Sat.Nov 06, 2021 - Fri.Nov 12, 2021

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The Surprising Reason People Quit Their Jobs That No One Talks About

Visier

The mass exodus of “ The Great Resignation” is far from over. August brought the highest quit rates on record and extended a five-month streak of record-breaking walkouts, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ most recent report. Organizations risk continued loss of their most important assets: their people. Fixing this ailment requires diagnosis: why are people jumping ship?

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An Update on California’s ‘ABC Test’ for Independent-Contractor Status

SHRM Resources

At the end of 2020, it seemed the California Legislature, the courts, and even voters wanted to move away from the independent-contractor test codified in AB 5. However, during 2021, the pendulum seems to have swung back in favor of AB 5.

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10 Ways to Stop Sweating the Small Stuff and Move Forward

Thrive Global

We all encounter small daily stressors and challenges that can make us feel frustrated or anxious. There’s power in acknowledging the causes of our stress before it becomes cumulative or overwhelming — and it’s also important to arm ourselves with tools and strategies to help us address stress in the moment, so that we can move forward instead of dwelling on the issue.

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Is Employee Recognition in your 2022 Budget?

Engage2Excel

In today’s workforce, employees have greater autonomy and influence over business outcomes than ever before. The reason? Technology has changed the way we work. Interconnectedness means that organizations rely less on hierarchical structures in favor of greater collaboration. As a result, the behaviors of individuals and the ability to influence them becomes central to every organization’s success, including a dedicated strategy for encouraging and reinforcing those behaviors and activates.

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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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Have a Handle on ACA Compliance? Let ACA Vitals Decide

ACA Times

ACA reporting is heading into its seventh year, yet, many organizations still face significant obstacles to meeting the requirements of the ACA’s Employer Mandate. Under the ACA’s Employer Mandate , employers with 50 or more full-time employees and full-time equivalent employees are Applicable Large Employers (ALEs) and must: Offer Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) to at least 95% of their full-time employees (and their dependents) whereby such coverage meets Minimum Value (MV); and .

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5 Ways to Improve Employee Experience

Hppy

Employee experience has become a hot topic over the last couple of years as remote work has fundamentally changed the nature of work and, more recently, as employee leave their jobs in droves. Organizations have to take long, hard looks at how they treat and interact with their employees, from the recruitment and onboarding stage to their most senior and veteran workers.

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I can’t stand my coworker’s voice, I feel guilty about taking maternity leave again, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, I can’t stand my coworker’s voice, I feel guilty about taking maternity leave again, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I can’t stand my coworker’s voice. I know this is going to come off as petty or intolerant and you’ll probably tell me to just get over it, but I need some feedback.

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5 Key Employee Engagement Metrics To Watch (And Keep Watching) | Perceptyx

Perceptyx

Employee engagement is a critical consideration for every organization. Business leaders need to understand the interrelationship between employee needs and business outcomes. Employee engagement metrics provide the insights that can lead to immediate actions. To grow and perform, businesses will need to be “future-proofed” and able to adapt to evolving technology, consumer expectations, and ways of working.

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Microsoft Gets Aggressive With Viva Pricing

Josh Bersin

Last week something pretty significant was announced at Microsoft Ignite. The company announced pricing for Microsoft Viva, and it appears to be very aggressive. You can license all the Microsoft Viva modules (Connections, Learning, Insights, and Topics) for only $12 per user per month, currently discounted to $9 per user per month. And this means. Read more» The post Microsoft Gets Aggressive With Viva Pricing appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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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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6 ways COVID-19 is changing open enrollment this year

HRExecutive

COVID-19 certainly changed open enrollment last year —it was virtual for most employers, for one thing—and changes to the annual process are still occurring as the pandemic continues. From the use of technology to employees taking a more detailed look at their benefits because of the Delta variant, here is how OE is different this year. Advertisement It’s all about the technology.

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Does Your Company Suffer From Toxic Positivity?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Do you ever feel like your organization’s leaders are trying too hard to pretend that everything’s just fine? Or that companywide memos avoid any topic that can’t be positively spun? Or that uncomfortable conversations are muzzled with warnings like “let’s not dwell on the negative”? .

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Diversity and Inclusion is so much more than D&I

SHRM

The last year and a half have not only exposed our weaknesses and susceptibility to a global health crisis but have highlighted the deep-rooted inequity and discrimination that persists, leading to the social unrest experienced around the world. Many organizations have scrambled to understand the complexity of diversity and inclusion leading them to investigate their current processes and procedures for hiring and managing talent.

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The Value of Self-driven Skill Development [Podcast]

TalentCulture

For many employees, a job isn’t simply the act of doing some work and collecting a paycheck anymore. For example, Millennial employees live in what some are calling an “identity […]. The post The Value of Self-driven Skill Development [Podcast] 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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Hybrid working: The golden goose and the burnout paradox

HR Zone

Strategy The golden goose and the burnout paradox.

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The Path to More Agile People Practices

TLNT: The Business of HR

In the past year, the global pandemic thrusted workplace transformation into hyperdrive as companies initiating Covid-related changes 20-25 times faster than they thought possible pre-pandemic. This includes efforts like the transition to remote work — most companies took an average of 11 days to find a workable solution. This is a stark comparison to even 18 months ago, when many organizations still contemplated whether remote work was even possible. .

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10 Strategies To Help Solopreneurs Improve Their Executive Presence

Forbes Coaches Council

The concept of “executive presence” describes the ability to project the image of being a confident, capable leader to others. Even if you don’t have direct employees, there are ways to practice this every day and build your leadership confidence.

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To Pay or Not to Pay For COVID-19 Tests: That Is The ETS Question

SHRM

A major question prior to the publication of OSHA’s ETS was whether employers could require employees to pay for COVID-19 tests. We now know the answer: “maybe.” The ETS states that it does not require an employer to pay for any costs associated with testing; however, employer payment for testing may be required by other laws, regulations, or collective bargaining agreements, or other collectively negotiated agreements.

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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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How can employee benefits be fair for everyone in a global organisation?

HR Zone

Employees How to harmonise global employee benefits.

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The Most Important Culture Factor to Produce Results

TLNT: The Business of HR

Nearly every business on the planet has felt the impact of pandemic-driven lockdowns, closures, and staff shortages. Throw in variants and confusing mask and vaccine mandates, and the degree of difficulty for business leaders, team members, and customers only increases.

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HR Pros: Do you see yourself as a coach?

The Tim Sackett Project

I read an article in The New Yorker on the importance of “ Coaching ” by Atul Gawande. Atul is a writer and a surgeon, smart and creative and I should hate him, but he’s so freaking brilliant! From the article: The concept of a coach is slippery. Coaches are not teachers, but they teach. They’re not your boss—in professional tennis, golf, and skating, the athlete hires and fires the coach—but they can be bossy.

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6 Essential Questions for Crafting Employee Recognition Policies

Fond

Having so many opportunities for customization is one of the best things about designing your company’s employee recognition program , and also one of the most overwhelming. Abundant choices make it possible to implement employee recognition policies that feel perfectly tailored to your company’s unique needs—but they can also make it difficult to know where to begin.

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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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Increasing Employee Satisfaction with Voluntary Benefits

Helpside

The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to some employee needs that were previously ignored by employers. While remote work and paid time off have been talked about a lot, another area that has grown in importance is having a more robust benefits package. Offering voluntary benefits is a great way to give employees a wide range of benefits while staying within a budget.

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How the Great Resignation may Lead to the Great Revitalization (i4cp login required)

i4cp

As a growing number of companies experience the exodus of critical talent , there's reason to suspect this trend will only add to global delays in logistics and longer waits to obtain basic goods and services. But while the short-term may feel like manager hell , business leaders should be optimistic about the positive long-term benefits from all this quitting.

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Plan now for when employees want to be paid in bitcoin | BenefitsPRO

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

Crypto payment options are exploding, and payroll departments need to be prepared.

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4 Industry Insights About the Need for Financial Wellness

Best Money Moves

4 industry insights about the need for financial wellness. Financial wellness is a sought-after benefit in the post-pandemic workforce. Here’s why financial wellness resonates with employers and employees. Financial wellness initiatives are critical when it comes to a post-COVID benefits strategy. According to Corporate Insights’s 2021 Workplace Finance Monitor Report , 44 percent of surveyed participants felt their personal finances were negatively impacted by the pandemic.

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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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Global mobility: Reducing the carbon-heaviest function in HR

HR Zone

Future Reducing the carbon-heaviest function in HR.

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Managing Employee Conflict in the Workplace

Helpside

This blog was written by Rochele Bertasso, Senior HR Business Partner at Helpside. We’ve all been there. Two employees seem to be at odds with each other and it’s getting personal. Maybe at first it was work related, but now it’s getting out of hand, tensions are escalating, and the negativity is being felt by everyone. When conflicts arise in the workplace and employees are taking sides, what can you do to restore peace and move toward a more productive and positive atmosphere?

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10 Practical Steps To Building A Strong Personal Brand Online

Forbes Coaches Council

A big key to building your career lies in how you craft your personal brand and show up online. Of course, with so many potential elements involved in personal branding, trying to figure out where to begin can feel overwhelming.