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10 Dead Simple Ways to Improve Your Company Culture

Bonusly

What’s the company culture like at your organization? While individual teams can have sub-cultures of their own, company culture is always informed by your larger company values, mission, and goal. But… where do you start? ??. Company culture is never a one-size-fits-all solution, but there are some easy, actionable steps you can take today to improve your company culture, both in the short and long term.

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4 Tips for Maintaining Employee Engagement Post-Pandemic: Key Learnings from the 2021 Workforce Trends Report

Intoo USA

In our quest to discover how the pandemic impacted organizations from HR’s point of view, Intoo surveyed HR professionals across the U.S. spanning every major industry. The insights were presented in our 2021 Workforce Trends Report. We learned that employee engagement remained high or even increased along with the challenges, as most companies adapted to an alternative work model, such as fully remote or hybrid environments.

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Is flexible working the future of employment?

Hppy

According to a report published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), 46.4% of employees in London worked at home “at some point” in 2020, with many taking this new-found way of working into the new year too. Many companies, in fact, decided to pivot towards a more flexible way of working over the past year, giving their employees freedom to choose their hours and whether they want to work from the office or to be flexible.

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Contemporary Issues in the Workplace: HR Challenges in 2021

Pathways

Our lives have changed considerably recently— and so has the workplace. Shifts in work environments have led to adjustments significantly impacting how we work. At one point, we wondered when we would return to normal, but now, we’re adjusting to a new normal.

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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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Canada Pay Equity Act Takes Effect Today

Trusaic

The Canada Pay Equity Act goes into effect today, August 31, 2021, marking the official commencement of a major international move to advance workplace equality. The Act has been highly anticipated since its original passage in 2018. Now that the law is in full force, affected employers must develop and implement pay equity plans that address systemic gender-based discrimination in their workplaces.

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Valuable Hybrid Work Advice from Tracy Layney, CHRO of Levis Strauss & Co.

15Five

What’s your hybrid work strategy? How do you plan to ensure accountability, high performance, equity, and the physical, mental, and emotional health of your people? In this episode of the HR Superstars Podcast , Shane and I interview Tracy Layney , CHRO of Levi Strauss & C o. who discusses their hybrid work strategy and why they implemented their “Manager Reset” program to lead with empathy. powered by Sounder.

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Book Review: A look inside the defintitive guide to people management

Engage2Excel

The Trendicators research division of Engage2Excel is proud to present a Book Review of The Employee-Centric Manager , by Dr. Jack Wiley, our chief scientific officer. Few variables have greater influence over employee performance and retention than the relationship between employees and their immediate supervisor. And this relationship matters now more than ever.

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Why Cross-Cultural Communication Is Crucial In The Workplace

Hppy

Like most countries around the world, the U.S. is a proverbial melting pot of cultures that we encounter almost everywhere. Including at work. The only real response is to embrace it, as cross-cultural communication can and does drive workplace success. The U.S. already is home to thriving communities from various cultures. According to figures from 2018, more than 44 million people in the U.S. were born in other countries.

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Performance management and wellbeing in a virtual world

HR Zone

People Performance management in a virtual world.

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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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INTOO is Certified™ by Great Place to Work® for 2021

Intoo USA

INTOO is proud to be Certified by Great Place to Work ® for 2021. The prestigious award is based on anonymous feedback from our current employees. This year, 89% of employees said it’s a great place to work—30 points higher than the average U.S. company. Great Place to Work ® is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience, and the leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading revenue, employee retention and increased innovation.

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update: my employee gave me an “it’s her or me” ultimatum

Ask a Manager

This post, update: my employee gave me an “it’s her or me” ultimatum , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. Remember the manager last week whose employee given her an “it’s her or me” ultimatum ? I wrote that it seemed like that employee had it in for her coworker and wasn’t trustworthy and that the manager was pretty badly mishandling the situation.

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Competing for Contingent Workers: A Direct Sourcing Approach

Allegis Global Solutions

As we move into the post-pandemic economy, demand for talent is outstripping the supply. Some estimates point to 0.9 unemployed workers available for every available job in the US. Likewise, the UK saw a 45% rise in advertised job vacancies between March and June, 2021. And in the APAC region, increasing demand for digital skills along with factory worker shortages add to the global pressure on the talent supply.

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Why a ‘punctuated week’ (not just a four-day working week) is a game changer for employee wellbeing

HR Zone

People Is it time to adopt the ‘punctuated week’?

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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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COVID Vaccine Incentives/Penalties for Leaders, Ranked by Harshness.

The HR Capitalist

We're just going to shut everything down for two to three weeks, and we'll be good. --Everyone, late March 2020. --. In a pandemic, wouldn't it be cool to say, "I don't know?". Masks, distancing, hybrid school, vaccines and more. The reasonable position on all of it is that most of it makes sense. But, if you become absolute about your position and your position turns out to be wrong, it kind of undermines your authority to be absolute moving forward.

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The Strategic Role of Automated Accounts Payable in Business

SutiHR

Previously observed as a back-office function, accounts payable (AP) is identified as the team that acts as the main hub for controlling spend management. As AP shifts into a visible role of handling spend, the employees get the opportunity to take an increasingly strategic role. If you work in AP, you might be wondering how it’s going to keep up with the demands being placed on as accounts payable takes on a pivotal role in the organization.

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Don’t Let These Negotiation Myths Hold You Back—Here’s How to Shake Them

The Muse

I’ve helped 200+ people with their offer negotiations and found that these common hangups seem to get in everybody’s way. Here’s how to move past them.

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Remote recruitment overseas: what do employers need to know?

HR Zone

Acquisition Four ways to recruit overseas employees.

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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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Here’s why AI is making HR pros indispensable

HRExecutive

Artificial intelligence has the potential to help human resource professionals make a massive impact on their company’s culture, performance, efficiency and diversity. When embraced and applied properly, AI can become a secret weapon for hiring professionals in avoiding the obligatory, monotonous tasks they’ve always resented, while enabling hiring teams to unearth things about their candidate pools that would otherwise remain unseen.

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How to Create a Right Travel & Expense Policy for Your Company

SutiHR

Enterprises create various policies such as IT security policy, HR policy, and more to effectively manage business operations. While creating policies for supporting business continuity, firms often overlook the Travel and Expense (T&E) policy that can highly impact the company’s spending, culture, and overall satisfaction of the employees. The T&E policy-based approach contributes to a whole lot of things that affect the company’s productivity and efficiency.

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25 of the Highest-Paying Jobs in America—and How to Get Them

The Muse

From physicians and other healthcare professionals to roles in engineering, sales, marketing, finance, and more—all with average annual wages above $125,000.

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How women can break into non-exec board positions

HR Zone

Change How women can break into non-exec board positions.

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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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my company wants me to investigate what expensive medical treatments employees are having and why

Ask a Manager

This post, my company wants me to investigate what expensive medical treatments employees are having and why , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I took a job a few months ago doing benefits for a new company and recently have started to feel uneasy about one of my job duties. For now this particular duty has been delegated to my manager (who has experience in benefits but only started at this company a week before me), so I haven’t been doing it, b

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How to Nurture Organisational Culture and Engage Your Employees

6Q

Excellent business behaviour is key to the collective success of an organisation. Let’s discuss organisational culture; what it is about, its importance to achieving and maintaining success, and how to achieve a well-cultured corporation. Organisational culture is simply the proper way to behave within an organisation. It is the collection, principles, values, and practices that guide the actions of all team members.

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8 Entry-Level Roles to Break Into the Technology Industry

The Muse

These jobs are great entry points into the tech sector, whether or not you can code. Plus, learn what each role is, which skills you need, and what jobs you can get next.

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Information overload: How to manage it

Insperity

Culturally, the concept of information overload has been around since the ‘70s when Alvin and Heidi Toffler first coined the term in their book Future Shock. At that time, car phones were about to become the latest communication craze, just like the computer before it. Information, it seemed, was about to come from everywhere. And now it does. What does information overload feel like?

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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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is there any good reason not to share salary bands within a company?

Ask a Manager

This post, is there any good reason not to share salary bands within a company? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: My company recently underwent a pay equity analysis, which revealed that we are in the middle of our industry for compensation and that we have a significant disproportion of white males in executive leadership.

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The Power of People You Overlook

SHRM Resources

Changing your mindset about aging employees, workers with disabilities, military veterans, people who were formerly incarcerated and people with criminal records means.

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IRS Releases WOTC Transition Relief for Select Employers

Trusaic

The IRS recently issued transition relief for certain employers administering the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) program. IRS Notice 2021-43 extends the typical 28-day time frame for submitting a certification request to a designated State Workforce Agency (SWA). Employees hired between January 1 and October 8 of 2021 are now able to submit WOTC requests, so long as the credit being requested is for a member of the Designated Community Resident or Qualified Summer Youth Employee target group