Helping employees understand threats at a personal level is a good step toward heightened awareness. Many business leaders and human resources professionals believe that cybersecurity is the responsibility of their information technology staff and managed services provider. However, ensuring that...
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Encouraging Your Company’s Young Employees is Crucial for Long-Term Success. Here’s Why (and How to Do It).
Your younger employees have the potential to change your business for the better, but they need support. We've moved past the days seen in movies like The Devil Wears Prada, in which a tyrannical boss gives direction to younger employees who either follow or are fired. Instead, bosses have...
Employee Arrests Outside of Work Hours: 4 Key Questions and Answers for Employers
When employees are arrested during their off-duty time and away from work, employers may need to make difficult choices balancing their various obligations. Among these are respecting the rights of arrested employees, ensuring the safety of workforces and workplaces, maintaining the continuity of...
To Make Better Hires, Learn What Predicts Success
The current talent struggles of U.S. companies are hardly a new trend. A PwC survey dating 15 years back cited that 93% of CEOs recognized the need to change their strategy for attracting and retaining talent. If organizations have been trying to improve their hiring outcomes for so long, then why...
Workplace Monitoring: 3 Steps to Balance Employee Productivity and Privacy
Collecting and analyzing employee performance data can improve efficiency, but make sure employees see the value in it. Long before the pandemic accelerated remote work, tools and technologies emerged to collect corporate “data exhaust.” This is the trail of often sensitive corporate and employee...
4 Ways to Make Workplace Policies Flexible Enough to Keep the Employees You Want
A few weeks ago, I was interviewed by Chris Rainey of the HR Leaders podcast. We had a thoughtful, practical discussion about how important it is for businesses to be flexible about workplace policies for in-person and hybrid scheduling—and why it’s so hard to do it well. If you’ve been struggling...
9 Questions You Must Ask Your Employees Once a Month If You Want Them to Stick Around
Don't underestimate the power of regular one-on-ones with employees, a pair of CEOs remind leaders. The media always craves a shiny new thing, so many pundits have moved on from talking about the Great Resignation to chattering about a whole new selection of Greats – the Great Regret, the Great...
The Great Resignation is Turning into the ‘Great Regret’. Employers are Joining in Too
Many employees who joined the Great Resignation are discovering the grass isn't greener. (And the companies that hired them have regrets as well.) When management professor Anthony Klotz coined the term the "Great Resignation" in May 2021, he unleashed a tsunami of think pieces. For the past year,...
Older Americans Go Back to Work in Next Frontier of Labor Force
Julie Diaz stepped down from her job as a legal secretary last spring. Her retirement ended up being short, and not so sweet. Now 70, Diaz is working day and night. She took a job in March at Home Instead, a U.S. home care provider for seniors. Diaz works 12-hour overnight shifts in Phoenix taking...
How Small Moments of Praise Make a Big Difference
Simple displays of gratitude help to build culture and relationships. Prior to the pandemic, Nicole Yates was speaking with her lab colleagues about ways to build a positive culture among their team of around 50 people. Recalling how a manager in a different lab, Kelly Seaton, wove displays of...
The Great Attrition is Making Hiring Harder. Are You Searching the Right Talent Pools?
People keep quitting at record levels, yet companies are still trying to attract and retain them the same old ways. New research identifies five types of workers that employers can reach to fill jobs. It’s the quitting trend that just won’t quit. People are switching jobs and industries, moving...
It’s Time to Streamline the Hiring Process
A bad hiring decision is expensive. Replacing an employee costs companies anywhere from thousands of dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars. And this might just be the tip of the iceberg, as a poor hire will also have indirect costs, for example in regards to morale and company culture. But...