September, 2020

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DOL Clarifies Who Is an Independent Contractor in Proposed Rule

SHRM Resources

The U.S. Department of Labor issued a proposed rule to clarify when a worker is an employee covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act or an independent contractor.

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Women Entrepreneurs Take Charge During COVID-19

Thrive Global

The COVID-19 pandemic has evoked change throughout every industry and for many of the world’s leading companies and entrepreneurs. While the pandemic has presented a new set of challenges, female entrepreneurs, Leslie Fajfar and Audra Gold, have stayed on track in reaching their endeavors by reflecting back on their careers, the challenges they’ve faced and what drives success in order to maintain a positive outlook and healthy ambition during these unprecedented times.

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How to Use 360-Degree Feedback to Improve Your Employee Experience

DecisionWise

At DecisionWise, we spend a lot of our time helping organizations understand their employee experience, with the end-goal of improving an organization’s levels of employee engagement. How Do We Measure the Employee Experience? Most often, we start by studying how things are working inside an organization from the employees’ perspective. Some of the tools we use include: Anchor surveys Pulse surveys Employee check-ins Focus groups Other forms of people data .

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Managing Virtual Employee Engagement During Crisis

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

Clear communications around actions, behaviors and expectations with respect to the realities, goals and execution plans before, during and after a crisis is critical to ensure changes are instituted seamlessly with minimal disruption.

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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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Carrot and Schtick: Which is the best - Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Motivation | Xoxoday

Xoxoday

Personalized external targets & opportunities to nurture inner spark. Design the right carrot to unlock the true schtick. Your team needs a blend of both to shine.

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office won’t call me “lord,” everyone has ideas but won’t do the work, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Everyone has ideas, but no one wants to do the work. I belong to an all-volunteer organization that does a lot of good in our community. However, most of the work is done by a small core group of volunteers. There are several others who serve on the board or committees who “contribute” primarily by generating lots of ideas for projects or approaches, but never step up to implement their ideas.

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How to apply design thinking to employee experience

HR Zone

Employees Creating the 'designer' employee experience.

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Study Finds Productivity Not Deterred by Shift to Remote Work

SHRM Resources

Recent research shows that the skepticism many companies had related to working from home may be eroding. Ninety-four percent of 800 employers surveyed by Mercer, an HR and workplace benefits consulting firm, said that productivity was the same or higher than it was before the pandemic, even with their employees working remotely.

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Talent Acquisition Trends for a Human Approach

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

Talent acquisition leaders will need to switch up their processes to fill positions again while trying to regain a human connectedness in a very different post-COVID future. These are the talent acquisition trends you can expect with a human approach to TA.

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Balancing Cost and Care: 3 Key Considerations for Cost Optimization in 2024

Discover essential strategies for employers to balance cost optimization with care. The top priorities for employers in 2024 are retaining talent, growing revenue and sales, and attracting talent. To achieve these goals, employers are turning towards comprehensive total rewards strategies informed by data-driven insights. Hear from industry experts on cost optimization strategies and how to leverage these approaches for a healthier workforce.

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Averbook: Employee engagement is hard; How to overcome that

HRExecutive

Are people engaged, or are they enraged? How do you drive engagement and foster a sense of connection and relationship with work when we don’t have old crutches on which to rely; when we’re asking people to manage and thrive in chaos out of necessity; when it’s easier to keep people connected than it is to create a meaningful sense of connection? We’re asked constantly to talk about engagement.

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Influencers or Analysts? Who has the most impact on your brand?

The Tim Sackett Project

The worlds of Influencers and Analysts have never collied more than they are right now in the HR industry. Most of this has to do with the popularity of Influencer Marketing that has taken off in the past decade, and like most things in HR, we are now just catching up with the marketing trend. Traditionally, in the HR space, companies selling products, technology, and services only really cared about two things: 1.

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my mentor has become a QAnon conspiracist

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I need some career-adjacent advice that intersects with the current political climate. I’ve been a wreck for about two weeks, since discovering that a mentor of mine seems to have gotten sucked in by QAnon. Any other acquaintance would be written off unsentimentally. But this feels different, partly because I am CRUSHED to lose this person as a trusted mentor and friend.

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Healing the divide between furloughed and non-furloughed employees

HR Zone

Employees How to heal the divide caused by furlough.

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Unlocking Employee Potential with the Power of Continuous Feedback

Speaker: Erin Daruszka and Nakisha Dixon

Recent studies show that only 21% of employees feel their performance and growth are within their control. What if the answer to employee development and high performance lies elsewhere? Enter continuous feedback. Imagine a work environment where feedback isn't a dreaded annual event, but a constant source of growth. Join us to discover how ongoing, actionable feedback empowers your team to take ownership of their performance, boosting engagement and development.

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1.4 Million Jobs Gained in August; Unemployment Rate Falls to 8 Percent

SHRM Resources

U.S. payrolls increased by 1.4 million in August, about what was expected, as the pace of rehiring has slowed and layoffs continue. The unemployment rate fell to 8.4 percent from 10.2 percent in July, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. August was the first month after a $600 weekly unemployment supplement expired, and stimulus programs shoring up businesses that retained workers lapsed.Check back here later this morning for more analysis from labor market experts

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Solving Ongoing Struggles of Retention with Healthcare Recruitment Strategies

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

In terms of recruitment, the global pandemic had a particularly profound effect on the healthcare industry. Now in the latter half of the year, we’ll take a look at the current state of recruitment, unraveling the cycle of healthcare turnover, and the best practices and tech that industry leaders are adopting to manage the changes in healthcare recruitment strategies going forward.

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ICE and DHS Employer COVID Guidance You Need to Know

Cisive

The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) requires employers in the United States to complete the ‘Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification’ for all newly-hired employees to verify their identity and their employment authorization to work in the country. Both employers and employees must complete the form. On March 19, 2020, due to precautions implemented by employers and employees associated with COVID-19, the DHS announced it would exercise prosecutorial discretion to defer th

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11 New Strategies for Juggling WFH and Kids (Because We’re Going to Be Here Awhile)

The Muse

Working from home with kids for a few weeks is one thing in an emergency. Doing it for the indefinite future is another. Here are some tips for the long term.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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Are Your Strategic Business Stories too Ambiguous?

Babette Ten Haken - Human Capital & Industrial IoT

What happens when strategic business stories become too ambiguous to everyone, including you? Yesterday, we explored whether your compelling business stories are too specific and tactically focused. Today, let’s explore what happens when your stories get lost in the strategic clouds. When strategic business stories are too ambiguous, decision makers ask: “What do you expect me to do with this information?

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Technology and the modern workplace: Cultivating D&I

HRExecutive

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is important for a number of reasons, not the least of which is profitability. According to a recent McKinsey study , businesses with gender-diverse workspaces were 21% more likely to attain above-average profit and those that were culturally and ethnically diverse were 33% more likely to outperform competitors.

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How companies can build a high performance, people-first culture

HR Zone

Culture 8 steps to a high-performing culture.

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Lean, Mean HR Machine

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

Dan Sines, CEO of Traitify, discusses how HR teams must juggle the simultaneous concerns of keeping furloughed employees engaged, re-recruiting the company’s workers, and preparing to re-onboard members of the team while maintaining a positive candidate experience.

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The Essential Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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How Telcos Can Groom Talent for the Trillion-dollar 5G Opportunity

Eightfold

5G is not just the next generation of telecom technology. It is probably one of the greatest technological shifts in our society. At its peak (high band and above) it has potential to change the world into a fairytale land we have seen in sci-fi movies, a digital city with flying cars, intelligent roads, and smart homes. 5G has the potential to power all of those.

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Psychological safety leads to better managers and teams at this major enterprise

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

What makes an effective team? In 2012, Google conducted a multi-year study to answer that question. They used a combination of “hard” performance metrics and “soft” evaluations by leaders, executives and team members to measure effectiveness and found eight attributes that contribute to it. The most important one was psychological safety, a concept from the work of Harvard professor Amy Edmondson that means that team members feel safe taking interpersonal risks.

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Pressure is a Privilege

The Tim Sackett Project

“Pressure is a Privilege” – Billy Jean King. I’ve been watching the US Open this week and women’s finalist, Naomi Osaka was interviewed and said as she walks out onto the US Open court she pulls inspiration from the quote and sign that hangs just outside the court where the players enter. In today’s world, we are all feeling a lot of pressure.

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Meet the HR Tech keynote speakers: Josh Bersin

HRExecutive

This is the first in a series introducing our keynote speakers and their HR Tech Conference content. Check back soon for more. *. Like most, Josh Bersin is spending hours every day on video calls; for Bersin, the content of those calls is largely focused on the strategies and innovations to make today’s—and tomorrow’s—workplaces more tenable for employees, given the disruption of the pandemic.

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.