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How HR is Becoming a Science

HRExecutive

HR is becoming a proper science. Between the newfound ability to connect HR initiatives to business outcomes and the explosion of intelligent tools, technology is making it increasingly possible to understand and predict the organization and its behavior. We’re still in the early stages, yet it’s easy to imagine an evolution in which HR can help business leaders anticipate the results of their people-related decisions and guide them through complex decision-making.

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Dealing with difficult employees: A 5-step plan

Insperity

As a business owner, manager or HR leader, you need to be an expert at dealing with difficult employees. A difficult employee is not just a problem between one employee and another. If one person makes life difficult for the company, discontent can fester and become a major distraction. The air of dissent affects everyone and can cause a dramatic decrease in productivity and the departure of other employees.

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75% of Candidates Prefer Human Interaction When Searching for a Job!

The Tim Sackett Project

TA Leaders and Executives, this is the dirty little secret that your Recruiters and the Talent Acquisition Technology industry does not want you to know! Candidates actually prefer to have human interaction when searching and applying for a job. From a study done by ASA: “Three of the top five ways job seekers land a job are “high touch,” according to the survey findings.

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Shannon Arvizu, Ph.D: The Science of Building Psychologically Safe Professional Relationships

15Five

Welcome back to Talk Nerdy To Me, 15Five’s academic blog series where we get nerdy, talk to the world’s best thinkers, and break down the latest academic research that you can apply to your workplace. This time around, I spoke with Dr. Shannon Arvizu on the topic of professional relationships. Shannon is a tech sociologist and founder of Epic Teams where she applies her unique background in behavioral science, positive psychology and team performance to help Fortune 500 companies and startups de

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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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How to Hire Your First HR Staff Member (and who NOT to hire)

UpstartHR

Last week I had a great conversation with a $10M startup company about how to make their first HR hire, and I thought those ideas would be worth sharing here. Many of you are already HR leaders at your own firms, but you probably haven’t given much thought to this idea of starting up an HR function from scratch, and it’s a good discussion to have.

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Podcast: Understanding the Vision and Goals

DecisionWise

In this episode, we discuss the idea of understanding the vision and goals of an organization. We tackle questions like: How do you align leaders around a common direction? How do you set organizational goals that are meaningful to your team? What can managers do to help their direct reports understand the vision of the company? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this insightful conversation between DecisionWise consultants, David Long and Charles Rogel.

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10 Essential Tips for Effective 1:1 Meetings with Your Manager

Reflektive

Employees often approach 1:1 managerial meetings with dread–as indeed do many managers. At their worst, 1:1 meetings are boring, tense affairs in which nothing of consequence is discussed or accomplished. At their best, however, 1:1 meetings are opportunities to gather feedback, discuss career goals, and build rapport with your manager. DOWNLOAD THE E-BOOK: The Ultimate Guide to Employee Engagement Surveys.

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How to Work From Home: Tips to Increase Productivity Outside the Office

Justworks

For many of today’s workers, being physically located in a specific place is no longer a requirement. With the abundance of laptops and wifi, working remotely is an option for more and more of us. At Justworks, for example, managers are free to create flexible work schedules for their teams that allow for enhanced productivity. Remote work offers plenty of positive benefits for both employers and employees, whether it happens daily or only occasionally.

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Keep Your Employees Wanting to Stay

Hppy

Worker turnover is one of the biggest issues confronting any smaller business. The Wall Street Journal estimates that it is more than twice the sum of the employee’s pay to deal with each instance of turnover. Turnover lowers organization productivity, increases the work of remaining personnel and diminishes institutional knowledge. So how do you keep your employees?

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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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Facial Recognition Technology Can Help You Stop Time Theft

nettime solutions

Companies everywhere are concerned with time theft. One of the ways that time clock fraud can happen is through “buddy punching,” when an employee clocks in or out for other employees. Facial recognition technology is designed to help you prevent buddy punching. Do your employees know how much buddy punching costs your company? . Buddy punching can go right to your company’s bottom line: Time fraud can cost businesses up to 5% of gross payroll, according to the American Payroll Association (APA

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Taking communication offline to improve workplace relationships and productivity

HR Zone

Change. How to take communication offline.

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Flexible Workers Need Skills Development, Too

Allegis Global Solutions

Learning and development is a perennial challenge for companies as workers’ skills can grow stale with each passing year. In fact, one study found that the average “half-life” of a skill today is only five years. In other words, the effectiveness and impact of a skill begin to erode immediately. The challenge is not lost on employers. For decades, companies have provided opportunities for employees to advance their capabilities, whether through training, coaching, mentorship, or a myriad of lear

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How to Drive Real Results with your Engagement Survey

Reflektive

While many companies use engagement surveys to assess employee sentiment, HR leaders still struggle to drive organizational change with these survey insights. In fact, 40 percent of HR leaders have difficulty bringing the employee value proposition to life in employees’ day-to-day work. Change Management is Complex. Getting large, cross-functional initiatives off the ground is a huge undertaking for HR leaders.

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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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New Jersey’s Equal Pay Act Ruled Not to be Retroactive

Trusaic

The recently enacted Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act in New Jersey has been ruled not to be retroactive by a federal court, but the ruling leaves open the possibility that state courts may decide differently. The ruling came at the closing of a case involving Darla Perrotto and her former employer, Morgan Advanced Materials and Morgan Advanced Ceramics, Inc., in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

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Employee benefits: why annual leave is an untapped rewards opportunity

HR Zone

Retention. How leave makes employees stay.

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What Is Your Management Style Based on Your Enneagram Type?

Kazoo

Raise your hand if you’ve ever given out (and taken!) a personality test for a new job or as a team-building exercise at work. Chances are, many of you have – and with very good reason. In a professional capacity, personality tests can be a powerful tool for discovering your management style, especially for those who are in leadership positions and responsible for driving the development of others.

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Facial Biometrics Can Bring Greater Accuracy and Flexibility to Time & Attendance Software

nettime solutions

What does the future of working look like? For many companies and workers, the future is all about flexibility. That’s one of the takeaways from a recent study, “ The Millennial Mindset ,” in which a whopping 92% of individuals said they want to work from home, while 91% said that flexible working — not being forced into traditional 9-to-5 days — is important.

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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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a happy ending

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’ve been reading your blog for many years, starting when I was miserable and stuck in a role with an awful manager, and your advice has made a big impact on how I approach work and applying for jobs. Most recently, I was laid off last fall from my job at a small nonprofit. (My experience there is its own insanity – the executive director and founder is also president of the board, and she just started a new “sister” for-profit business that’s actua

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Mental Health Awareness Week: How to better tune into your mental and emotional health

HR Zone

People. Tuning into your emotional health.

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Wooing top tech talent: Recruiting in the Boston tech scene

Workable

A memorable Workable event on tech recruiting opened with some surprising statistics, courtesy of Culture Amp’s Joshua Bach : “10% of people [leave] within the first six months of starting a new job. And many people decide if they’re going to leave a job within the first six weeks.“. This isn’t just a problem for employers; it’s a problem for recruiters as well both in terms of cost and overall disruption.

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Top 55 Global Job Boards

TalentLyft

We compiled a list of the 55 best global job boards out there. Check it out to find the most relevant job boards and job posting sites that best suit your needs. Advertise your open job positions on the best job boards in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and European countries ! Read More.

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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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what’s the pettiest thing you’ve done at work (or seen done)?

Ask a Manager

One thing that’s funny about work is that people can really, really worked up about things that they’d be far better off just letting go — think, for example, of 12-paragraph rants about office supplies or the person who threw away a coworker’s mug as an act of revenge over work assignments. I want to hear about the pettiest thing you’ve ever done at work, or seen done.

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Candidates Sound Off on Recruitment Processes

Engage2Excel

Candidate Experience has emerged as the buzz-worthy term of choice among thought leaders in recruiting. In today’s highly competitive market for talent, creating better candidate experiences can reduce your drop-out rate. More engaging, two-way candidate experiences can help you better assess job-fit to reduce voluntary turnover rates. And, candidate experience is also an important aspect of your employer brand, which is particularly important if your candidates are also customers or prospective

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Buckeye: Espionage Outfit Used Equation Group Tools Prior to Shadow Brokers Leak

Symantec

Windows zero day was exploited by Buckeye alongside Equation Group tools during 2016 attacks. Exploit and tools continued to be used after Buckeye's apparent disappearance in 2017.

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#WorkTrends:How to Make 2020 a Transformational Year

TalentCulture

We talk often about the future of work here at #WorkTrends — and this week’s guest says the future will be arriving pretty soon. Brent Colescott is the senior director of business strategy and transformation for SumTotal, and he says 2020 is going to be a transformational year for the workplace. When a man whose job is literally transformation tells you that transformation is on the way, you tend to listen.

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Ready to Save Time With AI? Try 14 ChatGPT Prompts for HR

ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can help you quickly brainstorm, draft, and refine tasks on your to-do list. But it can take a bit of strategy and practice to get generative AI to give you the time-saving results you’re looking for. Try these 14 detailed prompts to unlock the power of ChatGPT. You'll discover ways to streamline tasks for hiring, employee engagement, and performance management.

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Creative and Compliant Ways to Check References

SHRM Resources

Reference checking is a necessary evil of the hiring process, but it’s fraught with challenges. There are ways, however, that reference checkers can creatively and compliantly gather meaningful information to help employers make informed hiring decisions.

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Why I Choose Freelancing Instead of a Traditional Career Path

Workology

The term freelancer often comes with a stigma. It’s painted to be a picture of gig work or someone who wants flexibility and craves the work-life balance, but this isn’t the only reason people choose. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Are you measuring the Intelligence of your candidates? You should be!

The Tim Sackett Project

Hire for Smarts. Train for Skill. It doesn’t sound right, does it? The old adage is “Hire for attitude, train for skill” The reality is, we probably have done this wrong for a long time. We hire for attitude, thinking we can train the person to do what we need if they just have the right attitude. Then Timmy turns out to be dumb and we can’t train him to do anything!

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