Fri.May 15, 2020

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The “New” Office – How Companies Will Make Them Safe

FingerCheck

As lockdown restrictions loosen, businesses slowly (and cautiously) see employees return to the workplace. Of course, the office employees left, won’t be the same they return to. Making the workplace a safe and making employees feel safe, will require new office policies and rules to limit the potential spread of the coronavirus. Business owners, HR personnel, and management officials, will be tasked to implement new safety measures that will become the new standard in this “new no

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Our Powers Combined: New Kazoo and BambooHR Integration

Kazoo

Here at Kazoo, we’re all about teamwork. That’s why we’re excited to announce our new product integration with BambooHR. . BambooHR is a fantastic HR software for small and medium businesses that makes it easy to: collect, maintain, and analyze your people data. improve the way you hire talent. onboard new employees. manage compensation , and. develop your company culture.

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5 Department-Specific Digital Tools to Increase Productivity

Civility Partners

Workers everywhere are doing their best to adapt to this uncertain and ever-changing world. Some are finding ways to push forward, and others are not so lucky. Operating a business from home is filled with its own set of stressful challenges : the kids are home, the dog needs to be walked, and everyone is sharing the WiFi. Many professionals find it difficult to find a quiet place to work in at home free of distractions.

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Ways to Improve Your Healthcare Recruiting

Professional Alternatives

Healthcare is a major part of the economy, so it can be easy to conclude that healthcare recruiting for aging services would be a walk in the park. Surely, hospitals do not find it difficult to do so but getting healthcare staff to work in the aging services sector has proven to be quite challenging. This is because there are systemic problems related to healthcare recruiting.

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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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Impacts of Employee Recognition on Psychological Functioning

Engage2Excel

If your organization is not already focused on providing employees with a psychologically healthy workplace, the chances are that in the current climate, it’s at the forefront of managers’ and leaders’ minds. Roy Saunderson , Chief Learning Officer at our sister company, Rideau, shared a piece entitled “Employee Recognition Promotes Positive Psychological Functioning ” that seems exceptionally relevant given our workforce’s present circumstances.

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Establishing Kindness and Trust in the Workplace

SHRM

It’s a challenging time. Political divisiveness is rife. Economic gaps get wider. And now, the world is on edge over the health and economic impact of a new virus. It’s clear to me that employers must become the trusted entity in peoples’ lives, in addition to the source of earnings, career and job fulfillment. Any company that fails to do this will lose top people, lose top customers and fail to achieve its financial goals.

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The future of work: how Covid-19 will change working culture for good

HR Zone

Culture How Covid-19 will change working culture.

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weekend free-for-all – May 16-17, 2020

Ask a Manager

This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. (This one is truly no work and no school.). Book recommendation of the week: The Other Bennet Sister , by Janice Hadlow. The story of Mary Bennet, the plain, seemingly stick-in-the-mud sister from Pride and Prejudice. I usually don’t like retellings but I loved this one, and you will never look at any of the Bennet sisters the same way again.

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Flexible working: how will the pandemic impact working parents in the long term?

HR Zone

People The future of work for parents.

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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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3 Ways to Address the Mental Health Impact of Covid-19

WeSpire

Saturday Spark #59. By Susan Hunt Stevens, Founder & CEO. This week, the UN warned about the heavy health toll of Covid-19, but the focus of this message wasn’t on the devastating physical effects of the virus. The focus was on the mental health toll that the pandemic is inflicting. “The COVID-19 virus is not only attacking our physical health; it is also increasing psychological suffering: grief at the loss of loved ones, shock at the loss of jobs, isolation and restrictions on moveme

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Home Workouts During the Coronavirus Outbreak

Take It Personel-ly

The Coronavirus outbreak has affected us all in so many ways. Our work, our social life, shopping, and exercise have all been altered. For the people passionate about fitness, not hitting the gym may be hard, but it is strongly advised to skip on them until the Pandemic is under control. Touching gym equipment poses […].

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Embarking on a Job Hunt? Here’s What You Need to Know Right Now

WorkHuman

Trevor Noah’s conversation with Workhuman’s CEO Eric Mosely on the Workhuman Livestream about the struggles of working from home and what the coronavirus pandemic can teach us was referred to in this Silicon Republic article. Click here to read the full story. .

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Post-pandemic, back-to-work compliance: New regs, policies

HR Morning

Now that some states are beginning to bring employees back to work after the coronavirus lockdown, employers need to be on top of their game with employee safety concerns and compliance with new regs. Asking employees to return to work and providing a safe workplace for them will be challenging. Amidst layoffs, furloughs and emergency sick leaves, firms will have more safety, administrative and regulatory responsibilities.

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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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Hackers Love The Coronavirus – What Can Your Business Do About It?

WorkHuman

Workhuman’s State of Humanity at Work Research data was included in an article about the impact that working remotely has on business cyber security. Read the article on CEOWorld. .

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Building and maintaining culture with remote teams

PI Worldwide

Don’t let anyone fool you—company culture can be tough to define with a remote workforce. It takes a concerted effort, and even if you have flexible, experienced people, you still straddle a fine line. Go too heavy on the perks and icebreakers and you might come off as contrived. But remote teams require you to engage more deliberately and codify additional guidelines.

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Video Interviews: Designing for and with end users in mind

Workable

We start all projects at Workable with research and analysis following the fundamental steps of Design Thinking. First, this helps us gather insights and data to make informed design decisions, since intuition and best practises can only get us that far. Second, this guides us through iterations and improvements that can eliminate problems and frustration for the end user.

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The Ultimate Guide to Corporate Gift Ideas In 2020

Vantage Circle

The term Corporate gift or Corporate gifting has been in existence for a long time. Corporate Gifts are generally valuable items offered by the employer to their employees without any obligation as a token of appreciation or goodwill. Most large firms and organizations have policies for giving business gifts to its employees. So why do we need another list of ideas for corporate gifts in 2020 if it’s already done and dusted?

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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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Reopening the Workplace During COVID-19: What To Ask Your Employees

Quantum Workplace

Reopening your workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic will present numerous challenges. While logistics and safety are probably top of mind, it's also critical to recognize the variety of opinions your employees will have based on their individual circumstances. Concerns about exposure to the virus, availability of childcare, and other personal stressors may influence an employee's perspective about returning to the workplace.

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How to Conduct a Successful Onboarding Experience

Homebase

When hiring a team, it’s obviously very important to select the perfect candidate for your business. However, it’s almost equally as important for that newly hired, top-notch candidate to get a great first impression of you and how your business work—and your onboarding process is what will make or break your connection with that employee. . Onboarding is a big deal when it comes to employee satisfaction and retention.

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How to Measure the Mood of Your Remote Workforce

WorkHuman

Workhuman’s SVP Strategy and Consulting Derek Irvine writes about employee surveys can help measure the mood of your remote workforce. Read more on HR Zone. .

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Coronavirus: Staying safe, compliant with federal regs

HR Morning

Employers have been quick to take preventive measures – imposing sharp restrictions on travel, canceling conferences and instructing employees to work at home – during the coronavirus outbreak. But it’s critical for employers to stay compliant with the CDC, ADA, EEOC , HIPAA and FMLA in the face of the new illness, especially when it comes to federal employment regs.

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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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10 Fun Games In Office Which Promote Teamwork

Vantage Circle

Nothing can be as simple or effective for your team-building efforts than playing some fun games in office. Strong company culture is built on the foundation of having efficient teams. However for a team to perform at their optimum best, the team members must share an enviable team bond too. Such a bond is less likely to be cultivated overnight and without any prior team engagement efforts.

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How Managers Can Help Alleviate Work Anxiety

BizLibrary - HR

If anxiety runs high in your organization, it can have a negative effect on your business. Here are several ways to help address anxiety in the workplace. The post How Managers Can Help Alleviate Work Anxiety appeared first on BizLibrary.

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5 Positive Feedback Examples to Give to Your Employees

Semos Cloud

Category. All. 5 Positive Feedback Examples to Give to Your Employees . Use these positive feedback examples to recognize your employees’ good work and boost your employees’ morale. May 15, 2020. By Sara Ana Cemazar. You can use these positive feedback examples to evaluate your employees’ good work. If you are a manager, d on’t be afraid of giving feedback – employees want more of it.

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ICE Allows Additional 30-Days for Form I-9 Compliance Rules

HR Workplace Services

Due to Covid-19, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has extended the physical presence rules relating to Form I-9, as their original exception was set to expire May 19. Employers have been granted an additional 30 days to review Form I-9 documents remotely (video, fax, email). When regular business operations resume, an employer must inspect the documents in person and notate Covid-19 in the “additional information” and “documents physically examined” sections to expl

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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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Coworker Conflict Resolution: 5 Ways to Tell if You Should Step In

Pollack Peacebuilding

Whether you work remotely or in the office, working with a team can guarantee eventual conflict. If you’ve ever found yourself in the middle of two sparring coworkers, it can be hard to know how to react. You might have an urge to step in and quell the tension, you might be concerned and escalate the situation to HR, or you might want to ignore it altogether.

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[Webinar] How to Align B2B Buyer & Seller Journeys to Maximize Revenue

Aberdeen HCM Essentials

B2B sales and marketing leaders are consistently working towards the same goal: Developing tailored messaging to engage their clients within the buyers journey, and drive them to purchase. Unfortunately, over 50% of the research phase within the buyer’s journey is conducted in stealth. So, how can these leaders truly align their sellers journey to identify and engage with potential customers who are actually in-market for their solution?

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Employee Incentives: How to Motivate Employees to Go the Extra Mile

Semos Cloud

Category. All. 5 Positive Feedback Examples to Give to Your Employees . Use these positive feedback examples to recognize your employees’ good work and boost your employees’ morale. By Sara Ana Cemazar. You can use these positive feedback examples to evaluate your employees’ good work. If you are a manager, d on’t be afraid of giving feedback – employees want more of it.