May, 2024

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A warning for HR! 6 signs of a bad business reputation (and what to do about it)

Cezanne

6 signs of a bad business reputation (and what to do about it) in summary: A bad business reputation can be kryptonite for businesses; affecting everything from recruitment strategies to loss of customer confidence. HR must be able to identify the signs of a bad business reputation, which include a decline in sales and revenues, higher employee turnover and less than favourable online reviews.

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How HR can help managers avoid common leadership issues

HR Brew

Nobody’s perfect, amirite? Even leaders have room for improvement. After spending years training leaders around the world, Yeo Chuen Chuen, founder of leadership firm ACESENCE Agile Leadership, realized many face similar challenges while trying to meet business and people needs. That’s why she decided to write Leaders People Love: The agile leaders’ guide to creating great workplaces and happy employees , published in late 2023.

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How Three Institutions Built Winning Retention Programs

Cupa HR

New CUPA-HR data show some improvement in turnover in the higher ed workforce, but staffing hasn’t fully bounced back to pre-pandemic levels. Managers still face challenges filling positions and maintaining morale, while employees are seeking jobs where their satisfaction and well-being are prioritized. CUPA-HR’s recent webinar offers solutions that may move the needle on employee retention.

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Balancing on the HR transformation tightrope

HRExecutive

In the world of HR transformation , senior leaders often find themselves on a precarious tightrope. On one side, there’s the need to build organizational capacity, ensuring that teams have enough resources, infrastructure and bandwidth to execute the business’ strategic initiatives. On the other side, there is the ongoing need to cultivate capability, equipping teams with the skills, knowledge and agility to drive meaningful change. - Advertisement - In our work with the C-suite, we’ve been witn

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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Up your HR game with Influential HR

HiBob

Today’s HR professionals have a lot to contend with: Recruitment and workforce planning, emerging technologies, the need for new skills and continuous upskilling, remote work—and the communication issues that come from a dispersed workforce. On top of this, HR professionals have a whole new generation (hello, Gen Z!) to cater to with wholly different expectations of employers, approaches to work, and workplace values.

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How HR Can Help Improve and Maintain Workplace Safety

Jobillico

Build a better work environment for everyone by knowing how HR can help improve and maintain workplace safety. Safety is a priority for most companies. In many positions, particularly in healthcare and hospitality, a company’s safety record is key to securing and keeping good employees. A strong safety record and sound safety policies and procedures also save money by avoiding costly injuries, treating complex disabilities, and lost work time.

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Employee Retention: The Ultimate Guide To Retain Top Talent

Peoplebox

SHRM found that losing employees cost you three to four times their salary. Losing employees can cost you anywhere from 50% to 200% of the employee’s annual salary once you take into account recruitment, onboarding, and training costs as well as lost productivity during this period. In this article, we’ll show you how to build an effective employee retention strategy, along with 10 tried and tested employee retention strategies that you can get started on today.

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Big Changes for Overtime! What Employers Need to Know About the New DOL Rule 

MP Wired For HR

Big Changes for Overtime! What Employers Need to Know About the New DOL Rule May 21st, 2024 Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on LinkedIn Millions of workers will soon be eligible for overtime pay under the new Department of Labor (DOL) regulations. This is a big deal for both employers and employees. Let’s break down what you need to know.

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5 ways to strengthen your onboarding and boost ‘time-to-productivity’

HRExecutive

New hires need time. They not only need to learn their role, but also need to become familiar with your organization’s culture and understand how their work fits within the bigger picture of the business. An efficient and effective onboarding process is critical for helping employees gain this knowledge and for maintaining workforce productivity, engagement and retention more broadly. - Advertisement - Time-to-productivity, which measures the number of days until a new hire is producing at the e

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We’re Here to Help! How to Navigate Your Top HR Priorities

Are you helping your people proactively plan for retirement? How are you prioritizing the mental health of your HR team? These are a few of the questions that HR professionals are seeking answers to today. Luckily, Gallagher’s consultants came together with four robust articles (and one infographic) that help address these pain points and provide you with proactive planning tips to help you simplify, personalize and create flexibility in your benefits offerings to help ensure your people thrive

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How one company created a four-day workweek program that works for its employees

HR Brew

“You do you.” How often do you hear this phrase at work? Employees at Exos hear it every Friday. In May 2023, the corporate wellness company launched a six-month, four-day workweek pilot program, during which its roughly 3,000 employees were able to choose how they spent their Fridays. Greg Hill, Exos’ chief people officer, told HR Brew the initiative was dubbed, “You Do You Fridays.

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How 15Five Helped over 35% of Managers Improve Engagement, Performance, and Intent to Stay on Their Teams

15Five

Core Medical Group is shifting from reactive to strategic HR practices, leveraging 15Five to lead the way. In the competitive healthcare and staffing sector, managing employee engagement and performance with efficiency poses a significant challenge, particularly when relying on reactive, paper-based systems. Core Medical Group‘s transition from traditional methods to embracing 15Five’s continuous approach has revolutionized their approach to performance management The Challenge Lynn Como, the Di

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Best Employee Scheduling Software 2024

Replicon

Gone are the days when managers would spend hours manually creating employee schedules using pen and paper and then pin them to the wall to apprise employees of their shift allotment. This manual approach to scheduling created several issues for managers, including conflicts in shifts, double booking, inadequate coverage, back-and-forth communication, and more.

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Virtual Seminar Unravels Complex Leaves of Absence

HRWatchdog

Can an employee who calls in sick using their California paid sick leave just two minutes before their shift be penalized for lack of notice? Is paid family leave a protected leave of absence? If an employer is covered by both the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the California Family Rights Act (CFRA), will the two types of leave always run at the same time?

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

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E-Verify: What Organizations Need to Know Today

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes (Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Poster Guard® Poster Compliance Service from HRdirect , the leading labor law poster service that gets your business up to date with all required federal, state, and local labor law postings, and then keeps it that way — for an entire year. Enjoy the article!

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HR’s next big challenge: Ageism in the workplace

HRExecutive

As the U.S. workforce diversifies in age, HR leaders are challenged to create policies and practices that appeal to five highly distinct generations. One segment in particular—older workers—will be increasingly represented in the workforce in the coming years. Yet, recent research has found that many employers are not offering environments conducive to recruiting or retaining these professionals.

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Google releases new ‘product agnostic’ AI course to help with workforce upskilling

HR Brew

Google launched a new elearning course last week to help workers understand the basics of AI. Part of the company’s larger commitment to AI workforce development, the 10-hour course is available on Coursera, and through companies, educational institutions, and nonprofits. “We have always believed, at Google, that the opportunities that are created by technology should truly be available to everyone,” said Lisa Gevelber, founder of Grow with Google, the company’s online career certificate program

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May 2024 Jobs Report Recap

Engage2Excel

April Jobs Market: Hiring Remains Firm with Signs of Slowing. The increase in average hourly earnings is below estimates and is a promising sign for inflation. A softer than expected U.S. jobs report fueled hopes that the Federal Reserve could start cutting rates soon. Some economists predict a decrease as early as July or September.

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Challenges and Solutions in High-Volume, High-Stakes Hiring

Facing a hiring surge that feels like conducting a complex orchestra? Our guide is your roadmap to harmonious high-volume hiring. In it, you’ll learn: Strategies to maintain quality while hiring at scale The real math behind agency vs. in-house recruiting Secrets to a stellar candidate experience during hiring spikes Resource optimization techniques for stretched TA teams Don't let resource constraints or market pressures derail your hiring goals.

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IRS Now Issuing Letter 5699 for 2022 Tax Year

ACA Times

The IRS has begun issuing Letter 5699 penalties for 2022, demonstrating greater efficiency in identifying and assessing ACA non-compliance. The post IRS Now Issuing Letter 5699 for 2022 Tax Year first appeared on The ACA Times.

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How to Write an Employee Handbook For Your Business

15Five

“How much time off do we get?” “How does the company investigate harassment?” “What’s the deductible for our health program again? An employee handbook is key to answering questions like these or pointing an employee to the answer. It isn’t a massive document full of all the policies and procedures your organization uses, but it should be an employee’s first reference point when they have a question about anything your company does.

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Goodbye To Workplace by Meta, Hello To Workvivo by Zoom

Josh Bersin

Today Meta announced that it is shutting down its employee communications tool Workplace by Meta (which I found to be very successful) and turning over the business to Workvivo by Zoom. This is actually a very significant move for HR and IT teams: there are more than 7 million corporate users (it was originally called. Read more» The post Goodbye To Workplace by Meta, Hello To Workvivo by Zoom appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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Are You Listening? How to Build a Comprehensive Employee Listening Strategy

DecisionWise

In the rapidly evolving business landscape, the role of Human Resources (HR) has transformed from administrative to strategic. As HR leaders in modern organizations, understanding the pulse of your most valuable asset – your employees – is crucial. A comprehensive employee listening strategy is the key to this understanding. Point-in-Time Surveys Point-in-time surveys, such as employee engagement surveys and periodic pulse surveys , provide a snapshot of the workforce’s sen

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Testing Innovations in Cancer: How to evaluate and use new technologies

Amidst rising cancer prevalence and soaring costs, new cancer technologies and innovations are emerging to support the early detection, treatment, and surveillance of cancer. Read this guide to understand how to evaluate these solutions for your employees and members – and to learn more about the current state of coverage, clinical and cost effectiveness, and impact on quality and outcomes.

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World of HR: What protesters were calling for this International Workers’ Day

HR Brew

Workers around the world gathered on May 1 to call on governments and employers for better working and living conditions. Where in the world? Also known as May Day or Labour Day, International Workers’ Day was established in 1889, three years after the Chicago Haymarket riots demanded an 8-hour workday, according to NPR. More than 130 years later, people around the world still gather on May 1 to highlight the plight of workers.

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Creating a Great Employee Experience

Engage2Excel

I devoted last year’s Talent Tips columns to the employee-centric manager and the benefits that accrue to employees and the broader organization when managers understand and deliver what employees most want from them.

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2024 Talent Acquisition Trends: What’s New and What’s Next [Report]

Lighthouse

Every year I look forward to our team’s survey and analysis of the talent acquisition market, because it’s a space that moves quickly and has a tremendous amount of innovation both in the technologies as well as the practices that employers use to create successful outcomes. This year’s report is no exception, highlighting what is changing, what’s new, and what talent teams are doing to prepare for what’s next.

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15Five Wins 2024 HR Tech Award for Best Midsize Business-Focused Solution 

15Five

For the second consecutive year, 15Five has been named a winner of Lighthouse Research and Advisory’s HR Tech Awards in the Talent Management category as a Best Midsize Business-Focused Solution. The 2024 recognition includes a special emphasis on how organizations have benefitted from 15Five’s HR Outcomes Flywheel approach, our guiding philosophy that enables strategic HR by connecting its impact to the business through higher employee performance, retention, and engagement.

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Recognition Powers High-Performance — If You Do it Right

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg

Employee recognition has often been deemed a "feel-good" initiative, tied closely to rewards. While we understand its importance, we tend to associate recognition with intangible outcomes like engagement and sentiment, rather than direct impacts on retention and high performance. In today’s workplace, the true ROI of recognition lies in its ability to regenerate tangible, business-driven results.

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Enterprise Talent Intelligence Arrives, Disrupting The HR Tech Market

Josh Bersin

Of all the AI innovations we’ve seen in the workforce, perhaps the most significant is Talent Intelligence. Talent intelligence, as we define it, is the use of massive amounts of employee and workforce data to understand skills, job fit, performance, leadership potential, career pathways, pay equity, and organizational capability. As we introduce new research.

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Understanding and Measuring Your Employee Value Proposition

DecisionWise

The Employee Value Proposition (EVP) is the sum of the unique benefits an employee receives in return for their skills, capabilities, attitude, and experience they bring to a company or organization. It includes typical components like salary, benefits, rewards, and work-life balance. But it encompasses much more, such as alignment with the organization’s values, mission, social purpose, organizational culture , career development, and an employee’s personal brand.

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Why some AI roles are commanding such high salaries

HR Brew

In the race to dominate the artificial intelligence (AI) market, companies see opportunities to reap major profits—and some are willing to offer big salaries to the candidates who can help them get there. “Astronomical” salaries. The price employers put on hiring the best AI talent became apparent to Kaitlyn Knopp, founder and CEO of compensation software firm Pequity, when her team recently helped advise the founders of Inflection AI, who were tapped to join Microsoft , on what competitive pay