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Taking Time to Reset: The Mental Benefits of a Sabbatical

Justworks

After five years at the company, Justworks employees are eligible for a three-month sabbatical. We can leave our jobs, keep our benefits, and return to the gig without skipping a beat. The idea is that those who’ve invested so much of their time are rewarded with the chance to disconnect and gain perspective of life outside work. It’s a chance for a mental reset.

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Everything HR Needs to Know About Experience Management (XM)

HR Bartender

We talk about experiences a lot. Some of the experiences that immediately come to mind are the candidate experience, employee experience , and the customer experience. But I must admit when I think about these experiences, I lean toward the feeling that the person might have, versus data. While an individual’s feelings about an experience are important, as business people, we also need to be focused on the data that the experience can generate for our organizations.

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Work trends: coworking outside in parking spaces is a thing now

Workplace Diva

Tired of sitting in the office? Then why not park yourself in a outdoor parking space that is equipped a desk and a chair and passing cars? In a work culture statement sure to confuse anyone who doesn't live in temperate California, a coder has decided to turn the average San Francisco and Santa Monica parking space into a trendy workspace that people can rent.

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10 Features of Best-in-Class Org Chart Software

Pingboard

Organizational design is one of the most important aspects of the workplace, as roles and teams must be structured optimally to ensure productivity and performance. In a recent survey conducted by Deloitte, business leaders ranked organizational design as a top priority. When it comes to illustrating the organizational structure and the makeup of teams, org chart software is the modern tool for getting it done.

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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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StafQuik Raises $500K Pre-Seed For Job Push Notifications

WorkTech

Push notifications are becoming ubiquitous as we travel around the Internet. These are the little “opt-in” messages on your browser or phone that ask to use your location (or not) to send you notifications you might be interested in. StafQuik wants to bring them to staffing firms’ job-sites and has raised a pre-seed round of […].

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Why A Holistic Performance Management System Beats Using Just One Tool. Every Time.

15Five

Stone buildings without mortar won’t stand long. A great exercise program is hamstrung without the right diet. Golfers who don’t practice their short game will never bring down their handicap. Cutting corners in its various forms may get some things done faster, easier, or less expensively, but will more than likely end up costing you in those ways in the long run.

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Podcast: Organizational Network Analysis – Tapping Into Your Hidden Influencers

DecisionWise

Hidden influencers are those with personal power, but not necessarily positional power. Other employees are drawn to them due to their expertise, influence, and role modeling. These informal influencers are crucial for engagement, information flow, decision-making, best practice transfer, institutional knowledge, mentoring, and retention. Correctly identifying and engaging hidden influencers is one of the greatest levers leaders have to increase organization-wide engagement.

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Strategic HR vs Compliance HR: What’s the Difference?

Reflektive

Compliance has traditionally been HR’s main focus and area of responsibility. HR is expected to ensure the company meets all legalities concerning employee treatment while making sure employees understand workplace handbooks, codes of contact, and similar issues. Compliance HR continues to have its place in modern human resources, but growing access to employee data has seen the rise of strategic HR and the alignment between human resources and company goals.

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The problem with modern leadership: diversity, inclusion and the ‘hero’ complex

HR Zone

Change. Why we should adopt a servant model of leadership.

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

Speaker: Speakers:

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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The Art of Communicating Employee Survey Results by Survey Type

Kazoo

There’s a lot to consider when communicating employee survey results to your workforce. Is there a right way to share findings specific to a survey you’ve already deployed or plan to run in the future? How can you be more confident in your organization’s approach when it comes to closing the feedback loop? For starters, when asked for opinions through employee feedback surveys we all want to see proof that we’ve been heard. .

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Employer Branding Case Study – Barton Malow - A Question & Answer Session with HR Vice President, Jennifer Sulak-Brown

EDSI

There are many companies who stand out when it comes to employer branding. Those who deliver a dynamic, consistent experience to employees are more likely to develop and benefit from a strong employer brand. Organizations with a well-established and respected employer brand will find it easier to both attract and retain top talent. Representatives from EDSI had the pleasure of meeting an employer branding standout – Barton Malow – at the Metro Detroit 101 Best & Brightest awards ceremony.

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5 Key Metrics to Measure Workplace Engagement

Reflektive

Ask a CEO and an employee about engagement in the workplace and you can get two contradictory answers. The CEO might think his employees are happy and engaged while the employee is one bad day away from quitting. Without some method of employee engagement measurement, it’s easy to assume the best while discontent and disengagement eat away at your talent, your productivity, and your bottom line.

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Wellbeing at work: how self-care and success work hand-in-hand

HR Zone

Employees. Self-care: the key to success.

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Ready to Save Time With AI? Try 14 ChatGPT Prompts for HR

ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can help you quickly brainstorm, draft, and refine tasks on your to-do list. But it can take a bit of strategy and practice to get generative AI to give you the time-saving results you’re looking for. Try these 14 detailed prompts to unlock the power of ChatGPT. You'll discover ways to streamline tasks for hiring, employee engagement, and performance management.

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The Art of Communicating Employee Survey Results by Survey Type

Kazoo

There’s a lot to consider when communicating employee survey results to your workforce. Is there a right way to share findings specific to a survey you’ve already deployed or plan to run in the future? How can you be more confident in your organization’s approach when it comes to closing the feedback loop? For starters, when asked for opinions through employee feedback surveys we all want to see proof that we’ve been heard. .

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how do I get my coworkers to shut up about Game of Thrones?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: All of my coworkers are all obsessed with Game of Thrones, but I don’t watch it, nor am I interested. We sit in an open office and they talk out loud about it all day long — fan theories, character arcs, whatever. I feel like I know the plot of every episode. They know I don’t watch, and sometimes they try to include me to be nice, but I always demur.

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Why HR Analytics Should be Top of the CEO’s Agenda

Reflektive

With the increased importance of data analytics, CEOs are turning to HR for the actionable data they need for strategic decision-making. Companies where HR reports to the CEO have a better understanding of employee dynamics at the executive level, and leverage HR analytics to improve retention, attract new talent, and increase productivity. DOWNLOAD THE E-BOOK: The Executive’s Guide to People Insights.

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Behavioural excellence: an essential quality in high performance leaders?

HR Zone

Change. Behavioural excellence: essential for leadership?

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HR’s Blueprint for a Successful 2025

The HR industry is changing. Did you know… 1. There will be 4M more jobs than workers by 2033 ( BLS ). 2. For 84% of workers, flexibility is a top priority ( FlexJobs ). 3. 75% of employees have used AI at work ( CFO.com ). It’s time to meet the moment! Use Paycor’s guide to design a blueprint for success.

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From Pre-Hire to Retirement: Employee Experiences That Engage and Retain at Every Stage

Engage2Excel

If you think the success of your company starts with excellent customer experiences, you are in good company. But that’s not quite the whole picture. While it’s true that customers hold the cash and they dole out more of it when you treat them well, it’s also true that behind every positive customer experience is a dedicated employee.

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How to Find Candidates with the Communication Skills of the Future

Spark Hire

Communication skills are always in-demand, but since the ways we communicate change, recruiters aren’t always looking for the same old skills from candidates. Wouldn’t it be great if you knew what the next hot skill is going to be? To get you ahead of the game, we asked recruiting experts about the most important communication trends impacting the workplace in the near future.

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BLS Reports Lowest Unemployment in 50 Years

SHRM Resources

U.S. employers added 263,000 jobs in April, and the unemployment rate dropped to 3.6 percent, the lowest since December 1969, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report.

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Three trends gleaned from gender pay gap reporting round two

HR Zone

Culture. Gender pay gap round 2: what trends have emerged?

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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.

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Why Virtual Career Fairs Are a Hot Trend in Hiring

TalentCulture

Joe Milner, the talent acquisition manager at educational publishing and assessment giant Pearson, was at a campus event in Northern California when a company executive broached the idea of bringing in some of the promising students to the company’s primary locations in other states for interviews. “We started to do the math on airfare, hotels, all that stuff, and it starts getting expensive,” Milner says.

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3 HR Roles of the Future

Digital HR Tech

We talk a lot about how technology is changing the world of work. And indeed, the combination of automation and the arrival of new technologies will lead to the extinction of certain jobs, but more importantly, it will push a lot of us to up-skill in order to get ready for the future. We also talk a lot about the role of HR in this digital transformation; how can HR help organizations and their employees to become future proof?

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10 performance review biases and how to avoid them

CultureAmp

I am biased, you are biased, all humans are biased. Not buying it yet? Consider the research of Daniel Kahneman , a psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics. Kahneman demonstrated one simple truth: the vast majority of human decisions are based on biases, beliefs, and intuition, not facts or logic.

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Feel the benefit: why it’s time to embrace the rewards and benefits technology sector

HR Zone

Change. Feel the benefit of employee benefits technology.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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#WorkTrends: The Bridge Between Work and Technology

TalentCulture

This episode is especially exciting for me. I love all of my guests, but it isn’t every day that I have one of my BFFs on the program. So I’m really pumped to have China Gorman back on #WorkTrends this week. Among her many jobs, Gorman is managing director of UNLEASH’s U.S. operations, and this week she gave us a special sneak peek at UNLEASH America, which will be May 14-15 in Las Vegas.

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HR faces a growing digital skills talent gap challenge

HRExecutive

The growing impact of digital transformation on talent is undeniable, so HR executives need to start planning a strategy for closing the impending digital skills gap, according to new research from The Hackett Group. In fact, The Hackett Group reports that dramatic changes in the nature of work as a result of rapid maturing and adoption of “smart automation” technologies actually are imminent.

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5 Employee Development Resources for New Managers

Workology

One of the most important services HR leaders are called on to provide is resources for new managers. New manager training varies so much based on length of previous management experience or, in the. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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