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Gig work is taking over the labor market—and creating challenges for HR

HR Brew

The IRS has guidelines on whether workers should be classified as contractors or employees. Adecco, for example, classifies contingent workers as employees, meaning they fill out W-2s, have taxes withheld, and receive benefits from the staffing firmalleviating clients of compliance headaches.

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15 Employee Advocacy Examples To Guide Your Own Program

AIHR

This article discusses the impact of employees as advocates, 15 real-life employee advocacy examples you can take inspiration from, and how to develop an effective advocacy program. Why employee advocacy is important 15 employee advocacy examples to inspire you 7 steps to develop an employee advocacy program What is employee advocacy?

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How to Write a Professional Business Text Message

HR Bartender

An example is the hands together emoji – does it mean “I’m sending prayers” or “thank you” or “high five” or something else? Unfortunately, like emails, many organizations don’t put any guidelines in place where text messaging is concerned. Let me add that there was quite a discussion about the use of emojis. Maybe they should.

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Contact Tracing for #COVID19: What HR Needs to Know

HR Bartender

Contact tracing is just one, very important, piece of a broader set of protocols and policies to enforce various state, county, or corporate guidelines around social distancing, workplace cleaning, wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), checking temps at the door, and so on.

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98% of businesses have gender identity and sexual orientation non-discrimination policies, up from 5% in 2002, report finds

HR Brew

Some 72% also provide gender transition guidelines and policies so employees can appropriately support their colleagues who may be going through the gender transition process. Most also provide LGBTQ+ benefits such as partner medical benefits (82%), equal family benefits (92%), and gender-affirming care benefits (87%).

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AI oversight aligns so well with HR, the function’s leaders may soon be tapped to manage it

HR Brew

That is absolutelythe exact opposite intent of the innovationThis was a simple thing, anticipating a need toat the beginning of AI entering the workforcehelp put in some governance and guidelines, Franklin said. But whatever this set of AI-powered productivity tools is called, its work will still require oversight.

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10 things a good manager never does

Achievers

How to correct the behavior Establish clear criteria : Create transparent guidelines and criteria for promotions, rewards, and recognition. Establish clear policies and guidelines: Develop and communicate clear policies that prohibit public criticism and humiliation of employees.