2024

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Start date of the NLRB’s joint-employer rule is delayed again

HR Brew

The effective date of a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rule that would make it easier for organizations to qualify as a “joint employer” was pushed back, once again. The rule, which had been set to take effect Feb. 26, was pushed back two weeks, to March 11. A Texas federal judge delayed the start date after holding a hearing for a lawsuit challenging the rule, which was filed by business groups including the US Chamber of Commerce.

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Can 360-degree Feedback Predict Operational Performance?

DecisionWise

Management guru Peter Drucker is often credited with the phrase “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” Whether Drucker uttered those words is questionable, but the idea certainly has merit. Yet, while many organizations are adept at defining and measuring financial and operational success , most find that the “softer” side of performance is often difficult to quantify.

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Best Employee Scheduling Software 2024

Replicon

Gone are the days when managers would spend hours manually creating employee schedules using pen and paper and then pin them to the wall to apprise employees of their shift allotment. This manual approach to scheduling created several issues for managers, including conflicts in shifts, double booking, inadequate coverage, back-and-forth communication, and more.

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Key Human Resources (HR) Pillars: Your 101 Guide

Analytics in HR

Human Resources continues to evolve with new and changing laws, trends, and business needs. Yet, many of the various HR pillars have remained constant. Simply put, HR pillars are the main focus areas that form the building blocks of a company’s HR and people strategy. Let’s get back to basics and explain the fundamentals of HR, the main HR functions and foundations, and get an overview of the key pillars of HR to help you build an effective people strategy.

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Thriving as a Lean & Mean HR Machine

Speaker: Mollie Hinz and Adri Glover

Feeling like you’re drowning in HR responsibilities? If you’re an HR professional with little or no additional support, or in a non-HR role juggling HR tasks with other responsibilities, you likely wear many hats – from recruitment and onboarding to benefits and employee engagement. This can be overwhelming, and we’re here to help. HR teams can be small and mighty, but it requires smart tactics to scale your reach.

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Bullhorn acquires Textkernel to accelerate its AI strategy

Bullhorn Blog

Today, Bullhorn has acquired Textkernel, an industry leader in Sourcing AI solutions. Headquartered in Amsterdam, Textkernel powers over 2,000 customers globally, including eight of the top 10 staffing agencies worldwide and Fortune 500 companies. A longtime, trusted partner to the staffing and recruitment industry, Textkernel and Bullhorn share a crucial strategic goal: empowering recruiters to digitally transform their business for the future and maximize the use of AI in the industry.

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How to Maximize Productivity with Employee Time Tracking?

Hppy

Paul J Meyer, famously considered the founder of the self-improvement industry, once said, “ Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” These words encapsulate the essence of a truth universally acknowledged in both personal and professional development realms.

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Glad you’re here: Welcoming Pento to the HiBob village

HiBob

When we founded HiBob in late 2015, we had a vision of changing the modern world of work. We knew that the cumbersome, rigid, and time-consuming technology we used previously to manage people could not be the same technology that powered businesses of today and in the future. We aimed to make our platform, Bob, an HCM that was all-encompassing and easy to use for not just HR but also managers and employees.

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Nike Layoffs Announcement to Affect 740 Employees by June 28

HR Digest

The Nike layoffs announcements from back in February will soon finish taking shape in June, as 740 employees from their World Headquarters in Oregon will be asked to leave. The company had announced a 2 percent reduction of the workforce, targeting a reduction of at least 1,600 employees over time. Nike’s layoffs within its workforce are part of a much larger cost-cutting strategy after their last annual report in December did not see profitable results to the degree the company had expected.

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What Happens When You Quit Smoking and Start Vaping

EX Program

Smoking vs. vaping. Dual use. Continuum of risk. If these terms have you confused about what to recommend to your employees or health plan members who smoke, read on. What happens when you quit smoking Smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death. Quitting smoking is the most important step someone can take to protect [.] Read More. from What Happens When You Quit Smoking and Start Vaping The post What Happens When You Quit Smoking and Start Vaping appeared first on EX Program.

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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How a Coaching Leadership Style Unleashes Human Potential at Work

TalentCulture

As organizations enter a new era, we’re seeing a clear shift in management methods and practices. Traditional command-and-control styles are giving way to a more relevant, inclusive, empowering model — coaching leadership. Sir Richard Branson succinctly describes the motivation behind this approach, “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so […] The post How a Coaching Leadership Style Unleashes Human Potential at Work appeared first on TalentCulture

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Considering a four-day workweek? These employers experimented with different approaches

HR Brew

Remember that J.G. Wentworth commercial from the early 2000s where people shout, “It’s my money, and I need it now!” Well, nowadays, some workers may want to shout, “It’s my four-day workweek, and I need it now!” Some 54% of employees say they’d work longer days if they could have a three-day weekend, while 37% would switch companies or industries to do the same, according to an August Bankrate survey.

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3 Leadership Lessons From Rugby That Apply to Any Business

Great Place to Work

The international sport offers lessons in humility, collaboration, inclusion, and more that can drive success on the field and in the workplace. Global business leaders could learn a thing or two from rugby. For most Americans, rugby is an unfamiliar sport. The ball is shaped like an American football but isn’t used in the same way. It’s a contact-driven game but isn’t played like any other sport.

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Per Diem: A Guide to Understanding Reimbursements and Rate

Replicon

Per diem is a type of allowance or compensation that companies provide to their employees and it plays an important role in simplifying expense management for businesses. Companies mostly provide per diem payments as allowances or reimbursements to help cover essential expenses for business travel. They also provide it to employees who cover shifts on a temporary basis.

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Onboarding, Data, Experience: Critical Components in the Modern Hiring Environment

Read the full results of the study conducted by Lighthouse Research & Advisory in partnership with HiBob to discover how to transform your talent acquisition strategy by harnessing the power of data and integration.

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What is HR Analytics? All You Need to Know to Get Started

Analytics in HR

HR analytics allows HR professionals to make informed decisions and create strategies that will benefit employees and support organizational goals. This has a significant impact on organizational performance , leading to as much as a 25% rise in business productivity, a 50% decrease in attrition rates, and an 80% increase in recruiting efficiency. In this article, we will explain what HR analytics is, its benefits, as well as how to get started and grow in your HR analytics capabilities.

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3 critical ‘moments of truth’ in rewards and talent management

HRExecutive

In the fast-moving consumer goods sector, “moments of truth” represent the key points where consumers interact with a product, and their thoughts and opinions about it are formed. Ensuring that a consumer forms a favorable opinion at each moment of truth is key to the brand’s success in the market. It can also determine whether an existing customer leaves or remains loyal to your brand. - Advertisement - A focus on key customer interactions is also fundamental to creating a customer-centric orga

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Ransomware: Activity Levels Remain High Despite Disruption

Symantec

Activity levels dipped slightly in the first quarter of 2024 as two major ransomware operations were the targets of law enforcement operations.

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Enhancing Workplace Safety with Continuous Criminal Monitoring

Cisive

What is Continuous Criminal Monitoring? Many employers understand the value in conducting a pre-employment background check. They know that screening an applicant for a history of criminal behavior helps identify individuals whose past behavior represents possible risk in the workplace.

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Foundations of Diversity: Building an Inclusive Company From the Ground Up

Can you guess why top-tier companies place such a high emphasis on diversity? Because a successful business mirrors the world around it. Diverse companies create empowering environments and are 35% more likely to financially outperform their peers. This new guide offers strategic insights to build a vibrant, diverse, and innovative workforce. Learn to assess your current workforce, understand demographics, and identify barriers to inclusivity.

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Up your HR game with Influential HR

HiBob

Today’s HR professionals have a lot to contend with: Recruitment and workforce planning, emerging technologies, the need for new skills and continuous upskilling, remote work—and the communication issues that come from a dispersed workforce. On top of this, HR professionals have a whole new generation (hello, Gen Z!) to cater to with wholly different expectations of employers, approaches to work, and workplace values.

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The Swedish Strike against Tesla Persists with No Clear End in Sight

HR Digest

Promoting collective action is the hallmark of a labor union and the current Swedish strike that Tesla is facing is an obvious testament to that fact. The strike against Tesla began on 27 October when a company subsidiary refused to sign a collective agreement with IF Metall—a labor union that represents the Tesla mechanics in the region. Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla, has long stood firmly opposed to labor unions, stating that they created negativity within a company, despite unions be

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What Are Transferable Skills? 10 Examples for your Resume

The Muse

Wondering what transferable skills are and why are they important? Learn about their definition, some examples for your resume, and how to effectively list them.

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Introducing AI as a Next-Gen Screening & Interviewing Tool

TalentCulture

Sponsored by TalentVUU Today, we’re talking about how AI can be effectively used in screening and interviewing candidates. AI is at the top of all of our mind these days. This is an application that hiring managers, recruiters, and other talent management leaders must know about and use effectively. Before we jump into today’s podcast, […] The post Introducing AI as a Next-Gen Screening & Interviewing Tool appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Creating a Company Culture of Care: Integrating Mental Health, Wellbeing, and DEI in Benefits

Speaker: Sean Raible

Picture a workplace where physiological safety is not just an aim but a reality, driven by thoughtful employee benefits that prioritize mental health, wellbeing, and DEI. 🤔 ✨ Achieving this vision requires more than just occasional training sessions and employee assistance programs. Moving beyond the basics, this vision calls for a holistic approach that integrates these elements into your company culture as well as your HR and benefits strategy.

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Looking beyond the résumé: How talent pros can lean into skills-based hiring

HR Brew

Can you imagine a world without résumés? We may soon be in one. Seven in 10 (71%) hiring managers expect text-based résumés to become obsolete in the next five years, according to a recent report from Canva. And it’s no wonder why, according to Laura Mazzullo, owner of recruiting firm East Side Staffing. “We have realized, in the hiring community, how often candidates were eliminated for reasons that had nothing to do with core competencies.

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What Martin Luther King Jr.’s Message of Nonviolence Means for Workplace Culture in 2024

Great Place to Work

Leaders should focus on systems, not individuals, in the face of rising backlash to diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging (DEI&B) in the workplace. For Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2024, it’s important to lean into his true legacy: nonviolence and its power to change systems. That’s the advice from Janet M. Stovall , CDE , global head of DEI at the NeuroLeadership Institute, and former senior director of social impact at The UPS Foundation.

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How to Fill out a Timesheet in 7 Simple Steps (Updated for 2024)

Replicon

Timesheets have played a pivotal role in timekeeping for businesses and have come a long way from archaic paper timesheets to digital ones. Businesses use timesheets to track how many hours were spent working on specific projects and bill clients accordingly. For hourly employees, who are paid according to the number of hours worked and even for salaried workers, the timesheet serves as a reference for calculating payroll accordingly.

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How To Apply Systems Thinking To Business Leadership

Forbes Coaches Council

By looking at how parts of the whole function together, leaders can uncover hidden relationships, anticipate unintended consequences and develop sustainable solutions.

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Performance Review Calibrations Made Easy

Every company aspires to be the best, and performance reviews are the cornerstone of that journey. However, discrepancies in how managers rate their teams can lead to unfairness.

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From overlooked to overachiever: Using AI to drive worker mobility

HRExecutive

In the last few years, as the labor market tightened , companies increasingly turned inward, searching within their ranks for hidden gems of talent. - Advertisement - The strategy, although well-intentioned, often fell short of its potential. HR managers and department heads rolled out skills assessments, performance evaluations and career development programs in a bid to squeeze out more productivity and promote from within.

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AI Taxonomies for Skills: Actionable Steps for Career Goals

Degreed

First, it was competency frameworks. Then it was skill taxonomies. Both suffer from the same challenges: they’re hard to build and even harder to keep up to date. Can AI help? Let’s find out. Why do organizations need taxonomies? For most companies, employees are the biggest expense (and asset). But how companies invest in those employees can quickly become disjointed.

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Quarterly Compliance Update: Summer 2024

Cisive

Navigating the complexities of compliance within highly regulated industries is increasingly critical as regulatory landscapes evolve. From recent federal updates affecting financial services to significant privacy law changes and the integration of AI in workplace practices, HR and talent acquisition professionals must stay informed. This blog provides a deep dive into the latest legal shifts, offering insights to guide your strategies in compliance and talent management.