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Why Company Leaders Should Focus On Boosting Workplace Happiness

15Five

Humankind has long struggled to find the secret to living a happy life, but what about workplace happiness? Have you ever wondered how your employees feel at work ? Perhaps you’ve tried to create a fun and satisfying environment, with activities like foosball and ping pong or by offering free lunches and snacks. But if you haven’t found success, it may be because those perks focus more on downtime, rather than creating a productive work environment.

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Undocumented Workers are Entitled to Limited Workers’ Comp Benefits

HR Daily Advisor

It may come as a surprise to some employers, but undocumented workers who are injured on the job are entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, at least in New Mexico. However, there’s an important exception that applies to all employers. If the employer didn’t know or reasonably couldn’t have known at the time it hired the employee that he was undocumented, the employer won’t be liable for the full extent of the workers’ comp benefits, resulting in a much sm

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Should You Conduct Exit Interviews?

Reflektive

An exit interview is an invaluable tool for companies to gather insight from departing employees. However, many companies fail to take advantage of the opportunity—they either don’t conduct interviews, fail to gather useful information, or fail to analyze and act upon the information they do gather. Let’s take a closer look. The Purpose. The purpose of an exit interview is to learn….

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Take It From a Futurist: How Technology Will Change the Value of Humans in the Workforce For the Better

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: We would never dream of trying to predict the future—that's why we left it up to the futurists. In this series, we interview experts in HR, recruiting and the future of work to get their take on what's next. The onslaught of technology in the workplace is already overwhelming for employees, but innovation shows no sign of slowing down.

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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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What Happens When You Break A Promise?

Hppy

Execution is THE most critical determinant of an organization’s success, and it requires a specific culture to do it consistently well. And, since few organizations do it well, it represents the best opportunity to stand-out from others in a crowded marketplace of mediocre players. Also read: How To Avoid A Culture Of Broken Promises. Let’s face it, we are tired of promises; we hear them to the point where it is almost nauseating.

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How Long Should It Take a Candidate to Make a Decision on a Job Offer?

The Tim Sackett Project

When you make a candidate an offer, how long do you give them to tell you they want the job or not? 24 hours? 3 days? 1 week? Immediately? For two decades I’ve been in the camp of a candidate should be able to tell you ‘yes’ or ‘no’ immediately, or you (the recruiter and hiring manager) did something wrong in closing! But, I think I’ve changed my stance on this, if “fit” is really important for the position, your culture, etc.

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#HotInHR: What work will be like for the class of 2018, Want the best results from AI? Ask a Human …

Advos

Get HR Funding News Delivered To Your Inbox. Every week we send a summary of funding announcements, M&A and partnership news from the HR marketplace. Sign up now. Week in Review – Popular Content. This is what work will be like for the class of 2018s (Fast Company). It’s been a slow climb, but after a decade of steady recovery, young graduates’ economic prospects overall are the brightest since 2007.

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HireRight and GIS to Merge

General Information Services

Irvine, CA/ Chapin, S.C., May 25, 2018 – HireRight and General Information Services (“GIS”) announced today a definitive agreement under which HireRight and GIS will merge. HireRight and GIS are both leading providers of background screening and talent acquisition services including background checks, drug testing, driving records, employment and education verification, electronic onboarding, and a variety of industry-specific compliance and screening solutions.

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Paid Time Off Policies: 5 Things Small Business Owners Need to Know

Zenefits

As a small business owner, you may wonder about your rights and obligations as well as popular trends when it comes to paid time off policies (or PTO). . Am I required to offer it? And if so, just how much paid time off are my employees entitled to? What are other companies of my size offering? “I opted for a PTO system with my law firm,” says Jesse Harrison, founder and CEO of the Employee Justice Legal Team , a law firm that practices employment law and labor law matters. “ Worthwhile PTO pol

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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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Accomplish Your Recruiting Goals: Think Like a Marketer

HR Bartender

We all know recruiting is tough right now. No need to belabor the point. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t talk about it. We need to! We should focus our attention on finding solutions that will fill our talent pipeline. Today, I want to share a new model that might provide some creative inspiration towards those solutions. And a technology product that can make implementing it easy.

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Would You Ask Your Employees To Get Microchipped?

Cornerstone On Demand

Could you ever imagine microchipping your employees? It might sound unreasonable at first, but that's exactly what a Wisconsin-based technology company, Three Square Market , has asked of its fifty plus employees. Though it's a new and somewhat controversial tactic, getting microchipped has its advantages. It's completely voluntary, and it gives employees the ability to enter the building, use office equipment, log into their computer, exchange business cards and even access their medical infor

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The 10 Must-Read Articles for Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look through some of the best articles published this past week for staffing and corporate recruiters and posted them below. Here are the must-read posts for this week: 1. The Limits of AI: What It Can and Cannot Do for Recruiting (Today) — by Raghav Singh. 2. Salesforce Moved Into a New $1 Billion Skyscraper in San Francisco, and the Offices Are Unlike Anything We've Seen — by Melia Robinson. 3.

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DecisionWise Principal Consultant Kristin Chapman Named Among Utah’s 30 Women to Watch - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

DecisionWise, the global expert in creating employee engagement, and provider of employee engagement solutions, today announced that Utah Business Magazine named one of its principal consultants to its annual list of 30 Women to Watch. DecisionWise Principal Consultant, Kristin Chapman, was honored yesterday at an awards banquet at Salt Lake City’s Grand America Hotel and is featured in the magazine’s May issue.

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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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Bookmark This! The GDPR Compliance Edition

HR Bartender

Last week, I shared with you an interview with Tom Wetherill from Unum’s United Kingdom offices about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The compliance deadline is Friday, May 25, so I thought it appropriate to share a few more resources you might find helpful. Undercover Recruiter published an article on “ Why GDPR and GDPR-Compliance Matters ”.

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Providing Effective Employee Feedback

Reflektive

Providing constructive feedback is one of the only ways for employees to grow and develop. Yet many people still feel in the dark about their job performance, only getting feedback during the annual review or when something goes wrong. A survey found that 62% of millennial employees—aged 18 to 34—have felt “blindsided” by a performance review. And 69% of younger workers think the performance review process is flawe d.

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Sourcing and Machine Learning: What You Need to Learn

Engage2Excel

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are changing the sourcing game, and smart sourcers are adapting. In our quest to stay cutting edge, my team implemented a few new practices discussed at SourceCon , and in this two-part blog I want to share some of those methods. You probably know that AI and machine learning are already a part of our lives.

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What Role Does Mentoring Play In Employee Well-Being?

Hppy

Our well-being is something that we most often overlook. We allow our environment to dictate what our day is going to look like and how we are going to feel. How we feel can change as our environment changes. How we manage that is something that we do have control over. This morning, for example, we were dealing with some turmoil in a work environment that could have exploded into something far worse.

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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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Technology System Design Needs Both Form and Function – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. Kronos announced this week that they were named by Forbes as one of the top three places to work in technology. Congratulations to them! Enjoy the article.). I couldn’t resist sharing this Time Well Spent from our friends at Kronos with you today.

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Engagement as a Competency - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

Employee Engagement is an outcome of a complex array of contributing factors. While some factors are influenced only at the organizational level, many elements are under the direct control of individual managers. A skilled manager, therefore, can greatly improve the engagement of his/her team. Employee Engagement competencies represent the key skills a manager must master to create an engaging landscape for the employees they serve.

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Expenses 101: Proper Substantiation of Business Expenses

Justworks

In a previous article, Are Expense Reimbursements Taxable Income?, it was noted that expense reimbursements to an employee do not have to be included in an employee's wages if the business has an accountable plan. An accountable plan must meet three conditions: having a business connection, substantiation, and returning excess amounts. Here, we’ll focus on substantiation.

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What Is Employee Empowerment & What Are Its Top Principles?

Reflektive

When considering how to boost employee engagement, many organizations work from the outside in—trying to figure out which perks and benefits will keep employees happy. They should be working from the inside out—making employees feel valued by giving them greater autonomy over decision-making. This concept is known as employee empowerment. While it’s a challenge for some executives to “give up control,” it ends up paying major dividends.

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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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#Unleash18 Humans + Bureaucracy: Control No More

The Aristocracy of HR

000020000000 “Bureaucracy is a global thing. “ ~ Gary Hamel, Professor at London Business School I had the opportunity to sit in on a Q&A session Day 1 with Gary Hamel, Professor at London Business School at Unleash 2018 in Vegas. Long before this Q&A, he had wooed me with his words and refreshing […].

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How to Organize the Office to Encourage Teamwork

Hppy

You put a few dozen people in a small office and there’s a good chance that even the most easygoing individuals with a laid-back attitude towards the majority of life’s problems will start to build up some resentment against each other. After all, no matter how much some of these people may enjoy their job, there’s a variety of different stressful scenarios that can occur, from having to meet the most unreasonable deadlines to dealing with irrational suggestions and demands from the clients.

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A Brief Primer on Safe Harbor Employee Expense Allowances

Justworks

Businesses often require their employees to incur expenses that will later be reimbursed by the business. Without proper substantiation, expense reimbursements may be treated as taxable income. In some cases, however, there are some expenses that require less substantiation. These can be referred to as safe harbor expense allowances. The safe harbor principle can be applied to certain travel expenses.

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Your Candidate Experience “Bill of Rights”

Hoops

Implement these best practices to turn your best applicants into new hires, and the rest into your employer brand advocates.

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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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How 3 Innovative Companies Are Rethinking Learning at Work

TalentCulture

According to a 2017 survey, 71 percent of employees have had to undergo training to either keep or advance forward […]. The post How 3 Innovative Companies Are Rethinking Learning at Work appeared first on TalentCulture.

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How To Create Team Culture In A Team That’s Virtual And Global

Hppy

The remote working setup isn’t too far off from becoming the new norm. While there are still some hurdles to overcome, teething problems to solve, and reluctant CEOs to convince, working over the internet from anywhere in the world will become a default option sooner or later. And what will happen then? Well, we’ll see a greater level of flexibility, but also a loss of old-fashioned office camaraderie.

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This Elon Musk Philosophy Will Forever Change Your Hiring Process

Spark Hire

“Anyone at Tesla can, and should, email/talk to anyone else according to what they think is the fastest way to solve a problem for the benefit of the whole company.”. Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk recently stated these communication expectations in an in-depth email to employees. After explaining that there should be no hierarchical chain of communication, he went on to explain why.