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5 Ways to Improve Company Culture and Mental Health of Employees

ScaleHRO

Now more than ever, businesses are realizing the importance of creating a supportive work environment and good company culture for their employees. Since employees are the backbone of your business it is imperative to provide them with a good company culture as that in turn increases retention rates, and ultimately leads to better success overall.

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Getting Military Benefits Right

TLNT: The Business of HR

For many of us, yesterday’s Memorial Day well and truly marks the beginning of summer.

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I had to clean up after my boss’s toddler, refusing to interview after business hours, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, I had to clean up after my boss’s toddler, refusing to interview after business hours, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I had to clean up after my boss’s toddler. I’m a new intern in a small office. My supervisor brings her adorable almost-two-year-old into the office.

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8 Steps for Starting a Recruitment Agency in the UK

Manatal

Starting a new business can be an exciting and stressful time for any aspiring entrepreneur. The tremendous effort of putting a business plan to action and watching it come to life can be risky in even the best of economic situations. In the aftermath of the century-defining disruption caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, many aspects of the workforce have been permanently altered.

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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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Seattle City Council Sets Minimum Wage for Gig Workers

SHRM Resources

Seattle’s City Council adopted a minimum wage for app-based delivery drivers May 31, becoming the first U.S. city to pass such a measure.

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Leading the Overly Self-Critical Employee

The People Equation

“She’s hard on herself, but it’s because she demands excellence. ” “The team is relentless in their pursuit of perfection.” How many times have you heard others – or said something similar – and meant it as a compliment? When employees demand perfection of themselves, there’s a fine line between healthy striving and self-defeating perfectionism.

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Why Should Companies Hire New Graduates?

ExactHire

Read any article on hiring recent graduates, and you’ll find a litany of ageist aphorisms. Some pigeonhole Millennials as lazy and entitled. Others sing their praises for their ability to be adaptable or ambitious, as opposed to (we’re led to assume) their aged coworkers set in their ways and coasting along until retirement. Then there are fresh takes on Zoomers–the most recent college graduates.

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How To Provide Effective Manager Training

15Five

Have you ever had to do a job without the proper training? Unfortunately, many companies are setting managers up for failure by failing to build out a process for effective manager training that would improve the lives of many employees. We know that managers have a drastic impact on employee engagement , accounting for at least 70% of the variance in how employees interact with their companies.

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ServiceNow Acquires Hitch: Entering The Skills And HCM Market

Josh Bersin

Today was some big news. ServiceNow, the leader in enterprise workflow and employee experience platforms, announced the acquisition of Hitch , a small player in the massive market for skills technology and talent marketplace solutions. This puts ServiceNow in direct competition with Workday, Oracle, SAP, and a flurry of others, and opens up the big.

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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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Workhuman Receives Many Workplace Honors, Including Best Workplaces in Tech, Best Workplace for Women, Best Large Company in Ireland, and More

WorkHuman

Framingham, Mass. and Dublin – June 2, 2022 – Workhuman ® , the company revolutionizing the way employees celebrate, connect with, and appreciate each other in the workplace, is committed to building more connected human-centered workplaces that recognize the value and potential of each and every employee, and that starts with their own. As such, the company is proud of its recent honors, including: Great Place to Work ® Ireland: Best Large Workplace 2022 (Workhuman’s 10 th consecutive year on t

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How HR and finance can team up to drive people-centric business strategies

Bob

Collaborative workforces power modern companies. Gone are the days of siloed departments that perform purely administrative functions. The COVID-19 pandemic and Great Resignation made it clear that if companies want to succeed in today’s business world, they must align their business strategies with the demands of the modern workforce and an increasingly talent-driven job market.

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Data-Driven Recruiting – The Top Six Benefits of Adoption

SutiHR

Data-driven recruitment is a new type of approach to hiring by using the latest technologies and data available to analyze the large talent pool and find candidates with the right skills and experience level. In this approach, HR recruiters will take the same large talent pool, evaluate it using various technologies, and drill down until only the best candidate remain.

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Skills Development: Now or Later?

TalentCulture

Podcast Sponsored by: Cornerstone Research from PWC shows that upskilling puts companies at a great advantage. The research found that companies realize an extra 10% to 15% of the benefit […]. The post Skills Development: Now or Later? appeared first on TalentCulture.

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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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15 OD Interventions Every HR Practitioner Should Know

Analytics in HR

Organizational Development (OD) aims to create long-lasting positive changes in an organization’s culture, structure, systems, and processes. You need to understand and be able to apply different organizational development interventions to achieve your goals. Let’s dive into OD interventions definition and examples of OD interventions. Contents Why does your company need organizational development?

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How to automate onboarding tasks using Task Lists

Bob

Onboarding is a process where every party—HR, managers, and individual contributors—has work to do and something at stake. For HR and managers, onboarding is only one of a million things on your daily to-do list. How can you make sure onboarding tasks get done without keeping them top of mind? At HiBob, we recommend using Task Lists : an automation tool in the Bob platform allowing you to automate task creation, set triggers, and simplify complex processes.

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Enhance Lead Generation Using CRM Software

SutiHR

Generating prospects isn’t something new in this business world. Reaching out to the right people interested in the services you provide and converting them into potential clients has been an old practice for business growth. Traffic generation and prospects still remain the main challenge for 65% of the marketers. This is the reason why many organizations identify the importance of customer relationship management solution in handling client interactions the right way for generating qualified p

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#SHRM22 Annual Conference & Expo: The Introvert’s Guide to #Conferencing

HR Without Ego

#Conferencing is a term that has been coined by the #SHRM19Blogger contingent that took on Las Vegas. The annual conference is an EVENT, and it can be overwhelming for those that are first-timers or even recurring attendees. There are a LOT of blog posts by my fellow #SHRM22Influencers that will help you every step of the way for first-time attendees.

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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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governor yanked telework for state employees and my office is in chaos

Ask a Manager

This post, governor yanked telework for state employees and my office is in chaos , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I work for the state government in Virginia, and I oversee a division of 15+ people. We’ve all been teleworking for over two years with great success. The governor took over the state’s telework policy enforcement and required employees to come back by July 5 unless there’s an approved telework request for each employee.

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How to use Your Voice and Bob’s Surveys to inspire feedback and promote wellbeing 

Bob

We are living in a time of increased awareness about wellbeing. Yet many people are hesitant to open up about their struggles—especially in the workplace. Your people may feel that showing any signs of weakness will negatively impact their chances of advancement and success. On the flip side, however, if their anxiety, distress, or burnout aren’t addressed, they can worsen and eventually impact their ability to perform their jobs well.

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Productivity Formula: How to Calculate Workplace Productivity?

Replicon

“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” Paul J. Meyer Business leaders and companies’ management have long used the productivity formula to calculate labor.

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The surprising reasons employees are not exceeding expectations

TLNT: The Business of HR

Talk to most HR or talent management leaders, and you’ll soon find out they can tell you the percentage of employees that are meeting vs. exceeding expectations. This shouldn’t be a surprise really. This type of information has become expected. The problem however, that while these statistics are readily available amongst the HR population, fewer than half of employees themselves actually know whether their performance is where it should be.

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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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Unlocking Long-Term Employee Success Through Onboarding and Cross-Boarding

6Q

In one way or another, the entire pandemic experience has been one of gravitational transitions. Companies quickly pivoted from in-office to remote work. Business goals changed as if overnight, creating new roles and new needs within organisations, and rendering some positions outdated. This article will outline the importance of employees’ experiences as they undergo those role transitions, including areas of focus and concrete strategies to foster employee engagement and fulfilment throughout

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35 tips for increasing employee engagement

Bob

Engaged employees—those who feel like a genuine part of their company—stay with employers for longer, are more productive and are higher-performing than disengaged employees. They’re your best advocates and any organization’s prized asset. But people don’t engage themselves. Employee engagement is the natural result of a people-first culture that connects people, encourages growth and development, and allows people to bring their authentic selves to work.

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Flexible Work Hours or Remote Work: What Are Employees Choosing in 2022

HR Digest

Flexible work hours and remote work will be more in demand in 2022. Employees, on the other hand, have a choice in terms of how they work. They now have more freedom to select between the two possibilities, which leads to increased job satisfaction and productivity. Let’s look at the benefits of both flexible work hours and remote work. Why is flexibility important in work?

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Why Employees Need Leaders to Lead by Example

TalentCulture

We bought mental health tools, but has everyone bought in? Many companies understand the importance of promoting mental health in the workplace. As a result, they have enacted programs and […]. The post Why Employees Need Leaders to Lead by Example appeared first on TalentCulture.

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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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physically demanding team-building exercise, stinky bathroom, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, physically demanding team-building exercise, stinky bathroom, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. We’re doing a physically demanding “team-building” exercise. My team has planned a team builder at a physically demanding escape room. The whole team has to make it through an obstacle course while solving puzzles to advance to the next obstacle course.

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How To Write Good Employee Goals and Objectives

Engagedly

Once you’ve decided you are going to set Objectives and Key Results (OKRS) for your employees or for yourself or even just for your team, you might find that you are stumped about what to do next. Logically speaking, you know the next step is going to be writing out goals and objectives. However, writing good goals and objectives is not an easy task.

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Why Is Friendship Important in Life? Here’s Why

BetterUp

Jump to section. Why is friendship important? 10 benefits of friendship. 3 common obstacles to making friends and how to overcome them. Social media and friendship. 5 tips to strengthen your friendships. How to know when it's time to let a friendship go.

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