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I’m getting a smaller raise because I negotiated when I was hired, talking publicly about career struggles, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I’m getting a smaller raise because I negotiated when I started. I’ve been working for my current company for just over a year now. My boss has been thrilled with my work, and a few months ago he verbally expressed that he would like to give me a merit raise. He said we would discuss it at another time as the raise wouldn’t kick in until performance review time, early this year.

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Feds’ new I-9 enforcement push: 4 ways to protect your company

HR Morning

Now is the perfect time for a review of your I-9 compliance efforts for a number of reasons. For starters, the most recently revised form became mandatory in the fall. Plus, the Dept. of Homeland Security’s Immigration & Customs Enforcement agency (also known as ICE) can investigate your company’s I-9 records on an at-will basis – and has already been increasing these investigations with higher fines.

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Hiring Could Be Even More Difficult in 2018 as Employers Compete for a Shrinking Talent Pool

HR Daily Advisor

Employers have high expectations for business and headcount growth in 2018, but a severe skills shortage in the fastest growing sectors could hinder plans, according to the 2018 U.S. Salary Guide from Hays, a specialist recruitment agency. Based on a survey of more than 3,000 people, the Hays US 2018 Salary Guide asked U.S. professionals, managers, and employers about current business, compensation, and workforce trends.

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If Those Performance Reviews All Sound Alike, It Could Be ‘Decision Fatigue’

TLNT: The Business of HR

Decision fatigue refers to the deteriorating quality of decisions as one is forced to engage in more and more decision-making. If you’ve ever planned an event, re-designed a home or purchased a new car, you probably remember the exhaustion and indifference that eventually resulted from being faced with so many choices. Many companies put managers at risk of decision fatigue by creating performance management, compensation, staffing and development processes that require evaluating multiple peopl

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The Truth About Group Medicare: Better Benefits, Lower Cost

Speaker: Lauran Star, PhD

We’re not sugarcoating it: retirement benefits in America are broken. As our workforce ages, too many employers cling to outdated benefit structures that drain budgets while leaving retirees confused, underserved, and anxious about healthcare costs. In this high-impact webinar, we will challenge everything you think you know about benefits for your aging and retired employees, especially the hidden potential of Group Medicare as a strategic advantage—not just a compliance checkbox.

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How to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Your Recruiting Sources

HR Bartender

A few months ago, I had the opportunity to hear Shally Steckerl , founder of The Sourcing Institute Foundation and senior sourcing consultant at Fiserv, talk about “Using Tools and Pipelines to Source Talent” at the Recruiting Trends & Talent Tech Conference. One of the things he mentioned stuck with me: the notion that it’s not only important to find and try new recruiting sources, but to evaluate their effectiveness.

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Employee Health, Stress and Workload Balance

HSD Metrics

Top Stressors in the Workplace and How to Reduce Them. Each year, employee health—both mental and physical—is a top topic of conversation in the HR space. Employers and employees are starting initiatives to address the health concerns that affect workplace productivity and efficiency, and now, they’re considering the educational goals of their employees as well.

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8 Reasons to Add a Temp to Perm Approach to Your Hiring Strategy

Onboardia

You find yourself having to fill a job vacancy at work. Perhaps it’s a tough position where you’ve had above average turnaround. Or, your company is ramping up its growth. Or, you would simply like the timesaving advantage of having a potential candidate start as soon as possible and test them out before making an offer. These are the more popular reasons for hiring a temporary employee with the intention of making them permanent, once they meet your criteria.

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Feedback: 4 Ways to Avoid Employee Survey Fatigue

HR Bartender

I’m a big believer that if you want to know what employees are thinking, you should ask them. And in this technology age, one of the best ways to do that is via an electronic survey. Surveys are only as good as their design. It’s important when designing any type of survey that the questions are constructed properly and the number of questions makes sense.

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ICYMI: 5 Things the Modern Worker Looks For in Talent Development

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: In today's fast-paced news cycle, we know it's difficult to keep up with the latest and greatest HR trends and stories. To make sure you're updated, we're recapping our most popular articles every month in our " In Case You Missed It " series. Keep reading for January's top stories! 4 Quick Fixes to Jump-Start Your 2018 Recruiting Recruiting isn't what it used to be, and companies can't afford to have a wait-and-see attitude anymore.

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Can Your Organization Spot a Conflict Before It’s a Crisis?

Speaker: Amie Phillips Pablo, VP, Corporate Compliance & Privacy Officer at Novo Nordisk

In today’s complex healthcare environment, navigating third-party relationships has become even more challenging—whether it’s vendor relationships, employee activities, or patient-facing interactions. Left unmanaged, these conflicts can compromise trust, regulatory compliance, and even organizational reputation. So, how can healthcare teams stay ahead?

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Living in Color: Why I Stopped Caring About What White People Think

The Aristocracy of HR

010010000000 It must be a hell of a feeling when your skin, ideas, and presence become a golden ticket of Willy Wonka proportions in life. It must be nice to not only create the rules, systems, and standards but to actually be “the standard”. It is utterly astonishing when you can be given the […].

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A Brilliant Culture Is Made Up Of These People

Hppy

Cultures that deliver a high level of performance and create competitive advantage for an organization are grown by leaders with the foresight to recruit the right “human essence” that ensures long-term success. You hire to fill a job but you recruit to build a successful culture. In my three-decade career as an executive leader, I discovered that there are some basic competencies in people that, when operating in unison, not only create a workplace where people love to work together, but also d

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Bookmark This! Resources on Mindfulness and Stress Reduction

HR Bartender

Workplace stress is an issue. According to The American Institute of Stress, 80 percent of workers feel stress on the job. Nearly half say that they need help in learning how to manage stress. An increasing number of organizations are looking at formal wellness programs, but honestly, that might not be enough. Organizations might have to think about how they create cultures that allow employees to feel comfortable practicing self-care.

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To Minimize Sexism at Work, AI Must Learn to Stop It

Cornerstone On Demand

Sexism in the workplace has been an important topic this past year. The headlines abound— “Study: Women Valued for Physical Attractiveness" or “We Need More Women to Overcome the Sexist Tech Industry" —but this pervasive issue could soon be addressed, if only in part, with a little help from technology. As artificial intelligence continues to play an larger role in talent acquisition, it has the potential to impact gender bias.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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5 Employee Engagement Predictions for 2018

Achievers

Employee engagement is critical to retention. Don’t believe us? The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the median period people stay in their jobs is just over four years. And for those age 25 to 34 it’s even less (2.8 years). Broaden this to all millennials, and you’ve got a group that’s even more on the move – a scary prospect given they make up roughly a third of today’s U.S. workforce.

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DOES EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT MATTER TO ORGANIZATIONS WITH HIGH TURNOVER? - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

Recently, we have had several organizations come to us with the same basic question: What can we do to improve employee engagement if 90% of our employees stay less than 6 months? It’s important to note that these organizations are not fundamentally flawed and somehow hemorrhaging talent. It’s that their business models lend themselves to high turnover.

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Employee Wellness: Give Your Employees Options

HR Bartender

Mr. Bartender and I have been talking about our home offices lately. We haven’t updated our furniture in a while – well, except for my Herman Miller office chair – and we think we’re due. Lots of organizations are doing the same. They recognize the value in having a nice office space with good lighting, ergonomic furniture, etc. But one of the things I’m realizing in the conversations Mr.

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Cartoon Coffee Break | Job Interviews

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: This post is part of our " Cartoon Coffee Break " series. While we take talent management seriously, we also know it's important to have a good laugh. Check back every two weeks for a new ReWork cartoon.

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Future of HR: Navigating Transformation in the Digital Age

Speaker: Jeremy York

Join us for a thought-provoking exploration of the rapidly evolving HR landscape as we examine how technological innovation, regulatory changes, talent strategies, and evolving diversity approaches are reshaping the profession. This webinar will provide HR professionals with practical insights on leveraging AI and emerging technologies while maintaining compliance in an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

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5 Employee Engagement Predictions for 2018

Achievers

Employee engagement is critical to retention. Don’t believe us? The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the median period people stay in their jobs is just over four years. And for those age 25 to 34 it’s even less (2.8 years). Broaden this to all millennials, and you’ve got a group that’s even more on the move – a scary prospect given they make up roughly a third of today’s U.S. workforce.

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Do You Know Your Organizational Health?

Engage2Excel

In the complex anatomy of your organization, your workforce is the heartbeat. A strong, healthy heart pumps blood throughout the body, usually at a steady rate, but can work much faster when necessary. Similarly, a robust workforce propels productivity throughout the organization, supplying oxygen in the form of discretionary effort and removing toxins such as complacency.

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Servant Leadership: A Lesson in Building Relationships

EDSI

The way I measure my success as a leader is by regularly asking myself these four questions: Speaking of building relationships, I’d like to share a defining moment in my career a several years ago when I faced adversity while acquiring additional business. A very important client asked us to step in by operating a career center after the previous provider had committed fraud.

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How to Inspire Intellectual Curiosity in Employees

Cornerstone On Demand

In 1968, Malcolm Knowles coined the term “ andragogy "—the science of adult learning—and proposed guidelines for creating content geared towards adult learners. According to Knowles, the content must be relevant, draw on life experience and be immediately useful. Additionally, adult learning must shift from dependence on the teacher to self-directed learning and the motivation to learn should come from inside the learner.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act

Speaker: Speakers:

On September 4, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Retail Worker Safety Act (S. 8358B/A. 8947C) into law, requiring retail employers in New York to adopt workplace violence prevention policies and implement training programs by March 2025. This webinar will provide a detailed overview of the Act’s requirements, including developing and providing a retail workplace violence prevention policy/plan and delivering annual interactive training to employees.

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6 Training Ideas for a Smoother HR Technology Rollout

Visier

Training colleagues to use a new HR technology can be daunting and there is a lot of pressure to get it right. If users feel frustrated and uncertain while using a new tool, such as a people strategy platform , they may return to the old methods of figuring out their HR data despite how antiquated or cumbersome they are. When I led the training during the roll out of Visier People to City of Edmonton employees, I wanted to ensure that every lesson I prepared would make mastering the self-service

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You Can’t Be a Good Manager If You Miss Your One-on-Ones

Reflektive

A company is only as good as its people, and when employees succeed, the company succeeds. This is especially true for Omada Health, the explosive healthcare company that is helping people at high risk of diabetes and heart disease make vital, lasting lifestyle changes through technology and design. So how can leaders build an empowering employee success function while simultaneously meeting demanding business objectives?

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6 Ways Managers Can Support Team Well-Being to Drive Engagement

Achievers

Helping companies and employees feel more connected, Limeade and Achievers have joined together to create a seamless, simplified employee engagement experience. Read more about the partnership announcement here. At Limeade , we believe true engagement happens when people feel good and have a sense of purpose. We define employee engagement, or “Big E” engagement , as the extra energy and commitment that comes from this sense of purpose and connection.

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[Infographic] How to Stop Perfectionism From Holding Back Your Career

Hppy

Almost one in three people believe themselves to be perfectionists. So why isn’t the world – and the workplace – you know, better ? The pedantic answer is to point out that perfection and perfectionism are quite different things. But the deeper truth is that, far from driving us towards “better”, perfectionism can actually be a destructive force that prevents sufferers from getting things done, hinders creativity, and frequently leads to depression and illness.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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People Analytics Conferences Data-Driven HR Leaders Can’t Miss in 2018

Visier

People analytics is now business-critical and, more than ever, HR must take advantage of the massive opportunities that analytics provides. The HR teams that will succeed in 2018 and beyond are those that have a grasp on how the developments of the data age will impact the workforce and their business. To support this, we’ve gathered a list of the top 2018 people analytics and workforce planning conferences for data-driven HR leaders of all skill levels.

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Brandon Hall HCM 2018: Meet Employees Where They Work

Reflektive

The workplace is changing. The question for employers is whether they will evolve, too — or watch talent leave. Reflektive attended the 2018 Brandon Hall Human Capital Management Excellence Conference (#Excellence18) in West Palm Beach, Florida. More than 13 countries were represented in the 24th year of the conference, and it is highly attended by leaders in learning, technology, and human resources across industries.

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6 Ways Managers Can Support Team Well-Being to Drive Engagement

Achievers

Helping companies and employees feel more connected, Limeade and Achievers have joined together to create a seamless, simplified employee engagement experience. Read more about the partnership announcement here. At Limeade , we believe true engagement happens when people feel good and have a sense of purpose. We define employee engagement, or “Big E” engagement , as the extra energy and commitment that comes from this sense of purpose and connection.

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