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How to Utilize AR and VR Apps to Boost Productivity and Employee Engagement?

Take It Personel-ly

If you still think both augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies are mainly for the game apps, you have no idea about how they have become part of serious undertakings in corporate and workplace environments. Yes, these two dynamic technologies are increasingly becoming part of the modern workplace environments with considerable benefits in […].

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This Isn’t Feedback: A Critique of the Annual Review

Achievers

This is my fourth blog in this series (you can find the first three on this topic here: blog one , blog two , and blog three ). Let’s review. It’s past time to fix feedback and restore to its rightful place as a powerful and valuable tool for good. We must shed old ideas of what feedback is and adopt a new mindset and new approaches. We have a new definition of feedback and a list of four things that you may think (or used to think) are feedback, but actually aren’t.

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Top 7 Ways To Help Employees Avoid Feeling Overwhelmed At Work

15Five

This time of year, it’s common to feel overwhelmed at work. Whether it’s the push to complete work projects by year-end or the desire to meet the unrealistic expectations that surround the holidays, stressors from personal and professional life can intersect, impacting employees’ productivity, motivation, and health. Employees: burned out and stressed.

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The Best HR Leaders are Data Driven, People Oriented

UpstartHR

One of the phrases I’ve found myself repeating more and more often of late is this: data driven, people oriented. . When I’m speaking to audiences, I share the story about how I *accidentally* insulted my wife during childbirth to illustrate this concept. Yes, really. It makes a great point that we can’t just be data driven or we lose sight of the people behind every metric and number.

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Future-Proof Your Talent Pipeline

Get ready for the future of business. As HR navigates an ongoing labor shortage, leaders need stronger, more adaptable recruiting strategies. Do you have the tools you need to build a talent pipeline that drives sustainable business growth?

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7 Ways to Champion Health in the Workplace

Take It Personel-ly

The road to success is a collaborative journey, not a solo trek. You need your employees to work together if you’re going to reach your short- and long-term goals. Without their enthusiasm, and without your guidance, you’re moving in the wrong direction. That’s why it’s so important to monitor the health and well-being of your […].

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How to Improve All 5 Areas of Employee Wellness in 2020

Best Money Moves

How to improve all 5 areas of employee wellness in 2020. Improved employee wellness helps employees perform better and saves money in healthcare costs and turnover. Improving employee wellness can pay off in a big way. . Employees who thrive in all five areas of wellness perform better, miss less days, adapt to change with less resistance and have lower healthcare costs and turnover, according to research by Gallup. .

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What makes Johnson & Johnson a great place to work

HR Digest

Several multinational companies around the world make sincere efforts towards making their business an attractive place to appeal the best talent from the industry. Among them, Johnson and Johnson is one company that has been regarded as a great place to work. This tag of being the best employer has been retained by the company from the last many decades.

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Setting? ?Expectations? ?For? ?Your? ?Team #infographic

Take It Personel-ly

? Imagine? ?having? ?a? ?team? ?packed? ?with? ?talent? ?and? ?decades? ?of? ?experience? ?between? ?them.? ?On? ? paper,? ?this? ?looks? ?like? ?a? ?winning? ?formula? ?for? ?business? ?success.? ?That? ?should? ?be? ?enough,? ?right?? ? ? While? ?having? ?a? ?star-powered? ?team? ?plays? ?a? ?huge? ?part,? ?relying? ?on? ?that? ?alone? ?can? ?only?

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Pay compression: What it is and how to fight it

Insperity

Pay compression can happen in any business, whether you’re growing a small company or working at an enterprise-level organization. Yet what is wage compression exactly? How does it happen? And, when it happens in your business, how can you address it? Let’s take a closer look at salary compression as well as how to spot, resolve and prevent it from reoccurring in your company.

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Understanding Group Medicare for an Aging Workforce: Key Considerations for HR Leaders

Speaker: Shawnequa Albert

As our workforce evolves, so must the way we support it. With more employees choosing to work beyond age 65, HR leaders are increasingly being called upon to guide aging employees through one of the most complex transitions in their professional lives - from employer sponsored plans to Group Medicare. Without clear guidance, confusion around eligibility, coverage options, and cost implications can lead to uncertainty and missed opportunities for optimized benefits.

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5 Benefits of Gratitude in the Workplace (and how to show it!)

WEX Inc.

National Gratitude Month is here - and we're taking the opportunity to shift our focus from the negative to appreciating what is positive. While 'gratitude' may not be the most-used word in your vocabulary at work, it definitely should not be forgotten. From enhanced mood, improved productivity, stronger relationships and a happier workforce, gratitude plays an important role in organizational success.

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WOH 67: Filling Critical Skills Gaps for Today’s College Graduates

UpstartHR

Thousands of students are graduating every day with a lack of understanding of the basics of how to interact professionally at work. Everything from etiquette to basic resume preparation is missing from the educational curriculum, so how can we solve this problem? In this episode Ben speaks with John Nykolaiszyn, the Director of the Office of Business Career Management for Florida International University.

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4 Steps for Throwing a Fantastic Fall Event for Your Business

Take It Personel-ly

When you want to wow employees, clients, and suppliers, throwing a party is a fabulous idea. Since fall weather can be cold, hot, or both if a front is going through, it is probably wise to pick an indoor location. If nothing else, then choosing a spot with inside and outside areas can provide space […].

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Employee or Friend: How to Set Boundaries at Work

HR Digest

Is it okay to be friends with your subordinates? How to set boundaries at work? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average American spends 44 hours per week or 8.8 hours per day at work. And today’s workplace culture has evolved than yesteryears when employees spent their entire lives confined in one cubicle without once learning the name of their work-neighbor.

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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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Easing the Benefits Enrollment Process with Decision Support and More

Flimp Communications

It’s that time of year again, when many companies roll out new or returning healthcare options to employees. The problem? What employees want when determining their healthcare options doesn’t always match what employers think they want. SHRM observed that employers and employees have different ideas about the best methods for selecting and enrolling in healthcare benefits.

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What are your leadership strengths and weaknesses?

Business Management Daily

No two leaders look exactly alike. Management is too complex a job for one style always to be the perfect fit, so workplaces are filled with a variety of different personalities. As noted by Marie G. McIntyre, Ph.D. (also known as Your Office Coach ), all managers bring both strengths and weaknesses to the table. And the interesting thing is that what you’re good at may even be a hinderance sometimes depending on the situation.

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From Quirky Offices to Remote Working: A Guide to Working at a Start-Up

Take It Personel-ly

The face of business and employment is changing. Technology is allowing us to not only change the way that businesses work but also how people think about business. According to the Centre for Entrepreneurs, around 660,000 new businesses are started each year in the UK, transforming the demographics of business and showing just how much […].

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How to Respond To Ageism in the Workplace

HR Digest

Ageism in the workplace, whether subtle or blatant, takes an emotional toll. Learn how to combat ageism in the workplace. These are tough times for workers over a certain age. Nowadays, today’s technology becomes yesterday’s news in the blink of an eye and one cannot afford to lag behind. Many of the fastest-growing industries are geared towards innovation and a culture of youth.

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The Great Disruption: Leveraging AI To Better Your Benefits Strategy

Speaker: Joana Ardelean, MSHRM, PHR, SHRM-CP, CC

The benefits landscape is shifting rapidly, and AI is at the center of this transformation. From optimizing health and wellness programs to predicting future benefits needs, AI is empowering HR and total rewards leaders to make smarter, more proactive decisions. The challenge? Understanding where AI fits in your strategy and how to leverage it effectively while keeping employee well-being at the forefront.

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How HR Creates Diversity and Inclusion

Flimp Communications

Human resources is responsible for many duties, most of which directly or indirectly affect diversity and inclusion efforts. Many company leaders still cringe a little when trying to improve diversity and inclusion. In order to include some people in your organization, you have to exclude others. Infusing your organization with perspectives and experiences from a variety of backgrounds is important.

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6 Most Critical HR Skills and Competencies

Vantage Circle

The Human Resource Department is taking a shift. The HR managers now need effective HR skills and competencies to be an excellent contributor to the business. Traditional HR responsibilities include recruiting, hiring, retaining talents, compensation and benefits. But with changing times and demand, HR professionals now also participate as the advocate of the organization, build employee relations, develop business strategies and more importantly to bring mediation between the employees and the

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Which Business Entity Is Best for Starting a Theatre Company?

Take It Personel-ly

Starting a theater company is an exciting venture. You can create a way to reach people with creativity, fun, and thought-provoking plays and musicals. You may strive to be one of the top regional theatre companies in the country. You may be content to be a cool little community theater that produces original works. Whatever your vision […].

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Four-Day Workweek Results In 40% Increase In Productivity At Microsoft

Wellable

A recent experiment with four-day workweeks at Microsoft Japan yielded an impressive 40% jump in productivity. In an effort to promote work/life balance, Microsoft held a Work Life Choice Challenge in August. The company gave its 2,300 employees every Friday off for one month and measured productivity over the same period in 2018. Microsoft measured productivity as number of sales per employee.

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10 HR Metrics for 2025: HR Data Toolkit

The right HR metrics can illuminate hidden trends, justify decisions to the C-suite, and give you an edge in this unpredictable economy. Download Paycor’s guide and learn how to calculate your: Cost-per-Hire Total Financial Impact of Absences Voluntary Turnover Rate And more!

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Stop Using Weak Language at Work

HR Digest

Most of us consciously and unconsciously use weak languages at work. Although some of us consider it a decent way of responding, while others consider it as a way to avoid any confusion or issue that may after asking a question. We must understand that using weak language at work undermines our ability, experience, and self-confidence before others.

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Compliance checklist for HR professionals for year-end and beyond

PeopleStrategy

“Getting ahead of the compliance eight-ball before the end of the year can save time and stress.” For most of us, the end of October and beginning of November is the swan song of autumn – the last few weeks to enjoy pumpkin-spiced everything and the colors of fall before winter arrives. If you’re an HR professional, however, you’re focus is probably elsewhere: everywhere you turn, there’s another compliance requirement you need to meet.

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Psychological Safety: Paving Way Towards Better Team

Vantage Circle

In today’s rapidly changing corporate world, organizations have experimented with different methods to develop efficiency in teams. But what companies choose to overlook is the incorporation of psychological safety in the workplace. It is a surefire way to build a safe space within the organization where teams feel safe to take risks within the team and embrace vulnerability.

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Eight reasons why your employees are unproductive

cipHR

Don’t be too hasty to blame your employees for their lack of productivity; choices your organisation is making could be contributing to their low efficiency and output. Worker productivity is an ongoing challenge in the UK, with labour output falling steadily in the years following the 2008 financial crisis. In fact, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates that, had UK productivity continued along its pre-2008 trend, the average wages for a worker in the private sector would be more t

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.