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Forty-two percent of working women in the United States report experiencing gender discrimination in the workplace. Women in the workplace have made a considerable amount of progress, but true inclusion and belonging require more equitable action than just equality. To ensure true inclusion and belonging in the workplace, businesses must take proactive steps to remove […]
In yesterday’s Advisor, consultant Mike Miles presented the case for offering voluntary benefits to employees. Today, more on benefits, plus an introduction to a timely webcast on conducting legal background checks. Employees may think that they can’t afford a big policy, but it’s often a good idea to join the plan at the lowest level […]
Please participate in our brief Your HR Department Survey and see how what you are doing stacks up against what other successful companies are doing. We’ll publish the survey results in a future issue (or we’ll send them directly to you, if you prefer). Do you “sit at the table”? What’s being outsourced? […]
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses that can have staff work remotely are doing so to a large extent. And remote work is likely to be more common in the long term than it was pre-COVID, with many companies expecting to make some of their COVID-inspired remote work changes permanent.
Imagine a guy, a married guy, more specifically an unhappily married guy, and even more specifically an unhappily married guy lacking a moral compass. The guy creates a discrete (ha!) profile on AshleyMadison.com, a dating website for married people whose tagline is “Life is Short. Have an Affair.” No need to prowl hotel bars at […]
The most recent edition of ManpowerGroup’s quarterly “Employment Outlook Survey” indicates that the first quarter of 2018 will be very strong in terms of staffing, reporting “the strongest hiring intentions in 10 years” according to a survey press release.
U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez has appointed five new members to the 2016 Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans, known as the ERISA Advisory Council. Perez also announced the incoming chair and vice chair of the council.
“Since slides packed with long lists of bullet points result in “cognitive overload” for learners, Cliff Atkinson recommends that trainers design their presentations in a format that’s consistent with the way people think. Atkinson, author of Beyond Bullet Points (Microsoft 2005), says most learners can retain only three or four pieces of information at any […]
LITIGATION VALUE: $400,000 (that classified ad just isn’t going to look good to a jury) While I didn’t expect it to come from the Utica branch, it looks like the “the war for talent” that so many commentators have been writing about has finally hit Dunder Mifflin. Unfortunately for Michael Scott, the war simply can’t […]
More than 30 years ago, people started posting resumes and job descriptions on the internet, and the recruiting profession has never been the same since. Once again, we’re in the midst of a transformative shift, driven this time by the impact of technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation. This is exciting news for […]