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How to Make Your Company a Destination for Female Talent

Every company has its own unique approach to attracting talent, but in my 35 years of experience, there’s one piece of advice I’ve found to be universally important: Foster an accessible culture—for everyone.

What Are Posthire Background Checks?

Most employers perform some form of background screening on prospective employees. Often, this is conducted as a condition of the job offer. The candidate proceeds through the hiring process and is made a conditional offer, and the offer proceeds if nothing negative is discovered through the screening process.

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4 Technological Tools Your Employees Must Know How to Use

Research has revealed that 75% of American workers don’t believe they have access to the latest efficiency-boosting technology while simultaneously revealing that employees who believe their workplace effectively uses mobile technology and other efficiency-boosting technology are more creative, satisfied, and productive at work. And more creative, satisfied, and productive employees yield more innovative and profitable […]

3 Ways to Inspire a More Inclusive Work Space

If your organization is sincerely interested in creating an inclusive workplace for its employees and stakeholders, it’s time to analyze and reevaluate your physical work spaces.

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Protecting Data from Departing Employees (or Why I Love Auditing and Access Restrictions)

Countless formal and informal studies show that most employees retain at least some company data when they leave a job. The reasons vary from the benign (such as when an employee inadvertently keeps a work flash drive) to the more malicious (such as in the case of an employee’s deliberate theft of company trade secrets […]

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4 Consequences of a Poorly Inspired Company Culture

In 2017, a whopping 80% of businesses claimed that they were planning to improve their corporate cultures, most likely in an attempt to better engage their employees and promote better cohesion across their organizations.

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The 5 Biggest Productivity Challenges (and How to Overcome Them)

Productivity, at its basis, signifies the rate of output per unit of input. The phrase echoes an era where people were seen as elements in a production line, measured by the amount of time it would take them to produce a single item. But in today’s knowledge-based economy, this measure of productivity no longer holds […]