Sat.Dec 12, 2020 - Fri.Dec 18, 2020

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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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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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5 steps to kick-start your succession plan via your org chart

Insperity

An organizational chart is more than just a two-dimensional snapshot of your company’s hierarchy. When used properly, it’s a living document that you can leverage as a powerful workforce-planning tool. It helps you make staffing decisions that spur growth, including those involved with succession planning. Let’s explore the link between your organizational chart and succession plan.

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Checklist for HR Department: A Step by Step Guide

HR Digest

A step-by-step checklist for HR department can help minimize risk for your business. An HR Department is the foundation stone of any office and establishing one takes some work and preplanning. Most new offices make do with the boss acting as the recruiter, administrator and everything else, or they hire a man Friday who acts as the general administrator and janitor. .

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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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Coming Soon: The HR Bartender Show

HR Bartender

I have some very exciting news today. Well, at least I think it’s very exciting. LOL! We’re launching a podcast – The HR Bartender Show. We know that people like to consume information many different ways. Some want to read, while others want to listen. And sometimes we want to do both. Personally, I like reading as well as listening to content. We hope to launch the show at the start of the new year.

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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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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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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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How the Power of Citizen Development Can Impact Communities– Virtual Hackathon Results

Quickbase

Quick Base is excited to honor the winners of its first-ever Virtual Hackathon ! With more than 100 entries across 14 countries – which you can find here – the submissions addressed critical issues in the workplace, in communities, and in the world today. And in just two months, competitors created unique low-code applications that address challenges of connection, responsiveness, equity, and security. .

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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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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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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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This Time, It’s Personal: Effective Upskilling Focuses on the Individual

Degreed

Every executive knows that skills can make or break their business. Availability of key skills is a perennial top threat in PwC’s Annual Global CEO Survey. And yet, most leaders have not figured out how to build skills at scale. This year, only 18% of those CEOs reported “significant progress” in their upskilling efforts. The benefits of upskilling are huge.

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Why Now is the Right Time to Reimagine the Workplace

Cisive

“Every great change is preceded by chaos.” – Deepak Chopra. In the past several months, companies have faced unique challenges related to COVID-19. We now understand that the pandemic is likely to change the landscape of what work looks like as we shift into a new normal. While we have made a lot of changes to how HR works and supports employees, a time of chaos can also be an opportunity to push change and innovation forward.

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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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Introducing anonymized screening: Encourage inclusivity

Workable

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has been top priority for our Product team this year. Early in 2020 we began developing a set of features aimed more directly at mitigating bias and creating a more equitable hiring process. Our latest DEI feature, anonymized screening , focuses on the initial screening stages of the hiring process. When enabled, anonymized screening obscures a candidate’s name, address and phone number from the Candidate Profile and CV in the sourced and applied stages of the hir

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HRZone’s 10 most popular reads of 2020

HR Zone

Change 10 most popular reads of 2020.

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When Is It Okay to Call in Sick?

Evil HR Lady

My parents instilled in me a work ethic that says you have to be dying before you skip work or school. I’m not alone. Add to that, the lack of paid sick days that many Americans have and you have a lot of sick people at work. (And let’s talk about schools that give attendance awards–talk about a dumb thing to praise. “Congrats you either didn’t get sick or you came in and got your students and teachers sick!

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A 5-Step Employee Onboarding Checklist

HR Digest

Employee onboarding is essential for introducing new employees to their roles and responsibilities, new coworkers, and the company culture. It can be used as an excellent opportunity to create a lasting impression on new employees, promote loyalty towards the organization, and help increase employee retention. HR managers can help make this transition smoother by sticking to a flawless employee onboarding checklist.

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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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The Power of AI in Customer Support

Take It Personel-ly

The success of any business primarily depends on having a sufficient customer base. Obviously, without enough people to acquire its services or buy its products, it will be impossible for a company to prosper. It’s therefore essential to ensure that customers will be happy and satisfied enough to stay loyal to the business. One effective […].

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The rise of check-in culture: why HR must transform the appraisal process

HR Zone

People The rise of the check-in culture.

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How To Track Performance Without Micromanaging Virtual Teams

SHRM

We see that it’s quite hard to shift in a fully virtual environment because it requires a new skill-set for managers. But let’s not forget the purpose, as we are all working on building the best virtual workplace. Now, let’s dig into the most complicated challenge at the core of the new virtual leadership skill set. How to get the most of the virtual workspace and hit collective goals while respecting individual freedom and work-life balance?

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3 out of 4 Employees Actually Want to Return to the Office!

The Tim Sackett Project

I think most HR pros disagree with this number. I didn’t make it up like I do most of the time, but I was having this feeling that way to many HR leaders and pros were feeling that their entire office workforce just wanted to remain remote. The number is from this recent Human Experience study. Basically, it’s saying 25% of workers want to return full-time to the office, 50% want some kind of hybrid model where they will return, but have additional flexibility to work remotely, and 2

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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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Gift Ideas For Those Working From Home

Take It Personel-ly

It is no secret that people are spending an increasing amount of time indoors and in front of their computer screens this year. If you are looking to some gifts for those on your list that are working from home – then you have to check out the following products from FluidStance. These gifts keep […].

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7 Ways Job Searching Will Be Different in 2021 (and How You Can Adapt)

The Muse

The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic effects upended so much this past year. What will job searching in 2021 look like?

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What Is Career Readiness and Why Is It Important?

EverFi - HR

Career readiness is the process of preparing students of any age with the essential skills they need to find, acquire, maintain, and grow within a job, as defined by Applied Educational Skills. . Career readiness includes such important topics as. communication. critical thinking. emotional intelligence. financial literacy. time management. stress management .

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Covid-19 Mental Health Disruptions and How HR Professionals Can Best Provide Support

SHRM

The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has led to a global mental health crisis. From an individualistic perspective, many people feeling pandemic-related stressors already live with mental health issues including anxiety, depression, and seasonal affective disorder. A notable compounding issue has been the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the accessibility of ongoing treatment for these individuals.

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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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3 reasons to invest in DataOps-based collaborative practices

Take It Personel-ly

Teams that rely on data pulled from a number of different sources need to be able to collaborate in a way that is not hampered or hobbled by this potential for fragmentation. This is where DataOps can come to the rescue, providing a way to combine the various threads of disparate data sources and organize […].

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How to Create a Positive Working Environment: Make Employees an Army of Success

6Q

Every company starts small. Every billion-dollar-worth company had humble beginnings. What earned their place and popularity is the process of development and a positive working environment. The ones that survive are those that make the most significant impact. So, a big question imposes – what makes any business expand through the steps of development?

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Workplace neurodiversity: the power of difference

HR Zone

Culture The power of difference.

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