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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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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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The Engagement Engine: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Culture

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

Many companies strive for a positive culture with happy employees. But what if you could achieve more? High-performing cultures are the McLarens of the business world, leaving Camrys in the dust. They unlock exceptional results by fostering innovation, engagement, and continuous growth. In this webinar, we'll demystify the concept and provide practical steps to kickstart the journey toward a high-performing culture in your organization.

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Pilot Groups or Sandboxes: Which Is Better for Your Implementation

HR Bartender

It’s always a good idea when we’re creating change or implementing something new to make every attempt to mitigate our mistakes. In software development, many organizations use a process called agile to do that. Agile is when a larger process is broken down into smaller steps or milestones. After each step, the development team debriefs their progress and makes any necessary revisions moving forward.

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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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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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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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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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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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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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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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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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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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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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The Employer’s Guide to Early Cancer Detection

A comprehensive early detection strategy for cancer is no longer a nice-to-have for employers; it’s a must. The reality is 1 in 2 women and 1 in 3 men will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives, and the physical, emotional, and financial impact on both employees and employers is great. To help improve your employees’ health outcomes and reduce cancer-related costs, download The Employer’s Guide to Early Detection.

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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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Here’s a preview of the Sierra-Cedar/Sapient Insights survey

HRExecutive

Each spring, Stacey Harris spends considerable time and effort getting the Sierra-Cedar/Sapient Insights HR Systems Survey off the ground. The project is the HR industry’s longest-running, most distributed research effort, collecting insights on the adoption and deployment of HR technology, and the innovative tech strategies organizations are implementing.

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Workflow Learning with Conrad Gottfredson

Looop.co

At the beginning of 2020, David James spoke with Conrad Gottfredson, pioneer of Workflow Learning and The 5 Moments of […]. The post Workflow Learning with Conrad Gottfredson appeared first on Looop.

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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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Effective Ways of Managing Employee Absenteeism

6Q

Backlog, reduced productivity, and an eventual loss in income are just some of the effects of employee absenteeism. This article explains. We might often think that employees being repeatedly absent only affects the organisation, but this is not true. It affects the rest of the staff as well. The continually absent team member can harm team dynamics, pose a safety risk when less qualified employees are called to fill in for the absentee, and even affect morale.

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How to align recruitment with company values

HR Zone

Acquisition Recruiting for values.

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The Pandemic has been hard on HR pros!

The Tim Sackett Project

If we sat down and started to list out who has been most impacted by the pandemic on the jobs front, we would come up with a pretty interesting list! The vast number of unemployed would show us that almost everyone has been impacted, and, quite frankly, it kind of feels that way. If we dig into the data side of what has really happened over the last six months, the picture looks less bleak for some, and a little scary for many, especially us HR pros.

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The Reskilling Revolution versus the ‘clay layer’

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

News reports and blogs are filled with references to the need for reskilling and upskilling large swaths of the global population over the next 5-10 years. Reskilling initiatives abound in government legislative agendas and corporate strategic plans. As a society, we see the need for reskilling as technological advances and automation make existing job roles obsolete and create new job roles that didn’t previously exist (e.g., artificial intelligence and robotic process automation).

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Trending Payroll Statistics

Staying up-to-date on the latest decisions and payroll statistics ensures businesses can remain compliant and efficient. B2B Reviews research compiled the latest data to help businesses stay on top of payroll in 2024 and prepare for the future.

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4 Methods to Shortlist Candidates for a Perfect Hire

Vantage Circle

One of the most crucial responsibilities of an H.R. is hiring. It makes up for a large part of the job and rightfully so. Hiring the right people is a pre-requisite to a successful business. After all, it is the workforce that does all the work, so you must have the right individuals in your group. It is for these reasons why hiring is a must-have talent for all H.R. managers.

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Why HR professionals are most at risk of burnout

HR Zone

People How to avoid HR burnout.

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How to Improve Employee Engagement

Quantum Workplace

Employee engagement is a hot topic. And it’s no wonder. Employee engagement is linked to lower turnover, increased productivity, and improved business performance. But improving employee engagement isn’t always simple.