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• 8 performance management challenges and how to fix them

  Successful performance management can help keep employees engaged, but challenges often arise. Learn the most common problems that companies encounter and how to address them. Continue Reading

• How recruiters can reject candidates respectfully

  How recruiters reject job candidates can make a huge difference in a candidate's feelings towards a company. Learn some ways that recruiters can improve the rejection process. Continue Reading

• When the HCM sponsor exits mid-project

  If the HR software project champion leaves the organization or, for some other reason, leaves the project, the team must act quickly. Learn what steps the team should take. Continue Reading

• A data-driven approach to DEI supports real diversity

  Improve diversity and inclusion with an in-depth approach to making people of color, women and other marginalized groups feel good about where they work. Learn how data can help. Continue Reading

• How companies can lessen employees' virtual meeting fatigue

  As employees face uninterrupted screen and video meeting time, their risk of ill health and burnout increases. Here's a look at how employers can help. Continue Reading

• 18 HR cost reduction ideas for the 2020 COVID-19 recession

  The COVID-19 recession demands creativity to stay competitive. Here's a look at 18 HR cost reduction ideas -- including freezing HR tech projects -- that have the potential to help.Continue Reading

• 5 post-pandemic workplace changes due to safety concerns

  The COVID-19 pandemic has already had a profound effect on workplaces. Here are five of those changes and what they mean for HR teams.Continue Reading

• 5 tips to foster remote employee engagement

  COVID-19 has left many businesses no choice but to send their employees home to work. Here are some things that HR can do to keep remote employees engaged and productive.Continue Reading

• How companies can use tech to ramp up remote work productivity

  With the sudden spike of employees working from home, companies need to get creative in how they keep employees connected and productive. Here's advice on how to do just that.Continue Reading

• Josh Bersin on employee experience, fighting HR tech overload

  The fever pitch surrounding employee experience -- combined with the glut of tech promising to deliver it -- has left HR overwhelmed. Here's advice to help simplify matters.Continue Reading

• How to attract top talent in a competitive hiring market

  Finding the best candidates can seem impossible in today's competitive hiring landscape. Use these methods to help you attract even the choosiest candidates.Continue Reading

• Top 3 ways talent pros can adapt to changing recruitment trends

  Emerging technology in recruiting -- such as recruiting AI and chatbots -- is gradually becoming the norm. Here are some skills that recruiters can develop to stay competitive.Continue Reading

• 6 employee activism lessons HR needs today

  Employee activism spiked last year, and experts say that as the 'age of purpose' gathers force, more workers will follow suit. Here are a few of the lessons HR should learn now.Continue Reading

• HR must contend with enterprise social network challenges

  Enterprise social networks like Slack and Yammer are gaining steam as alternatives to traditional email, but they can raise some concerns for HR managers.Continue Reading

• Eliminating bias in AI is no easy feat, but fixes do exist

  As more companies turn to AI to reduce workplace and recruiting bias, it is important to be aware that the data AI tools draw from may have bias baked in.Continue Reading

• HR data issues caused by lack of customization in HR systems

  As more HR systems move to the cloud, organizations may be unable to customize certain features to ensure accurate data capture. This can cause reporting errors or poor decision-making.Continue Reading

• Technology can aid diversity and inclusion in HCM, with caveats

  Vendors are increasingly building AI applications to be bias-free to address concerns around diversity and inclusion. The technology may help raise awareness of inequities that go beyond discrimination.Continue Reading

• 7 steps to improve the onboarding process for new hires

  While recruiting and onboarding are two separate processes, combining them can create a better experience for new hires. Technology such as AI and machine learning can also help.Continue Reading

• Cybersecurity education: How HR can plan for the inevitable

  Cybersecurity is a major concern for any organization, but employees continue to be a top threat. HR can help mitigate insider risks by providing regular training and reminders.Continue Reading

• Workplace engagement yields employee diversity and inclusion

  Vimeo's Charmien Fugelsang uses various survey and analytics methods to measure employee engagement, foster a culture of belonging and root out unconscious bias.Continue Reading

• Will Kronos AI improve life for hourly employees? Experts are split

  The idea of AI in HR seems ubiquitous today, but mostly for salaried workers. A new Kronos AI platform takes aim at the hourly workforce, but can it help? Here's what three experts said.Continue Reading

• Reporting harassment at work eased by new enterprise chatbot

  New tool Spot uses natural language processing -- an AI technology -- to help people file harassment and discrimination complaints, as well as the ability to do it anonymously.Continue Reading

• 5 barriers to creating data-driven HR -- and how to overcome them

  Savvy HR leaders know that data is the foundation of a killer people strategy. Here's why that's hard -- and how you can make it easier.Continue Reading

• How Infor Talent Science works for hiring -- at Infor

  An AI-powered screening tool can make a difference with hiring and retention. Here's what happened when Infor used its Talent Science tool internally.Continue Reading

• 4 ways CHROs and their teams can bust through the HR AI hype

  The AI washing of technology is real, and it's confusing tech buying teams across companies, including those looking for AI in HR. Here's how to get past that hype.Continue Reading

• Company wellness programs are broken, here's a potential fix

  Is an employee wellness program that works actually possible? Yes, if companies start to look at the whole person and focus on specific diseases, according to a new survey.Continue Reading

• What HR must know about team collaboration best practices

  Step away from Slack -- at least sometimes. That's the message from researchers who say always-on workers may not be helping companies innovate and compete.Continue Reading

• How ADP's Executive and Manager Insights tool might disrupt HR

  ADP's Executive and Manager Insights mobile app feature is delivering workforce analytics into the hands of both HR and other business leaders, and creating a more strategic business.Continue Reading

• How Citi's wellness challenge led to employee engagement

  It was tough to keep Citi's 200,000 employees across 95 countries engaged and connected. Here's how the company used a wellness challenge as a place to begin.Continue Reading

• Nine strategies to increase employee engagement and retention

  Keeping your workers happy enough that they don't look elsewhere is critical considering today's economy. Here are nine tips to help ensure your success.Continue Reading

• Automated recruiting solves Groupon's sourcing talent woes

  Building a talent pool through effective sourcing is a major effort by Groupon. It is using a recruiting automation tool to find passive candidates.Continue Reading

• Three keys to an effective succession planning strategy

  Here's what companies and their HR leaders must know about effective succession management, including why it's important and which business and HR functions should be involved.Continue Reading

• Succession planning best practices you need today

  Michael McGowan, who leads the leadership and talent practice at BPI group, a talent management consultancy, shares important advice on how to get succession management right.Continue Reading

• How to create an effective employee retention plan

  The unemployment rate is low, and your workers are likely being courted by other companies. Here's how to create retention strategies that will make your workers want to stay put.Continue Reading

• Tech can spot workplace diversity issues, but actions count

  The #MeToo movement spurred HR to tackle harassment and boost diversity. Conference speakers said software that calls attention to problems and aids conversations only goes so far.Continue Reading

• Four strategies for boosting diversity and inclusion in the workplace

  Fidelity Investments' head of talent acquisition weighs in on the importance of inclusiveness, how recruiting can be biased and why technology is critical.Continue Reading

• Six secrets of competitive recruiting best practices

  If you're in the market for great talent, you need a stellar recruiting process. Annie Rihn, VP of recruiting at the Zillow Group, offers an inside look at just that.Continue Reading

• How to solve six of the biggest employee retention challenges

  Recruiters are enticing workers with new opportunities on an increasingly frequent basis. Give your employees plenty of reasons to stay by addressing the top retention challenges.Continue Reading

• Why mobile HR apps are key to engaging deskless workers

  Creating a positive experience for deskless workers rests partly on making HR-related tasks easier for them. Here's a look at how mobile technology can help.Continue Reading

• Five recruiting strategies HR needs in a tight labor market

  If you want to hire top talent, you need to get strategic. Here's what organizations and their HR departments can do to win at the game of recruitment.Continue Reading

• Workday payroll system covers Minnesota healthcare network

  A big physicians group affiliated with the University of Minnesota Medical School opted for a Workday cloud payroll system to handle the complexity of doctors' employment status.Continue Reading

• Workforce data analytics is a struggle, says Ithaca College

  Improving workforce data analytics capabilities is a goal for Ithaca College's HR department. But Ithaca College's problem with analytics is similar to many other organizations. Upgrading analytics capability is a long process.Continue Reading

• Four pillars of a strategic HR framework

  As power shifts to candidates, the HR tech landscape explodes and the economy improves, HR professionals are being forced to reinvent their roles. Here's how they should do it.Continue Reading

• Wurk delivers tools to help cannabis industry manage business

  A growing startup, Wurk, markets an HR software platform for the cannabis industry that handles the complex payroll, compliance and workforce management needs of the business.Continue Reading

• AI-enabled recruitment management systems seek out bias

  Software for recruiters is seen as a tool in identifying hiring bias and improving diversity. The goal is to improve problem-solving capabilities and meet societal needs.Continue Reading

• HR plays to win with gamification for learning

  At some companies, corporate education has become a tool for engagement and employee experience. See how gamification is putting the 'fun' in learning fundamentals.Continue Reading

• Secrets of winning at your employee experience strategy

  Marketing software company HubSpot has landed on numerous best places to work lists, but press about its workplace hasn't been all rosy. CPO Katie Burke shares thoughts on both.Continue Reading

• Bringing HR and finance together

  HR and finance information has traditionally been siloed, but organizations are finding that to be competitive, they have to break down the long-standing barriers between the two departments.Continue Reading