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Best Practices for Scheduling Hourly Employees

nettime solutions

Your schedule forms the backbone of your daily business operations. Since payroll is one of the biggest items in your budget, the way you staff your shifts makes a huge impact on your bottom line. You also need to have protocols for when and how the schedule is displayed, how employees make time off requests, and how they swap shifts. It’s vital to respect the time your employees give you and your business.

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Customer Spotlight: 5 Tools Making Life Easier for Pet Care Business Owners

Hireology

This is a guest post from Hireology client Cara Armour, founder of Boston-based Active Paws. Cara has more than a decade of pet sitting experience, winning Pet Sitter of the Year in 2009. Below, Cara highlights several tools that help her pet sitting business run smoothly. Read more insights from Cara’s 13+ of professional pet services experience here.

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#HotInHR: Improving Diversity Rates @Pinterest, Where Are All the Men in HR? Intern Takes Over Railroad’s Twitter

Advos

Get HR Funding News Delivered To Your Inbox. Every week we send a summary of funding announcements, M&A and partnership news from the HR marketplace. Sign up now. Week in Review – Popular Content. What We Learned from Improving Diversity Rates at Pinterest – HBR. In today’s workplace, diversity is more than just a buzzword; it’s a way to build a stronger business.

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The Single Question that Drives Company Culture

HR Bartender

I won’t keep you in suspense. Here’s the question: Who comes first? It seems to me that organizations have to choose. Is it shareholders, customers, or employees that will come first? And you can’t say all three. Yes, all three are important. But one has to come first. Because the answer drives the vision, mission, and values of the organization. It drives company culture.

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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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Best Practices for Scheduling Hourly Employees

nettime solutions

Your schedule forms the backbone of your daily business operations. Since payroll is one of the biggest items in your budget, the way you staff your shifts makes a huge impact on your bottom line. You also need to have protocols for when and how the schedule is displayed, how employees make time off requests, and how they swap shifts. It’s vital to respect the time your employees give you and your business.

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How to Prepare Employees to Step Up When Leadership Steps Down

Cornerstone On Demand

Part of HR's greatest responsibility lies with succession planning: we must identify and develop the next generation of leadership so they may step up when current leadership steps down. It's incredibly important to the future of an organization: a 2016 Borderless survey on Leadership Development cited ability having enough capable leaders as one of the top organizational challenges most companies face.

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Human Resources: 2017 Changes for Form I-9

HR Bartender

There’s a lot happening in the news. Regardless of your politics, our legislators are talking about immigration, health care, elections, and much more. It can be a challenge to keep up with it all. For example, did you know that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office just released a new version of Form I-9? I didn’t know this change was coming until I was in New Orleans at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference.

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The Stats You Should Know If You are Recruiting Contractors in the UK

Linkedin Talent Blog

There are 7 million members in the UK on LinkedIn that identify themselves as contractors - that’s 15% of the total UK workforce today. The industry, made up of freelancers, contractors and the self-employed, has grown steadily over the last decade and, with the advent of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 set to create exponential change to labour market dynamics, this is certainly an employment trend that we can expect to see grow!

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The Massive Effect THIS Has on Your New Employees

ClearCompany HRM

Close your eyes. Think of a time when you were busy and needed to hire a lot of people. Were you concerned with candidate experience? Of course you were. Were you wary of long interview times and ensuring you hired for technical and cultural fit? Absolutely! Did you have your onboarding process mapped out before you sent out the offer letter?

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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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Dealing with a Narcissistic Boss

EmployeeConnect

Do you feel your boss is a narcissist? Do they expect you to be on call the entire day? Are they a person who blames everyone else other than themselves for any mistakes? Do they often argue and contradict themselves? Well, if the answer to most of these questions is yes, then it appears you are probably reporting to a narcissist! Some of the common character traits of a narcissist include being selfish, throwing temper tantrums, and taking away the credit for other people’s work.

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Bookmark This! Change Management Edition

HR Bartender

I’ve been hearing lots of conversation about change. Whether it’s organizations that need to change OR departments that want to be more agile so they can respond to change OR individuals who want to create a change in their lives. Change is hard. Even when we want it. Typically, change involves developing new habits and routines. If change wasn’t hard enough, the speed in which we must adjust to change can be even more difficult.

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When the Going Gets Tough, Go Easy on Yourself

CONCERN: EAP

When you hit a rough patch, what does your self-talk sound like? For some of us, in those moments, our inner voice comes on like a drill-sergeant full of harsh words and criticism. Even people who are naturally supportive and understanding of others may find it hard to offer the same kindness to themselves. An area of behavioral science research observing self-compassion is taking a closer look at how kindly or unkindly we view ourselves, and the effects on mood, health, and overall wellbeing.

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When Suicide Hits Close to Home

Don Phin

I sense there is a lot of fear and depression going on. And…it can’t be ignored. While I have never entertained the thought of suicide, that’s not been the case for so many others. And… it’s been hitting close to home the last few years. A 13-year old boy, who was the younger brother of. Read More. The post When Suicide Hits Close to Home appeared first on HRSherpas.

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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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Know the Basics: What is an FSA? And How Do I Set One Up?

Justworks

If you're looking into an FSA, you may want to find out what other fringe benefits prospective hires want. Between all the jargon of HSAs and FSAs, you may have asked yourself — what is a flexible spending account, exactly? A flexible spending account, or FSA, is an account eligible employees use to put pre-tax money into throughout the year. They then use that account to pay for certain health care out-of-pocket costs.

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48 Funny and Inspirational Workplace Quotes

EmployeeConnect

Workplace humour has a way of connecting people, building rapport, alleviating tension and building a positive culture. That humorous exchange of jokes, memes and posts has a motivational & inspirational effect that makes people happy. When people are happy, they look forward to work. They enjoy the casual banter with their peers. They are engaged.

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Is “Being Predictable” Essential For Remarkable Success?

Hppy

You’ve heard these types of comments before as descriptors of an individual who attracts a positive rating from leadership and is viewed as someone with potential to go further in the organization. “He can be counted on to deliver consistent results; he’s dependable.” “She’s predictable; you get few surprises from her work.” Predictability is often, if not always, looked upon as a strength; an attribute that leaders find “comfortable” and des

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Seven Tactics to Boost Learning in the Workplace

Everwise

Successful organizations emphasize ongoing professional development and gaining new knowledge. A learning culture benefits companies by enriching the employee experience, boosting productivity and innovation, and curbing turnover. It is an essential priority to remain competitive in today’s rapidly-changing landscape. Employees must be prepared to learn and adapt to rapidly changing conditions and new technologies.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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Pay Attention to Originality

WorkHuman

Adam Grant & Greg Stevens at WorkHuman 2017. Listen to the latest episode of WorkHuman Radio with Adam Grant and Greg Stevens, embedded at the top of this post. People can learn to increase their originality, developing creative ideas to improve the world around them and seeing those ideas through to reality. That’s the idea at the center of Adam Grant’s book, “ Originals.”.

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HR PROBLEM: When LinkedIn Recruiter Doesn't Work For Your Team.

The HR Capitalist

Here's a new world take on an old-world saying: "No one ever got fired for buying recruiting services from LinkedIn". That's a spin off on what our boomer fathers/mothers/grandparents used to say back in the day: "No one ever got fired for buying IBM". New world. Same type of saying. If there's one thing that's true, it's that LinkedIn is ubiquitous these days when it comes to recruiting.

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Why Your CEO Doesn’t Care About Employee Engagement (Yet)

Achievers

It seems that we can’t turn around today without having a conversation that touches on employee engagement. Yet despite all the attention, it hasn’t really moved the needle. In the time that Gallup has been measuring engagement, it hasn’t changed–engagement levels are hovering right around 30 percent. At the same time, Google data shows that there’s been a steady climb in searches and interest in the topic for the last five years.

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As an HR How Do You Manage an Unsatisfied Employee?

Hppy

When you are an HR executive, you are expected to don many hats. One of the biggest challenges is keeping your company out of legal battles and knowing the role of human factors in production network. This calls for tact and inter-personal skills to smooth out “people problems”. Having a disgruntled employee is not something unusual or threatening. What is worrisome is when the unsatisfied employee continues to hold onto his grudge despite your best efforts at reconciliation.

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Trending Payroll Statistics

Staying up-to-date on the latest decisions and payroll statistics ensures businesses can remain compliant and efficient. B2B Reviews research compiled the latest data to help businesses stay on top of payroll in 2024 and prepare for the future.

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Say Goodbye to the Annual Bonus

WorkHuman

Everyone in the world of HR is talking about the end of annual performance reviews. The chatter is focused on how to promote a coaching culture throughout the year to continuously improve employee performance. Few people, however, are offering a real solution to the compensation piece of the annual review. Traditionally, employees had their review with their manager and received a rating based on their performance over the past year.

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When Training Is Not Enough

TalentCulture

The Trouble With Training. There are few things in business more important than hiring the right people, except perhaps making sure they can be effective once hired. As we move further and further into a knowledge based economy that statement becomes even more critical. Organizations tend to focus in on ‘training’ as the mechanism for properly onboarding a new employee.

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Performance Consulting Tips: Finding Solutions When Learning Is Not the Answer

ATD Human Capital

I want to share a story from my consulting practice—one to which you can probably relate. My client, a vice president of branch sales at a regional bank, needed to increase the average number of banking products each customer used from around two products to four products. For example, most customers had checking and savings accounts, but the bank wanted each customer to have two additional banking products, such as credit cards or money-market accounts.

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Bringing Engagement and Culture to Invoicing

Hppy

There are many tedious boring tasks in the workplace and with it there are challenges. One of these tasks is invoicing and managing all other documents related to billing clients. And the truth is that repetitive, tedious tasks can make it hard to keep employee engagement high. . Employee Engagement with Invoicing. There are several steps to invoicing.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.