Despite being a trend in these past decades, the level of employee engagement has barely budged. The truth is that most managers treat employee engagement as a one-time thing. Decide on what basis will you select the employees: Staying late doesn’t mean being more productive. MORE

People Operations teams and other people managers can model L&D by attending one of the HR conferences outlined below. Each year it brings together global thought leaders in the space to share insights, trends, and best practices. Manage your time. Attend the expo. MORE

Curious what’s trending and top of mind in HR today? We asked Tim for his take on Employee Appreciation Day, recognition, and why he’s attending WorkHuman in May. I spend as much time with them as my real family for the most part. At the same time, we’re running a business. MORE

We can “like,” “rate,” or “evaluate” almost everything we buy – leading to a better shopping experience, better customer service, and products that more quickly adapt to our needs. Is it scary to think that employees can give us their opinion any time they want? MORE

These customer events are a great way for me to stay in touch with the industry - the technology trends, the challenges that customers are talking about and seeking solutions for, and the big workplace issues that are top of mind. Since the Spring event season is just about over, (I think I have one more to attend, the always interesting HireVue event in a couple of weeks), I wanted to share at least a small part of what I saw, heard, and learned at a few of these events from early 2016. MORE

Anada Lakra , Entrepreneur & Product Person. Amy Wilson , SVP Products at SAP SuccessFactors. Dara Brenner , Vice President, Product Management. Elaine (Michaels) Orler , Chairperson, Recruiting Trends and Talent Tech Conference and CEO/Founder of Talent Function. Elizabeth Casey (Nelson) , Vice President Product Management at Snag. Gretchen Alarcon , Group Vice President, Product Strategy at Oracle. Kristin Lewis , VP of Product at ENGAGE Talent. MORE

John and Stacey have updates from The Tru San Francisco Unconference, The Recruiting Trends & Talent Tech Conference, and the Kahuna Workforce Customer Advisory Board Meeting. Globoforce becomes workhuman Link ». And it was really unusual first time in 20. MORE