Sat.Nov 09, 2019 - Fri.Nov 15, 2019

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Can Employee Retention Be a Double Edged Sword?

Compensation Force

Can employee retention be a double edged sword? According to Merriam Webster, in addition to being a sword with two sharp edges, this is defined as something that can have both favorable and unfavorable consequences. That's about right. Or, as John Sumser of the HRExaminer has put it : “Why do we have layoffs?” Because the retention programs work too well.

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The Best HR Leaders are Data Driven, People Oriented

UpstartHR

One of the phrases I’ve found myself repeating more and more often of late is this: data driven, people oriented. . When I’m speaking to audiences, I share the story about how I *accidentally* insulted my wife during childbirth to illustrate this concept. Yes, really. It makes a great point that we can’t just be data driven or we lose sight of the people behind every metric and number.

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Apprenticeships and Six Ways They Can Benefit Your Company

EDSI

It’s no secret that companies in all employment sectors are facing challenging workforce shortages and gaps. What many companies don’t know is that apprenticeships offer a viable solution for recruiting, training and retaining world-class talent. Apprenticeships are an earn-as-you-learn, flexible workforce development tool and training strategy that can be customized to meet the needs of any business.

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9 Ways to Show Empathy When Employees Take a Leave of Absence

ExactHire

This is an easy time of year to remember to give thanks. With all the festivities of the holiday season, we don’t have to try that hard to show gratitude and be empathetic to others’ situations when things are going well. However, have you paused to reflect on how you demonstrate empathy during other times of the year? The privilege to always show empathy and gratitude to others has never been more clear for me…as over the past couple of weeks I have cared for a close family member r

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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Top 7 Ways To Help Employees Avoid Feeling Overwhelmed At Work

15Five

This time of year, it’s common to feel overwhelmed at work. Whether it’s the push to complete work projects by year-end or the desire to meet the unrealistic expectations that surround the holidays, stressors from personal and professional life can intersect, impacting employees’ productivity, motivation, and health. Employees: burned out and stressed.

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The Seven Behaviors of Effective Supervisors

DecisionWise

We gathered our consultants together in this roundtable to discuss the power supervisors wield on the employee experience. Supervisors can either rally the troops for the cause of an organization or contribute to an all-out mutiny! This may be a touch dramatic, but you get the gravity of the issue. Our experts illustrate seven behaviors of effective supervisors and some of the more nuanced ways supervisors influence the engagement levels of their direct reports.

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Psychological Safety: Paving Way Towards Better Team

Vantage Circle

In today’s rapidly changing corporate world, organizations have experimented with different methods to develop efficiency in teams. But what companies choose to overlook is the incorporation of psychological safety in the workplace. It is a surefire way to build a safe space within the organization where teams feel safe to take risks within the team and embrace vulnerability.

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Your roadmap for hiring highly skilled workers

Insperity

Do you have an open position with super-specific criteria that you’ve had a difficult time filling? If you’ve been trying to pinpoint the right candidate awhile without any luck, one reason could be because you’re hiring highly skilled workers. So, who is this, exactly? A highly skilled worker is anyone with qualifications that are rare to find and difficult to obtain – and, at this moment, very much in demand.

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New Research Show Income Gaps Are (at least partly) Due to Working More Than 40 Hours Per Week.

The HR Capitalist

Hat tip to my homeboy Tim Sackett on the research cite below. Sacks must have crazy email subscriptions and Google alerts to mine this gold. Cut and paste from Marginal Revolution appears below. That is a new paper by J. Rodrigo Fuentes and Edward E. Leamer: This paper provides theory and evidence that worker effort has played an important role in the increase in income inequality in the United States between 1980 and 2016.

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Transform Employee Wellbeing and Control Costs Through Data-Driven Strategies

In today's dynamic business environment, HR leaders face immense pressure to optimize costs while maintaining a competitive edge to attract, retain and engage their workforce. Gallagher can help you meet that challenge head-on. Our proprietary data and people analytics platform, Gallagher Drive ® , provides the elevated insights you need to make impactful program decisions that are aligned with your organizational goals and set your strategy up for long-term success.

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3 Ways to Make Hourly and Seasonal Workers Feel Valued

Visier

UPS is currently hiring 100,000 workers , and Target is bringing in another 130,000. Amazon has 30,000 job openings and plans to hire tens of thousands more ahead of Black Friday. The staffing run-up to the holiday shopping season is a stark reminder of how vital seasonal, contract and hourly workers are. It’s not just that they keep store shelves stocked and get packages to our doors during one of the most hectic seasons of the year.

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What’s Lurking In Their Background?

Crimcheck | Pre-Employment & Background Check Information

What Would You Do? You drove through rush-hour traffic, grabbed your first cup of coffee and sat down at your desk at Acme Staffing, only to have your door darkened a few minutes later by the boss. “I think we’ve got a problem, maybe. We’ve been getting some complaints.” Her face reflects the doom-and-gloom in her voice. She closes your door and sits down.

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How HR Creates Diversity and Inclusion

Flimp Communications

Human resources is responsible for many duties, most of which directly or indirectly affect diversity and inclusion efforts. Many company leaders still cringe a little when trying to improve diversity and inclusion. In order to include some people in your organization, you have to exclude others. Infusing your organization with perspectives and experiences from a variety of backgrounds is important.

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Podcast: Autonomy – The Power to Shape Your Work Environment

DecisionWise

In this podcast episode, DecisionWise Consultant, Thomas Olsen, discusses the topic of autonomy, one of the 5 keys of ENGAGEMENT MAGIC ®. We define autonomy as “The power to shape your work and environment in ways that allow you to perform at your best.” Autonomy doesn’t mean “no rules and free reign.” We all work under guidelines. But when we understand our parameters, and have the freedom to do our best work, we are more creative, innovative, passionate and, ultimately, more effect

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Protect Your Business: Tackle the Future of I-9 Fraud with Expert Strategies

Speaker: Speakers

Is your business ready for the future of document fraud? AI advancements have made forgery easier, increasing risks for employers. With 85% of identity fraud last year linked to impersonation, proactive compliance is essential. Join WorkBright’s webinar on October 8 to equip yourself with crucial insights for protecting your business from fraudulent I-9 documents, including: Understanding Risks: Learn about new fraud tactics impacting your business.

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WOH 67: Filling Critical Skills Gaps for Today’s College Graduates

UpstartHR

Thousands of students are graduating every day with a lack of understanding of the basics of how to interact professionally at work. Everything from etiquette to basic resume preparation is missing from the educational curriculum, so how can we solve this problem? In this episode Ben speaks with John Nykolaiszyn, the Director of the Office of Business Career Management for Florida International University.

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New Research: Is AI Better Than Humans at Employee Surveys?

Lighthouse

In the past few years I have been digging very deep into AI and how it can help (and hurt) the employee experience. What I’ve been itching to do, however, is create an experiment that demonstrates just how powerful AI can be when paired with essential human skills in the workplace. An Experimental Approach. This year I had the opportunity to create an experiment to see how AI can help with employee survey, or voice of the employee, efforts.

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Wellbeing: how employers can support a social wellness culture through benefits

HR Zone

Culture Social wellness at work.

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What You Need to Know About New York State's New IVF Mandate

Justworks

About 9% of men and about 11% of women of reproductive age in the United States have experienced fertility problems. Infertility affects many people and is often a misunderstood condition. While there are a number of alternative methods of reproduction, these alternatives can be very costly. One of the most frequently used fertility treatments is in vitro fertilization (IVF).

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Compliance checklist for HR professionals for year-end and beyond

PeopleStrategy

“Getting ahead of the compliance eight-ball before the end of the year can save time and stress.” For most of us, the end of October and beginning of November is the swan song of autumn – the last few weeks to enjoy pumpkin-spiced everything and the colors of fall before winter arrives. If you’re an HR professional, however, you’re focus is probably elsewhere: everywhere you turn, there’s another compliance requirement you need to meet.

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IRS Issues WOTC Directive on When to Apply a Certification

Trusaic

The IRS issued a directive that should make it easier for employers administering the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) program to receive tax credits in the year employer certifications are issued. The issuance of WOTC certifications by State Workforce Agencies is often delayed and employers sometimes don’t receive them until the following year. This process leads to many employers filing amended federal and state income tax returns each year.

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Employee wellbeing: building a psychologically safe place for all

HR Zone

Culture Building a psychologically safe place at work.

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Key takeaways from our most popular downloads

Engage2Excel

Each month, the Trendicators research division of Engage2Excel publishes reports based on original data from our nationwide surveys as well as insights and best practices from industry leaders and experts. The survey data we collect is unique in the industry in that it documents the preferences and perceptions of employees and job seekers across all major industries and job types with proportionate representation of gender, age group and racial/ ethnic origin.

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HR’s Complete 2025 Calendar of Important Dates

HR leaders can use this calendar from Paycor to track important HR and payroll tax dates. The 2025 calendar includes: Tax filing dates Federal reporting deadlines Bank holidays Links to relevant tax forms …and more! Get your 2025 HR calendar today!

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Five Recruiting Trends for the New Decade

SHRM Resources

?Traditional job interviews leave something to be desired. Relying on hiring managers to handle them without injecting some level of personal bias is fraught with risk, and the fact that many busy managers would rather not spend time interviewing candidates in the first place only compounds the problem.Enter the Tengai HR robot. This 16-inch-tall robotic device gets right to the task without stopping to engage in small talk with each applicant.

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EEO-1 Pay Data Reporting Deadline Extended

Trusaic

Employers who did not submit their EEO-1 snapshots for pay data reporting for the 2017 and 2018 tax years by September 30, 2019, are not off the hook. The deadline has been extended to January 31, 2020, in a ruling by a Washington D.C federal judge on October 29, 2019. In April, Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the U.S. District Court, DC Circuit ordered the EEOC to collect pay data for 2017 and 2018 by September 30, 2019.

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HR strategy in the 2020s: transitioning to a people-centric approach in the decade ahead

HR Zone

Strategy What will HR strategy look like in the 2020s?

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A Full Guide to Compensation and Benefits

Digital HR Tech

Compensation and benefits refer to the benefits a firm provides to its employees in exchange for their labor. Compensation and benefits are thus a key part of Human Resource Management. In this article, we will provide you with a full guide about compensation and benefits. Contents What are compensation and benefits? Why are compensation and benefits important?

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[Free Templates] Plant the Seed for Successful Onboarding!

Our Free Welcome Email Templates (designed for both in-office or virtual employees) are ready for you to customize and use to plant the seeds of success for new team members.

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Qualities of a Good Manager: 13 Soft Skills You Need

Fond

You’ve put in the effort, you’ve honed your skills, and you’re finally a manager. While this is great news, being proficient at your job doesn’t necessarily equate to being a great manager. When you manage people, you are responsible for inspiring, motivating, and encouraging them. It’s no longer just about you and what you bring to the table — you need to get others to bring all they can to the table, too.

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Engaging Your Remote Team: 9 Tips to Avoiding Isolation

Bonusly

In the modern workplace, employers are becoming more flexible when it comes to schedule and location. It’s no longer necessary to sit in the same office next to all of your coworkers from 9 to 5 each day. The remote workforce is growing and doesn’t show signs of slowing down any time soon. In order to retain remote employees, leaders need to take an active approach to engagement. 9 ways to prioritize engagement within your remote team.

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This Isn’t Feedback: A Critique of the Annual Review

Achievers

This is my fourth blog in this series (you can find the first three on this topic here: blog one , blog two , and blog three ). Let’s review. It’s past time to fix feedback and restore to its rightful place as a powerful and valuable tool for good. We must shed old ideas of what feedback is and adopt a new mindset and new approaches. We have a new definition of feedback and a list of four things that you may think (or used to think) are feedback, but actually aren’t.