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

HR Brew

When our ancestors dreamed of the future, complete with flying cars and robot maids, did they also imagine a shift from traditional employment? Either way, alternative forms of employment are booming, even as workers primary jobs. And its creating big challenges for HR teams. The rise of gig work Understanding the current scope of gig work istricky.

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A global recruitment market snapshot: What lies ahead in 2025

Bullhorn Blog

Its no secret that the global recruitment market has been navigating turbulent waters. While 2024 marked a year of headwinds for staffing and recruitment firms, early signs of stabilization are beginning to surface, even in the U.S. That said, recovery remains uneven and fragile across regions, sectors, and staffing models. A look at some of the largest global recruitment agencies earnings reports shows a market still grappling with economic uncertainty, delayed hiring decisions, and a cautious

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HR Tech Awards 2025 Winners Announced

Lighthouse

In our daily work with talent leaders and solution providers, we run into some incredible technology. These tools available to organizations right now can help them hire, develop, and retain their people, and the platforms and systems are amazing in their ability to support intelligent decisions, personalized actions, and more. According to nearly 10 years of gathering data in the market, we estimate that 5,000+ technology providers exist across the entire landscape of HR, talent, learning, and

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The AI effect. Is it enhancing or eroding critical thinking skills?

HRExecutive

LinkedIns recent Skills on the Rise report highlights a growing demand for skills such as adaptability, communication and critical thinkingwith AI literacy topping the list. However, as AI tools become more integrated into the workplace, some experts worry that these technologies may hinder critical thinking. Earlier this year, Microsoft researchers surveyed 319 knowledge workers who use gen AI tools like ChatGPT or Copilot weekly to understand how these tools affect critical thinking.

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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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Setting Up Your New Receptionist for Success: Phone Etiquette and Essential Front Desk Skills

Professional Alternatives

A receptionist is often the first voice a customer or client hears when contacting your business. Their tone, professionalism, and ability to handle phone calls efficiently directly influence the impression your company leaves. It is crucial to prepare your new receptionist with the right phone etiquette and receptionist skills to ensure their success and their ability to maintain your organizations reputation that you’ve worked to establish.

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The First Aid Kit for Healthcare Communication Success

Staffbase

First aid kit overview: A new approach to healthcare communication In healthcare, effective communication is often the difference between calm and chaos. When your workforce feels informed and connected, patient care thrives but when communication fails, confusion, errors, and burnout take hold. Just as a first aid kit is essential in emergencies, your organization needs the right communication tools to ensure clarity, confidence, and control.

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Artificial Intelligence and Automation: Know the Differences and Similarities

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes I mentioned in a previous article that I went to an artificial intelligence (AI) conference recently. One of the things that I found interesting was the conversation about AI and automation. While they are related, theyre definitely not the same. Automation is setting up a technology that follows a defined order. For example, if I say ABC, then the technology will do XYZ.

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Essential Staffing Software Features: 24 Questions to Ask

COATS Staffing Software

Investing in the right staffing software is a pivotal decision that can revolutionize your agency’s performance. But with countless features and promises, how do you know what’s truly essential? Reviewing and comparing essential staffing software features can be a daunting challenge, especially when searching for a comprehensive platform to manage your operations from front to back.

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How Strategic HR Benefits Your Business and Your Employees

15Five

Strategic HR is about so much more than managing paperwork or running processes. Its about empowering your HR team to drive real impact using people data to shape business objectives and weaving HR initiatives directly into the fabric of company goals. When your HR strategy aligns with broader business priorities, you create stronger, more resilient organizations.

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Ready to Save Time With AI? Try 14 ChatGPT Prompts for HR

ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can help you quickly brainstorm, draft, and refine tasks on your to-do list. But it can take a bit of strategy and practice to get generative AI to give you the time-saving results you’re looking for. Try these 14 detailed prompts to unlock the power of ChatGPT. You'll discover ways to streamline tasks for hiring, employee engagement, and performance management.

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Dayforce’s global head of talent attraction and acquisition on keeping the ‘human element’ in recruitment

HR Brew

Speak with any seasoned HR pro, and theyll tell you the profession has changed drastically since their early careers. Steve Knox, global head of talent attraction and acquisition at Dayforce, whos been in recruitment for 30 years, certainly can attest to the changes. Knox recalled his experience posting job openings in his first position at consumer goods and personal care corporation Kimberly Clark.

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The First Aid Kit for Healthcare Communication Success

Staffbase

First aid kit overview: A new approach to healthcare communication In healthcare, effective communication is often the difference between calm and chaos. When your workforce feels informed and connected, patient care thrives but when communication fails, confusion, errors, and burnout take hold. Just as a first aid kit is essential in emergencies, your organization needs the right communication tools to ensure clarity, confidence, and control.

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Microsoft Launches People Skills In Copilot, Altering The HR Tech Market

Josh Bersin

Today Microsoft announced a wide range of Copilot features , many focused on Agents (research agent and analyst agent, agent development and management tools, and personal productivity features). But one feature set that is significant to HR is Microsoft’s newskills infrastructure : a skills-inference agent (and a skills management agent) that lets companies identify.

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From Attic to Innovation: Jason Maxwell’s HR Leadership Journey

MP Wired For HR

From Attic to Innovation: Jason Maxwells HR Leadership Journey April 22nd, 2025 Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on LinkedIn From a Lowell Attic to Leading HR Innovation Nationwide In 2004, Jason Maxwell launched MP from the attic of a home in Lowell, Massachusetts. Not exactly the classic garage startup storybut the mission was just as bold.

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HR’s Blueprint for a Successful 2025

The HR industry is changing. Did you know… 1. There will be 4M more jobs than workers by 2033 ( BLS ). 2. For 84% of workers, flexibility is a top priority ( FlexJobs ). 3. 75% of employees have used AI at work ( CFO.com ). It’s time to meet the moment! Use Paycor’s guide to design a blueprint for success.

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The Interconnection Between Employee Experience and Member Experience in Credit Unions

DecisionWise

A Synergistic Approach to Help Everyone Win “To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.” – Doug Conant, former CEO of Campbell Soup Company In the dynamic and competitive landscape of financial services, credit unions stand out by offering a unique, member-focused alternative to traditional banking institutions.

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Small businesses struggle to hire and retain workers. These tactics can help.

HR Brew

Despite generating more than half of US job creation in the last decade, many small businesses struggled to hire and retain top talent in the turbulent, pandemic-era labor market. Even as overall hiring and quit rates slowed in 2024, their challenges havent let up. Nearly one-third of small businesses that tried to hire last year werent able to find employees who were a good fit, Gustos latest State of Small Business survey found.

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Ethical HR Starts Here: Data Privacy, Advocacy, and Social Work-Inspired Practices

Hppy

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, Human Resources (HR) professionals find themselves navigating a complex terrain of legal requirements, evolving societal expectations, and increasingly sophisticated technologies. The very nature of HR necessitates access to vast amounts of employee data and the responsibility for making decisions that impact lives.

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AI in Performance Management: 11 Practical Applications To Guide You

AIHR

AI is revolutionizing performance management by making it more effective, objective, and actionable. Through automation and real-time feedback, AI can make performance management a truly valuable tool for growth. This is especially important for employees, who are 57% less likely than leaders to view performance management as successful. AI, however, can improve employee engagement initiatives through more efficient performance management programs.

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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.

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Learn & Grow: The Learning Management System for Employee Engagement and Retention

MP Wired For HR

Learn & Grow: The Learning Management System for Employee Engagement and Retention April 24th, 2025 Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on LinkedIn Employee disengagement, poor retention, and compliance headaches arent just HR problemstheyre business risks. And if youre still relying on outdated or manual training tools, you’re falling behind.

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HR Analytics and Data Privacy: Balancing HR Data Needs with Employee Interests

HR Digest

HR Analytics has revolutionized the capabilities of the workplaces that have adopted these explorative systems, but some considerations have gone unexplored. Specifically, were talking about the relationship between HR analytics and data privacy. The link between HR data collection and privacy ethics is one that is often ignored, but the security concerns around HR tools must be addressed before we embrace the technology with open arms.

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What “No robo bosses” could mean for employee data and privacy security

HR Brew

A California Democrat last month introduced the No Robo Bosses Act , SB7, to the statehouses upper chamber requiring human oversight of automated decision-making systems (ADS) in the workplace. The move comes as state and local governments and businesses alike grapple with a federal vacuum on AI legislation amid uncertainty in Washington. The move in the Golden State, sponsored by state Sen.

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How to write performance goals: 100 sample phrases

Business Management Daily

Well-written performance goals help energize employees and point them in the right direction. They help managers conduct more effective performance reviews. Here are 100 phrases to adapt from 2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals by Paul Falcone and additional performance goal phrases that may help you provide more helpful feedback to struggling team members.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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Communicating the Hidden Value of Retirement Benefits

BackStitch

Despite being one of the most important elements of a compensation package, retirement benefits are often overlooked or misunderstood by employees. Many workers focus only on their take-home pay, unaware of the long-term financial investments their employer is making on their behalf. For HR teams and benefits professionals, bridging this knowledge gap is essential to reinforcing the full value of employment and improving financial confidence.

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Making tech a unifier—not a divider—for an age-diverse workforce

HRExecutive

Employee perceptions around the use of tech at work are quickly evolving, with many anticipating a consumer-grade experience in the workplace. Yet, the workforce is increasingly age-diverse, comprised of employees with varying technology experience and expectations. Experts say employers need to design their tech strategies with different generations and communities in mind.

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2025 RTO Mandates: Can Employers Force In-Office Work?

HR Digest

The post-COVID workplace has evolved beyond our imagination. And yet, it raises a pressing question among employees: Can your employer force you to return to the office? With return-to-office (RTO) mandates becoming commonplace, its important to understand your rights and options. Companies like Amazon, JP Morgan & Chase, Dell, and even the U.S.

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Why it’s not far-fetched for HR pros to dream of being COO

HR Brew

Chief operating officers (COOs) are a big deal in the business world. They oversee the day-to-day operations of a company, are typically second-in-command to the CEO, and often next in line for the top role. Unfortunately for HR pros, the career path from the people function to head of operations isnt so common. Most COOs tend to come up through operations or finance before landing their role.

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Transform Employee Wellbeing and Control Costs Through Data-Driven Strategies

In today's dynamic business environment, HR leaders face immense pressure to optimize costs while maintaining a competitive edge to attract, retain and engage their workforce. Gallagher can help you meet that challenge head-on. Our proprietary data and people analytics platform, Gallagher Drive ® , provides the elevated insights you need to make impactful program decisions that are aligned with your organizational goals and set your strategy up for long-term success.

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Cultivating Happiness in the Workplace: Strategies for Employee Retention and Recognition

Hppy

Team spirit can truly soar when each persons efforts are seen and honored in a way that feels personal. Simple gestures not only honor individual input but also inspire fresh ideas and creativity. This keeps individuals excited and proud to be part of the company. The best part is that basic appreciation further boosts loyalty and encourages a stress-free atmosphere.

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Paycheck Direct Deposit: Offer, But Don’t Mandate

HRWatchdog

In 2025, we would like to pay all our employees by direct deposit. We have a couple of employees who do not have direct deposit, and it can be challenging to get their paychecks to them on time. Can we require every employee to enroll in direct deposit? The short answer is no. Although the vast majority of employees use direct deposit, there are some employees who prefer to receive wages by means of a traditional paycheck.

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Why this remote-first company still prioritizes ‘intentional connection’

HRExecutive

Just a handful of weeks into her tenure as the chief people and culture officer of banking and financial services company Pathward , Anjana Berde got to meet nearly 700 of the companys employees all at once, in persondespite the organization being remote-first. The gathering was for Pathwards inaugural Dare to Be Great Employee Summit in Atlanta. Here, employees across the country were able to hear directly from leaders and partners, connect with colleagues, learn about opportunities for interna