Recently, Limeade participated in a fireside chat on HR Exchange Network about how to help employees practice self-care in these challenging times. The topic resonated with the community. Obviously, the audience was Human Resources professionals, who are facing tremendous pressure to help employees with their mental health and wellness and transform the workplace to adapt
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Vanessa Hinds, director at Protiviti, a business consulting firm based in Menlo Park, Calif., wanted to grow her ability to lead and manage and strengthen her networking approach and strategy. The CEO Mentoring Initiative, she said, helped her do just that. “I was able to get insight and direction on not only navigating workplace challenges,
Octavia Goredema, a Los Angeles-based author and career coach, provides tips to employers each year during Black History Month to equip them with the necessary tools to better support Black workers’ careers. But these organizations don’t always implement her suggestions. “It’s really frustrating when you see companies who just want to tick a box for
Hello people analytics practitioners, this is a public service announcement: You are not a neutral arbiter of data. When leading people analytics, you are a stakeholder, not just a data provider. You are in the arena. The decision making arena, that is. Risk, uncertainty, accountability. If these words are foreign or scary to you, then
With so many ways to get recruiting wrong, how do you get it right? The growing influence of talent acquisition suggests that investing in recruiter training is one way for organizations to set themselves up for success. Josh Bersin listed “Cherish your recruiters” among his top trends for 2023. He wrote, Stop seeing them as
These are confusing times, especially when it comes to recruiting and talent acquisition, for Human Resources leaders. While many industries are facing a labor shortage as a result of shifting demographics and fears of attrition are brought on because many employees are facing burnout, the gloomy economic outlook has put hiring on hold. Some –
A U.K. Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) study last year estimated that 19 percent of employees in the United Kingdom were likely to face redundancy over the next 12 months. More recently, 41 percent of U.K. small and medium-sized employers confirmed their fears that they will be forced permanently to shut their doors. With
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently held a public hearing that enabled workplace experts to offer suggestions for ensuring that artificial intelligence (AI) doesn’t discriminate against job applicants. The session, “Navigating Employment Discrimination in AI and Automated Systems: A New Civil Rights Frontier,” outlined the benefits and pitfalls of using AI in employment
Rage applying is when young employees in professional fields get fed up with the workload, boss, compensation, or all of the above and apply to as many other companies as they can while soaking in their anger. The act of applying to other jobs when one’s morale is low is nothing new. But the term
The case of a Canadian company that recovered damages in court from a former employee accused of “time theft” raises the question of whether U.S. employers can similarly use electronic monitoring to persuade courts to award them damages. Several legal experts say that’s usually not possible, but one attorney says U.S. employers can do so.
By now, most Human Resources professionals have heard about ChatGPT, a chatbot launched by OpenAI in November 2022. Recently, OpenAI announced that Microsoft was making a multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment in the company. There’s been so much buzz about what this latest artificial intelligence tool can do and how it could potentially replace humans. So,
Microsoft recently joined companies like Netflix and Salesforce in offering U.S. employees unlimited PTO. This means that, in theory, employees could take off as many days as they would like with no limits. Microsoft calls this new policy, Discretionary Time Off. There are no limits or accrual of days worked. In addition, the company allows
Federal data shows that employee absences and job turnover decline when businesses provide child care. Yet onsite child care was the least frequently offered family-friendly perk in an assessment of 1,700 companies, according to a new report by research organization The Best Place for Working Parents in Fort Worth, Tex., and Southern Methodist University’s Center
A worker shortage in the United Kingdom has raised demand for foreign workers and, along with it, concerns about mistreatment—even modern slavery. In early 2022, Sara Thornton, the country’s anti-slavery commissioner at the time (the post has been unfilled since spring 2022), cited several exploitation risks facing migrant agricultural workers, including racism and discrimination by
Rick Sanchez was living his American dream before he made the biggest mistake of his career. He had gone from being a Cuban refugee raised in a barrio in South Florida with parents who never earned more than $11,000 annually to hosting his own show on CNN and having one of the highest-ranked news programs
On Jan. 10, the French prime minister presented the government’s proposal for the future of the public pension system. The part of the proposal that has gotten the most public attention is a gradual increase in the retirement age from 62 to 64. There is much more to the plan, however. Here are the significant points to note. Measures for the Balance
Employee engagement has reached its lowest level since 2015, according to a new survey released by research firm Gallup. About 32 percent of the 67,000 full- and part-time employees surveyed were engaged in their work in 2022, while 18 percent were actively disengaged. Active disengagement has risen each year since 2020. The remaining respondents—50 percent—were
On Dec. 20, 2022, the German Federal Labor Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht, BAG) issued two important decisions on untaken paid leave with significant implications for all employers in Germany: First, the BAG ruled that paid annual leave entitlement is not subject to the statutory three-year limitation period if the employer does not effectively allow the employees to take their annual
Chris Cavallini is a believer in second chances. He’s had several of them. He was arrested 17 times before his 18th birthday for various criminal acts, including trespassing, possession of marijuana and assault with a dangerous weapon. When Cavallini was a high school senior, a Massachusetts judge gave him an ultimatum—serve seven months in jail,
Two recent shootings in California have stunned the Asian American community. On Jan. 21, a 72-year-old gunman opened fire at a dance studio in Monterey Park, Calif., killing 11 people and injuring nine more as the city’s large Asian American community was celebrating Lunar New Year weekend. The suspect, a man of Asian descent, was
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