Wed.May 27, 2020

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How to Reopen Your Workplace During COVID-19 with CDC Guidelines

BerniePortal

In May 2020, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new guidelines for employers to use when reopening offices and worksites during the coronavirus pandemic. Among these best practices are ways to mitigate and monitor the virus’s spread—and, importantly, how to keep employees safe in the workplace.

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Six strategic priorities HR teams need to focus on right now

cipHR

An ongoing challenge for any HR professional is knowing where to spend their time and energy to have the most positive impact on their organisation. Here are six strategic priorities we believe should be top of HR’s agenda at the moment. . 1. Supporting and ensuring workers’ wellbeing. Employee health and wellbeing has been rising up the corporate agenda for many years, but the coronavirus pandemic has brought its importance to the fore – not only in terms of keeping workers safe from the virus

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Innovative approaches to talent management

HRExecutive

With skyrocketing unemployment growth in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, employers today face serious decisions on how to keep people paid and/or employed. On the flip side, depending on the market sector, some employers need new workers in the fold to meet pandemic-driven demand for products and services. One innovative solution, an employee-sharing strategy, is taking off to meet that challenge.

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Developing Customer Service Skills During COVID-19

Professional Alternatives

Many managers are trying to work through the impact that Coronavirus is having on their businesses and their employee’s customer service skills. How covid-19 affects various industries and brands depends on the kind of product or service that they render. The customer service department has been badly hit. Travel plans have been abruptly cancelled and there have been appeals for extensions on bill payments and disputes concerning insurance coverage.

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The Engagement Engine: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Culture

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

Many companies strive for a positive culture with happy employees. But what if you could achieve more? High-performing cultures are the McLarens of the business world, leaving Camrys in the dust. They unlock exceptional results by fostering innovation, engagement, and continuous growth. In this webinar, we'll demystify the concept and provide practical steps to kickstart the journey toward a high-performing culture in your organization.

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Key employer considerations for returning to work post COVID-19

PeopleStrategy

The uncertainties that the COVID-19 pandemic created regarding public health and the economy continue to linger and may for several months or longer. As U.S. states begin lifting stay-at-home orders and allowing certain businesses to reopen physical locations, it’s clear that the world is irrevocably changed. Many businesses that were shuttered or partially functioning will, out of economic necessity, likely try to resume some semblance of normal operations.

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Why CMS’s 2021 Payment Notice May Lead to More PTC Allocations

ACA Times

2 minute read: Back in March, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2021 (2021 Payment Notice). The rule includes a number of changes for insurers, including an extension to the deadline for submitting qualified health insurance plans for the 2021 tax year. The deadline for submitted qualified health insurance plan applications was June 17.

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Tips on Improving Employee Morale as an HR Manager

Hppy

The HR team and HR manager seem to have mixed levels of authority from one company to the next. In some companies they are the black hand, the iron fist, and the final resting place of meek and low profile employees. HR has become synonymous with notions of people getting fired for fat-shaming a dog and committee meetings on how one should address the metro-sexual woman in the room.

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Work-from-home tips to stay focused, inspired and productive

HR Zone

Business Staying focused, inspired and productive at home.

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How one innovator took a ?step up? in employee recognition

HRExecutive

Over the past six years, Andrew Saidy has been able to touch a range of HR processes and policies at Schneider Electric—a global energy management and industrial automation organization that supports roughly 135,000 employees in more than 100 countries, including 25,000 in the U.S.—as he has moved upwards through six leadership positions. Initially hired as an HR business partner for the company’s secure power and supply chain, Saidy is now vice president of talent digitization and vice presiden

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

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How to Stay Compliant While Working with an Outsourced HR Partner

Justworks

Most small business owners are tasked with a dizzyingly wide array of HR responsibilities. And each of those responsibilities — whether it’s recruiting new employees, managing payroll, or administering employee benefits — must be handled in a way that complies with local, state, and federal law. Even in normal times, it can be tricky for many small business owners to balance their day-to-day responsibilities with the ongoing task of maintaining HR compliance.

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Nearly 75 Percent of Remote Workers Eager to Return to the Office

SHRM Resources

A majority of homebound workers are keen to get back to their workplace. That’s according to employer review site Glassdoor, which found that 72 percent of over 1,100 employed U.S. adults said they are ready to return to their company’s office.

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How to Navigate the New Normal

SHRM

A virus brought the world to its knees and as we begin to move forward, many people are curious to know what the New Normal will look like. I am curious too, and what I am most curious to know, is what are we learning? The New Normal is knocking at the door and the door is already open. This may be a good time to pay attention because the guest at the door, although not invited, plans to stay a while.

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Building a flexible culture in the new personalised age

HR Zone

Culture Welcome to the personalised age.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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5 Smart Money Moves You Can Make During a Crisis

Take It Personel-ly

By now, at least some aspect of your life has been altered by COVID-19. Whether you’ve experienced job loss, a change of income or you’re just adjusting to a new way of life, you’re probably thinking about ways you can cope with and even capitalize on the times. While there’s no telling how much a […].

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The Top 50 Remote Jobs Candidates Search For

Ongig

Remote work has been a popular way of life for many years. But the recent changes to the employment landscape due to COVID-19 got us thinking…will more companies implement remote work versus getting their teams back in-office? Also, what types of jobs will recently laid off talent be searching for? Top 50 Remote Jobs (by position). We did a search on ahrefs.com for the top 50 remote jobs candidates search for and the results are quite interesting.

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7 Reasons Why Goal Setting is Important

Engagedly

Have you ever wondered why your projects are always behind schedule or why your employees are losing interest in their work? A simple answer to this might be that employees at your workplace don’t have clear goals to […].

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3 Clues to 2020 Performance Management

Compensation Cafe

For many of us, 2020 MBOs went up in smoke around about April 1, in the first days of the COVID-19 shutdown. In March we knew what results to target and how we'd measure our success. A few weeks later, most of those targets had been disassembled, blown up or replaced. Timelines became guesses. While we're confident we'll make progress, we are nonetheless scrambling to reframe our goals.

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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Negotiating With Chaos

HR C-Suite

You know that moment when your life is struck by something so out of the realm of possibility that it makes you stop and catch your breath? That moment when chaos strikes – again – taking you by complete surprise and overwhelming you with all the change, disruption, and uncertainty it brings along with it. […].

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U.S. women’s soccer team’s equal pay suit dismissed by federal district court

HR Morning

The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team made headlines in 2019 with a class-action lawsuit alleging they were paid less than the U.S. men’s team. However, a district court has dismissed the women’s unequal pay claims. Less pay, worse conditions. The female soccer players claimed that despite performing better, they were paid less than the male U.S. soccer players.

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10 Questions For Remote Interviews

McQuiag

In a world where everyone is keeping their distance, what do you do when you need to hire? If you have open roles to fill, odds are you're going to turn to remote interviews in order to find your next great employee. But what is the secret to hiring remotely and how should you be adjusting your current interview strategy to be more effective in a virtual world?

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What Is a W-3 Form?

Patriot Software

Have employees? Then you know part of your employer responsibilities include the annual reporting of employee wages and taxes on Form W-2. And, no Form W-2 reporting is complete without its trusty sidekick, Form W-3. What is a W-3 form? What is a W-3 form? Form W-3, Transmittal of Wage and Tax Statements, is a […]. The post What Is a W-3 Form?

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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With the World in Flux, the Gig Economy Shows Up

Sterling Check

As life changes from day to day — even hour to hour — through the COVID-19 pandemic, the Gig economy does what it does best: moves quickly and adapts. During the COVID-19 pandemic I’ve hired a gig worker to bring Gatorade and a thermometer to my parents, another to bring my family groceries we could not go out to get, and a third to help my kids with home-schoolwork when my own skills proved not up to the task.

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a rejected candidate keeps demanding to know why we didn’t hire him

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: Last fall, I left a beloved job with a nonprofit and assisted them in hiring a new “me” — or, rather, two people to take my place with two different aspects of the job. One was an internal hire, the other required an outside interview process. We received over 50 applications, narrowed it down to 13 phone interviews, then seven in-person interviews, and finally made a very satisfying hiring decision.

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Seven Mentorship Secrets From An Award-Winning Mentor

Forbes Coaches Council

Mentorship is based on mutual commitment, respect, transparency in information-sharing and a mutual effort of delivering support and accepting guidance.

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The Future of Work in a Post-COVID World

ADP

The global workforce has experienced unprecedented change due to the global health event, as have the ways in which businesses work. While operational.

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Trending Payroll Statistics

Staying up-to-date on the latest decisions and payroll statistics ensures businesses can remain compliant and efficient. B2B Reviews research compiled the latest data to help businesses stay on top of payroll in 2024 and prepare for the future.

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How To Choose A Coach

Forbes Coaches Council

A strong initial rapport is essential. Someone you trust and find likable will ensure that you look forward to your sessions and that you have more fun along the journey.

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How Limeade Solutions Help Companies Show Care During Transitions

Limeade

There’s no doubt that COVID-19 completely altered our world and our lives — and will forever change how we work and view the workplace. As workplaces slowly begin to reopen and employees return to their physical workspaces, a new phase of this crisis begins. The pandemic gives us the chance to be more intentional about many components of the employee experience to show care during transitions, including trust , flexibility, whole-person well-being, technology, family, human connections, where we

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From San Diego to Your Home: How Our Events Team Pivoted to Bring Empower 2020 to Customers Virtually

Quickbase

In the wake of COVID-19, federal, state, and local officials placed a number of restrictions on mass gatherings. Due to these restrictions workforces and schools were forced to operate remotely, and major events, including global conferences, sporting events, and concerts were either cancelled, postponed or moved online. Like many companies, here at Quick Base, we hold a number of in-person events like Community Summits and our annual user conference Empower, where members of the Quick Base comm