December, 2020

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Will Biden’s Administration Seek a New Independent-Contractor Rule?

SHRM Resources

Businesses are waiting for more clarity on which workers can be classified as independent contractors under a rule that the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) plans to finalize soon—and they may be wondering what could happen to the rule under the new administration.

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Sumser: Here’s how to get a true sense of quality of hire

HRExecutive

I recently scanned a conversation on Linkedin about measuring quality of hire. I am intrigued and appalled by what seems to be our desire to measure the quality of people. I suppose it’s not that different from how we treat cattle. The underlying question is part of an eternal squabble between recruiters and hiring managers: Whose fault is it when a candidate doesn’t work out?

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5 Ways to Recharge Employee Motivation

Achievers

No manager wants to deal with a team of unmotivated workers. Setting goals is like pulling teeth, small obstacles bring work to a halt and nobody celebrates when projects are completed. It’s unlikely that your workplace is this grim, but like most managers, you’re probably always looking for ways to increase your staff’s motivation.

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What’s Ahead For 2021? Five Lessons For The Coming Year.

Josh Bersin

We’ve learned a lot in 2020 and many of us are happy to put it in the rearview mirror. But as we look ahead to the new year, I think there are a lot of positives to bring forward. (Our Predictions will be out in Jan.). First, we learned to be humble. The Virus is. Read more» The post What’s Ahead For 2021? Five Lessons For The Coming Year. appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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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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Recruitment Technology: How Do You Get It Right?

Allegis Global Solutions

Whether you talk about HR technology, talent management solutions, or talent acquisition systems — the labels that define your technology stack may vary, but their impact is the same. Very simply, a smart technology foundation brings a great workforce strategy to life. But building a digital ecosystem for a lasting workforce advantage is not easy. The landscape is complex.

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How leadership and remote work can impact inclusion in the workplace

Workable

In this article, we focus on inclusion in the workplace. We’re not alone in this; we interviewed ZeShaan Shamsi , Partner at the People Collective to learn his valuable insights on inclusive tactics that matter, emphasizing on inclusive leadership and remote work. What is inclusion in the workplace? Inclusion at work refers to an organization’s intended effort and actions to integrate everyone equally in the workplace, no matter their differences.

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Why remote hiring isn’t going away and what that means to HR

HRExecutive

This month, HRE is helping HR leaders prepare for the year ahead with a series featuring insights from industry experts, thought leaders and others about what we can learn from 2020 and the challenges coming in 2021. Read the series here. *. This year has brought HR a host of unprecedented issues to navigate: employee safety concerns, engagement in a newly remote world , legal considerations and even the reshaping of the HR role itself.

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Recruitment in Covid: How a positive candidate experience can be a silver lining for job seekers

HR Zone

Acquisition Two ways to create a positive candidate experience.

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Futurecasting: 7 World of Work Trends We’ll See in 2021

TalentCulture

Futurecasting is sometimes akin to looking into the sky and trying to connect the stars. As we look ahead to the future this time, though, we know the direction we’re […]. The post Futurecasting: 7 World of Work Trends We’ll See in 2021 appeared first on TalentCulture.

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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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Remote Employees Are Working Longer Than Before

SHRM Resources

?While the shift to working from home in 2020 has provided much-needed flexibility for professional workers during the COVID-19 crisis and shown that a remote workforce can maintain productivity, negative aspects of the experience—isolation, diminished collaboration and burnout—have emerged.Research shows remote employees are working longer, spending time in more meetings and having to keep up with more communication channels.

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6 Trends That Will Shape Workplace Practices in 2021

SHRM

If you had asked leaders last year what they would be focusing their energies on in 2020, likely a pandemic, economic disruption, nationwide social unrest, and a mental health crisis were not at the top of their lists. Indeed, one of the many lessons learned in 2020 was that it can be very difficult to predict what the future holds. Although we don’t have a crystal ball to gaze into, here are six trends that we believe will shape workplace practices in 2021, as well as tips for what you can.

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Psychological safety: an overlooked secret to organizational performance

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

Have you ever worked on a team with low psychological safety? How about with high psychological safety? Chances are you could probably answer these questions without even knowing the full definition of this concept. We have worked in both situations, and the differences in effectiveness are stark. We have been part of teams that came together rapidly, agreed on a common understanding of next steps (though it took challenging conversations to come to agreement), executed flawlessly and then disba

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11 trends that will shape HR in 2021

HRExecutive

This year has upended the priorities of most HR leaders, as they had to quickly navigate everything from remote-work culture to legal concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine. The changes and challenges 2020 brought are setting up next year to be another of transformation, according to Brian Kropp, chief of HR research at Gartner. Kropp recently shared his top predictions of the trends that will shape the world of HR in 2021: 1.

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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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Overcoming Common Barriers to Innovation

Take It Personel-ly

Innovation is key to business potential and growth. Without new ideas, updates, products or services, a business will slowly die because consumers are looking for the next best thing. Unfortunately, many businesses throw up barriers to innovation and discourage the very thing that can make their business more successful. Not Acting on Trends Some businesses […].

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Reality Check: 5 Business Myths Completely Busted by 2020

TalentCulture

The year 2020 has been a watershed year. Or, as I would prefer to say (if allowed to coin a new term) – a ‘tearshed’ year. The breakout of the […]. The post Reality Check: 5 Business Myths Completely Busted by 2020 appeared first on TalentCulture.

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How (and why) to develop employee career paths

Insperity

A generation ago, the typical employee career path was the classic “ladder,” with a series of clearly defined rungs for employees to climb. Now, with new technologies and disruptions creating the need for new skills and roles, career paths aren’t so clearly defined. Your organization may benefit from defining career paths within your company, to keep your people engaged and loyal and to decide how to invest in your employees’ development.

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Setting a Strong Foundation – 4 Key Focus Areas for the Emerging HR Professional

SHRM

It’s a pivotal time for people and work. There are many issues and changes affecting society, the way we work, and where we work. HR is at the center of helping companies achieve their long-term business goals amidst challenging times, while also taking care of their people. As an emerging professional, it can be difficult (and sometimes overwhelming) tackling tough problems for your organization or helping take things to the next level.

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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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Marijuana Legislation HR Leaders Need to Know About

Cisive

In November 2019, the House Judiciary Committee made history when it advanced the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, becoming the first congressional body to vote favorably for a marijuana descheduling bill. The House has postponed the vote, however, it is important to understand how this Act could impact hiring and workplace regulations.

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3 emerging technologies HR should pay attention to next year

HRExecutive

This month, HRE is helping HR leaders prepare for the year ahead with a series featuring insights from industry experts, thought leaders and others about what we can learn from 2020 and the challenges coming in 2021. Read the series here. *. This year has brought HR a host of unprecedented issues to navigate: employee safety concerns, engagement in a newly remote world , legal considerations and even the reshaping of the HR role itself.

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3 Steps to Building a Connected Remote Work Culture

Quantum Workplace

For many companies (and their employees), remote work is a double-edged sword. While it brings promises of greater flexibility and work-life balance, it can also lead to misalignment between in-house and remote team cultures and cause employees to feel disconnected from each other. That’s why it is so important for leaders and managers to actively cultivate positive remote work cultures.

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4 Effective Ways to Execute 2021 Employee Training

TalentCulture

There is no doubt employee training boosts motivation and reduces turnover. But did you know that training also provides employees greater direction, purpose, and peace of mind? According to a […]. The post 4 Effective Ways to Execute 2021 Employee Training appeared first on TalentCulture.

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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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Upskilling is Key to Your Business Recovery Strategy | Degreed State of Skills Report 2021

Degreed

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the global skills crisis cost trillions of dollars in lost GDP. . Now, millions fear that the crisis as we’ve known it is worsening — that the gap between high skill jobs and the skilled workers available to fill those positions is growing at a faster rate. . Navigating this conundrum is of the greatest talent challenges of our time.

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How To Become a Best Place To Work: 14 Tips From Best Employers

SHRM

Winning a” best employer award” can help attract new talent and reinforce workplace pride within existing employees. How do you become a best place to work? We’re not talking about just winning an award. For that, a workplace should start by applying. What we’re really trying to discover is how to actually create a workplace that people want to be a part of.

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Five common misconceptions about company culture

HR Zone

Culture Five common misconceptions about culture.

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3 issues remote-first companies need to think about in 2021

HRExecutive

This month, HRE is helping HR leaders prepare for the year ahead with a series featuring insights from industry experts, thought leaders and others about what we can learn from 2020 and the challenges coming in 2021. Read the series here. *. This year has brought HR a host of unprecedented issues to navigate: employee safety concerns, engagement in a newly remote world , legal considerations and even the reshaping of the HR role itself.

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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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How to Keep Your Mind & Body Productive When Stuck Behind a Desk

Take It Personel-ly

If you suffer from cramped feet, jumpy legs, and a general sense of tiredness and apathy throughout the long days spent cooped up behind a desk, you’re not alone. Fortunately, there are simple solutions you can try without needing to get up and leave your desk for a full workout session. Here are a few […].

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[#WorkTrends] The Power of Workplace Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

TalentCulture

Talking about workplace diversity without talking about inclusion and a sense of belonging isn’t going to help the marginalized feel like they have a seat at the table. I recently […]. The post [#WorkTrends] The Power of Workplace Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Glancing Ahead: What Are Your People Analytics Plans for 2021?

Analytics in HR

Who would have thought that 2020 would bring us a ‘new normal’? In the Netherlands, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Dutch Railways has been all over the news. Train traveling as we knew it will probably never return, which has big financial consequences. It has also had an impact on our People Analytics department. As you would expect, data and information about absenteeism was an even bigger thing than usual.

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