plan a recruitment schedule, an onboarding session with a new starter and a meeting with a member of staff returning to work after a lengthy absence.

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Coronavirus: How to address the overlooked challenges of remote working

HR Zone

People Coronavirus: How to prepare for remote work.

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Employers Should Be Aware of IRS Advisory on High-Deductible Plans

ACA Times

2 minute read: On March 11, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) made an important announcement concerning high deductible health plans (HDHPs) and the Coronavirus known as COVID-19. The IRS advised that HDHPs can provide COVID-19-related testing and treatment without a deductible or with a deductible below the statutory requirements without jeopardizing their status.

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Promoting Workplace Mental Health In The Age of COVID-19

SHRM

Coronavirus. It is nearly impossible to avoid the topic online, on TV, or at work. Gatherings are being canceled or postponed, employers are restricting travel, and organizations are deploying action plans to mitigate the impact of COVID-19. At this point, we are well aware of steps that we can take to protect our physical health amidst this epidemic: washing our hands, staying in if we are sick, and avoiding close contact with others who are.

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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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New Accenture Report Sees Gap in Perceptions of Progress Towards Equality Between Leaders and Employees

Great Place to Work

A new study from the global professional services firm Accenture finds a major gap in perceptions between leaders and employees when it comes to progress towards equality. Closing the gap would benefit organizations and their people, Accenture concludes. The good news: a small group of “Culture Makers” can lead the way towards greater equality and business performance.

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employee lied about coronavirus to get time off work, coworker sprayed Lysol at me, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My employee lied about being exposed to coronavirus. One of my employees lied about being exposed to COVID-19. She called in to work saying she had gone back to her hometown over the weekend to visit family and was exposed while she was there. There were cases in that city, and she said one of her family members had been diagnosed with it.

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5 Zingers on How to Successfully Work From Home When You Have No Choice

David Zinger

Once there was an elephant who tried to use the telephant — No! No! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone — ~ Laura Elizabeth Richards. With the mass enforced exodus from the workplace to home due to the coronavirus there has been a plethora of articles extolling a tyranny of tips to teach neophytes how to show up for work when you are forced to work from home.

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Combating The Corona Virus – The Small Business Edition

Engagedly

The rapid outbreak of the novel coronavirus has become significant business challenge. Some businesses are finding it difficult to perform their contractual obligations despite their best intentions.

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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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4 ways to build a positive experience for teams new to remote work

Qualtrics HR

We’re working in a brand new normal, and we all have to get the experience right. At Qualtrics, to limit the spread COVID-19, we have implemented Mandatory Work from Home across our 25 global offices. We did it to preserve the safety of our workforce while still assuring Qualtrics provides the same level of functionality and support our 12,000 customers expect.

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COVID-19: Now is the Time to Have a Clear Internal Communications Plan in Place

ADP

As of March 11, 2020, there were 118,000 cases of COVID-19 worldwide. There's significant impact anticipated for employers as the virus.

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The Budget 2020: what HR professionals need to know

HR Zone

Business Budget overview for HR.

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7 Amazing HR Training Tools To Make Your Life Easier

6Q

No matter what industry your business is in, you need to invest in employee training if you want to stay competitive. And for effective employee training, you need to find the right tools. Training tools are useful for different kinds of training. You can use them to develop soft skills, train new employees, for product training, and so on. The tools you use to train your employees determine the learning outcome to a great extent.

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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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Why You Need An Employee Engagement Software

Engagedly

Have you ever wondered what is the impact of poor employee engagement? After all, it is not the sole reason for why organisations continue to keep running. Because employees are one of the greatest assets of a company […].

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Employee burnout: Don’t prize productivity over your people

Insperity

A high level of productivity is a positive goal that most workplaces strive to meet. But obsessing over productivity to the extent that you neglect the people doing the work can be a big mistake. This comes at a real human cost: employee burnout. Employee burnout is the culmination of physical and emotional strength exhaustion, which can be further impacted by a lack of support and resources.

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10 businesses that have mastered work/life balance

Workstars

Who wouldn’t like to feel that the balance between their work and home life was a little more… balanced? From employees half-expected.

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