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5 ways to claim ownership of your company’s employee engagement

Ceridian

Just about everyone who works in HCM understands the importance of maximizing employee retention and productivity. Your people are your greatest asset in business, and the best companies look to get a strong return on their staffing investments. They work hard to keep their employees around, keep them focused and push them to achieve. To do […].

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3 Secrets To Leading A Multi-Everything Blended Workforce

TalentCulture

The new normal in terms of the workforce is not just multi-generational or global. It’s multi-everything. Working alongside each other are permanent payroll employees and all kinds of contingent workers. A recent government report found that 40.4% of the U.S. workforce is composed of contingent workers , and the numbers are trending up. For a slice of reality, I hopped on Glassdoor and typed in, “Google contingency worker” jobs.

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Why Aligning Corporate Goals Takes More than Just Software

ClearCompany HRM

Most of the time when we approach goals, we do it from a corporate angle. After all, that makes the most sense. The reason you hire people is to reach the organizational goals of the company. It’s why they get a paycheck, says traditional thinking. But we know today that engagement skyrockets and employees are more fulfilled (and productive) when they understand those organization goals.

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22 HR Twitter Lists You Should Be Following

cipHR

Twitter is one of the top resources on the internet when it comes to the latest news and updates from all over the world on every topic imaginable. Brands use Twitter to reach customers, engage with their followers and ensure that they stay up to date with industry news. Individuals can use the service to increase their professional knowledge, engage with influencers and remain aware of whats happening in their profession, in real time.

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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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California Company Appeals NLRB Decision on Joint-Employer Standard

HRWatchdog

Waste services company Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc. (BFI) has filed a legal challenge to the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) expansive decision redefining the joint employer standard. Last summer, as previously reported , the NLRB departed from the long-standing joint-employer test it previously used which focused on the extent a company exercised direct control over working conditions before the company could be found to be a joint employer.

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Working with Employees to Attain Your Big Hairy Audacious Goal

ClearCompany HRM

We’re glad you joined us on our ClearCompany goals series. Last time, we discussed just how to align goals with your employees. If you haven’t read the goal alignment post: Why Goal Alignment is About More Than Just Software , we covered understanding employee goals through transparency, how to collect and track that information with a culture of transparency and how to communicate the organizational goals to employees to give their daily work meaning and increase productivity.

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Creating a Culture that Recognizes “Originals”

RecognizeThis!

by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! — Recognizing cultural contribution instead of cultural fit is a valuable way to reinforce the contributions of “Originals.”. I recently caught a piece on the Marketplace Morning radio program, interviewing Adam Grant (one of our WorkHuman speakers from 2015!). He was sharing some of the interesting findings from his new book, Originals.

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Wellness Matters: How Caring for Your Employees’ Health Can Help Your Company’s Bottom Line

Trinet

February is American Heart Month, a time when caring organizations and individuals work to raise awareness about heart disease and ways to prevent it. This time of health consciousness is also a good. Visit site for full story.

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Here Is What the Future of #HR Looks Like

HR Bartender

A wide variety of articles exist about the need for human resources to change. Often those articles talk about the need for HR to be more of a “business partner” or “strategic” or “transformational.” But rarely do we see articles that address what the future jobs in human resources will look like. Well, a group of human resources professionals has taken on the task.

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

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Podcast with Karen Schulman Dupuis – What You Wished Someone Told You…

What is Paul Thinking

Continuing the ongoing podcast series exploring the tips, tricks, and advice you wish someone had provided when you were first starting out in life. In the post that introduced this podcast idea I provided my advice: Don’t assume a title means intelligence. Michael Moon came on the show and talked about understanding cultural fit. And now Karen Schulman Dupuis hops on to talk about mentors, mentoring and having a future “you” to guide your early career decisions.

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3 Keys to Protecting Your Brand During Layoffs: Lessons from HR Leaders

Intoo USA

Guest Post | By Yair Riemer, CMO, Intoo | @YairR – View Yair’s #TalkHR Webinar “ 3 Keys to Protecting Your Brand During A Downsize: Lessons from the Tech Industry.”. The stock market just posted its worst January since 2009. There’s a bit of uncertainty in the air. But regardless of the macroeconomic climate, in boom or bust, all companies experience turnover – and all HR leaders need to be prepared to act as the stewards of their employer brand during these volatile times.

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5 Tips for Setting Achievable Professional Goals

Kazoo

Its goal-setting season and I’m sure many of us are putting off establishing them until the deadline arrives and it’s finally time to have a conversation with our managers. I personally have found this process to be arduous at times, so I am here to tell you that you are not alone. Here is what happens to me. The week after I have set goals, I am all gung-ho, giving myself a pep talk every day about how I can achieve them and acting as my own personal cheerleader.

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How High Performing Companies Manage Change

HR Bartender

A few weeks ago, I published a post titled, “ High Performing Companies Know How to Manage Change.” I received a Twitter response to the piece suggesting that I add a little depth to the post. Let’s start by defining what a high performing company looks like. The best definition I ran across is an organization that delivers profit margins 50-150 percent above industry average.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Improving Leadership Skills to Drive Results

Engage2Excel

In today’s workplace environment where doing more with less is the norm, managers are constantly being pushed to drive better results from their teams. This can prove to be difficult when you have some employees achieving and exceeding goals while others are barely reaching the end zone.

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Five Things I Miss About Working in HR

UpstartHR

I have been on a parallel track to HR for the last year and a half or so, and there are a few things that I miss about my beloved profession. There are other things, as mentioned below, that I certainly appreciate about my current role. For those of you contemplating a step into a consulting or other position outside the “mainstream human resources” function, here are some things you might run across.

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Justwomen 2016: Powerful Advice for Women in Business

Justworks

Pictured left: CEO of Startup Institute, Diane Hessan. Right: Executive VP of Kind Snacks, Lisa Mann. (Photo: Forbes). Throughout their years of experience, Executive VP of Kind Snacks Lisa Mann and CEO of Startup Institute Diane Hessan have continually risen to the top. However, being women in business can come with unique struggles, and unique triumphs.

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Hiring for Biotechnology: 5 Characteristics Early-Stage Companies Should Look for in Employees

Trinet

First in a three-part series from Moleculera Labs on human capital management for biotechnology companies Without question, one critical success factor for all biotechnology companies is the ability. Visit site for full story.

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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Keeping up with disruption: Why every trend isn’t for your business

The Aristocracy of HR

001040001130 There is nothing but trouble to follow when we believe that we can be all things to all people. We also endanger any good we have the potential of doing by feverishly jumping on every fad. I can remember so many days in HR reading articles about the trends for the year the next […].

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[Infographic] The Benchmark of Successful Internal Email Campaigns

Hppy

Even though social communication is on the rise, email remains a reliable ally for most workplaces and it can be a powerful channel for employee engagement. We recently discussed business transparency practices and how internal communication can drive this transparency, making employees feel empowered, informed and engaged. A detailed analysis into how internal email campaigns are performing across workplaces revealed that: The average open rate of internal emails across organizations around the

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Moving Offices: 5 Ways to Promote Company Culture After the Move

Justworks

This guest post is brought to you by Kisi. Kisi makes it easy to manage employee and visitor keys to your office with smartphone access. Companies relocate for a number of reasons. Whether it’s real estate prices, office size, or strategic business reasons, keeping employee morale high is important for promoting company culture and maintaining high productivity.

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Three Health Savings Account (HSA) Fun Facts

Trinet

We recently told you that you have until tax day to maximize your 2015 HSA contribution. However, you may still be intimidated by the prospect of signing up for a health savings account. Here are. Visit site for full story.

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Breaking the Burnout Cycle: Empowering Managers for Excellence

Speaker: Adri Glover - Head of People, and Mollie Hinz - Sr. People Partner

In the fast-paced world of work, burnout has emerged as a critical issue. Alarming statistics reveal two in five U.S. workers experience feeling burned out. However, the situation is even more dire among managers, with nearly half reporting burnout, often hidden behind their responsibilities and the desire to uplift their teams. Recognizing the severity of this problem is crucial.

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Maximize Your Relocation Support by Building a Pyramid of Needs

UrbanBound HR

A complicated transferee, a disgruntled transferee, and an overwhelmed transferee all have one thing in common: they stress you out. Assisting a high-needs relocation saps your energy and focus, and draws you away from other tasks and other relocating employees. Sometimes there won’t be anything you can do to deliver an experience that satisfies this transferee.

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9 Employee Engagement Archetypes, The Best Employee Benefits And Perks, and HR Trends in 2016 #FridayFinds

Hppy

Throughout the week, we come across some truly memorable articles that bring us fresh information, “Aha” moments and some HR and engagement wisdom. In this new #FridayFinds series, we’re going to round-up these articles and share them with you, with a special thanks to the amazing people behind the content. So here they are, this week’s greatest employee engagement articles: 9 Employee Engagement Archetypes.

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How Does Unemployment Insurance Work? And Why Does My Company Need It?

Justworks

Looking for a comprehensive overview? Download a free guide on unemployment insurance to make sure you're staying compliant. If you run a company with employees, you are legally required to have unemployment insurance. We're here to walk you through a crash course about what it is, why you need it, and how it's billed.

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3 Easy Ways to Innovate Your Workspace

ATD Human Capital

Workspace innovation can be a physical or mental change to a firm’s work environment that improves productivity, efficiency, collaboration, and creativity. It’s not a new idea, and its adoption doesn’t have to be particularly expensive or complicated. In fact, it’s popular with startups with small budgets, because it helps create an attractive work environment that appeals to top talent while containing costs.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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How To Get Honest Answers From Candidates In A Job Interview

Spark Hire

The job interview can be a nerve-wrecking process for everyone involved. You want to make sure you’re asking questions that will best expose an accurate representation of the candidate’s personality, experience, and attitude. Although, it’s hard to predict how well a candidate will perform when the interview itself is something they’re desperate to ace. .

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Tips for using continuous feedback to enhance employee engagement

Hppy

(Guest article by Jayne Blake). Enhancing employee engagement has always been a crucial element in any workplace, and that remains true today. An employee who remains engaged throughout the year will be better motivated, more productive, and more dedicated to their company than those employees who aren’t. By using continuous feedback surveys, you let your employees know that their opinions do matter, and you also gain useful insight on things like employee morale.

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Boost Employee Productivity with These 6 Slack Features

Justworks

If your business has ties with the burgeoning tech sector, chances are you’re familiar with Slack. If you’re not, we implore you to download it. Slack is an app that allows you to chat with your co-workers instantly. And whether you’re a small business or a rapidly growing one, the app has multiple uses. Not only will it increase communication between you and your team, but it will also cut down on superfluous emails.