August, 2020

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10 Essential Remote Working Tips

Achievers

Remote work can be an unexplored territory for many people. If you’re new to remote work , make sure you’re well-equipped with the right tips and tools in place. We dive into 10 essential remote working tips. . 1. Practice frequent recognition . Recognition is a key takeaway when it comes to remote working tips. Remote workers can feel isolated and Gallup shared that 21 percent named “loneliness” as the biggest struggle with working remotely.

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9 Things HR Needs to Know About Auditing a PTO Policy | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Whether reworking your organization’s time off benefits or making a few changes, find out what HR needs to know about auditing a company’s PTO policy.

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Working From Home Version 2.0: 5 Things to Consider

HR Bartender

When COVID-19 started making headlines and employees were working from home, the idea was that this was all temporary. In a few weeks (or months), life would return to normal and we’d all be back in the workplace. That hasn’t exactly happened. In fact, many organizations are telling employees they can stay home for the rest of the summer, year, or forever.

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What to Expect from this Year’s All-Virtual Elevate Event

Hireology

Elevate 2020 — the only retail automotive event focused on building your best-in-class people operations — is right around the corner, slated to kickoff September 15th as an all-virtual event that’s free to attend. Click here to register! We’re thrilled to rethink the format this year to help you connect with other retail automotive leaders and learn how to combat the challenges you may face as the industry evolves.

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The Ultimate 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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Being a leader right now is tough

Take It Personel-ly

Being a leader right now is tough. Luckily, we’re here to share some key tips on how you can lead through a global pandemic below. Follow this advice and you are sure to: Help reduce team stress and overwhelm. Create a deeper connection with the people reporting to you; they will see you as a […].

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Key Insights: Employees Review Their Company’s Response to COVID-19

Achievers

The COVID-19 pandemic blindsided businesses and economies all around the world. In such uncertain times, how employers respond to times of crisis and communicate with their staff matters. Whether leaders took control over what they could or avoided anything pandemic-related, how did employees rate their company’s handling of COVID-19? In a new study , team improvement software developer Nulab asked 1,002 Americans who had a job during the height of the COVID-19 outbreak about their company’s res

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What Percent of Health Insurance is Paid by Employers?

PeopleKeep

When evaluating a new or existing health insurance program, your organization's contribution strategy is an important consideration. In simple terms, how much will individual employees pitch in for coverage, and what percent of health insurance is paid by the employer?

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6 Key Principles for Organizational Decision Making

HR Bartender

Organizations are always making decisions. And when faced with unique circumstances, they might have to make some more – including some really tough ones. Decision making isn’t easy. Some people avoid making decisions at all costs. And avoidance is a decision in itself. There are times when the outcome from no decision can be worse. At some point last year, I attended a conference where the speaker shared six principles for decision making.

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Product Webinar: Making Recruiting and Hiring Easier with New Digital Tools

Hireology

This year, businesses of all types have never felt more pressure to deliver. With health and safety challenges, along with the economic downturn related to COVID-19, traditional recruitment methods are simply not working to meet the demand of today’s small and medium businesses. Join one of our webinars below to learn about new ways to attract applicants, get a process in place to manage an influx of candidate activity and roster the right professionals – within one unified platform.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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5 Ways CEOs Can Increase Employee Engagement

HR Digest

CEOs are the prime leaders running an organization, and it is their responsibility to ensure the smooth functioning of the departments and communicate with the employees. However, most leaders falsely believe that it is upon only the HR to communicate with the employees. . The executive team too, and especially the CEO also has an active role in engaging with the employees and know the people supporting and running their business.

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Organizational Restructuring- Meaning, Reasons, Types & More

Vantage Circle

The changes in the business world are some of the most testing times for a company to withstand. It is for this reason why adaptability is one of the crucial attributes in the corporate space today. To survive, you must be able to swiftly change course whenever things go bust. Of these many changes that a company may have to endure, one of the hardest is organizational restructuring.

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Improve Your Business’s Digital Presence

Take It Personel-ly

The most important thing that ensures the profit of a business is the proper marketing of the business. In modern times, the most vital type of marketing for your business is digital marketing. Digital marketing is cheaper and a better solution than any other kind of marketing. It builds the digital presence of your company. […].

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Remote work is here to stay – so, you’d better build a policy

Insperity

As some employers start to bring their employees back to work and others mull it over, leaders and managers may be eager to put 2020’s massive, sudden work from home experiment behind them. However, the era of everyone working full-time in centralized work spaces appears to be gone for good. Organizations competing for talent will need to offer a mix of in-office and remote work – or a fully remote workforce.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Working From Home 2.0 – 5 Skills for Success

HR Bartender

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article on “ Working from Home Version 2.0: 5 Things to Consider ” and honestly, it was very focused on setting up a work environment that helps you to be productive. While I believe those things are important, it occurred to me after the article published that creating a good work environment is only half of the story.

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NEW FEATURE: Offer Letters from Hireology

Hireology

You can now add offer letters as a hiring step. Offer letters have always been the critical, final step of the hiring process. And now you can create, send and have candidates accept offers from your Hireology account. This means you’ll no longer have to manually manage the offer letter process outside of your hiring platform – saving time, inbox clutter and ensuring that your offer details are 100% accurate for your final-round candidates.

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6 Workplace Changes HR Should Plan for After COVID-19 | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

With a coronavirus vaccine still out of reach, what should HR expect for life after the pandemic—and how can it prepare now?

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Use of Social Media in the Workplace- Advantages and Disadvantages

Vantage Circle

Social media in the workplace- Should you allow it or not? It is a relevant but debatable topic. Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are well-known examples of social media platforms, but social media can be of different types. Such channels may include Internet forums, online profiles, podcasts, blogs, photos and video, text, instant messages, music streaming applications, and audio services (audio over IP) based on the Internet, to name a few.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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Most Important Basic Concepts of Economics You Need to Know

Take It Personel-ly

Just recently, it has been reported that the total assets held by U.S households are over $113 trillion. If this number were divided up by the total population of the United States, it would equal out to over $343,000 for every person. However, this isn’t how the economy works. The economy is much more complex than that […].

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4 common-sense reasons to encourage sick employees to stay home

Insperity

Perhaps one lesson to take away from the COVID-19 pandemic is the need for encouraging sick employees to stay home. From the time you’re in elementary school, perfect attendance is rewarded. After years of reinforcement, this mindset tends to permeate our culture. Perhaps your company tends to prize employees who don’t take sick days, or maybe you’ve had people take advantage of your sick policy to get an extra day off work.

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Employee Experience: Digital Transformation Can Improve It

HR Bartender

Digital transformation is the concept of using technology to solve business problems. As business strategies become more global and organizations need to be more agile, it only makes sense to use technology to our greatest advantage. Over the past few months, I’ve shared with you a few articles that I worked on with our friends at Paycom about digital transformation and how it can positively impact the employee experience.

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Why Individual Health Insurance is More Affordable Than Group

PeopleKeep

Individual health insurance is more affordable than group health insurance. Also, under the Affordable Care Act, individual health plans must cover all individuals regardless of health , which was not previously the case. Tax credits are also available for qualifying employees.

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6 Steps to a Better Compensation Strategy

Compensation is one of your biggest expenses as a business, but it is also your biggest investment in your people and your culture. A great compensation strategy can be an incredible asset that supports your business goals and lays a foundation of trust between your company and your employees. Whether you already have a compensation strategy in place or you’re building one from scratch, this guide will help you level up your approach through these 6 steps: 1.

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5 Effective Ways to Build Trust in Virtual Teams

HR Digest

The remote working arrangement is a growing working trend nowadays, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic and people being restricted to their homes. Workers and employees across the globe are working from home and reporting their tasks from home. While working remotely helps in building more teams through virtual connections, it also has its own set of challenges.

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Disadvantages Of Working From Home

Vantage Circle

Table of Contents. The Top 7 Disadvantages of Working from Home at a glance. Lack of Community and Team Work. Lack of Motivation. Unmonitored Performance and those Frequent Breaks. Lack of Office Equipment and Security Concerns. Distractions and Lack of a Good Working Environment. Burnout. Risk to Productivity. As the world is going through a big crisis, everyone had to make several adjustments to cope with it, one being organizations switching to the work from home culture and coming to terms w

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Returning To Work After Lockdown – How To Make Employees Feel Safe In The Office

Take It Personel-ly

With businesses beginning to slowly reopen following worldwide lockdowns and restrictions, employers are being faced with the task of working out how to make a safe transition back into the office. Whilst a lot of employees are keen to return to work for the sake of their mental health, some are perfectly content with working […].

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How Twitter Thrives As A Fully Remote Organization w/ CHRO, Jennifer Christie

15Five

In March of 2020 when COVID-19 hit the US, many organizations updated their remote work policies at least temporarily to allow people to work from home. Twitter made headlines in May by announcing that a remote work option would be available to their 5,000+ full time workforce, forever! In the latest Best-Self Management podcast episode, I sat down with Jennifer Christie, the VP of People and Chief Human Resources Officer at Twitter, to discuss what she has learned from making the shift to fully

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Bridging the Gap: The Intersection of DEI Initiatives and Employee Benefits

Speaker: Jaye Johnson, CBP

Unlock the secrets to transforming your organization’s employee benefits into a strategic tool for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). During this informative session, we will discuss common pitfalls in traditional benefits and then delve into the essence of DEI in employee-centric benefit offerings. This involves not only defining DEI in the workplace but also understanding the pivotal role that employee benefits play in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.