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9 Trends in Talent Management That Drive Better Retention and Growth

Hppy

Todays workplaces look different from even a few years ago. Employees expect support, growth opportunities, and open communication. Companies must adjust their practices to keep pace with these evolving needs. This shift has placed more focus on methods that boost engagement and lower turnover. This article will explore key trends that can help organizations attract and retain valuable employees.

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Enhanced Use of People Analytics: Transforming HR Decision-Making in 2025

EmployeeConnect

Data-driven decision-making has become a cornerstone of effective management. The Human Resources (HR) domain is no exception. In 2025, people analytics has emerged as a transformative force, enabling HR professionals to gain deeper insights into employee behaviour, engagement, and performance. This blog explores the growing significance of people analytics, its benefits, and how organisations can leverage it to foster strategic HR initiatives.

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Unpacking 10 Ways to Support Employee with Post-vacation Blues

HR Digest

Do your employees appear down in the dumps after returning from their holidays? HR teams that support employees post-vacation will find them bouncing back much more easily compared to those who have to muddle through the realities of work on their own. Going on vacation can fill your mind with peace and tranquility but returning from these breaks often has the opposite effect, undoing all the mental progress made with a clear head.

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Creating The Best HR Conference For Experts

HR Management

Organizing an HR conference is a unique opportunity to bring together industry leaders, practitioners, and innovators to share insights, discuss trends, and network. With careful planning and attention to detail, you can create an event that not only informs but also inspires. Heres how to ensure your HR conference stands out as a must-attend event for experts.

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Mid-Year Performance Review Checklist for HR and People Leaders

Ensure your mid-year performance reviews are focused, productive, and growth-oriented with this practical checklist from Mitratech Trakstar. Designed for HR professionals, people managers, and team leads, this guide walks you through the full review process—from pre-meeting prep and feedback collection to action planning and follow-up. It also includes tips for creating a comfortable and effective review experience, plus ways to leverage tools like self-evaluations, PIPs, and development plans.

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What is HR effectiveness and how do you achieve it?

Insperity

Human resources can be described as the backbone of any organization, but what does that really mean? When HR operates effectively, it transitions from a supportive role to a strategic partner that drives growth, innovation and employee satisfaction. HR effectiveness isnt just about completing tasks efficiently its about creating a system that ensures your people are empowered to succeed while aligning their efforts with your companys overarching goals.

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AI and Automation in Recruitment: The Future of Hiring

Hppy

The way we hire is changing quickly with the help of AI and automation. These technologies are changing how companies hire by making the process faster, more efficient, and better for candidates, while also helping businesses find the best talent quickly. There are many AI tools revolutionizing recruitment. For instance, tools like text to voice generator enable businesses to create professional voice overs for job postings, onboarding materials, and training content.

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Is Now the Time to Update Your Wellness Benefits?

Best Money Moves

Recent economic pressure has put financial wellness benefits in the spotlight. 2025 is a pivotal year for reassessing how employee wellness impacts organizational success. Stress has long been known to damage employee mental health, productivity and retention. This is especially true of financial stress. Employees grappling with financial anxiety may be more distracted and less engaged.

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Setting Boundaries in HR: 5 Ways To Do It Effectively

AIHR

As HR professionals become more embedded in business operations, the line between being a trusted advisor and the go-to problem-solver for everything can often blur. While the instinct to help and support stakeholders is part of what makes HR so valuable, it also makes establishing healthy and clear boundaries difficult. Too often, HR finds itself stretched thin, trying to strike a delicate balance between offering support at all levels and protecting the time, focus, and energy needed to remain

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How to Write an Employee Reduced Hours Letter (Template Included)

Careerminds

Reduced work hours are never fun for human resources professionals to announce. When an organization reduces work hours, it usually means that financial turmoil is striking the organization. This creates stress not only for the human resources team executing the reduction in hours, but also for the employees who have to manage the stress of losing pay (and potentially benefits), as well as the long-term stability of their job if the company is in trouble.

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Protect Your Business and Stay On Top of Compliance

To keep your business running smoothly (and legally), HR needs to get compliance right every time. Our HR Compliance Checklist is your go-to guide to cover the basics and start your auditing processes, helping you identify and address any gaps in your HR functions. Remember, compliance rules can differ based on industry and location—you’ll still need to keep up with changing regulations, but our checklist can help you get started.

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The Role of HR in Driving Corporate Sustainability Initiatives

Hppy

As the global focus on sustainability intensifies, Human Resources (HR) departments are evolving from traditional administrative roles to become key drivers of corporate sustainability initiatives. By integrating sustainable practices into the workplace culture, HR plays a crucial role in aligning human capital with environmental and social responsibility.

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Remote Learning: Adapting Training for the Hybrid Workforce

HR Digest

For HR professionals, the challenge lies in adapting training programs to meet the needs of a dispersed workforce. Remote learning, once a contingency plan, is now a cornerstone of professional development strategies. This feature explores the challenges and opportunities of delivering training in a hybrid or fully remote environment and highlights tools and techniques to make virtual learning effective.

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13 HR Technology Trends To Watch in 2025

AIHR

Employers in the U.S. alone have invested over $5 trillion in HR technology , and 74% of companies plan to increase their HR tech budgets. Additionally, 80% of companies on Forbes Global 2,000 list will use algorithmic managers for hiring, firing, and training employees. The ability to use HR tech is clearly an integral part of a career in HR, so its important to keep up with the latest trends.

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This company doubled down on candidate experience to manage a sky-high load of résumés

HR Brew

There may be nothing souring faster than job seekers feelings about the hiring process right nowexcept for maybe that carton of eggnog that you bought and neglected to drink over the holidays. Candidates and recruiters seemingly havent always had the best relationship, but what was previously a mostly-neutral, transactional interaction has become an emotional one, rife with finger pointing: Job seekers say theyre getting ghosted by recruiters or rejected by AI within moments of applying.

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Can Your Organization Spot a Conflict Before It’s a Crisis?

Speaker: Amie Phillips Pablo, VP, Corporate Compliance & Privacy Officer at Novo Nordisk

In today’s complex healthcare environment, navigating third-party relationships has become even more challenging—whether it’s vendor relationships, employee activities, or patient-facing interactions. Left unmanaged, these conflicts can compromise trust, regulatory compliance, and even organizational reputation. So, how can healthcare teams stay ahead?

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The Role of HR in Navigating Hybrid Work Challenges

Hppy

The role of Human Resources (HR) is pivotal in managing work challenges in hybrid settings. HR personnel ensure a smooth and productive environment by fostering effective communication, maintaining organizational culture, and ensuring equitable treatment for on-site and remote employees. Implementing clear policies, supporting technology adoption, and promoting employee well-being are essential strategies that successfully help HR navigate this evolving work model.

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Impersonal layoffs are a lost opportunity. 3 ways to do better

HRExecutive

MetLife’s 2024 annual U.S. Employee Benefit Trends Study revealed that across all generations, employees overwhelmingly want to feel cared for by their employers; they want to know that “someone cares.” - Advertisement - Yet a Dec. 23, 2024, Wall Street Journal article, Letting Personnel Go Gets Impersonal Touch , showed that when it comes to layoffs , companies like General Motors, Sothebys, Intuit and Tesla adopt the reverse approachsending termination emails in the middle o

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18 Succession Planning Tools and Software [2025 Edition]

AIHR

Did you know that every day, about 10,000 people in the U.S. reach retirement age? This development, combined with the continuous need to reskill and upskill employees across all industries, further emphasizes the importance of succession planning and succession planning tools for organizations. In this article, we discuss 18 succession planning tools and software.

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Evaluating the Legal Implications of Layoffs and Downsizing

HR Digest

Layoffs and downsizing are among the most challenging tasks an HR professional can face. Beyond the emotional toll they take on employees and managers alike, these decisions are fraught with legal complexities that, if mishandled, can lead to costly lawsuits and reputational damage. Ensuring compliance with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act and other legal frameworks is essential for mitigating risks and maintaining fairness.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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98% of businesses have gender identity and sexual orientation non-discrimination policies, up from 5% in 2002, report finds

HR Brew

The Human RIghts Campaign Foundation (HRCF), an organization that fights for LGBTQ+ equality, has been the subject of anti-DE&I efforts over the last year and a half. And while some companies, including Walmart, Nissan , and Brown-Forman, have pulled out of the organizations LGBTQ+ corporate benchmarking index, a new report finds that more are participating, and are becoming increasingly inclusive of LGBTQ+ workers.

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HR Tech Awards: In Partnership with UNLEASH and Now Open for 2025 Submissions

Lighthouse

One of the most exciting programs that our team runs every year is the HR Tech Awards. Over the last five years we’ve awarded dozens of companies for their work across talent acquisition, benefits, compensation, talent management, learning, and other key areas. The heart behind this program is to create a way for HR and talent leaders to more easily review, select, and buy the technologies they need.

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Achieving and Maintaining ACA Compliance: A Comprehensive Guide for Employers 

MP Wired For HR

Achieving and Maintaining ACA Compliance: A Comprehensive Guide for Employers January 8th, 2025 Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on LinkedIn The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has set forth complex requirements for employers to ensure that their workers have access to affordable healthcare. Navigating the ACAs reporting and compliance obligations can be daunting, but with the right understanding and preparation, achieving ACA success is possible.

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The Future of Work: Key Trends in Employee Benefits for 2025

HR Digest

As we step into 2025, the corporate landscape is undergoing seismic shifts, driven by technological advancements, shifting employee expectations, and an increasingly globalized workforce. In this era of transformation, employee benefits have emerged as a strategic lever for attracting, retaining, and engaging top talent. Organizations that fail to adapt to these evolving trends risk being left behind in the race for the best and brightest.

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The AI Productivity Shift: How 3,000 Pros And 140K Users Are Transforming Work

Hubstaff’s new report, The AI Productivity Shift, highlights how 3,000+ professionals and 140,000+ users are transforming the way they work with AI. Adoption is high—85% are using AI—and the potential is just beginning. Teams that integrate AI into daily workflows report 77% faster task completion, 70% improved focus, and stronger results across the board.

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How unemployed HR pros are navigating a cool labor market

HR Brew

Paige Miller quit her job as a global director of people experience in early 2022, thinking shed take some time off to explore new opportunities before hitting the ground running in a new role by 2023. Two years later, shes still looking for a job. And shes not alone. In recent years, many HR teams have downsized or faced layoffs. That, coupled with the cooling labor market, has made it harder for people pros to land jobs.

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4 new models of HR leadership excellence—and how to strive for them

HRExecutive

As 2025 unfolds, many HR leaders may find themselves in a challenging spot: facing more intense responsibilities tending to the needs of the workforce along with increased expectations from senior leadership and boards of directorsall in an environment of rapid change and uncertainty. - Advertisement - In HR Executive s recent Whats Keeping HR Up at Night?

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11 Employee Engagement Initiatives To Implement in 2025

AIHR

Companies need targeted employee engagement initiatives to ensure favorable outcomes for both their employees and their business. Disengaged employees affect productivity, morale, and business results as theyre more likely to make mistakes and miss deadlines. Engaged staff, on the other hand, are more motivated, innovative, and productive, driving growth and elevating organizational reputation.

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Q&A With Jane: Tackling Workplace Challenges with Wisdom

HR Digest

In this months feature of Q&A With Jane , Jane Harper, our resident workplace expert with over 20 years of HR leadership experience, addresses some of the most pressing work-related dilemmas sent in by our readers. From navigating tricky office politics to finding the perfect work-life balance, Janes advice is both practical and empathetic. Lets dive into this months conundrum.

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Building Compliant Workplace Violence Prevention Across States: CA SB-553 | NY S. 8358B

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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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Boundaryless HR: What it is & Why It Matters

HR Lineup

In todays rapidly evolving world of work, organizations are constantly looking for innovative ways to stay ahead of the curve. One emerging concept that is transforming traditional human resource practices is Boundaryless HR. As businesses become more global, agile, and digitally enabled, the boundaries that once defined traditional HR are dissolving.

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AI In Employee Engagement: Transforming Workplace Dynamics

Vantage Circle

94% of business leaders agree that AI is crucial for success. A whopping number of leaders having such faith in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no joke. What’s equally reassuring is that 74% of business leaders consider HR a key player in driving business outcomes. Now, if AI is key to success and HR drives business outcomes, what happens when they come together?

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2025 Future of Work Leaders Priorities & Predictions (i4cp login required)

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Today, many forward-looking organizations have initiated more targeted and strategic focus on "the future of work." This often involves appointing a leader of this focus, and sometimes a team, to explore work scenarios and innovations given the rapid changes to work processes, the workforce, and the workplace. Though the exact components of the future of work may vary by organization, there are a few common factors and capabilities, specifically: The organization's ability to create realistic sc