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Work From Home Guide: How to Adapt Your Small Business During Crisis

Take It Personel-ly

When a crisis occurs, it is inevitable that most office-based small businesses will transition to a work-from-home setup. With an economic shutdown in the works, small enterprises are greatly impacted. While many are still coming to terms with the long-term implications of unforeseeable challenges, a remote working situation is the new normal that is yet […].

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How to Find a Job During COVID-19

Criteria Corp

With unemployment on the rise, you might be one of many who is on the hunt for a new position. As of this week, one in three Americans polled claimed that the novel coronavirus has disrupted their employment or finances. While a pandemic is certainly not the ideal time to be job hunting, landing a new role is doable if you know how to search and prepare effectively.

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Top Tips on Staying Healthy Working from Home

6Q

Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic working from home has become a necessity rather than an option. Where once it was the preserve of the freelancer or people with flexible working schemes it is now how we all have to work. For some this is an easy transition, for others it is complex, stressful and full of challenges. We wanted to look through some of the main factors that go to make working from home as healthy and sustainable as possible…after all, we may be doing it for a while.

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Top Work-at-Home Customer Service Jobs

Professional Alternatives

Work-at-home customer service jobs are incredibly popular given the current market conditions. Many companies may hire customer service representatives for their internal business needs, or they may partner with a customer service staffing agency to locate new team members. . The collection of remote call center jobs below focuses on specifically work-from-home roles, but some of these may be open to in-office opportunnities as well. — Work-at-Home Customer Service Jobs: Our Top Picks. 

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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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Podcast Episode 21: Modeling Personal Growth To Support Your Employees

15Five

In business, as in other facets of life, great leaders create environments where their people can bring the best versions of themselves to work. But it can be easy to forget that this applies to the leader first, which is why personal growth work is so important. After all, the role of CEO is just as much about being Chief Emotional Officer as it is being Chief Executive Officer.

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The Importance Of The Best-Self Review As Told By A 15Five Employee

15Five

Before 15Five , I had never seen the value of performance reviews. While I knew they were supposed to be important, they always seemed to come and go with nothing more than a pat on the back. I am an enthusiastic employee and am constantly looking to develop my expertise and improve my skills, so I often left my reviews disappointed and lacking direction.

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Getting Back to Work: Has Your State or Regional Workforce Agency Developed a Workforce Development COVID-19 Recovery Plan?

EDSI

In this article we share key steps to consider, ideas, and best practice COVID-19 responses to help State and Regional Workforce Agencies develop effective COVID-19 recovery plans.

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Envato Improves Clarity of Expectations And Performance With 15Five

15Five

About Envato. Envato is a family-owned, wholly bootstrapped company supporting a global community of digital creatives, from a digital asset marketplace to a creative subscription service, with 600 employees in offices in Melbourne, Australia; Guadalajara, Mexico; and Los Angeles. The company was founded in 2006 as a platform for professional creatives to sell their digital assets, resources, and services, and is now expanding its offerings to empower anyone to produce creative solutions for the

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How to Lay Off an Employee—The Complete Guide

Intoo USA

In today’s fast-paced and globalized business environment, organizations have to continuously innovate to remain competitive and sometimes pivot to respond to external challenges or economic downturns. Layoffs are sometimes necessary as an important part of this change process—and HR professionals are expected to know how to lay off an employee and be prepared for a reduction in force under short notice.

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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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Students, Don’t Give Up on Your Job Search Because of COVID-19

SHRM Resources

With many businesses closed and millions of employees laid off or furloughed, opportunities for job seekers have diminished, creating stress and concern for those about to graduate in the Class of 2020.

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How to Lay Off an Employee—The Complete Guide

Intoo USA

In today’s fast-paced and globalized business environment, organizations have to continuously innovate to remain competitive and sometimes pivot to respond to external challenges or economic downturns. Layoffs are sometimes necessary as an important part of this change process—and HR professionals are expected to know how to lay off an employee and be prepared for a reduction in force under short notice.

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Employment-Screening Options During the COVID-19 Pandemic

SHRM Resources

?The coronavirus crisis has upended normal HR workflows—and pre-employment screening is no exception."COVID-19 has caused courts and other public-records repositories and drug-testing laboratories to either close or be difficult to access," said Pamela Devata, an employment attorney and partner in the Chicago office at Seyfarth Shaw. "Criminal and civil records reviews and previous employment and education verifications are not as readily available due to closures and remote worki

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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of ACA Risk Corridors

ACA Times

2 minute read: The Affordable Care Act chalked up a win in late April when the Supreme Court ordered the federal government to pay insurance companies funding it’s been entitled to since 2014. The case, Maine Community Health Options v. The United States revolves around an ACA provision known as the risk corridors, which essentially allowed insurance companies that participated in the ACA marketplace in the first three years of operation to qualify for government funding if a particular plan did

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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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Managers Should Not Expect Full Productivity Right Now

SHRM Resources

?Cali Williams Yost is a workplace change strategist, author, speaker and CEO of New York City-based Flex+Strategy Group, which helps leaders reimagine how, when and where people work. Yost discussed with SHRM Online how managers must revise their expectations and work style in the new remote working reality brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.SHRM Online: Should employers expect full productivity from their employees right now?

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Coronavirus Return to Work Guidelines, Checklist Included

Paycor

As many stay-at-home orders begin to expire, state government leaders across the country are implementing plans to reopen businesses. Many businesses are also deciding when is the right time to bring staff back to work. As an HR leader, you’re focused on making decisions that ensure the safety of your workforce, and it’s critical that you have detailed strategies and protocols in place before bringing staff back to the office.

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How to better engage and support your remote workforce during Covid-19

HR Zone

Employees Better supporting remote teams.

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How to Manage Video Conference Fatigue

LifeSpeak

By Hina Khan, Success Coach and registered psychotherapist. You get up and have exactly 10 minutes until that important meeting, and you’re still in your pyjamas. But there’s no rush, because like most people these pandemic days, you’re video conferencing. Whether it’s a work meeting or catching up with family or friends, video calls are where it’s at.

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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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Expert Tips for Leading and Engaging Employees in Change

Quantum Workplace

A lot has happened since the coronavirus pandemic forced organizations to react, respond, and refocus in order to keep their operation in business. Dealing with and engaging employees in change can be extremely stressful for everyone. But what happens after we’ve acknowledged this crisis? Your employees are still important, but this pandemic has had and will continue to have a strong impact on your workforce.

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How to Conduct Performance Discussions with Ease and Precision

Engagedly

In most cases, performance discussions are highly dreaded because of how much impact they have on our promotions and salary increments. But they don’t necessarily have to be that way. The main aim of performance discussions is to […].

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Modelo Is Thanking Healthcare Workers By Supporting the #FirstRespondersFirst Initiative

Thrive Global

The country is fighting a battle the likes of which we’ve never experienced before. We’re all making sacrifices to fight the spread of COVID-19 while finding ways to stay connected and to responsibly live our lives under current circumstances. But the true heroes are those on the front lines who are courageously caring for our communities, often without the protective equipment designed to keep them safe. .

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Managing Remote Employees: 10 Ways to Keep Your Virtual Team Connected

Fond

In our recent article, Why Team Building With Remote Employees Is More Important Than Ever , we explored best practices for keeping a remote team engaged. The strategies we shared are high-level recommendations that anyone managing remote employees can benefit from, but they’re also exactly that: high-level. This article shares more actionable team building recommendations for leaders managing remote employees.

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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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Contacting employees on leave: What are the rules and best practices?

Insperity

What are the rule for contacting employees on leave? When and how should you communicate with them? On one hand, you don’t want to lose touch with your talent while they’re out of the office. On the other hand, too much contact or the wrong topics of discussion can feel intrusive and might be noncompliant. Here are some guidelines for effective communication with employees on leave to sustain your relationship and maintain a good employee experience.

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Hireology Launches Integration Partnership with ClearCare

Hireology

Hireology has launched a Preferred Partner relationship with ClearCare , the leading web-based and mobile operating platform for home care agencies. Leading up to the partnership, ClearCare was looking to add a best-in-class human capital management solution as a core offering to its existing platform and chose Hireology as the Preferred Partner for its 4,000+ customers. .

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Through the Deepest Valley: 4 Critical Skills Veterans Bring to the Future Workforce

ADP

ADP executive Harris Morris says the veteran workforce has a lot to contribute to organizations during these challenging times and beyond.

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Topia Raises $15 Million For Its Employee Mobility (relocation) Tech

WorkTech

Topia has raised another $15 Million, bringing its total raised to $123.6 Million. The company focuses on global mobility (relocation). In a blog post, Chief Strategy Officer, Steve Black, said “This new round of funding will enable us to drive continued innovation in our global talent mobility platform and expand our go-to-market activities to meet […].

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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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Managing Project Revenues In A Services Business

Replicon

Each persona in a professional services organization has a specific role to fulfill. A CFO or the Head of Professional Services is responsible for managing the company’s finances and revenue, including future project work and forecasting; a COO manages the day-to-day operational metrics and resources; and a Services Delivery Head handles every aspect of projects […].

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Tech tools in the age of COVID-19

HRExecutive

Not long ago—in a world that seems far, far away—human resource leaders had their sights set on mission-critical issues: how to attract new, high-performing talent or boost that ever-pesky employee engagement with the perfect balance of benefits and compensation. While those key talent-management challenges remain, they have been completely subsumed by dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and all it entails—from how to manage a hastily arranged shelter-in-place workforce to ensuring employees who

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my boyfriend pretended to be a doctor, I called a coworker a moron, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I overheard my boyfriend pretending to be a doctor. I’ve recently moved in with my boyfriend (one week prior to our city’s stay home order) and so we hear a lot of each other working these days. He’s in marketing for hospice care and talks to a lot of families and patients to get them onto his company’s service.

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