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an unreasonable tattoo policy, I went to a college run by a religion I no longer follow, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, an unreasonable tattoo policy, I went to a college run by a religion I no longer follow, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…. 1. My new job didn’t tell me their no-visible-tattoos policy until after I was hired. I am an early childhood professional who works directly with young children and their families.

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What the heck is ‘bleisure’ and how could your company get sued over it?

The Employer Handbook

People ask me if I like to read. Not so much anymore, outside of reading Harry Potter books to my kids and reading graphic novels (ok, fine, comic books) to me. Social media apps like LinkedIn have eroded my attention span. I can barely make it through a few hundred words without clicking elsewhere. Maybe that’s why I’ve never made it through a lengthy explanation of NFTs.

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5 Actions to Take Today to Cope With the Great Resignation

Sterling Check

As we approach the two-year anniversary of the declaration of Covid-19 as a global pandemic, HR teams have seen a fundamental reordering of personal priorities, in turn creating new professional challenges for making sure businesses are adequately staffed to meet critical customer needs. “The Great Resignation”, also known as “the Big Quit”, refers to the historic uptick in the number of employees voluntarily leaving their jobs, a trend first seen in 2021.

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With SMS, Hiring Time Is Going Down Sharply

Eightfold

Of all the ways to speed up hiring now, one may not be getting the attention it deserves: using messaging, not email. We took a look at our customers’ time to hire, defined in this case as the time between when a candidate applies, or is contacted, and when they are hired. We compared hires who were contacted, and communicated with throughout the hiring process, using SMS, versus those contacted via email.

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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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warning a hothead personal trainer, taking six months off to hike, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, warning a hothead personal trainer, taking six months off to hike, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. How do I warn a hothead personal trainer I’m on the verge of firing him? I am a GM for a small fitness franchise. We work in a gym so the environment is informal, but we still have rules and policies like any other business.

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Unconscious Bias in the Workplace: How to Avoid It?

Engage2Excel

Managers find making unbiased decisions one of the most challenging parts of their job. As leaders, they must set an example, and being aware of their preconceived ideas sometimes comes as an unexpected roadblock. Although many of us think we are objective and inclusive; we don’t realize that we gravitate towards groups or individuals who share the same ideas.

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6 Signs Your Onboarding Process Needs Improvement

ExactHire

How’s your employee onboarding process? Many companies are eager for their new hires to be off and running in their new roles. After all, that empty chair costs the company money in terms of lost productivity and hiring costs. It takes, on average, 42 days to find a new employee. And hiring a new employee costs $4,000, on average. But if you think the work of hiring new employees ends with their first day, you’re missing an opportunity to improve every aspect of your business.

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We’ve Converted to a Single Enterprise Technology Platform

PeopleStrategy

PRESS RELEASE: PeopleStrategy’s Integrated HR and Benefits Platform Becomes a One-Stop-Shop for Employee Management EDISON, N.J., February 8, 2021 – PeopleStrategy, a one-stop brokerage and provider of a cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions, is pleased to announce they have migrated their entire customer base to make a single, strategic, proprietary platform.

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7 ways to deal with a personality clash at work

Hppy

Opposites don’t always attract. No doubt we’ve all met someone we struggle to get along with, and sometimes we work with that person. In fact, 49% of workplace conflicts come from personality clashes and egos. That can cause all sorts of problems in your career. It can interfere with your productivity, your promotions and even your mental health. So, what do we do?

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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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4 ways to celebrate Black History Month in the workplace

Bob

February is Black History Month (BHM)—a time when the US celebrates African Americans’ contributions and achievements throughout the country’s history. This is an opportunity for HR to collaborate with their people to create thoughtful programming that celebrates Black culture and promotes inclusivity. Before you start, it’s important to make this process as collaborative as possible.

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Top Ways to Prepare for the Advancements in The HR Industry

SutiHR

Undoubtedly, the HR profession has undergone many changes in the past few years. However, a majority of HR professionals, along with their respective companies, have managed to stay ahead of the competitive curve. To be precise, you cannot undermine the significance of the HR department in your organization’s functioning. That’s why it is imperative to consider the latest technological platforms to prepare for the future of HR.

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Why You Should Welcome Back Boomerang Employees

SHRM Resources

Boomerangs—employees who return after leaving a company—are on the rise. According to LinkedIn, this source accounted for 4.5 percent of all new hires among companies in 2021, up from 3.9 percent in 2019.

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update: my best employee quit on the spot because I wouldn’t let her go to her college graduation

Ask a Manager

This post, update: my best employee quit on the spot because I wouldn’t let her go to her college graduation , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. Remember the manager back in 2016 whose best employee quit on the spot because he wouldn’t let her go to her college graduation ? She had been raised in foster care and had no living family, was homeless for a while, and managed to get herself through school and graduate.

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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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Gamifying Bob onboarding: Queue the Bob-Olympics

Bob

Earlier in 2021, my innovation-led design and marketing agency, DIJGTAL , began the journey of setting up our team on Bob (full disclosure, I don’t own DIJGTAL, I have the pleasure of working for them ). It wasn’t long into the process that our leader of the integration—Growth and Ventures Director, Donna White , an HR/Talent veteran of 15 plus years—figured out a pretty ingenious way to onboard our entire team at the same time.

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How can Global Corporate Travelers improve Work Productivity with Expense Software?

SutiHR

Maintaining the productivity levels of your team remains an issue of concern to date. Between downtime during tours and in between meetings, it is customary to slip into a less-productive routine. A professional conference travel agency always ensures that your team members can maintain the highest standards of productivity if anything urgent comes up.

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Why Writing a Resume is Hard

Evil HR Lady

I’ve learned by helping people with their resumes that everyone is convinced that other people write their resumes in 15 minutes and they are perfect. They feel like something is wrong with them because they struggle with resume writing. Here’s a secret: Writing your own resume is hard. It’s much easier for me to help you with your resume than it is for me to write my own.

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The Four Elements of Employee Motivation

TLNT: The Business of HR

For too long, organizations have prioritized a company-first — rather than employee-first — model to engage employees, putting a company’s purpose before employee goals. .

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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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Management Skills: How To Improve Your Team Leadership

6Q

Anyone who has spent time in a large company understands the importance of a good management style. Great managers ensure that their teams complete tasks on time and within budget. This article will review the qualities employers and employees look for in a manager. You’ll also discover some best practices to follow and apply in your workplace that will help you improve your team leadership and lead your team more effectively.

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4 Ways AP Automation Helps Protect Your Business

SutiHR

Everyone knows AP automation can change the back office of your organization. But do you know that it can also help secure your business from various types of threats? Most business owners believe that AP automation will help their company overcome major cyber security threats. The Accounts Payable department is one of the most sensitive departments in your organization.

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Do you need a hybrid mindset to go with your hybrid working?

HR Zone

Culture Does hybrid working need a hybrid mindset?

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Why I’m Leaving TLNT: A Tale of Grief and Salvation

TLNT: The Business of HR

I often fantasize about killing myself. While standing on the subway platform, I imagine hurling my body in front of an oncoming train. Or throwing myself out the window of my home, my head slamming into the pavement. Or going to the garage, turning on the car, and falling asleep forever. .

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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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7 Lesser-known ways HR technology can influence your business

Insperity

Leveraging the latest technology in human resource management can be game changing for your organization, offering immediate benefits like convenient access to HR documents, integrated employee information and powerful workforce analytics. But there are several lesser-known benefits many employers just don’t think about when first considering upgrading their HR technology.

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Episode 338: Creating a Candid Culture and Experience at the Workplace With Nicole Roberts

Workology

Welcome to the Workology Podcast, a podcast for the disruptive workplace leader. Join host Jessica Miller-Merrell, founder of Workology.com as she sits down and gets to the bottom of trends, tools, Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. Welcome to the Workology Podcast, a podcast for the disruptive workplace leader.

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Why leaving your professional comfort zone will help advance your career

HR Zone

Development Why you should leave your comfort zone.

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should I get IV fluids for a hangover at work?

Ask a Manager

This post, should I get IV fluids for a hangover at work? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: A local company where I live advertises “recreational” IV fluids on the radio. They push the fluids for recovery from illness, colds, and hangovers. Their latest ad suggests that their mobile unit can come to your place of work and administer your hangover “cure” at your job.

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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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30 Genius Cover Letter Openers Recruiters Will LOVE

The Muse

Don’t waste space with “I’m writing to apply…” Here’s how to start a cover letter by making a bright and colorful splash—with 30 examples.

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The Everything Guide to Business Scorecards: Balanced Scorecards

Workology

The Everything Guide to Business Scorecards: Balanced Scorecards This post is part of a series for HR professionals and workplace leaders on business scorecards. Here, we’ll talk about the balanced. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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How to Calculate and Reduce New Hire Turnover at Your Company

Analytics in HR

Hiring a new employee demands a significant investment of resources, including time and money. When you invest in this, the last thing you want is a new employee to quit after a few weeks or months and have to begin the hiring process all over again. So, how can you reduce new hire turnover in your business today? Contents What is new hire turnover?