New North Carolina Law Offers Protections Against Negligent Hiring
A new North Carolina law offering protections against negligent hiring and retention claims is set to take effect on December 1.
Tag: recruiting
Amazon Go Stores Show Future of Automation
Fears of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation taking people’s jobs are increasingly common as new technologies emerge that seem to make many aspects of certain jobs—especially routine, low-skilled labor jobs—potentially obsolete. We’ve written a lot about how these fears are often overblown.
In Light of Wage Raise, Amazon Eliminates Bonuses and Stock Awards
In a previous post, we discussed Amazon’s recent announcement to raise the minimum wage of all U.S. employees to $15 per hour on November 1, 2018. The move was lauded by the likes of 2018 Democratic presidential hopeful and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
Pros and Cons of Job Sharing
Job sharing, as the name implies, is when two or more employees share the responsibilities for what would be one full-time job. There are, of course, pros and cons of taking this approach. Let’s take a look at those now.
What Are You Doing to Stay in Touch with Employees ‘On a Break’?
Employees leave companies for a variety of reasons, and many are not necessarily permanent. Some employees may move for a significant other or may pursue a long-shot opportunity that doesn’t ultimately pan out. Others may take time off to raise a family or care for a loved one.
Is AI Recruiting Discrimination Inevitable?
In yesterday’s Advisor, we discussed the idea that using artificial intelligence (AI) or big data in the recruiting process doesn’t eliminate problems with discrimination and bias. Perhaps counter intuitively, these methods can actually emphasize bias if we’re not careful, because the machine doesn’t know any better. It can only assess the (often imperfect) traits it […]
State Minimum Wage Increases for 2019 (Map)
Minimum wage increases will affect states and cities across the country on July 1, 2019.
Amazon Takes Steps to Pay Employees a Living Wage
With growing income inequality and fears of losing low-skilled jobs to automation and new technologies like artificial intelligence, there have been increasing calls throughout the country for a “living wage.”
4 L&D and Training Trends to Keep in Mind for 2019
Learning and development (L&D) departments are currently anticipated to be among the most innovative departments inside most organizations over the next decade and beyond—and for very good reasons.
The Amazon Example: Can AI Discriminate?
Instinctively, it would seem that using a machine, data, or artificial intelligence (AI) to review job applicants would create a process that is fairer by default. Unlike people, the machine doesn’t have subconscious biases. It doesn’t have feelings or gut instincts. It should be able to make judgments and comparisons solely on merit and create […]