HR Brew

JANUARY 7, 2025

For Dannie Lynn Fountain, a benefits accommodations people consultant at Google, the journey to disability inclusion advocacy work in corporate America was a mix of the two. Whats the best change youve made at a place youve worked? At that time, the reason I was advocating for it was for myself.

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HR Brew

APRIL 11, 2024

In his forthcoming book , The Mentally Strong Leader: Build the Habits to Productively Regulate Your Emotions, Thoughts, and Behaviors , to be released on May 7, Mautz offers habits and tools to promote emotion regulation at work. He shared with HR Brew the role people pros can play in emotion regulation.

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HR Brew

JUNE 11, 2024

Jill Waite has worked in the restaurant and retail industries her entire career, beginning with a stint at Chuck E. She also worked in operations and development at companies including Sephora and Circuit City before taking the HR reins at Chicago-based hot dog chain Portillo’s as CPO in 2019. Cheese when she was 16 years old.

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HR Brew

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

As HR leaders prepare for an administration change , employees are preparing to cope with the surrounding discourse, with 31% calling the election “a source of tension or friction” at work, according to a recent report from global communications agency Burson. Don’t squash convos. It’s not just about being prepared to handle a crisis. “A

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HR Brew

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

More AI literate people feel less fearful about using AI at work than their less literate colleagues, according to a survey of 4,000 employees and managers, released this week by SAP SuccessFactors. How much are they exposed to [AI] in other places, and then that’s finding its way into how they think about it at work.”

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HR Bartender

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes I think its a given that organizations want employees to perform at a high level. We have to work at it. Here are seven things that can help us achieve better performance results at work: Set challenging but achievable goals. Look for supporters at every level of the organization.

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HR Brew

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

During a keynote at LinkedIn’s Talent Connect Summit last month, Erin Scruggs, the platform’s VP of talent acquisition, shared how the field has changed since 1995 when she landed her first recruiting job at a Baltimore-based staffing agency that primarily placed contractors in government roles. Recruiting in the AI future.

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HR Bartender

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Not every job is a full-time job, so the positive side to this approach is getting the necessary skills at the moment it’s needed. Even if your organization isn’t looking at AI and bots right now , it’s possible they will be in the future. BORROW is using freelancers, contractors, or consultants when the need arises.

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HR Brew

OCTOBER 15, 2024

When Gina Hartigan began her HR career building a university recruitment program at an engineering company in the early ’90s, she was given some now-dated advice: Always wear high heels, have something in your hands, and walk with purpose. In 2003, with four children at home, Hartigan had a wake-up call. Finding her way to HR.

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HR Brew

MARCH 1, 2024

At SXSW, leaders from the Boston Consulting Group, Slack, and Greenhouse Software will discuss AI’s potential impact on the employee experience. I’ll be reporting from SXSW, which runs March 8–16, but in the meantime, here are a couple of trends HR Brew has spotted already. AI takes center stage.

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HR Brew

AUGUST 1, 2024

“All of the research I’ve been looking at shows the same thing: that employees who have some degree of flexibility over where and when they work are reporting higher levels of employee engagement.

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HR Brew

AUGUST 14, 2024

That hasn’t stopped people pros from being tapped to articulate policy on using AI at work or to work on a plan for how to incorporate these new tools into workflows. Take any organization, you can look at the occupations in that organization and then you look at each occupation, and an occupation is a bundle of tasks.”

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HR Brew

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Were having two different experiences on the labor market that are quite night and day, Rachel Sederberg, senior economist at research firm Lightcast, told HR Brew. In fact, hiring rates are highest for workers making less than $55,000 a year, and lowest for those making more than $96,000, according to data from investment company Vanguard.

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HR Brew

AUGUST 6, 2024

Leading HR at any company hasn’t been a breeze over the last few years, and nonprofit organizations are no exception. But Oyin Fadiora, director of people and culture at the Boys & Girls Club of Metropolitan Baltimore (BGCMB), is taking the challenges of her job in stride. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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HR Brew

OCTOBER 28, 2024

We need to listen to the experiences of our employees…and make sure diversity is at the core of their experience,” McIntyre said. At Microsoft, diversity and inclusion isn’t a trend. Gender diversity at Microsoft is roughly in line with that at some of its biggest competitors, including Dell and Intuit. Big picture.

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DecisionWise

JULY 17, 2024

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. At the completion of the multi-year study, we compared results of the two sources of feedback.

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HR Brew

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

This week, the organization is hosting Inclusion, its annual DE&I conference, at the height of the 2024 election cycle, the results of which could impact the future of diversity programs. CEO Johnny C. Taylor opened the conference on the morning of election day, and addressed the elephant in the room head on.

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HR Brew

OCTOBER 29, 2024

24, Lisa Horgan, an employment lawyer at Littler Mendelson, shared a common trap she’s seen HR pros fall into—and how to avoid it. It’s not uncommon for HR pros to find themselves navigating sticky situations—it comes with the territory of a people-centric function—but some of these scenarios may be more easily avoided than others.

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HR Brew

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In fact, hiring for peak season has become a year-long planning process for Jeff Grant, VP of HR of the west region at UPS, told HR Brew. Theyre coming in at a pretty interesting time at UPS. Initially, he wasnt envisioning a career at UPS, and was open to other opportunities. Its really a lot of pressure for them.

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HR Brew

AUGUST 28, 2024

Unlimited paid time off (PTO) has always sounded a little too good to be true. Sure, your company’s HR department may technically allow workers to take as much vacation as they want, but does that mean they actually will?

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HR Brew

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Last month, Netflix debuted Untapped: Closing America's Opportunity Gap, a documentary about six young adults vying to land internships at large employers in NYC. Skills-based hiring just got its big break on the silver screen. People are willing to work for it. A lot needs to go well to make that happen.”

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HR Brew

OCTOBER 30, 2024

But HR leaders at Starbucks, Eli Lilly, and Strava, speaking at LinkedIn’s Talent Connect conference this week, shared their advice for how employers can demonstrate inclusivity and compassion when letting employees go. You should have been caring before,” Eric Dozier, executive vice president of HR and diversity at Eli Lilly, said.

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HR Brew

AUGUST 2, 2024

By comparison, economists forecast that businesses would add 175,000 jobs and unemployment would remain unchanged at 4.1%, per CNN. It’s very important to look at the different segments of the labor market.

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HR Brew

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Anyone who’s worked at a startup knows it’s common to wear many hats. So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Jaycee Schwarz’s “talent acquisition specialist” title only covers a fraction of what she does at Prizeout, an advertising and fintech company that partners with banks and credit unions to offer cash-back rewards.

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HR Brew

AUGUST 29, 2024

Sometimes surveys don’t always cover everywhere at every locale, as well as different roles that may not traditionally be covered by survey houses,” he said. For some of the specific roles, this brings a great additional data point from which people can make decisions.”

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HR Brew

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

I would be willing to bet that number will not be zero,” David Barron, an employment attorney at law firm Cozen O’Connor, said during a virtual webinar on Nov. Cynthia McEwen, VP of people and head of DE&I at benefits platform Progyny, has multiple ombuds available to her roughly 550 employees.

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HR Brew

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Wenninghoff, who leads Quantum Workplace’s HR team of three, had previously worked at employers that either participated in the “Best Places to Work in Omaha” ranking or used the software provider’s employee engagement surveys. What’s the best change you’ve made at a place you’ve worked?

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HR Brew

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Additionally, Employ execs are interested in better leveraging data from its 22,000 ATS customers to better recommend ways to improve hiring, according to Brenner. “That’s not one feature, one thing, it is a lot of tiny things that, frankly, maybe don’t add up to a super flashy release,” she said, but the DNA is still DNA-ing.

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HR Brew

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I think most HR teams are used to minimum wage changes and how to react accordingly,” Erika Johnson, director of work, rewards, and career at Willis Towers Watson (WTW), told HR Brew. This can tick off senior workers, who might feel slighted.

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HR Brew

DECEMBER 3, 2024

But Shannon Hilmar, director of talent acquisition at Deputy, an HR software provider primarily for companies with shift workers, said she had a “really early interest” in the profession that emerged during one of her first-ever jobs, working as a shift worker at McDonald’s. What’s the best change you’ve made at a place you’ve worked?

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