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Where Business and IT Students Want to Work
Business and IT students, those soon-to-be grads you seek, have employer preferences, and these preferences may surprise you.
How to Recruit and Maintain More Women in Your Workplace
What do women want in the workplace? Of course, the answer depends on the individual. However, more companies are focusing on attracting and maintaining women with significant payoffs. Here’s a run-down of strategies that seem to resonate:
You said what? Hiring interview comments prove costly for employer
by Nicole Singh Canadian employers who provide inaccurate or misleading information during the hiring process can be held liable for their broken promises. The recent decision of the British Columbia Court of Appeal in Feldstein v. 364 Northern Development Corporation is a stark reminder that a negligent misrepresentation during the hiring process can be costly. […]
76% of U.S. Workers Aren’t Afraid of Losing Jobs to Automation
Randstad US has recently released new research findings that contradict many reports that American workers fear losing their job due to automation. The 2017 Randstad Employer Brand Research found that only 14% of U.S. employees worry that automation will take their job away, and nearly one-third (30%) say they think automation will make their job […]
How-to HR: Top 3 Happiness Inspirations from Google
Have you ever looked in envy at an article online and seen the incredible, bright, and colorful work spaces Google’s 70,000+ employees enjoy on a daily basis? I have, too.… Creating innovative work spaces is only scratching the surface when it comes to Google’s revolution of Human Resources (HR), or People Operations as it is […]
5 Signs that Your Workplace Communications Aren’t as Influential as You Think
All leaders in a company like to think they have a strong impact on their team. But a staggering 95% of them think they’re much more influential than they actually are. In fact, most business leaders are sabotaging their influence, without even knowing it.
PTO for charity work: You give a little, they take a lot?
by Susan Hartmus Hiser Q Our company’s production work generally gets slow in the summer, and the company’s owner is a longtime proponent of charity work. Rather than giving employees extra vacation time in the summer or even laying them off, he would like to start offering a week of paid time off (PTO) to […]
Training Supervisors to Avoid Termination-Based Lawsuits
Guess what? People don’t like to be fired. Who should they blame? For sure, they will not blame themselves. Once they settle on a reason, like discrimination or retaliation, those “l’m-going-to-sue!” juices start flowing.
How to Curate a Remote Work Culture of Transparency, Open Communication, and Accountability
So many of the fears about remote work come from it being seen as opaque. Not physically seeing people working holds a lot of managers back from embracing remote work.