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Amazon’s Rise of the Machines—Could This Be the Beginning of the End of the Human Workforce?

HRSBT has previously reported on multiple companies going high tech and replacing workers with robots. Some of these stories don’t end well for the robots, mostly the restaurants in China that ended up reverting back to human waitstaff after learning that there are some jobs even robots aren’t cut out for. However, one retail giant […]

Trends in religious discrimination and accommodation

by Alka Ramchandani The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has been coming down hard on organizations that are failing to accommodate employees for their religious beliefs. What follows are a few tools and concepts you may use to eliminate the potential of being a target for a lawsuit based on religious discrimination or failure to […]

Are You Using PowerPoint Effectively in Your Training?

Before you sit down to create a PowerPoint presentation, think about how much of the chosen safety topic you want to cover. In many cases you won’t have time to go over everything in just one presentation. So, make a prioritized list of the key points and narrow your scope as necessary to fit the […]

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New research urges a rethinking of 4-year degree requirements

When designing a recruiting and hiring process, few employers would intentionally build a system that automatically excludes qualified candidates. But new research indicates that’s what sometimes happens with employers seeking middle-skills workers. Such a system hurts not just the jobseeker but also the employer hoping to attract and retain productive employees from a variety of […]

2012 Survey Highlights–Pay, Policies, HR, Leave, Holidays

In today’s Advisor, we’ll do our annual summary of our 2012 survey results—a good time to check your practices against those of thousands of other employers around the country. Pay Budgets 2.5 to 3 Percent Our survey revealed that most employers offered modest pay increases in 2012 and will do so again in 2013. In […]

Hell’s Kitchen, the Bible, the Sharks, and the Silver Screen

Need to develop and implement some strategies, but don’t have the time to take courses or slog through resources to get answers and inspiration? No problem! You can get the help you need from the Bible, movies, and TV shows, says Patrick J. Stroh, author of Business Strategy: Plan, Execute, Win!

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Making Training Stick for Sales Staff

In a previous post, we discussed that although many organizations’ sales departments are often aggressive in their training efforts, the fact that salespeople are generally not held accountable for applying the skills they learn acts as a barrier to training retention.

Post-Termination Disability Benefits Reduce Severance Pay

By Hadiya Roderique Severance obligations can be costly for Canadian employers since most employees are entitled to notice of termination or substantial pay in lieu of notice. A tricky issue is the impact of post-termination income on the obligations of the terminating employer. Canadian employees are often under the mistaken impression that they have an […]

Faces of HR: Why Linda Nedelcoff is Redefining HR as a Strategy Powerhouse

Linda Nedelcoff started her career in the world of accounting, a foundation that gave her a sharp eye for data, discipline, and the cold, hard reality of how decisions impact business outcomes. But while she understood how numbers showed up on a balance sheet, she became increasingly fascinated by what happened when they didn’t—and the human reasons […]