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Need Budget Approval for Your HR Initiative? These CFOs Have Tips for Getting the Green Light 

15Five

This is nothing like 2008 [or other previous recessions], but it is a slowdown, so that means pencils are sharper,” he said. Between the fear of a looming recession and the recent banking crisis, companies today are experiencing a little financial panic. There’s a more critical eye when activities are put in front of the CFO.

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Is the HR Accountable for Mass Layoffs?

Keka HR Blog

The responsibility of keeping survivors hanging on, resume work after the layoffs of their peers inevitably falls on HRs. “It will definitely take a toll on the HR professionals because they also go through their emotional highs and lows,” Vinod Parur, CHRO, RR Kabel, told HR Katha. Worst victims of layoffs. and General Motors Co.,

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Recession 2008 Versus 2023: Lessons Learned and Key Workforce Differences

HR C-Suite

During the 2008 great recession, I was a CHRO for a health system in California. We were thrust into responding to the market downturn and slow recovery. To remain viable, we had to make very hard workforce related decisions including but not limited to laying off 180+ employees, consolidating, and shutting down services.

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Warren Buffett’s #2 Would Hire HR Generalists Over HR Specialists.

The HR Capitalist

An HR Generalist can exist at the individual contributor level or manage people, as well as exist at the HR Rep, HR Manager, Director, VP and CHRO level. As part of this role, they provide counsel, service and insight across the HR Body of Knowledge - comp, benefits, recruiting, employee relations, legal, etc. Don't be fooled.

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Parallel Paths out of a Crisis

Big Ideas, in Brief

What similarities are there between the CFO response to the 2008 Great Recession and the response of the CHRO coming out of the disruption seen in 2020?

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Assessing Values in Online Technology Part 4

HR Examiner

The breakdown of participants looks like: CHRO and Vice President of HR: 30%. Over the course of a 90 day period (Ending on 5 September 2019), we collected survey responses from 542 individuals. We used email lists to target HR executives. We did not purchase any responses. Director Talent Acquisition: 12%. Recruiting: 17%. L&D: 9%.

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Is the HR Accountable for the Mass Layoffs?

Keka HR Blog

Vinod Parur, CHRO, RR Kabel, told HR Katha. Worst victims of layoffs. Layoffs during the great recession of 2008 : A study titled “Dumb and Dumber” suggested that layoffs impacted profitability especially for industries having low levels of physical capital but greater investment in workers. and General Motors Co.,