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How To Unlock Your Remote Workforce Engagement

15Five

Working remotely has previously been an exception few companies were willing to make for their people. In fact, up until the early 70’s, telecommuting was unheard of. Office optics determined how you were perceived by your manager and co-workers, and being “absent” meant you were not contributing. But new companies are now rethinking their remote workforce policies along with other cultural and performance strategies.

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Stagnating Minds Kill Employee Engagement

Great Place to Work

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Helping Callie (@SHRMCallieZ)

True Faith HR

I've been teaching for nearly 25 years, and have probably taught over 5,000 students. Few, if any, have combined the wit, charm, and intelligence of Callie Zipple. Callie is simply one of the best students I’ve had the opportunity to teach. Sitting in my statistic course, she knew she could earn extra credit for attending bi-monthly meetings of the St.

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Recruiting experts’ top 9 strategies to hire the best talent

HR Morning

In a perfect world, HR pros like yourselves would take as much time as necessary to find that great hire. But the reality is, you have many more tasks than just hiring to focus on, and managers are typically pestering you to find someone ASAP. The good news? No matter the size of your company or the time frame you have to make a hire, you can still find the best talent out there.

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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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How Physician Employment Is Changing — and What It Means for Healthcare Systems

Precheck

How Physician Employment Is Changing — and What It Means for Healthcare Systems Jul. 9, 2019. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. All business sectors have to adapt to survive in today’s consumer-driven culture, and that includes healthcare. Traditional physician-owned-and-operated practices are diminishing. Research by the American Medical Association notes that in 2018, there were fewer physician owners than physicians employed by larger healthcare networks.

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How Can We Fix the Exit Interview Process? [Reader Question]

UpstartHR

When I left my last job, I had an exit interview where my employer asked me all kinds of questions about my satisfaction and why I was leaving, but I didn’t answer honestly because I was already leaving. Do they actually use that information or was the exit interview a waste of time? The Value of Exit Interviews. Exit interviews are the process by which employers talk with exiting employees anywhere from a day to a week before they depart the company, asking questions about their satisfact

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Helping employees understand key benefits terms

PeopleStrategy

According to a recent survey , 35 percent of employees don’t understand their healthcare coverage, and another 33 percent don’t understand their medical bills. And, sadly, almost two-thirds (62 percent) of survey participants said their employer is not a resource for healthcare-related questions. While the terminology related to healthcare and employee benefits may be second nature to HR professionals and benefits administrators, it is a good bet many of the terms are unknown or misu

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10 Shocking Stats on Employee Disengagement

Achievers

Companies spend more than $100 billion every year trying to improve employee engagement in the workplace. Despite their efforts, employee engagement numbers remain under 35 percent. It’s vital for employers to understand the role employee disengagement plays in overall business success. Here’s a look at ten shocking stats on employee disengagement. 1.

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my boss pees in a cup and dumps it in the kitchen sink

Ask a Manager

Warning: This is a really gross letter. A reader writes: What can we do with a boss who urinates in a cup in his office and then dumps it in the kitchen sink even when we (all women) are sitting there eating lunch? We are certain of what is in the cup because it smells, is yellow, and it sits right on his credenza in plain view. He’s even left it outside the office, forgetting to empty it.

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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 Find and Hire a Full Stack Developer?

TalentLyft

Looking for a full stack developer ? This guide is chock full of the best tips and pro tricks for finding and hiring full stack developers. Find out exactly what you should be looking for in a full stack developer, where to find the best ones and what to ask them in an interview. Read More.

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4 Ways HR Leaders Can Establish a Reputation as a Service Leader

TalentCulture

Your reputation is everything as an HR leader, and it’s composed of a variety of inputs from your colleagues, clients and partners. These inputs include elements such as the quality of your work, timeliness to meetings and your ability to work well with others. But one major aspect of reputation that’s often overlooked is the level of service you deliver to your colleagues, clients and partners.

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Want to improve candidate experience? Change the piping.

HR Examiner

“In our industry most activities for a better candidate experience are scratching the surface. They are well meaning but they don’t change the process, they don’t change the piping.” - Felix Wetzel Do you want to improve the candidate experience? Change the process. Change the piping. Change the candidate journey. Among the many reasons Amazon has become a consumer juggernaut is the way it has restructured the supply chain to deliver products at incredible speed with hardly any e

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I responded angrily to a rejection — can I get them to consider me again?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’ve applied twice to a long established small theater troupe on a farm. I followed the specific instructions to apply to this summer and last summer’s first session apprenticeship. Well, last year I was rejected and here starts the problem. It seems I must have missed the deadline because their response said they were full. When I read the rejection email, unfortunately I reacted defensively and aggressively.

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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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135 Powerful Resume Action Verbs for Creative Positions

HR Digest

It’s easy to get resume action verbs wrong. That’s probably why they’ve gotten such a bad reputation – most people dump action words to get past automated scanning tools. It’s even worse if your expertise doesn’t line up cleanly with the position you’re applying for. A better approach is to be specific about your goal and how you intend to bring your skills and expertise to the position.

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#WorkTrends: How Video Can Make Hiring More Human

TalentCulture

Video may have killed the radio star, but it’s doing the exact opposite for the recruitment process — it’s making it stronger and more dynamic. We’re seeing the rise of video in all aspects of recruiting, from branding and marketing to the interview process itself. There’s a lot to sort through, and it can be enormously intimidating. So to help guide us through the wide world of video, we turned to Elena Valentine, filmmaker and […].

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House Committee Passes Bill to Ban Employment Credit Checks

SHRM Resources

The House Committee on Financial Services on July 11 passed legislation that would prohibit employers from using credit reports for employment decisions, except when required by law or for a national security clearance.

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How the Workforce Learns 2019: The ROI on Learning Experience

Degreed

When it comes to how we learn at work, we’ve got work to do. That’s why we’ve joined forces with Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning to study the anthropology behind how the workforce learns. Our latest research shows that the businesses making a positive learning experience a priority have healthier, more productive cultures, and more engaged, better performing, more adaptable workforces.

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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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A diversity of thoughts on diversity of thought

HR Examiner

“While there can be value in talking about cognitive diversity as a different kind of diversity, there is no way to truly divorce it from identity.” – Joe Gerstandt. I used to focus quite a bit of my work on diversity of thought, or cognitive diversity, which speaks to differences in thinking styles, heuristics, and perspectives that exist between people.

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#WorkTrends: Ask These Questions to Change the Employee Experience

TalentCulture

It seems kind of crazy that “employee experience” has only now become a buzzword in our industry. I mean, don’t we all want to work in the best environment possible? But even if it’s taken a while to make it into the lexicon, the concept of employee experience is here to stay. So how does HR build the best experience possible for employees? To find out, we spoke to longtime HR practitioner and problem-solver Mary […].

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Overtime Rule May Be Issued Faster Under New DOL Leadership

SHRM Resources

Employers can expect to see change more quickly at the Department of Labor (DOL), including issuance of a final overtime rule perhaps as soon as by the end of the year, now that it’s under new leadership—new Acting Labor Secretary Patrick Pizzella.

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3 Keys to Building an Ethical Culture

Cisive

In the wake of corporate scandals at Wells Fargo and other businesses, many consumers have concerns regarding trust. In fact, a 2017 survey found that only 52 percent of respondents trust big business. So what tactics can HR employ to build trust — not just with the public, but within the company culture? “It is essential to adopt ethics as part of corporate conversation, whether it’s in a leadership meeting or brainstorming about a new product,” says Patti Perez , Vice President of Workpl

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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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How to improve culture with real-time feedback?

Take It Personel-ly

Feedback is essential to every organization and individual in order to grow. It seems, though, that some organizations are stuck with annual feedback. This means employees only receive feedback on their work once a year in an official meeting. In order for them to really improve and thrive, employees need more than that. Real-time VS […].

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Presenteeism and leaveism: can you recognise these attendance problems in your workplace?

HR Zone

Culture. Presenteeism and leaveism in the office.

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How to Improve Efficiency in Your Business

Workology

When it comes to running a business, processes and systems can always be improved, no matter how smoothly your company is running. Whether it’s a project that gets delayed or unproductive meetings, Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Courts: Legal pot clashes with zero-tolerance drug test policies

HR Morning

Courts have historically found marijuana-positive drug tests sufficient grounds to terminate an employee or refuse to hire someone. Employers were safe to move forward without worrying about whether the individual was approved to use medical marijuana or if an employee was actually impaired while at work. Now, however, many states and local jurisdictions are enacting or considering anti-discrimination laws that prohibit employers taking adverse action against employees for failing a drug test, e

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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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10 Instant Energy Boosting Tips To Avoid Mid-Day Slump

Take It Personel-ly

We’ve all experienced it. The fatigue, difficulty in concentrating, the droopy eyelids! It’s the much dreaded ‘mid-day slump. And, we all know just how much of a toll it can take on our productivity. If only there was some way to kick it off. Well, as it turns out there is! Check out these 10 […].

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Refusing to Rehire Worker Who Filed EEO Charge Is Unlawful

SHRM Resources

Claims of retaliation—mostly in the forms of demoting, disciplining or terminating employees—are the charges most frequently filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). A recent lawsuit reminds employers that refusing to rehire someone who filed a discrimination claim against the company is also illegal.

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a follow-up on the boss dumping pee in the sink … with Ask a Clean Person

Ask a Manager

After Monday’s letter about the boss who pees in a cup and dumps it in the kitchen sink , I asked the brilliant Jolie Kerr of Ask a Clean Person to weigh in. Jolie is a cleaning expert, advice columnist, host of the podcast Ask a Clean Person , and a regular contributor to the New York Times. (She wrote an amazing recent profile of Charo !) There is no better person to answer the many burning questions that many of us had about the cleanliness element of this debacle.

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