Ultimate Software

JANUARY 29, 2016

All of us at Ultimate Software are honored to be named FORTUNE’s Best Workplace in Technology.  . Ultimate Software is the #1 Best Workplace in Technology, according to Fortune Magazine. Ultimate Software puts People First. Always. We started out more than 25 years ago with one core belief: put people first. Always. It’s a principle that drives all we do. We’ve seen good and bad times. Culture

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TLNT: The Business of HR

JANUARY 29, 2016

Editor’s Note:   Readers sometimes ask about past TLNT articles, so every Friday we republish a Classic TLNT post. Best Practices Engagement HR Communications HR Insights HR Management Leadership Retention & Engagement Talent Management Featured

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TriNet

JANUARY 29, 2016

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HighGround

JANUARY 29, 2016

When people are promoted to managers, it’s usually because they were top performers in their roles. But once they’re promoted, they often struggle to know what it takes to actually be good or effective leaders. No one is there to guide them or instruct them. As a result, engagement among their newly inherited direct reports drops, impacting morale, efficiency, the customer experience and the bottom line. It’s a recipe for failure that many organizations need to fix before their best employees get burned out from lack of direction, recognition, or development – and in many cases, all three.

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Training and learning organizations today play an active role in contributing to the bottom line of any organization by aligning their objectives to the immediate business objectives. This provides a solid ground for cost justification and encourages businesses to place training groups right where they should be, at the heart of a growing, thriving, learning culture.

4 Signs Your Company Culture Is Crying for Help

CultureIQ

JANUARY 29, 2016

Great company culture is readily identifiable. There is teamwork, innovation, and an overall sense of purpose. Best of all, companies with high morale, kill it operationally. While everyone wants to create an enviable workplace, what happens if you find that you work culture is less than stellar? Companies with low team morale harm the business in more ways than one. It can hurt your brand, efficiency, and worst of all, your profits. Check out these four signs to gauge if your workplace culture needs a makeover. Poisoning the well syndrome. Lack of trust in management. Complacent teams.

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FingerCheck

JANUARY 29, 2016

As a time and attendance company, we know that when it comes to giving employees breaks, each company has their own policy. growing trend we’ve noticed is that many of our clients dock their employees’ break pay if they exceed their allotted break time, even if only by a minute. For us, this raised the question – where did this come from and is it legal? So what does that mean?

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HR Morning

JANUARY 29, 2016

A dangerous trend for employers is appearing in FMLA lawsuits. . It’s that of employees requesting that they not use FMLA leave for medical related absences in lieu of some other type of paid time off — and employers allowing them to do so. The question is: Can employers legally do this? So why are courts ruling that employees can decline having the FMLA clock run on their leave?

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Evil HR Lady

JANUARY 29, 2016

Typing that headline makes me cringe. have a long record or opposing gossip in the workplace (and out of the workplace). Bullies often use gossip to achieve their self-centered goals. Bullies can cause tremendous damage to the workforce, and so can gossips. You know, the mean types who make up stuff and purposely set out to destroy their targets’ reputations? What’s the good in gossip?

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2016

The business year has ended, but managers everywhere are turning their thoughts to receiving one last Christmas present. The calculators are out and every eligible soul from Marketing to Manufacturing to Sales, IT, HR and the Executive Suite is trying to figure what their annual incentive check will look like. For some, it's still the gift receiving season. More Than Mechanics Are Flawed. soon").

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BALANCEview HR

JANUARY 29, 2016

On Friday, January 29, 2016, President Obama announced a new plan to advance equal pay. President Obama’s proposal requires companies to report to the federal government what they pay employees by race, gender, and ethnicity. Women are not getting the fair shot we believe every single American deserves,” said the President. What kind of example does paying women less set for our sons and daughters?”

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Paychex

JANUARY 29, 2016

Millennials are the largest employee block within the U.S. They're the most ethnically diverse, technologically savvy, and well educated workers. Here are some specific ways to attract millennial talent to your company

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Create Value for Your Brand with Podcasting

Take It Personel-ly

JANUARY 29, 2016

Podcasting on the Rise Podcasts— a term first coined in reference to the original Apple iPod— has recently skyrocketed in popularity, and more and more businesses are taking notice of how they can be used to benefit their marketing strategies. According to Apple, podcast subscriptions through iTunes reached 1 billion in 2013, and they’re only […]. Business Marketing branding business outcomes business tips Engagement Improvement podcast podcasting Success

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Employees at the front lines often have better ideas for innovation than others within the business, but when they walk out the door, they take those ideas with them. Want to innovate better and faster than the competition? You need to hold onto your best employees and the ideas they have. In this session we will explore how various pieces of the talent life cycle are related to retention and examine more than 20 strategies and ideas for improving retention outcomes for your business.

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HR Morning

JANUARY 29, 2016

Even at the best workplaces, there’s always room for improvement. . And, in many cases, front-line employees can spot opportunities that managers may have missed. TINYhr , an HR research firm, asked employees what they’d do differently if they were in charge. Top 5 changes. try to create clearer standard for behaviors and company policies (11%). attempt to improve communication (11%).

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Halogen Talent Managment

JANUARY 29, 2016

Improving performance management and dialog between managers and employees is all about building personal relationships. Think technology has no place in improving office interactions? Think again! Tools like Halogen 1:1 Exchange can help organize regular performance management one-on-ones, and refine dialog between managers and employees

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HRWatchdog

JANUARY 29, 2016

Amendments to California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) regulations have been approved and will take effect on April 1, 2016. The FEHA prohibits harassment and discrimination based on protected classes. It also contains provisions relating to pregnancy disability leave. The amendments to the FEHA cover a wide range of topics, including: Who a covered “employer” is under FEHA.

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HR Payroll Systems

JANUARY 29, 2016

Vacations are something that we all fantasize about, whether we hope to travel to an exotic locale or simply see some local sites that we haven’t made it to yet. Unfortunately, even Americans that can take a vacation often don’t. The average American leaves 8.1 paid vacation days unused. Employers should also set the example by taking vacations and spreading the word about the benefits. link].

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Can you hear the collective groan when you launch that new compliance course? Do you get complaints both public and private from trainees about the uselessness of the training courses you've launched? Is there anything that can be done about it?

Dice

JANUARY 29, 2016

The past two years have seen a surge of tech companies reporting their diversity statistics–and numbers aren’t good. Mid-year reports indicate that many tech giants are comprised of little more than 30 percent female employees worldwide, with an overwhelming number of U.S. employees being white. This includes companies like Google, Twitter, Apple, Facebook, and more. Mark C.

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How to Use Culture for Successful Change Management

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

JANUARY 29, 2016

In this two-part post, we look at the different ways organizations undertake business transformation. This first installment explores HR’s leadership role in facilitating change by tapping into company culture. The second entry will lay out a roadmap for successfully navigating large-scale change initiatives. Change is a fact of life. Think Culture First. Change Is a Continuous Process.

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Dice

JANUARY 29, 2016

The cloud-storage market has exploded in recent years, thanks to tech giants such as Google deciding to diversify their businesses by offering gigabytes of space for cheap. That places companies such as Dropbox and Box, which helped pioneer the market, in something of an odd place. Building those sorts of features takes innovative developers. Cloud Box Cloud Storage JavaScript PHP Python

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bad manager or deliberate saboteur?

Ask a Manager

JANUARY 29, 2016

A reader writes: I thought you might find this old OSS/CIA manual from 1944 as interesting examples of bad management. The purpose of the manual was to instruct employees and citizens of enemy states to sabotage the enemy from within. Some of the sabotage tips sound quite familiar from some of the reader letters. The most relevant tips relevant to your blog can be found near the end of the manual and contain gems such as: Managers and Supervisors: To lower morale and production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Employees: Work slowly. work habits

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Is your organization thinking about moving towards a performance development culture? What are the elements to succeeding and keeping managers and employees engaged? Download “A Road Map for Change” to find out and gain insight into making the transition as smooth as possible on your journey into this brave new world.

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Dice

JANUARY 29, 2016

As the app economy grows, so too does the need for powerful apps capable of handling “industrial-sized” data. That’s led many app shops—not to mention companies themselves—to build apps with very specific industry uses. These platforms are often known as either industrial or enterprise apps. According to research firm Gartner, the worldwide enterprise-application market grew to roughly $149.9

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PerformanceICreate

JANUARY 29, 2016

There’s a war in America. No, not overseas but in our living rooms, back rooms and board rooms. In a remarkable surge of xenophobic pandering we’ve become afraid of what we don’t understand and so we stop thinking, lash out and assert anything not like us is bad because, as we all know, different is bad. Its no secret we struggle with identity and acceptance in America. Our history dictates this. We postulate we were founded in large part on a quest for religious freedom even as we condemn any non-Christian religion. This war is not new. Yet W.E.B. Someone not like us.

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HR Morning

JANUARY 29, 2016

Few things are more irritating to employers than workers’ habitual tardiness. And few things are funnier than CareerBuilder’s annual list of excuses employees have offered to explain their being late.  . First off, just how widespread is the problem? When My hair caught on fire from my blow dryer. I was detained by Homeland Security. I had to chase my cows back into the field.

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HR Ringleader

JANUARY 29, 2016

It’s been a good week here in the mid-west.  I had a great time leading a webinar earlier in the week with Globoforce. The topic was how to make our workplaces more human. Tall order, right? Well, I hope I provided many examples that HR leaders (and other leaders) can use to make small strides in this area.  In case you missed it, you can listen HERE. . One of the main points I made in the webinar is that people need a workplace where there is LOVE. Well, no more! Freshbooks is a Toronto-based company that has instituted voluntary “employee dating” at work.

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Today’s workplace is characterized by chaotic forces—low employee engagement and productivity levels, and declining employee well being. HR Leaders have a critical role in defining the vision and strategy to transform and create a more productive and happy workplace.

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HR Morning

JANUARY 29, 2016

Benefits communication efforts falling flat? You may want to try personalizing the information to fit workers’ different needs. . Reason: More than half (55%) of employees said their company’s benefits communication doesn’t help them understand how they would pay for specific service or educate them on their benefits options. Butler : 1. Pseudo personalization. Check out this FAQ first.”. 2.

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Have Fun at Work!

RecogNation

JANUARY 29, 2016

Yesterday was National Have Fun at Work Day and Baudville, never one to ignore a holiday, partied like it was 1999 2016! Our team came up with this super cool way to combine 3 “holidays” into one party. The combo included Fun at Work Day, Soup Month (January), and Stars Wars – whose recent release is practically a holiday for me and my fellow nerdlings out there. Check out these samples!

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TLNT: The Business of HR

JANUARY 29, 2016

By Richard Meneghello and Sarah Moore. Compensation & Benefits Discrimination Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Equal Pay Act (EPA) HR Management HR News HR Trends Legal, Compliance & Policies Uncategorized Wages, Pay, & Salary Featured

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