April, 2021

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Organizations: The Time to Start Recruiting is Right Now

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes. (Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Poster Guard® Compliance Protection , a division of HRdirect and the leading labor law poster service that gets your business up to date with all required federal, state and local labor law postings, and then keeps it that way — for an entire year.

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What Does the COVID-19 Vaccine Mean For Your Skilled Nursing Facility?

Hireology

At the time of this publication, the vaccine has not been mandated by the federal government , but that could become a requirement for any agencies that receive Medicare or Medicaid funding. It’s worth noting that an employer, or state or local government could create a mandate based upon specific societal needs for safety. For the time being, however, there’s no explicit requirement mandating the vaccine at the highest levels of government. .

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7 Healthy Habits To Achieve More Every Day

Take It Personel-ly

Lifestyle is all about the daily habits that contribute to your mental as well as physical health. If you’re leading a sedentary lifestyle, then it’s about time that you consider the healthy ways of living. You can transform your life through small changes in the daily routine. Also, try to incorporate a morning routine that […].

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5 Countries with the Best Employment Laws

Global People Strategist

Around the world, workers are given different rights. These range from the right to organize protests and participate in trade unions, to working in safe conditions and overtime pay. This article explores 5 countries that have the best employment laws from the perspective of the employee with top global rankings in terms of rights of workers, based on their labor traditions and violation of labor rights. 1.

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We’re Here to Help! How to Navigate Your Top HR Priorities

Are you helping your people proactively plan for retirement? How are you prioritizing the mental health of your HR team? These are a few of the questions that HR professionals are seeking answers to today. Luckily, Gallagher’s consultants came together with four robust articles (and one infographic) that help address these pain points and provide you with proactive planning tips to help you simplify, personalize and create flexibility in your benefits offerings to help ensure your people thrive

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Manage up to your boss – your team will thank you for it

Insperity

Are you making the effort to manage up at work? No? Not sure what that means? We all have external and internal customers at work. Your external customers are, of course: Your company’s actual customers Vendors Partners Government Media. These are valuable relationships that require care and maintenance on your part to be successful at your job and represent your company well.

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Organizations: Use Online Forms to Capture Valuable Data

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by JotForm , a full-featured online form builder that makes it easy to create forms and collect data. They’ve just launched a new product called JotForm Approvals that automates approval processes with ease , something every HR department loves to hear. Enjoy the article!). One of the keys to good decision making is having the right data and information.

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Hire Your Best (Remote) Team

Hireology

COVID-19 has made remote work inevitable for a great portion of the population. But after the pandemic comes to an end, the flexibility associated with working remotely will likely stick around, making remote work desirable to a larger amount of employees. . Hiring remote employees doesn’t only benefit your staff — it also gives you access to the best talent without setting limitations on location.

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4 Quick Organization Tips When Your Office Is a Mess

Take It Personel-ly

A disorganized office can lead to reduced productivity and low employee morale. That’s why it’s important to spend the time and money required to get your office perfectly organized. When considering the best way to keep your office organized, you have plenty of options available. To get well on the way toward great organization, here […].

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15 Questions to Ask When Interviewing a Candidate

HR Digest

In 2015, Glassdoor conducted a comparative study between interview ratings to satisfaction ratings for the groups who were hired. The following were the conclusions: The job interview process which was 10% tougher received 2.6% higher employee satisfaction subsequently. The selected future employees who went through a rigorous interview process were likely to perceive that the company had placed a strong emphasis on finding employees who were a perfect fit for the position and the company cultur

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4-Week Roadmap for New Hires

Nearly one-quarter of employees (23%) admit they’ve cried within the first week! Give new hires a positive start with this four-week onboarding roadmap. This schedule outlines all the turns, detours, and speedbumps new hires can expect in their first month. We’ve included suggestions for each week to help you make your new employees’ highway to success an easy road.

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How to contain employee benefits costs (and why most businesses struggle)

Insperity

There’s no getting around it – employers pay a hefty sum to provide health care benefits for their employees. The average private-sector employer spends an average of $2.65 per hour, per employee, for health-insurance costs, according to Sept. 2020 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). These aren’t low numbers. And the smaller a company is, the more consequential these numbers get.

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4 Ways to Combat Zoom Fatigue While Working Remotely

Best Money Moves

4 ways to combat zoom fatigue while working remotely. Zoom has been an invaluable tool for keeping workforces connected throughout the pandemic, but overuse could lead to burnout. . Remote work helps you gain back commute time and you can easily connect team members across the country through the Internet. However, after months of working remotely, more and more employees are finding themselves with a new problem: Zoom fatigue.

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Financial Wellbeing: Employees Want to Decide How They Get Their Pay

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes. (Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Wisely® by ADP , a suite of cost-effective pay solutions that helps organizations move to 100% paperless pay. The myWisely app been recognized as the App of the Year at the HR Technology Conference. Congrats! Enjoy the article.). I’d like to think that we agree, Millennials currently make up the majority of today’s workforce.

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Recruitment Strategies to Retain Your Team

Hireology

Retention issues are industry-agnostic, but the healthcare industry specifically deals with a great deal of turnover. Unfortunately the stakes are much higher than other professions, as your patient care hinges on the quality and longevity of your hires, so keeping your team around matters a lot. . In order to combat turnover, you have to look at all areas of your organization and see what’s causing individuals to jump ship.

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

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How to Add Self-Care Into Your Busy Schedule

Take It Personel-ly

Do you feel like you’re overly focused on work lately that you forget to address your own needs? Do you have the desire to slow down and take care of yourself more, but don’t know where to get started? If so, you came to the right place. Being busy and living with stress has become […].

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How to resolve conflicts in office

HR Digest

All collaborative exercises need some rules to co-exist and resolve disputes. If there were no referees for games and no redressal forums, then life would undoubtedly get chaotic. The same applies to work-based conflict. Some rules and regulations need to be in place and avenues of redressal available for smooth functioning. Some form of disagreement will inevitably occur when several people collaborate on a project or work together as team members.

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Bring company core values to life – from poster to practice

Insperity

Companies often spend a lot of time and effort creating their mission, vision and values. But too often they take all of that work, put words on a poster, place it in front of their employees – and miss the opportunity to put those values into practice. The last thing you want after working on your values is for the poster’s content to become meaningless, something employees ignore while they grab coffee or heat up their lunch in the breakroom.

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Building An Organizational Strategy That’ll Withstand The Change Ahead

15Five

If you’ve ever had to navigate a canoe down a winding, obstacle-heavy river, you know how important it is that the bow and the stern are synchronized. For a minute, I want you to close your eyes and imagine your business as a canoe and the river as the specific market or industry in which you operate. Think of the rower in the front of the boat (the bow) as your organization, providing power and forward motion to your business.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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Bookmark This! The Hybrid Workforce Edition

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. I’ve heard a lot of talk lately about organizations wanting to plan for when employees return to the office and employees wanting to stay remote a while longer. This should not be a surprise to anyone. But I did see someone remark that “hybrid” workforces are starting to be a recruitment marketing tool. Organizations that are trying to recruit right now, might want to think about this.

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5 Steps to Design a Job that Motivates Employees

Hireology

Supporting a work environment that motivates employees is one of the most important things within any business. . If you don’t have motivated employees to put forth the effort required to do well, it’s likely that your company will face some challenges. Employees are with you to keep your business running and moving forward, but if you don’t encourage employee motivation, the business is likely to remain stagnant — or worse: begin to decline.

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6 Tips To Protect Your Business’s Finances

Take It Personel-ly

Your business needs money to survive and thrive. So, it is important to take measures to protect your finances. However, this is often easier said than done. There are numerous threats that could compromise your financial state. Additionally, there are plenty of unforeseen circumstances that could upend the way you do business. The following six […].

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5 ways to foster motivation in employees

HR Digest

When you have a workforce that eagerly anticipates the end of Friday and rushing out the office door and sighs morosely on Mondays before entering the office, then you have a problem at hand. The key to running a good business is having motivated workers who push your product and services out there in the market for better returns. What are the steps you need to take for employee motivation?

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The Diversity Reckoning: Can HR Survive Without New Perspectives?

Speaker: Jeremy York

2024 has tested every organization, and 2025 promises no less - the warning signs are everywhere. If you’re relying on superficial approaches to diversity, you might find yourself scrambling to catch up. Thought diversity - the fuel for new ideas, fresh perspectives, and disruptive innovation - is more than a buzzword. It's a survival strategy. And if you’re not building it into your workplace culture right now , you’re heading for trouble.

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How will COVID-19 change the workplace permanently?

Insperity

There’s a light at the end of the tunnel – COVID-19 vaccinations are ramping up and the pandemic may be over in the foreseeable future. Undoubtedly, many aspects of how we traditionally carry out work had to change because of the risks of virus transmission. But the question remains, how will COVID-19 change the workplace for the long haul? Were the changes a temporary abnormal?

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How to start the succession planning conversation you need to have

Business Management Daily

Succession planning is a critical element to ensuring your organization’s longevity, but it’s the conversation none of us want to have. Whether we don’t know how to start the discussion, or what to do with the list of successors once we do, it can be easy to delay having, or not have at all. However, succession management is a key piece of talent management.

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4 Reasons Employee Financial Wellness is a Top Priority for Employers

Best Money Moves

4 reasons employee financial wellness is a top priority for employers. More and more employers are recognizing the importance of employee financial wellness. Here’s why. The importance of financial wellbeing is becoming increasingly clear to many employers, made all the more urgent as the economic fallout of the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic continues.

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The Dos and Don’ts of Your Healthcare Job Applications 

Hireology

Time is a precious resource and if you are like most people, you try to guard it as much as possible. For those performing hiring and recruitment activities within healthcare organizations, this means shortening the length of time it takes to review and hire applicants. One way to do this is to collect as much information as possible upfront in the hopes that a decision can be made under the guise of time-savings without consideration of the applicant experience. .

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Testing Innovations in Cancer: How to evaluate and use new technologies

Amidst rising cancer prevalence and soaring costs, new cancer technologies and innovations are emerging to support the early detection, treatment, and surveillance of cancer. Read this guide to understand how to evaluate these solutions for your employees and members – and to learn more about the current state of coverage, clinical and cost effectiveness, and impact on quality and outcomes.