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16+ types of employee benefits you should consider

Genesis HR Solutions

For many small businesses, the struggle to compete with larger companies for talent is an uphill battle—particularly when it comes to benefit offerings. While you know recruiting and retention is important, you may not be sure if the benefits you offer are a selling point to your potential employees. This list of benefits (and their definitions) can help; compare the 16 types we’ve listed here to what you currently have available, and see if you’re offering things prospective employees are reall

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The 5 Types of Power in Leadership

Quickbase

A study showed how different types of power affected one’s leadership ability and success in a leadership role.

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DOL Clarifies Who Is an Independent Contractor in Proposed Rule

SHRM Resources

The U.S. Department of Labor issued a proposed rule to clarify when a worker is an employee covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act or an independent contractor.

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How to Buy Employee Time Clocks For Small Business in 2020: The All-Encompassing Guide

SwipeClock

Updated September 20, 2020. Congratulations! You found the most comprehensive guide to employee time clocks on the web. 6 Critical Reasons Why You Need an Employee Time Clock. To stay compliant with workplace laws. To reduce payroll errors. To maximize labor resources. To prevent employee time theft. To minimize overtime. To improve employee oversight.

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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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Women Entrepreneurs Take Charge During COVID-19

Thrive Global

The COVID-19 pandemic has evoked change throughout every industry and for many of the world’s leading companies and entrepreneurs. While the pandemic has presented a new set of challenges, female entrepreneurs, Leslie Fajfar and Audra Gold, have stayed on track in reaching their endeavors by reflecting back on their careers, the challenges they’ve faced and what drives success in order to maintain a positive outlook and healthy ambition during these unprecedented times.

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9 Tips for Building Trust in the Workplace

Achievers

If you’d like your organization to succeed, you must foster mutual trust between all team members. But this is easier said than done. Only 1 out of 5 HR and engagement leaders believe their employees deeply trust company leaders , and 50 percent of employees said they don’t think HR is trustworthy. Trust is essential for in-person teams and remote workers.

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Unlock Psychological Safety At Scale With The Best-Self Kickoff

15Five

Getting to a point of mutual understanding with your employee can take a lot of trial and error. And that delay can have damaging effects on a relationship. The best way to begin building quality connections early on is with 15Five’s Best-Self Kickoff. This strategic onboarding feature helps managers and employees build strong relationships, unlock psychological safety, and create long-term engagement—right from the start.

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Sonya Hopson: “An executive must be strategic”

Thrive Global

An executive must be strategic, informative and decisive regarding the direction of the company. It is about doing what’s right over profit. It is being aware of how you show up as a leader of the company, a leader in the community and the overall culture of the organization. It is about working towards the greater good, while also preparing for financial challenges, unforeseen events that arise and knowing when the company needs to pivot swiftly to prepare for the changes in the market.

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IRS Releases New ACA Filing Information for the 2020 Tax Year

ACA Times

2 minute read: The IRS has published various Affordable Care Act Information Returns (AIRs) documents for the 2020 tax year with which employers will need to familiarize themselves before electronically filing for this year. Last updated on September 10, 2020, the agency made available documents pertaining to Known Issues, Form to Schema Crosswalks, XML Schemas, and Business Rules for the 2020 Tax Year.

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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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Podcast: Understanding the Employee Experience PART 1 – Before, During, and After COVID-19

DecisionWise

In this episode, we’re joined by a panel of leadership experts, who discuss the following: Why employee engagement has increased, during the COVID-19 pandemic—what companies are finally getting right What COVID-19 has taught us about how companies should re-examine the Employee Experience The central role of the manager in Employee Engagement The impact of Work-From-Home on the future of employee engagement, and how we need to adjust for it.

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10 Tips for Creating a Design System That Works

Kazoo

In this guest post, “10 Tips for Creating a Design System That Works,” Kazoo’s Senior Product Designer Kelley Shanahan gets real about the challenge of creating a design system from scratch after a major M&A. The scene opens in 2019, when companies YouEarnedIt and HighGround merge to become Kazoo… Mid-2019 our new company, Kazoo, set off to design a new user experience: combining our award-winning Recognition & Rewards and Performance Management platforms into a s

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How Employers Can Help to Spread the Vote

Justworks

2020 has been a year of constant change. With election season right around the corner, it’s understandable that millions of people across the country are wondering what, exactly, the process is going to look like, and how it’s going to differ from a typical election year. How, for example, should someone plan on registering to vote this year if they’ve had to leave their state of residence for COVID-19-related reasons?

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How to Avoid Burnout Working with Remote Teams

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

Remote teams face an increased risk of burnout, especially in 2020. Insights from workforce analytics can solve this problem.

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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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Remote work technology: the road ahead is digital

Workable

In this chapter, we address the following questions: What are businesses planning for the remote work future? How important is technology in remote work? Digital transformation is a long-time buzzword that now means the digitization of information, industries, organizations, and operations. And if remote work is the biggest paradigm shift prompted by COVID-19, remote work technology is the vehicle to make that a smoother transition.

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Influencers or Analysts? Who has the most impact on your brand?

The Tim Sackett Project

The worlds of Influencers and Analysts have never collied more than they are right now in the HR industry. Most of this has to do with the popularity of Influencer Marketing that has taken off in the past decade, and like most things in HR, we are now just catching up with the marketing trend. Traditionally, in the HR space, companies selling products, technology, and services only really cared about two things: 1.

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11 New Strategies for Juggling WFH and Kids (Because We’re Going to Be Here Awhile)

The Muse

Working from home with kids for a few weeks is one thing in an emergency. Doing it for the indefinite future is another. Here are some tips for the long term.

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Job Descriptions: How to Eliminate the Hidden Bias Within

TalentCulture

In an era where more people than ever are fighting for social justice, why do job descriptions still contain hidden bias? And what is the impact of bias – intentional […]. The post Job Descriptions: How to Eliminate the Hidden Bias Within appeared first on TalentCulture.

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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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Are Your Strategic Business Stories too Ambiguous?

Babette Ten Haken - Human Capital & Industrial IoT

What happens when strategic business stories become too ambiguous to everyone, including you? Yesterday, we explored whether your compelling business stories are too specific and tactically focused. Today, let’s explore what happens when your stories get lost in the strategic clouds. When strategic business stories are too ambiguous, decision makers ask: “What do you expect me to do with this information?

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should you create a fake workload to test how much pressure an employee can take?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: My husband works for a small firm founded by veterans. Last week, his supervisor assigned him an extreme amount of work, including some tasks that weren’t fully feasible. He ended up working back-to-back, 11-hour, stress-filled days, including starting the second day at 6 am. At some point on the second day, he communicated to his boss that he could not meet the stated goals despite his ongoing efforts.

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Employee Communication Strategies That Work for a Virtual Workforce

Cisive

Many of our teams and employees are now working from home. HR teams have had to find new ways to engage, build relationships, and share company updates and information, along with HR changes and resources virtually. We are competing for attention as our employees deal with personal struggles and challenges including sick loved ones and family members as well as finding ways to entertain kids at home with limited childcare options while working remotely.

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How Telcos Can Groom Talent for the Trillion-dollar 5G Opportunity

Eightfold

5G is not just the next generation of telecom technology. It is probably one of the greatest technological shifts in our society. At its peak (high band and above) it has potential to change the world into a fairytale land we have seen in sci-fi movies, a digital city with flying cars, intelligent roads, and smart homes. 5G has the potential to power all of those.

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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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150 Famous Transgender People

Ongig

We found many famous transgender people as part of our research on successful diverse people. This list of 150 famous transgender celebrities include models, athletes, entrepreneurs, activists, musicians, authors, and more. Famous Transgender Models. We found quite a few famous transgender models. Many of them have been very successful despite some adversity.

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How to increase employee engagement and happiness during the pandemic

HR Digest

COVID-19 is an uncertain pandemic time! It is more stressful for managers and employers to handle their employees remotely or having employees in the office who are in constant fear of the pandemic situation. In such a case, it is essential for them to handle the employees carefully and keep them motivated and engaged in work. Many effective mechanisms would help them to cope with the stress of the situation with the following practices: .

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Meet the HR Tech keynote speakers: Josh Bersin

HRExecutive

This is the first in a series introducing our keynote speakers and their HR Tech Conference content. Check back soon for more. *. Like most, Josh Bersin is spending hours every day on video calls; for Bersin, the content of those calls is largely focused on the strategies and innovations to make today’s—and tomorrow’s—workplaces more tenable for employees, given the disruption of the pandemic.

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DEI in Logistics: These 4 Companies Are Setting the Example Across the Industry

Eightfold

Year after year, the biggest names in logistics make the top lists of best companies to work for, inclusive companies, and respected employers. And these shipping companies have an excellent track record with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), which only bolsters their employer brands. But as Deloitte’s Mona A. Maurelli and Adam Mussomeli write, logistics companies are thinking more broadly than that about DEI.

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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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You’re Invited to the World’s Largest Virtual HR Conference

BambooHR

Whew, what a year! Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, events of all sizes—from neighborhood cookouts to the Olympic Summer Games—have been postponed or canceled. But.

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Viewpoint: Conduct Careful Background Checks for Racism

SHRM Resources

Following racially fraught incidents, checking for evidence of racism has become a key litmus test for corporate recruiting and hiring. Companies can no longer afford the fallout of installing candidates with problematic pasts in top positions.

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The taboos we don’t talk about: managing lifestyle conditions in the workplace

HR Zone

People The taboos we don’t talk about.

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