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Paternity Leave Matters: How U.S. Dads Are Missing Out and Why Change Is Needed

As we continue to strive for gender equality in the United States, in the case of parental leave, men are falling behind. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), only 32% of U.S. companies offer paid paternity leave, and the process for establishing paternity leave varies by state. Florida has no state-specific law […]

Stop Measuring Satisfaction—Focus on Engagement

For strategic talent management, forget surveying satisfaction, says Consultant Allan Benowitz. The meaningful focus should be on engagement. Satisfaction is about giving things to employees, he adds, while engagement is about employees giving back. Benowitz, who is the vice president of Growth and Development at The Employee Engagement Group, offered his expert tips on engagement […]

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New Policy on Internships Puts DOL, Courts on Same Page

The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) announcement that it is nixing its 2010 guidance on unpaid internships in favor of a less-rigid test puts the agency in line with recent appellate court rulings on the issue, according to an attorney following the matter.

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Are Collaboration Apps Crippling Employee Productivity?

Organizations frequently saturate their app ecosystems with collaboration tools because they allow employees to create a space for the sharing of ideas and opinions in the workplace and participate in work-based conversations using their mobile devices.

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EEO-1 Deadline Coming Up March 31

March 31 is the deadline employers must meet for submitting EEO-1 reports to the Joint Reporting Committee (JRC). The JRC represents the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) for purposes of collecting employers’ EEO-1 reports.

Faces of HR: How Nadia Uberoi Builds a People-First Culture from the Inside Out

Nadia Uberoi’s career is the story of a psychologist turned strategic architect. As Head of People at Garner Health, she leads a next-generation People function—one that has evolved beyond traditional HR to become the engine for a distinctive, high-performance culture. She is known for her ability to partner with executives to translate bold visions into thoughtfully […]

Want to Boost Diversity? Exec Sees Win-Win in Dropping Degree Requirements

Paris Wallace says he’s been an entrepreneur his whole life, and he’s passionate about lowering the barriers that keep others from the success he’s enjoyed. As CEO and cofounder of Ovia Health, a family health benefits platform based in Boston, he’s eager to hire smart, creative, innovative, capable people. But he’s quick to say they […]

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Social Learning in the Workplace

If you’re a learning and development professional, the term “social learning” is probably one you’ve been using for so long that you can’t remember the first time you heard it. But for the rest of us, it’s an idea we’ve only more recently come around to. While the idea of social learning—learning from what other […]

Turnover Costs: What to Include

Of the many HR metrics we study, perhaps some of the most requested are turnover metrics. It’s important to know how much turnover we have so we can make estimates on how much this turnover is costing the organization and to take steps to reduce both the turnover and the associated costs. These costs have […]