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Costco Not Joint Employer of Woman Hired by Staffing Agencies

SHRM Resources

A woman who was hired by staffing agencies to work at specialty events on the Costco premises was not a Costco employee, a federal appeals court ruled. The trial court, therefore, correctly dismissed her claims against Costco under California's wage and hour laws, the appellate court said.

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How to minimize the impact of global crises on your employee and customer experience

Qualtrics HR

Recent global crises have caused significant labor shortages – and the impact is leading businesses to reevaluate how to attract the right talent and protect their customer experiences from the fallout. Read our analysis and tips on balancing labor shortage with great CX. As we move towards the 2021 holidays and the new year, ongoing labor shortages are becoming an ever-more glaring issue.

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Furlough vs. layoff: What’s the difference, and what do employers need to know?

Insperity

When an organization needs to reduce its payroll due to financial hardship, there are two options employers may consider: furlough vs. layoff. Everyone has heard of these terms, but many people don’t know the difference between what it means to furlough an employee or lay them off. And it doesn’t help that these terms are often used interchangeably.

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Top 10 Questions to Consider Before Launching Your Direct Sourcing Program

LiveHire

In the pandemic aftermath, senior leaders are more focused on delivering workforce agility than ever before. Meanwhile, the latest data from Ardent Partners indicates that a growing percentage (46.5%) of the US workforce is considered ‘non-employee’. In response, the war for contingent talent is reaching new heights. Many contingent staffing leaders today believe a direct sourcing revolution is under way.

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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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Temporary staffing startup Jobandtalent raises $500M at a valuation of $2.35 Billion to develop and expand operations

SelectSoftware

Temporary staffing startup Jobandtalent raises $500M at a valuation of $2.35 Billion to expand.

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15Five Drives Exceptional Performance With 90% Year-over-Year Revenue Growth

15Five

Company’s Rapid Growth Driven by HR Leaders’ Critical Need for Holistic Performance Management Solutions. SAN FRANCISCO – November 30, 2021 – As companies face ongoing labor shortages and wrestle with the upsurge of the distributed workforce, they are turning to 15Five to help navigate the new world of work. 15Five , a holistic performance management platform, today announced significant momentum, with 90% year-over-year (YoY) revenue growth, key leadership hires to fuel ongoing momentum, the l

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Calculating your Employee Recognition Budget for 2022

Engage2Excel

There are several ways to determine a budget for incentive and recognition programs. As employers realize that one program does not fit all, many are moving toward the trend of budgeting per program. Different “sub-audiences” in the employee population need to be acknowledged and rewarded for different results with different rule structures.

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How HR Can Improve Mental Health and Productivity in the Workplace

Pathways

Right now, HR professionals are more focused on employee well-being than ever before. The new normal provided a fresh perspective on how employee mental health shows up in the workplace. In addition, record-high turnover rates have made it clear that business outcomes are directly related to employee mental health.

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How to Improve Team Spirit in Your Office

Hppy

Your office is your second home, a place where you spend the most productive time of the day. Having a great office environment is beneficial to both the employer and the employees and every visionary leader makes every effort to ensure that their office has a productive environment. It’s become widely accepted that a team is more than just a sum of its members’ experience, vision and brains – collaborative efforts have a synergistic effect that brings consistently better results than coul

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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I feel insulted by the rolls at my new job, coworker uses baby talk, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, I feel insulted by the rolls at my new job, coworker uses baby talk, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. I’m on vacation. Here are some past letters that I’m making new again, rather than leaving them to wilt in the archives. And how can we kick off December other than with… 1. I feel insulted by my new job.

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3 CHROs share their greatest lessons of 2021

HRExecutive

At the beginning of 2021, many HR leaders likely were looking forward to the pandemic winding down and the new world of work starting to get underway. However, as the year comes to a close and employers everywhere are on edge with news of a new COVID-19 variant, the start of a new normal continues to remain elusive. So, what lessons have HR leaders taken from this year of uncertainty?

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Overworked and Overwhelmed. Welcome to HR Today.

TLNT: The Business of HR

Earlier this year, Lattice surveyed over 700 HR professionals to better understand their challenges and priorities. The resulting 2021 State of People Strategy Report found that 42% of HR teams cited emotional exhaustion and burnout as their top challenges. They also said that they’re feeling overwhelmed and understaffed. Considering how critical these teams will be in driving the economic recovery, results like these should give us all pause. .

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The Talent Imperative: 5 Actions to Combat the Great Resignation (i4cp login required)

i4cp

In May 2021, 72% of senior HR executives at large organizations (1,000 or more employees) surveyed by the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) said they anticipated at least a moderate talent exodus at their respective organizations in the coming months. They were spot on. Take, for instance, these data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Nearly 13 million U.S. workers quit their jobs from July through September 2021, and that troubling figure is trending up: July 2021 - 2.7% (4.1 millio

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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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“I will confront you by Wednesday of this week”

Ask a Manager

This post, “I will confront you by Wednesday of this week” , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. Several years ago, a reader shared with us this epic email that was sent by their company’s boss after a holiday party gone terribly awry, and as we enter the holiday season we remember its glory. “This happened about ten years ago, but the email I received from our boss was so epic I preserved it.

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5 takeaways from Oracle’s HR analytics report

HRExecutive

Human resource leaders are becoming more adept at using data analytics but they still face challenges in the pursuit of integrating people insights into their HR and business strategies. This was among several findings published in Oracle’s recent The State of HR Analytics 2021. Advertisement The report examined HR leaders’ attitudes and practices when analyzing people analytics in order to make changes in their organizations’ operations.

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How to develop the agile leaders of tomorrow, today

HR Zone

Strategy Three ways to build resilient and agile leaders.

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13 Ways HR Leaders Are Reskilling For a New Future of Work

SHRM

What is one way you are reskilling for a new future of work? What area of HR are you reskilling? To help HR professionals consider what skills to update, we asked HR leaders, recruiting specialists, and business professionals this question for their insights. From reinventing job postings to using people analytics models, there are several ways HR professionals can reskill for the business world’s ever-changing landscape.

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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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should offices have policies on healthy eating?

Ask a Manager

This post, should offices have policies on healthy eating? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’m curious about how to institute a workplace healthy eating policy that is respectful and non-judgmental. The background: I work for a health charity that focuses on a single chronic disease. Our regional office in particular is on the west coast and is a little hyper-aware of being healthy leaders.

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Boese: 3 ways HR tech can help employees find meaning at work

HRExecutive

One of the most interesting work and labor market developments in the pandemic era has been the tightening of the labor market, especially in the U.S. The combination of near-record-high job openings with the surge in American workers voluntarily leaving their jobs—along with workers’ ongoing concerns for their own health and safety, and lack of affordable childcare—have created a kind of labor market perfect storm, making the filling of open positions and employee retention HR’s top chall

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Q&A With Sony Sung-Chu, SVP and Head of Science & Innovation, Businessolver

Workology

This interview is part of a series on Workology that features an HR Technology company, its innovators and its features. For this post, we’re talking to Sony Sung-Chu, SVP and Head of Science & Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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3 Key Steps to Creating a Great Candidate Experience

TalentCulture

The world of recruitment has undergone a power shift in the last decade. With job openings at a record high and alarming talent shortages in some industries, candidates have more […]. The post 3 Key Steps to Creating a Great Candidate Experience appeared first on TalentCulture.

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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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Four smart ways to boost employee morale this winter

HR Zone

Employees How can HR boost employee morale this winter?

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Here’s how Deloitte thinks EX, retention will change in 2022

HRExecutive

The coming year will bring a new focus on employee experience, technologies that add to that experience and the need to tear down the silos that contain disparate systems and their valuable yet underused data, predicts John Brownridge, digital workplace leader at Deloitte Consulting. Further, organizations’ reliance on Zoom, MS Teams and other video meeting platforms will have to ramp up to enhance collaboration.

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my coworker is enraged that I call my cat “my baby,” my interviewer called me a schmuck, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, my coworker is enraged that I call my cat “my baby,” my interviewer called me a schmuck, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. I’m on vacation. Here are some past letters that I’m making new again, rather than leaving them to wilt in the archives. 1. My coworker screamed at me for calling my cat “my baby” I am a woman in my early thirties and my partner and I are childless by choice.

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5 Ways To Look After Your Employee Development

Corn on the Job

Leading employers know how critical it is to prioritise employee professional growth. Why? Talented professionals want to work for a company that will help them grow professionally. Managers should not underestimate the value of career advancement. If they do, they risk lowering morale and productivity by making talented employees feel unappreciated.

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The HR Leader’s Survival Guide

HR leaders drowning in paperwork struggle to meet C-suite's strategic expectations. Burnout and high turnover plague the field, with 95% feeling overwhelmed. This guide explores how the right tools can free HR from admin tasks and empower them to become the strategic leaders they’re meant to be.

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Powerful Ways to Market Your Business on a Limited Budget

Take It Personel-ly

Without marketing, your business cannot have success in its field since your business builds brand awareness and converts leads primarily through successful marketing strategies. Thus, when you create marketing strategies in-house or hire businesses to do the work, you should be careful and attentive to make the right choice. But what if you have a […].

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Annual planning is broken: Can people analytics help fix it?

HRExecutive

Companies will argue that annual planning is one of the most important processes they undergo each year. But scaling companies don’t do planning annually; they engage with planning all the time. Annual planning is a fundamentally broken process because it doesn’t keep up with the speed of business today. Most organizations look at sales forecasts and marketing reports weekly but only revisit headcount planning on a yearly basis.

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Episode 331: The CHRO and Talent Leadership With Deb Hill, VP of HR, FM:Systems

Workology

Welcome to the Workology Podcast, a podcast for the disruptive workplace leader. Join host Jessica Miller-Merrell, founder of Workology.com as she sits down and gets to the bottom of trends, tools, Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. Welcome to the Workology Podcast, a podcast for the disruptive workplace leader.