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Is Genius Hour right for the workplace?

Jostle

Imagine: one hour a day, your employees work on whatever they want to work on. No supervision, no input unless they want it, just one hour where your employees do what inspires them.

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7 Effective Techniques to Boost Employee Morale Without Increasing Salaries

Kazoo

Employee morale. Wikipedia defines it as job satisfaction or a feeling of well-being in the workplace. But morale offers more than just happiness. Research shows a clear link between employees’ morale and better job performance. Companies that use employee morale boosters see a benefit to their bottom line. The opposite is also true. Gallup estimates that actively disengaged employees (i.e. low morale) cost the U.S. $483 billion to $605 billion each year in lost productivity.

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To Increase Innovation, Productivity and Retention, A Learning Culture is Key

Cornerstone On Demand

This article originally appeared in TLNT. I've spent my career on learning: It's in my job title. I've studied the psychology of learning, and I've been involved in helping everyone from executives to middle schoolers get better at it. I've learned a lot myself in that time — including that learning is consistently pushed last on the priority list.

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8 Steps for Starting Your Recruitment Agency

Manatal

Recruitment agencies don’t just identify and contact candidates for their clients. They aim to provide better career choices for the candidates as well. This win-win spirit is what motivates a recruiter to do their best every day. If you are keen on starting your own recruitment business to help more dreams come true, you should know these 8 key steps.

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Investing in HR Software: How to Get Internal Buy-in

Buying HR software is a major decision. That’s why finding the right provider based on your needs and ensuring key decision makers are on board is vital. Download Paycor’s guide for tips to address common concerns across your buying committee.

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6. How does a Recruitment Agency choose an ATS or CRM?

Recruit CRM

In this article, I will specifically cover software (ATS/CRM) for the ‘Permanent Recruitment ‘ business. Software for temping agencies (or Contract Staffing Agencies) is a different ballgame and will be covered in a later article. Do you require an ATS/CRM? Many agencies at the startup stage prefer working on google […] Source.

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The Global Labor Trends Driving the Robot “Takeover”

Visier

While the phrase “ future of work ” is a buzzy phrase that means many things to many people, I see it as a transition point. Every couple of decades, there’s a whole new version of the future of work. Take the Industrial Revolution in the 1700-1800s as a recent example. Workers went from creating goods painstakingly by hand to automating some of this through new manufacturing processes.

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How to Protect Yourself From Biased Analytics

Ultimate Software

From time to time, we invite guest contributors to provide their personal perspectives about trending HCM topics. The views, opinions, and comments expressed below are solely those of the author and do not represent Ultimate Software. This post was commissioned by Ultimate Software and the author has or will receive compensation for their work. Analytics are super cool.

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Read These Top Articles For Greater Organizational Agility

15Five

Disruptive companies aren’t created by accident. In order to hold this badge of honor, a business must successfully change how people think and behave. This is quite a tall order, especially for those companies just getting off the ground. While there’s a recipe for each business that makes it unique, only the top companies deliver innovative ideas that destroy all old ways of doing something.

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Office Workplace Health Risks: Computers, Screens, Sitting, and More

UpstartHR

In the digital world we live in, we spend a TON of time work on computers and mobile devices. Screens aren’t just part of our work life–they are how we interact with most people during the course of the workday. This isn’t a natural experience for us and it’s now how we were designed to operate, which means we must take care or we’ll inevitably run into issues with our health.

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Secrets to the Switch: Choosing the Best HR Software in 2023

Speaker: Patrick Sayers - President, Newcastle Research

Does your organization need more productivity (and less pain) from your HR software? With the increase of technology-dependent remote work and highly sophisticated cyber threats on the rise, it's critical to successfully implement an HR platform that can help your organization see actionable information in real-time to hit all your key workforce KPIs.

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Top Three Support Systems Your Business Needs to Thrive

Hppy

It is important to remember that a business is not a solo entity. It needs to rely on others to thrive, be it suppliers, customers or employees. Businesses are social, and HR managers and personnel are at the forefront of ensuring it is. After all, businesses are human-led, and therefore human resources is a critical aspect, but it is not the only support system an enterprise needs to succeed. .

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How Does Your Brand Impact Your Organization’s Talent Purchasing Power?

Allegis Global Solutions

Who would you rather work for: Apple or Agility? Google or Galantis? Make no mistake, brand awareness has a huge impact on people’s desire to work for one company over another. It is one of the most used methods by talent acquisition teams to attract talent to an organization. (By the way Agility and Galantis are made up, in case you were going to go research them).

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2019 Unemployment Rates You Need to Know

Hyrell

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released it's annual interactive unemployment rate map. We've included a quick image of the map below, or you can the image to use the interactive version on their website. To make it even easier, we've included the table below to all 50 States, plus Washington D.C and Puerto Rico. Have some more information we should include?

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Understanding Employee Growth: 5 Ways to Support Their Skill Development

Justworks

It’s been proven in study after study: employees who feel engaged at a company are more inclined to stick around longer. Companies with engaged employees also have 202% better performance than companies with low employee engagement. And while there’s a lot of focus in online content around different tactics to engage employees and offer them professional development opportunities at work, there’s less advice about how to support them at different stages of that employee growth.

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2023 HR Technology Trends: What's New and What's Next

Speaker: Ben Eubanks - Chief Research Officer, Lighthouse Research & Advisory

The world of HR has changed so much in recent years, and so have the technologies and tools that support HR and talent leaders. But frankly, keeping up with the ever-changing HR tech landscape can feel like another full-time job. That's why we're sharing with you this webinar session with Ben Eubanks, Chief Research Officer for Lighthouse Research & Advisory.

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Best of HR Blogs: March 2019

TalentLyft

This list of 5 best HR blogs published in March 2019 will get you up to date with the latest trends and insights in Human Resources. If you’re an HR professional looking for a stimulating read, these blog posts are your perfect choice. Read More.

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How Diversity Can Elevate Your Organisation’s Performance and Creativity

Allegis Global Solutions

Diversity of talent has been one of the most discussed developments within recruitment in recent years, with organisations now better understanding the links between a more diverse workforce and increased levels of business performance.

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7 Side Income Ideas for Human Resource Specialists

CakeHR

As a Human Resource Specialist, you might have noticed that you have some free time between recruiting, administration work, and improving employee relations. The thought may have crossed your mind that maybe you could be spending your time making a bit of side income. After all, who doesn’t need more money? As a HR specialist, you have valuable skills that can be incorporated into a myriad of different jobs outside of your current position.

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How to Manage Your Remote Workforce Easily

SutiHR

For any business, whether it is a large corporation or a small enterprise managing remote teams is always a challenge. Teams succeed on shared culture and values, and for culture to nurture organically, the employees need regular contact with one another to feel connected and to create trust and effective relationships. Regular communication is important.

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The HR Leader’s Guide to Recruiting & Hiring

62% of Paycor survey respondents say we’re in a permanent talent shortage. By 2030, we’ll see more jobs than workers (BCG).

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8 Examples of Giving Positive Feedback to Employees

TalentLyft

Most managers think that giving positive feedback to employees is simple. However, simply saying “Great job!” isn’t enough if you want to give a meaningful, productive feedback that will really stick with your employees and reinforce their positive behavior. Read More.

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Changing How Talent is Acquired: The Demands of Multi-Channel Global Sourcing

Allegis Global Solutions

Employers today have numerous options for sourcing talent. The right worker may be anywhere in the world, and that person may be reached through many different channels of communication and interaction. Social media, job boards, freelancer sites, agencies, and even the company’s own candidate database may all be sources of new talent.

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15 Incredibly Useful Tips To Drive High Team Performance

Vantage Circle

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” - BABE RUTH. The age-old question of how to bring teams together and encourage a culture of collaboration has troubled managers for decades now. You have the best employees in the market and yet that doesn’t convert to any results.

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Overcoming Challenges of the Idiosyncratic Rater Effect

Performance Culture

Combatting Rater Bias in Performance Reviews. Ratings, scoring, and assessments of people don’t tend to invite warm, fuzzy feelings in most. On the contrary, negative. The post Overcoming Challenges of the Idiosyncratic Rater Effect appeared first on Performance Culture.

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Upskilling HR: Future-Proof Your HR Career

Speaker: Jeanne Achille - CEO, The Devon Group

Is your HR department running around barefoot like the shoemaker's children? If so, you're on a collision course with the ever-changing realities of the workplace, which necessitate strong HR tech skills. In this webinar, we'll look at why HR should invest in learning to ensure organizational resiliency and employee retention. Consider it self-care as we discuss how to future-proof your own career through the opportunities provided by upskilling.

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How ThoughtFarmer achieved a negative churn rate

ThoughtFarmer

When I first heard that our customer success team had achieved a negative churn rate, I thought it was a mistake. I mean really, a “negative churn rate?!” How is that even possible? But, as it turns out, they weren’t lying. It was real. Our customer success team really had achieved the impossible. If you have trouble getting your head around the topic of churn rate, let me break it down a little bit: customer churn is defined as when an existing customer, user, subscriber or any kind of return c

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Top 10 Chatbots to transform your conversation landscape in 2019!

SurveySparrow

Imagine assigning a companion to each of your customer for their complete customer journey. Someone who can maintain proactive communication, tirelessly, 24×7. Someone who can turn the entire search process into a conversation. Sounds like a unicorn, doesn’t it? The technology of machine learning has made this a reality and its name is Chatbots.

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How the exit interview fails the company

HRNasty

Keep employees engaged so they don’t think about giving their two-week notice. Does your company conduct exit interviews? Last week I blogged about employees turning in their two-week notice. As an HR person, it has been my experience that more than half the employees leave a company without saying anything to their manager about what causes the disconnect.

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Waggl wins Best Places to Work award for 2nd year in a row

Waggl

This week, Waggl was honored by the S an Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal as a Best Place to Work in the Bay Area. Honorees celebrated last night at an awards event at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square. At Waggl, we are small but mighty. Coming in this year at #10 in the smallest business category reminds us that we have an exciting journey of growth ahead of us.

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Employee Open Enrollment Letter Template

When it comes to benefits, communication is critical. To help you easily explain your offerings at open enrollment, Paycor created an open enrollment sample letter (and a few tips). Download this free Employee Open Enrollment Letter Template today.