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5 Articles That Reveal The Real Value Of Employee Engagement

15Five

If there’s one thing that’s certain in the world of Human Resources, it’s that employee engagement matters. If there’s a second thing that’s certain, it’s that HR knowing this has done almost nothing to improve employee engagement. If you’re anything like me, these revelations are enough to leave you baffled and a bit lost – and you would be in good company!

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The Reason Companies Should Calculate Cost Per Hire

HR Bartender

Every once in a while, I run across an article that talks about why organizations shouldn’t calculate cost per hire. Personally, I’m a big fan of the cost per hire metric. I think it provides valuable information. Back in 2012, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) worked with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to create a uniform standard calculation for cost per hire (CPH).

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A Day in the Life of an Employee Experience Manager and Specialist

Cornerstone On Demand

The war for talent has companies of all sizes focused on creating compelling employee experiences that will not only help them attract top talent, but also prevent current star performers from exploring outside opportunities. As the idea of "employee experience" design has evolved, it's become focused on much more than access to great perks and a fun work environment.

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Ongoing Training: 4 Astounding Benefits For Your Employees

ClearCompany HRM

No job remains the same forever. Even if jobs never evolved, your employees do. Research shows that employees want to learn, change and grow in their careers. Spend on corporate training has grown to over $70 billion in the United States. Indeed, 87% of millennials say professional development or career growth opportunities are very important to them in their search for a new job.

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Mid-Year Performance Review Checklist for HR and People Leaders

Ensure your mid-year performance reviews are focused, productive, and growth-oriented with this practical checklist from Mitratech Trakstar. Designed for HR professionals, people managers, and team leads, this guide walks you through the full review process—from pre-meeting prep and feedback collection to action planning and follow-up. It also includes tips for creating a comfortable and effective review experience, plus ways to leverage tools like self-evaluations, PIPs, and development plans.

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How to Embrace Cultural Diversity in Team Engagement

Achievers

According to the 2017 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends report, 78% of Executives see diversity as a competitive advantage. People with diverse experiences are better prepared to offer insights and come up with better solutions. They make diverse teams smarter. But how can diversity boost engagement in teams? Having led multi-cultural teams in the Middle-East, Asia, and now in Europe; I can tell blending diversity and engagement gives outstanding results.

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4 Reasons Video Is Your New Recruiting Holy Grail

Cornerstone On Demand

Get this: There is more video content uploaded to the web in a month than created for TV in the past three decades. The popularity and growth of online video is mind-blowing—video will account for 74 percent of all web traffic this year. The medium has become an untapped channel of content marketing for reaching and interacting with customers. So why aren't more companies using it for recruiting?

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What are the Pros and Cons of Working from Home?

Hppy

Working from home is the chance of a lifetime. Or is it? You get to work in a more comfortable workplace while spending more time with your family. However, even though there are plenty of advantages to working from home, there are some disadvantages to take into consideration as well. In this guide, we will take you through the most common pros and cons of working from home to help you decide if it’s a right career choice for you.

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Why More Vacation Time Will Make Your Employees (and Your Company) Healthier

Achievers

If you ask a job candidate about his or her biggest flaw, chances are good they’ll say that they tend to work too hard. This isn’t just a convenient way to elude a difficult question; it’s probably the absolute truth. Furthermore, even though it might seem like this excessive diligence will contribute to your company’s productivity, the truth is that such excess work habits are harmful to employee happiness and to your company culture as well.

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What You Can Do If the Boss You Like is Quitting

HR Bartender

Often, we talk about the bosses we don’t like and the things we hate about them. When they resign (or get fired), our reaction is “Yippee!” But what about the bosses we do like? The ones who are great. They recognize, coach, and support us and our career development. Now they’re quitting! I saw an article over at The Muse titled, “ The Smartest Steps to Take if You Think Your Boss Is Quitting ”.

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Protect Your Business and Stay On Top of Compliance

To keep your business running smoothly (and legally), HR needs to get compliance right every time. Our HR Compliance Checklist is your go-to guide to cover the basics and start your auditing processes, helping you identify and address any gaps in your HR functions. Remember, compliance rules can differ based on industry and location—you’ll still need to keep up with changing regulations, but our checklist can help you get started.

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If You Want to Motivate Employees, Stop Worrying About Culture

Cornerstone On Demand

This article was originally published under Jeff Miller’s column “The Science of Workplace Motivation” on Inc.com. One of my first employers in the corporate world knew how to build a fun culture. Whether it was free pastries in the morning, amazing product launches, team off-sites or happy hours in the evening, the company did a fantastic job at creating a workplace where people not only got along, but actually wanted to spend time with each other.

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How to gain budget for your company’s culture and engagement programmes

HR Zone

Employees. How to gain budget for your engagement programme.

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Why Hiring More HR Analysts Won’t Improve Your Analytics Function

Visier

Great HR leaders excel at finding untapped potential in their people, increasing their efficiency, and maximizing their contribution to the company’s strategic objectives and financial performance. One area where CHROs are focusing on unlocking more value is within their HR analytics function. Traditionally, HR analytics teams are seen as report-generators.

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The Only 3 Reasons to Send an Email

HR Bartender

Email has been around since 1972. It’s an essential part of communication today. Which is why it’s so frustrating that, after all these years, there’s not some definitive list of email protocols. And I’m not just talking about “typing in all caps means you’re shouting”. I’m referring to when is it okay to send an email. According to a report from McKinsey Global Institute, workers spend on average 28 percent of their time each week reading and answering email.

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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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Introducing GrantMe, the Recognition Chatbot from Engage2Excel

Engage2Excel

There are few things in the HR world that are easy. You deal with difficult challenges on a daily basis and often don't get the appreciation you deserve. What if it were easier and more convenient for people in your company to express appreciation? That was the idea that led to the development of GrantMe, the Recognition Chatbot from Engage2Excel.

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Reinventing Recruiting: An Interview with Terry Terhark of randrr [Podcast]

UpstartHR

Tried to find a new job lately? It’s easy to feel like a rat in a wheel, running faster and faster yet getting nowhere. Despite this being a candidate’s market, it’s easy to feel like you are never going to get ahead of the game. In today’s conversation ( click here to listen ), Ben Eubanks interviews Terry Terhark, founder and CEO of randrr. randrr is a recruiting technology firm that is focused on meeting the needs of candidates and individuals by providing highly targe

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What You Need to Know About the Changing Function of HR

Reflektive

Human resources has undergone a massive transformation in recent years, and the industry continues to evolve. Make no mistake, this isn’t just a facelift from new tech tools that help HR professionals do their jobs. It’s a shift in the function of human resources. See also: The real cost of performance reviews. While traditionally HR focuses on benefits and compensation, overseeing employee engagement and retention, recruitment, diversity, workplace issues, or installing new processes under budg

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How Much Health Insurance Should a Small Business Offer Employees?

Justworks

Between state and federal mandates around offering health insurance to employees, most small and mid-sized companies have considered what kinds of benefits they should offer employees. But even if you decide to offer access to health insurance, how much is enough? We examine below. How Much Health Insurance is Enough? When you’re a small business, after salaries, health insurance is often one of the most expensive expenditures that you have to make.

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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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How to Create a Work Environment that Attracts Quality Workers

Hppy

There are a lot of companies today trying to attract quality workers in their field. One of the most important aspects of success in any company is hiring the best workers possible. There are many companies that are struggling to fill vacant positions. With all of the competition in the market for new workers, it is vital to create a work environment that attracts quality employees in your area.

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The Secret to Alienating Your Employees Over Time

UpstartHR

I recently learned a great strategy that I can’t wait to share with you. Employee: Hey Bob. I know you are busy. I just have a few quick questions. A few of us came up with this really great idea for the party. HR: No. Employee: Um, well, okay. So, Jim needs me to help him with this thing… HR: No. Employee: All right, then, just one more question… HR: No.

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5 Essentials to Humanize Manager Onboarding

WorkHuman

Listen to our interview with Sharlyn Lauby in the latest episode of WorkHuman Radio embedded at the top of this post. One of the biggest mistakes organizations make is hiring or promoting the most technically competent person without giving them the tools to be successful. It’s true that managers need to have technical skills. Employees want to know that their manager understands the work they do.

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The 3 Lenses of Employee Engagement Survey Action Planning - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

How To Decide on the Best Plan of Action Based on Your Employee Survey Results. Action planning is always a good idea. But that doesn’t mean that every action plan is a good one. An organization can create all the awareness in the world, but much like my bathroom scale reminds me every morning, awareness can only accomplish so much. To develop a clear path toward effective behavioral change, an action plan must be grounded in a correct understanding of what’s really going on behind the scenes.

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The AI Productivity Shift: How 3,000 Pros And 140K Users Are Transforming Work

Hubstaff’s new report, The AI Productivity Shift, highlights how 3,000+ professionals and 140,000+ users are transforming the way they work with AI. Adoption is high—85% are using AI—and the potential is just beginning. Teams that integrate AI into daily workflows report 77% faster task completion, 70% improved focus, and stronger results across the board.

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Keeping Millennial Workers: How to Improve Employee Retention

Hppy

Millennials: the dominant generation in the U.S. workforce, according to various labor reports, may have a slightly tainted reputation for not staying at any one particular job for a very long period. The constant turnover of millennial workers is both tiring and expensive for company hiring managers. The problem is not that millennials cannot keep a job; it is that they have a different outlook on careers than any other generation previously.

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Artificial intelligence: pre-screening candidates’ lives, not just CVs

HR Zone

Acquisition. AI: pre-screening candidates’ lives, not just CVs.

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Transform the Employee Experience Through Health + Wellness [Webinar]

Justworks

People don’t want jobs anymore — they want experiences. Four in five surveyed employees prefer better benefits and perks to a higher salary, and 68% of surveyed employees reported they were more satisfied in a job where their employer offered a robust workplace wellness program. Famed employers like Google and Netflix have capitalized on this and gained some of the best talent out there with their tempting perks.

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Why Do Your Employees Choose to Work for You? - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

(Article originally published on August 10, 2017 by TLNT ). Just as the customer has expectations around a firm’s brand, so does an employee. While the Customer Value Proposition defines the value of a firm’s products or services to the consumer, the Employee Value Proposition (EVP) is the value — tangible, intangible, and reputational — that an employee receives from an organization in exchange for his or her work.

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Building Compliant Workplace Violence Prevention Across States: CA SB-553 | NY S. 8358B

Speaker: Speakers:

Workplace violence prevention laws are rapidly evolving, with California’s SB-553 and New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act (S-8358B) leading the way. Join WILL’s experts for a nationwide webinar covering compliance requirements, with a special focus on these key state mandates. We’ll guide you through developing and implementing effective prevention policies, building a compliant plan, and delivering the required annual interactive training.

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Five Interesting Facts About Google’s New Job Board

Hppy

In May, Google announced it was entering the hiring game by launching Google Jobs. . The Google job board appears whenever someone enters a search query in Google that is clearly job related. For example, if you search “jobs near me” or “retail jobs,” Google Jobs will display in the search results. . Also read: Managing HR Compliance in the Age of Technology.

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5 proven ways to increase benefits take-up among employees

HR Zone

Employees. 5 ways to increase employee benefits take-up.

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the ethics of firing racist protesters

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: After the Charlottesville violence, I’ve been watching discussion on one of my professional organization’s Facebook groups and would appreciate your opinion about it. People are discussing the ethics of figuring out the identities of white supremacists from news photos, and then reporting them to their employers. Apart from the “ethics” of white supremacy, and associated domestic terrorism, what do you think are the HR/management implications?

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