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A data breach poses a severe threat to any company, whether it’s still developing or fairly established in the industry. Anyone can be the target of hackers—especially those companies who don’t take the necessary measures to protect their assets. Unfortunately, you can’t unscramble an egg: once a data breach happens, your company is compromised. However, […]
There’s a lot of discussion about and concern over artificial intelligence (AI) taking jobs from human employees, and in some cases, that’s a likely scenario. Jobs in customer service, journalism, financial services, and others may be particularly at risk because of the close alignment of those job functions with AI’s abilities. AI Impact Unclear in […]
For the first time in almost 30 years, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has updated its Form I-9 inspection fact sheet. The changes were issued without any notice in the Federal Register, and there was no proposed rulemaking. The revisions replace many provisions of the 1997 Virtue memorandum, which governed compliance until now, and […]
Imagine software that runs on your phone, delivers on-the-job skills training via video, and integrates with a learning management system that shows a manager how well you have mastered new skills. This is just one example of the innovations emerging to help employees improve their productivity at work, according to new observations from Josh Bersin, […]
If you’re sitting in your home office—or at your kitchen table turned home office—right now reading this article, then chances are you’re one of the many workers who were forced to go remote due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As for many others in your situation, remote work is now one of the primary forms of […]
Nursing is a wonderful career path. But sometimes, people have a limited view of nursing and only envision nurses working in a hospital setting. While more than half of all nursing jobs are in hospitals, the nursing field offers many practice areas in diverse and sometimes unexpected settings. 1. Med spa nursing. Nurses in a […]
The idea of replacing the formal employee review with a 2.0 version has been a growing consensus in HR over the past few years. While most companies still have an employee review process, it’s true that traditional annual reviews have long been on life support.
Family-building benefits were once synonymous with essential but limited parental offerings like maternity leave. But modern families have grown and changed significantly over the past few decades. In addition to maternity leave solutions, top employees are now requesting benefits like fertility care, postpartum recovery coaching, and hormone replacement solutions. Therefore, many employers need help navigating […]
The first full class of Generation Z, the burgeoning cohort born between 1997 and 2012, graduated college this year, and these hardworking, independent individuals are looking for their first jobs. Having grown up in the midst of the 2008 financial crisis, Gen Z looks at the world differently. As children of Gen X, a generation […]
by Derek Knoechel In 1990, a 21-year-old woman was caught shoplifting. She then pleaded guilty to a charge of theft, receiving a conditional discharge. Some five years later, she applied for a position with the Montreal police force. So began a 13-year legal odyssey culminating in a Supreme Court of Canada decision (Montréal (City) v. […]