A three-pronged framework can help you create an effective onboarding process that enables new hires to learn and then apply what they know to their work. I worked for pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. for 18 years, but I will never forget my first day. I was very excited when I arrived at work,...
Your most savvy job hunters may not include newly developed soft skills or evidence of “micro-learning” on the typical one-pager of work experience. By September this year, 1 in 3 Americans no longer worked for the same employer they started with at the beginning of 2020. Job markets are shifting...
Dive Brief: Executives recognize the pressures employees face as companies move through digital transformations, but many overestimate their offerings to employees in areas such as training, support and job expectations, according to a Sept. 30 IBM Institute for Business Value report. In data...
Deprioritizing the onboarding process can have serious long-term effects on employee retention and engagement, so you have to get it right. Onboarding has always been a critical part of the hiring process. Yet it’s also a part of the hiring process that all too often falls to the wayside once new...
From video game publishers to coffee shops, pay disclosures are rattling HR. Sources say employers need to be careful when forming a response. In recent years, workers across entire companies and even entire industries have taken pay transparency to a new level via crowdsourced spreadsheets. One...
We are not taught how to learn in school, we are taught how to pass tests. The spacing effect is a far more effective way to learn and retain information that works with our brain instead of against it. Find out how to use it here. Every perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every...
COVID-19 has catapulted remote work into the center of workforce planning and talent strategy, but the question looming on everyone’s mind is if it’s going to impact compensation. With remote work projected to rise to 25% to 30% by 2021, some organizations are openly talking about adjusting...
The cost of your company’s bad hiring decisions can be staggering. To calculate this cost, I tell my clients to add the first-year turnover rate to the percentage of people who the company wouldn’t rehire. This number is your company’s Bad Hiring Rate (BHR). Next, I ask them to multiply the BHR...
Most office workers became remote workers when social distancing measures put into place in March to slow the spread of the coronavirus dramatically changed the way we go about our days. If that was you, over the last several months, you have had a taste of the long-touted benefits of remote work...
Adopting a permanent remote work model should not be a foregone conclusion. A recent Gartner survey of 229 HR leaders showed that 41 percent of employees are likely to work remotely at least part-time post-Covid. That's compared with 30 percent of employees who worked remotely at least part-time...
There's nothing illegal about remotely monitoring your team with software applications. It's how you use them—and what you do with the data—that can get you into trouble. When the coronavirus forced non-essential businesses to close their doors in mid-March, U.S. employers began a sudden...
Two new surveys of people forced to go remote show productivity up, yet burnout close behind. Two new surveys show that teams forced into remote work during the pandemic are split on whether they want to continue working remotely going forward. However, in those same surveys, many business...