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Agile Talent Strategy: Why You Need It and How to Develop One

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes. (Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at SilkRoad Technology , a provider of strategic onboarding solutions to drive workforce readiness and organizational transformation. They were recently recognized as one of Chicago’s Best Places to Work. Congrats to them. Enjoy the article!). Every day, more people are getting vaccinated and looking forward to their personal and professional re-entry.

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Increase your emotional intelligence while working remotely: 8 tips

Insperity

Tapping into your emotional intelligence while working remotely is vitally important. But it can also be challenging, especially if your team is new to working from home or entered the virtual work world suddenly. Part of the challenge is that the bulk of our social interactions and cues are absent from the remote workday – the simple exchanges that help us connect on a social-emotional level, such as: Bumping into someone in the break room Offering coworkers a piece of gum after a lunch meeting

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7 Tips and Tricks to Increase Employee Productivity

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Keeping employees productive can help with numerous business goals from employee retention to contribution and overall efficiency in the workplace. There are many simple solutions and tricks to increase productivity and create an awesome workplace environment! Recognition A little recognition goes a long way in the workplace and occasional recognition has been proven to make […].

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8 common grammar mistakes to avoid in business writing

Business Management Daily

When you’re writing for business, you want to put your best foot forward, but when grammatical errors litter your writing, it can leave you looking less than polished. While perfect grammar is difficult to achieve for even the most highly skilled and published writers, you can avoid some common grammatical mistakes with practice. The following are common errors writers make, and if you can avoid these 8, you’re one step closer to being a more polished writer.

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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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7 Payroll Reports Employers Need to File

Patriot Software

When it comes to running payroll, you have a lot of things to mark off on your to-do list. From gathering timesheets to distributing pay stubs, there can be a lot of steps that go into paying your employees. But after you pay employees, your payroll checklist isn’t finished just yet. You also need to […] READ MORE.

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5 Tips to Use Technology to Grow Your Business

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Businesses of all sizes are relying on technology solutions, and there is a perfect reason for that. With this constantly changing environment, brands should continuously refine their strategies to remain competitive and relevant. Technology is used in marketing, product development, and customer engagement activities crucial to growing a business. It helps companies achieve their business […].

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Recruitment Strategies for Engaging Recent Graduates | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

With graduation season in full swing, a whole new class of college graduates are entering the workforce. Recent grads are an important part of the workforce because they bring fresh perspectives and, in some cases and industries, knowledge in the most recent, cutting-edge technology and research. Use the following approaches to secure top talent from the classes of 2020 and 2021.

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Diversity As Strategy: An Interview with Nadia Rawlinson

HR Digest

While much needs to be done to neutralize our biases and unleash untapped talent – Nadia Rawlinson, Chief Purpose Officer of Slack, is already hard at work developing the one asset she feels will help ensure deep-level diversity and inclusion throughout the organization. In recent years, Rawlinson has worked alongside some of the biggest names in the technology industry to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

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COVID litigation, lessons for businesses from the courtroom

Business Management Daily

Since the COVID-19 pandemic struck in earnest last March, the courts have been flooded with lawsuits. To date, about 10,000 employer-focused lawsuits have been filed — with more coming every day. There have been 1280 lawsuits filed in the last six weeks alone. No state is unaffected. California led the pack with 259 while tiny Vermont clocked in at 3 cases.

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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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What is minimum essential coverage (MEC)?

PeopleKeep

Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), "minimum essential coverage" (MEC) is any type of insurance coverage that meets the individual shared responsibility requirement, also known as the individual mandate.

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5 Essential Books for HR Professionals in 2021 | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Staying on top of your HR skills and knowledge isn’t always easy when there’s a lot on your to-do list. However, taking the time to read books from some of the top leaders in the human resources industry can help cultivate thought patterns and exercises to help make your career in HR more fruitful and productive. Plus, reading can be a great way to wind down after a long day at the office—whether you’re working in-person or virtually.

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How to calculate for pay for remote workforce

HR Digest

The future of work is remote. That is the direction that the world was moving towards before the Pandemic hit in 2020. Now, work from home is a reality and not something that we are transitioning to gradually. Where businesses were once reluctant to offer remote work, many are now scrambling to adopt the model. The remote work juggernaut has exploded with the Coronavirus pandemic.

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Your Paycheck After Taxes: 7 Ways to Stretch It

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Photo by The New York Public Library on Unsplash Do you remember your first payday? It might have been from your job in high school, and it was time to collect your first-ever paycheck after working for two weeks. You opened it (or logged online) to see that glorious number — but thanks to taxes, […].

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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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5 common red flags that could get your business audited by the IRS

Business Management Daily

In large and small companies alike, the prospect of an IRS audit sends shivers down the spine. Sometimes an audit is simply the product of poor luck and random chance. But in other cases, something in the filing process raises concern. Thorough, accurate recordkeeping proves the best defense should a tax person come knocking on the door. However, the ideal scenario, of course, is to avoid becoming the subject of an audit to begin with.

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Template: Paid Parental Leave Change Best Practices | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

As the benefits season rolls around, it’s always best practice to evaluate your organization’s current offerings to see what works, what doesn’t, and what you can do to provide better value to your team members. Use the following template and best practices to announce a change to your paid parental leave policy.

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Hybrid Workforces Must Be Equitable for Everyone

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. As we’re hearing more about vaccines, it’s only natural to talk about people gathering together. And that of course, leads to a conversation about employees coming back to the office. It reminded me of an article I saw on Business Insider a couple of months ago about how “Zillow is adopting a hybrid model of work, but its CEO says it’s trying to prevent one major downside: a ‘two-class system’ where those who come into the office are viewed as better employees.

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A sneak-peek at the future of employer-sponsored coverage

PeopleKeep

New research released by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) reveals large employer’s opinions and concerns about the future of employer-sponsored health coverage.

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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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COBRA Health Insurance—Do You Need to Offer It?

Patriot Software

As your business grows, so do your responsibilities as a business owner. Once you have 20 full-time equivalent employees and offer health insurance, you need to know about COBRA. What is COBRA? Do you have to offer it? Read on to get answers to these questions and more. What is COBRA health insurance? The Consolidated […] READ MORE.

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Are Employers Legally Required to Pay Employees for Onboarding? | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

When done right, onboarding is one of the most important and impactful first steps in an employee’s new position. While onboarding processes may vary at different organizations, do employers have to pay employees for the time spent during onboarding? Read on to find out.

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3 Reasons Financial Wellness is Important to Employees in a Post-COVID Workforce

Best Money Moves

3 reasons financial wellness is important to employees in a post-COVID workforce. After COVID-19 highlighted the financial vulnerabilities of millions of employees, financial wellness is expected to be a big component of Post-COVID HR Strategies. With vaccine rollouts progressing across the country, Americans are increasingly optimistic about a return to normal life.

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Event Recap: What to Expect in the New Applicant Economy

Hireology

Were you and your team able to make the first session of our “Reimagining the Workforce” series? This quick-hit webinar covered what to expect of the new applicant economy and how to prepare your hiring strategy as the economy recovers. Find the recording below, and don’t forget to register for next week’s session on building a hybrid staffing model.

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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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A Workplace That Inspires Passion: An Interview with Sarah Wagener

HR Digest

In a remarkable interview with The HR Digest, Sarah Wagener talks about the value of creating a passionate work culture in the global business sector. “We execute, while collaborating,” she says. “We get to the lowest level of detail, while remaining positive, optimistic and empathetic. We obsess about our customers, while working together across teams to deliver for them.

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Court-ordered employee wage garnishment: an employer’s guide

Insperity

Receiving notice of a court-ordered wage garnishment for an employee can be overwhelming for business owners. Wage garnishment is more common than you might imagine, and failure to properly address the situation can adversely affect your business. The garnishment process differs from state to state, but you can follow some general guidelines to ensure everything is handled correctly.

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How To Deal With Workplace Burnout

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The modern workplace is notoriously fast-paced, and not everyone is prepared when they enter the workforce for the first time. Many companies pile more responsibility onto their best workers when others quit, instead of focusing on new hires. Many workers take on more than they can handle in order to move up the corporate ladder […].

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Updates to our Mobile App Help You Connect with Applicants 2x Faster

Hireology

Starting today, Hireology users with our iPhone app can download our exciting spring update that brings even more features from our desktop experience to their devices. With this latest update, we’re giving our customers the ability to see all of their applicants and candidates across open roles, helping you find the right person with new sort, filter and search tools, showing where each candidate is in your hiring process, and – for the first time ever – allowing you to make a hire directly fro

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.