Study Offers New Insight into Millennial Women
Employers that offer a 401(k) plan and other investment vehicles should take note of a new study about Millennial women. Findings also have implications for employee recruitment and retention.
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Your Company’s Employees Are Your Best Spokespeople
Recruitment advertising professionals can help you articulate and promote your employer brand. But when it comes to speaking about the employment experience, no one does it better than your employees.
When Recruiting, Don’t Forget to Share Information About the Work Environment
Recruiters and hiring managers typically provide job candidates with details about the position, benefits offerings, and the company. But work environment sometimes gets overlooked.
Using Employee Surveys to Measure Employee Engagement
Organizations around the world recognize that employee engagement is a crucial element in a company’s productivity and effectiveness. An engaged and committed workforce will go the extra mile in terms of effort, passion, and creativity to push an organization ahead of its competitors. At the same time, employee engagement can be a vague and often […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Finding Your Work Passion
This edition of The Oswald Letter is a guest post from Elizabeth Petersen, Project Director for Simplify Compliance. I’ve recently started reading Reddit semiregularly, and one of my most-visited subreddits is r/careerguidance. While the questions submitted range from the very specific (“I’m a history major with two years of work experience at a museum. What […]
How Do You Measure Worker Competency Learned in EHS Training?
Are you being asked to measure the competency of your workers either before or after they have been trained to perform their tasks safely and correctly? What is the impact of learning on your workers? Do you know where to start, and how to make it repeatable?
American Idol Back to Work 3 Days After Giving Birth? Can’t Demand or Deny It
American Idol alum Jordin Sparks walked the red carpet just three days after giving birth to her son and has done a slew of interviews discussing this new chapter of her life. While Sparks is certainly a trooper for bouncing back so quickly after a major medical event and putting herself back into the celebrity […]
Can You Terminate an Employee Who is Unable to Return After 4 Months of Disability Leave?
It is well established that employers are not required to provide an indefinite leave of absence to accommodate employees’ disabilities. In the following case, the employer terminated the employee after she had been on leave for a little more than 4 months.
Workplace Investigations: A Q&A with Susan Fentin
As an HR manager, you should be thoroughly investigating every complaint that comes across your desk. And, it’s important to investigate allegations of wrongdoing in a timely manner, but you run the risk of cutting some key corners if you act too quickly.
Pursuing New Technologies? Focus on the ‘Human Operating System,’ Says Study
When it comes to technology, 2018 has been dubbed: The Year of Disruption. What does this mean exactly? More and more chat bots, artificial intelligence (AI), and other virtual/augmented reality applications that will be changing the way people work and communicate in very innovative ways.