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In industries with part-time, seasonal, or variable labor demand—such as food and beverage service or event management—employees are often frustrated by the inability to know when they’ll be scheduled to work more than a week or two in advance. Does predictive scheduling cure that?
In yesterday’s Advisor we heard some tips from Bridget Miller on receiving feedback from applicants. Today, more tips on getting feedback as well as what to ask.
What if an employer interested in improving the health of its employees—and reducing its health insurance premiums—could slap a device on workers to show statistics on physical fitness? Not only could the people participating in an employer-sponsored wellness program track their own progress, the employer also could see just how hard participants in its program […]
For the time being, employers in states that don’t recognize same-sex marriage don’t have to comply with a new rule changing the definition of spouse under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). The rule was to take effect on March 27, but a federal district judge in Texas issued a temporary injunction on March […]
It’s something that’s taking place in schools around the country, but it’s a concept that many companies can—and are—incorporating into their own training efforts: makerspaces.
During training, you need to monitor the e-learning process to ensure employees are progressing on schedule. Once training has been completed, you need to evaluate the effectiveness of your e-learning programs. Because you are not present while training is taking place—as you are with traditional forms of training—monitoring and evaluating e-learning can be a bit […]
by Dan Oswald Have you ever noticed that as you get older, time seems to speed up? When I was a kid, a year seemed like forever. Now, not so much. We’re more than halfway through 2017. I know, it seems like we just celebrated New Year’s, and now we’re looking at the 4th of […]
In today’s low-unemployment, high-turnover environment, employers are finding themselves with more and more job openings to fill and yet fewer and fewer qualified candidates responding. There are lots of jobs out there competing for attention from the pool of qualified candidates. How do you make your job post stand out among all of the options […]
One expert suggests that 15 percent of HR departments are routinely doing social media background checks, but, astoundingly, 100 percent of hiring managers are. What’s up with that? We’ve talked about the advisability of doing social media background checks before. Briefly, the negative of doing such checks is that you’re guaranteed to find out things […]
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