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20 Ways to Improve Mental Health in Your Workplace 

EmployeeConnect

Mental health in the workplace should be a top priority for every organization because of its immense significance for employee well-being. Consider this: 59% of employees reported mental health issues in the workplace in 2021. It is a significant uptick in mental health-related numbers at workplaces. In addition, 4% of all sick leaves from workplaces are related to mental health problems.

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Talent Acquisition Analytics: Why You Need It & 5 Tips For Success

Analytics in HR

Analyzing a variety of talent acquisition data and metrics helps you build strong strategies and processes to attract, select, and hire candidates. Let’s explore everything you need to know about talent acquisition analytics, the benefits, and how to get started on your journey. Contents What is talent acquisition analytics? Talent acquisition metrics Benefits of talent acquisition analytics How to make talent acquisition analytics work for you: 5 tips.

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Equity vs. Equality in the Workplace: An HR’s Manual

Analytics in HR

While equity and equality sound similar, they are different concepts, whether in the context of the wider society or in the workplace. Let’s look at the differences between equity vs. equality in the workplace and how you can shift from equality toward equity within your organization. Contents What is equality in the workplace? What does equity mean in a workplace?

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Watch Out California Employers: SB 1162 On Track To Become Law

Trusaic

California’s latest pay equity legislation, SB 1162 passed the State Assembly Appropriations Committee late last week. . It’s good news for the Golden State as it continues to lead the way in equal pay initiatives. If passed, SB 1162 would become one of the most aggressive pay equity laws in the U.S. . The bill still needs to pass both the state Assembly and Senate Floors before landing on Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk.

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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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How to Keep Candidates Engaged in the Recruitment Process

Hppy

Most employers have an onboarding program, but few are able to keep candidates invested in the process. 33% of new hires start looking for a new job within six months , and 23% leave in under a year. If you have a hire turnover rate, your recruitment process is likely the culprit. As the job market becomes more competitive, you can’t afford to lose talent before, during, or after recruitment.

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Virtual Workplaces and Isolation

NoExcusesHR

Working remotely has massive upsides…some of the time. It affords flexibility that is not typically available in traditional office settings. And that’s great…I guess. I’ve been living a remote work life for more than seven years. Long before the pandemic and masks and paranoia. The first five had me on the road so much it was as if I (kind of) still worked in a corporate setting, I simply commuted to work via Southwest Airlines.

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Should Employers Relax Background Checks to Overcome Hiring Challenges?

Sterling Check

The Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) recently published an article exploring a new trend taking place among short-staffed businesses navigating the unprecedented challenges of today’s job market: cutting back on background check requirements. Certainly, many employers face significant difficulties when trying to hire new talent. As the author points out, in the past few years, businesses have encountered one unforeseeable challenge after the next.

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Don’t Let the Skills Gap Swallow Your Organization

Degreed

When I hear “skills gap,” I think of a chasm as wide as the Grand Canyon quaking, like it’s the backdrop for the penultimate scene in a bad 90s action movie. Maybe I’m a little dramatic, but the skills gap is really rocking the talent development space lately — and it’s only getting worse. From the United States to France and Germany to India, the rapid pace of change is being felt across the world.

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The 5 Stages of Digital Maturity

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. There’s a great series in Harvard Business Review talking about “ The Digitally Literate Organization ”. The first segment in the series is focused on giving everyone in the organization the capacity to innovate. There’s a lot of information to take in, but I would recommend checking it out when you have time. One of the pieces in the article that I particularly liked was a chart that outlined the stages of digital maturity.

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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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How to Conduct an Interview Effectively

Intoo USA

The purpose of an interview is to get to know your applicant, but they’re also an opportunity to leave them with a positive first impression of you and your business. If you’re unfamiliar with holding interviews and what best practice is, you could make mistakes that negatively represent the company. The following tips will help you to conduct effective interviews and better understand your interviewee.

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Leading a Meeting? Up Your Game by Knowing This Key Point

The People Equation

Meetings at your company aren’t going away. If anything, that much-maligned beast is growing in prominence, thanks to the remnants of the surge of video meetings created by the pandemic. Meeting attendance ranges from a weekly average of 15% when spread across all job types, to upwards of 70% of an executive’s week. So, yeah. Meetings are a thing. And if you run meetings, it’s your job to make sure they’re as effective as possible. .

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6 Ways to Achieve Increased Productivity Without Burnout

Hppy

Employee burnout can be a genuine problem in progress and profit-driven businesses. As managers chase esteemed customers and demand more of their workers’ time and energy, many of those workers start to feel the effects of being pushed to their professional limits. . It’s easy to assume that long working hours and high-pressure environments can equate to high productivity levels, but there are easier ways to achieve the same goals.

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Where‘s the ROI?: The Complexities of Calculating Wellness ROI

CoreHealth Wellness Technologies

In this opinion piece, CoreHealth’s Managing Director Anne Marie Kirby gives her 20+ years of experiential insight on the complexities of calculating wellness ROI.

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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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update: I’m working 2 full-time remote jobs — is this unethical?

Ask a Manager

This post, update: I’m working 2 full-time remote jobs — is this unethical? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. Remember the letter-writer who was working two full-time remote jobs and wondering if it was unethical? Here’s the update. I wrote to you late last year about how I was working two full-time director level jobs and was debating the ethicality of doing so.

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Developing Your (Office) Political Savvy – Positively

The People Equation

When you hear the phrase “office politics,” what comes to mind? Do you imagine: Favoritism Back-stabbing “Makes me want to run and hide” Cronyism Self-interest. It’s not a pretty list, is it? Whenever I talk with people about “office politics” their viewpoints have a negative theme associated with them. These words represent the dark side of human nature – what I call “people behaving badly” at work.

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Smoking and Health Care Costs: How Soon After Quitting Do Companies See Savings?

EX Program

Smoking and health care costs are like mosquitoes and bug bites; they often appear together. But what happens when someone quits smoking? How soon will your company start to see health care cost savings? Here’s what the research shows. Impact of smoking on health care costs If you’re with an employer or health plan, you’ve [.]. Read More. from Smoking and Health Care Costs: How Soon After Quitting Do Companies See Savings?

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Beat recruitment bottlenecks in a fast-growth company

HR Zone

Acquisition How to beat the hiring bottleneck.

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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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a real-life salary negotiation, with emails

Ask a Manager

This post, a real-life salary negotiation, with emails , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I wanted to share my success story with negotiating a higher salary for a job offer I received. I work in the social services/addiction/mental health field. I’ve worked in this field for 11 years. I was working as a front-line supervisor for a program for adults who had major mental illnesses when I was encouraged to apply for a position at a different employer tha

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Yes, you should apply for that job

Evil HR Lady

In college, I wanted to take a pottery class. I knew, however, that I have no innate talent, so it was unlikely I could get a good grade in such a class, so I didn’t take it. Looking back on that experience, I realize how ridiculous I was. It was a 0.5 credit class. I probably could have taken it pass/fail instead of graded so it wouldn’t influence my GPA.

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How Boomerang Employees Can Supercharge Your Recruiting Efforts

Cisive

While no organization plans for a valuable employee to exit, it can be incredibly beneficial — for the company and the employee — when they return after some time away. These are called “boomerang” employees and they are a growing source of candidates that can be an essential part of your recruiting strategy. “Boomerang employees” are former employees who may return to your company at some point with more diverse experience along with existing knowledge that allows them to hit the ground running

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10 Tough Questions You Must Ask In Your Next Job Interview

HR Digest

When you’re in a job interview, the more prepared you are, the better your chances of landing that dream position. Having these 10 tough interview questions and answers will help you get ahead of the competition and show your interviewer that you’re a go-getter who won’t be satisfied with anything less than a dream job. What are the tough questions to ask in an interview?

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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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I flashed my entire team during a video call

Ask a Manager

This post, I flashed my entire team during a video call , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I would love any and all advice on this because I’m sincerely lost on what to do. To preface this, I do have a privacy camera cover which makes this mistake even more avoidable. I work remotely and during a morning meeting with our entire team, I noticed an incessant knocking at my door, I picked up my phone to message (presumably) my roommate that I was in

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How can the squeezed generation find serenity?

HR Zone

Employees How can the squeezed generation find serenity?

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How to Be Positive When You Don’t Feel It Inside

6Q

Life can throw challenges our way, and we have moments when we can’t find the strength to stay positive. But how to be positive when you don’t feel it inside? Being positive is a choice we make, and it is within our power to change our perspective and outlook on life, no matter how hard things might seem. It’s easy to get caught up in negative thinking and let our emotions take over.

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Want your organization to be successful tomorrow? Focus on a skills-based approach today

TLNT: The Business of HR

Call me out-fashioned, but I’m firmly of the school that you can’t always believe everything you hear from business consultants.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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my coworker saves hair, applying for a job with a huge salary range, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, my coworker saves hair, applying for a job with a huge salary range, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…. 1. My coworker saves hair. My coworker has a lot of odd quirks and strange things that she does in general. I’m incredibly bothered by one thing she does and am wondering if it’s as disgusting as I think?

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How to Get a Loan to Open a Dispensary: 11 Creative Ways

Embroker

You want to enter into the cannabis industry, and now you want to know how to get a loan to open a dispensary. The legal sale of cannabis grew to $25 billion in the US in 2021 , a 40% increase from 2020. It’s a budding industry that’s only beginning to flourish: cannabis is currently fully legal in 19 states and for medical use in 38 —with more likely to follow.

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Episode 365: HiBob and Workology HR Benchmark Survey With Zoe Haimovitch – Part III

Workology

Today’s episode is about the first HR Benchmark Survey that Hibob and Wokology recently launched and we wanted to share its results through a Webinar we named “Key Roles in HR: Uncovering New Trends & Research” A full hour in which we were diving into the role of Human Resources with discussions on how we, as […]. The post Episode 365: HiBob and Workology HR Benchmark Survey With Zoe Haimovitch – Part III appeared first on Workology.