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by David Kates, Lenox Advisors Employee benefits professionals should be aware that while their company’s top executives are well protected via their life insurance coverage and retirement plans, these same executives could be woefully exposed in their disability insurance coverage. Often, a company’s top earners have coverage that isn’t up to the task of protecting […]
Although Hanna Neuborn, Global Head of Talent Science at Canonical, doesn’t believe she’s found the Holy Grail of finding the best talent, she feels it’s pretty close and has been effective for her company. At the start of 2023, Neuborn was integral in turning Canonical’s Talent Acquisition team into a Talent Science team. Canonical employs […]
Yesterday’s Advisor outlined five big dangers of big data; today, more potential pitfalls of this information resource, including problems with distribution, stratification, and more.
A new report finds that global employee engagement levels, which took a slight dip in 2016, jumped back to an all-time high in 2017.
As the third anniversary of the pandemic approaches, it’s hard to overstate how profoundly the outbreak and its aftermath affected the way we work. Analyses of how businesses have evolved over the past few years tend to focus on digital transformation, which makes sense because the pandemic greatly accelerated a preexisting trend toward digitalization across […]
It’s the year 3022, and you’ve just applied for a new job as an engineer on a starship traveling to Mars. You submit your resume, and an algorithm selects you for an interview. You record video answers to the employer’s interview questions and upload them for a robot to review. Using software to review applicant […]
A man has accused a New Jersey hospital for discrimination for not recognizing his dog as a service animal—because it was a 12-pound poodle.
AI can surface thousands of candidates in seconds—but it still can’t spot a great storyteller or a creative thinker. That’s why HR teams are rethinking what “smart hiring” really means. As marketing teams evolve into agile, multidisciplinary units responsible for everything from performance strategy to brand storytelling, the bar for talent has been raised. At […]
Yesterday’s Advisor featured consultant David Cichelli’s take on how different incentives are required for different levels of sales personnel and different situations. Today, his suggestions for different product mixes, flat growth, and sales retention, plus an introduction to a timely (and free) webinar on tops trends for 2014. Cichelli, senior vice president at the Alexander […]
These are exceptional times. According to a Gartner online poll of Asian HR leaders in March 2020, “among 805 organizations responding, 88% now encourage or require employees to work from home.” As COVID-19 continues its onslaught around the world, governments have turned to measures such as social distancing to disrupt the contagion. Doing so has […]