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Faces of HR: Sharifa Parker on AI and Symbiotic Relationships

Meet Sharifa Parker, Vice President of People at Moogsoft, an AIOps software company dedicated to helping people and machines work in harmony. They have 20 years of experience as a senior people leader in high-growth tech start-ups, helping to create and sustain high-performing organizations. For the last decade, Parker has been a key asset in […]

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Measuring Productivity: Developing Metrics

Employee productivity is one of the key indicators of a company’s success. The more productive your employees are, the more products or services they can produce, and the more you have to sell to the marketplace, while holding at least one factor of production—the employee—constant.

Not All Monsters Are Bad

Litigation Value:  $300,000 per claim (until respected HR manager is in place). Though there is so much to write about — office romance, sexual harassment, what Kevin might be regarded as, pranks involving animals, and fraud — tonight, in honor of Toby’s departure, I want to focus on monsters.  It is no secret that Michael […]

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Recruiting Self-Sabotage

Employers recruiting today are faced with candidates who have lots of ways to find jobs, easy access to information about employers, and lots of options, despite high unemployment levels. This means employers still need to be diligent in their recruiting process. Unfortunately, there are a lot of ways recruiters may be self-sabotaging their own efforts.

Could a Re-Entry Program Solve Your Talent Woes?

“There are plenty of fish in the sea”—while this statement usually applies to the dating world, it can also apply to the recruiting world, especially in a candidate-driven market. Employers across the country are going to great lengths to attract and retain the best and the brightest. One employer is attracting workers that are re-entering the […]

Compensation Programs: 4 Opportunities Emerging from the Recession

Maybe it’s too soon to look backward and really gain insight into how the recession has changed our pay programs and the way employees see them. The perspective may be wrong; perhaps the whole picture will come into view much later. But just maybe there are already lessons we can learn. Only 3 years ago, […]

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How to Identify and Approach Employees Who Are Depressed or Suicidal

Although newer research suggests that people are actually less depressed and less suicidal around the holidays, the World Health Organization reports that the number of people living around the world with depression increased 18.4% between 2005 and 2015, and that suicide was the second leading cause of death among those individuals aged 15 to 29 […]

3 Ways to Reduce the Health and Economic Implications of Workplace Inactivity 

It’s no secret that we’re all sitting more than we should and that it has negative consequences for both our physical and our mental health. Research shows that this inactivity also has economic implications for employers, costing companies hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.  As the pandemic subsides and we settle into a new […]

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Delivering on the Promise of a Better Candidate Experience

Having crossed the threshold into 2021, we’ve all been given an opportunity to better understand the impact COVID-19 had on our world. In some instances, we saw businesses that faced dire consequences and needed to shut down, while others pivoted models and thrived, like delivery services or remote work technologies. But one common theme rings […]