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Intel’s Putting Its Money Where Its Mouth Is
Intel Corp.’s Diversity in Technology Initiative that Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced in January — and Senior Editor Andrew R. McIlvaine blogged about at the time — appears to be chugging along...
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Are Job Seekers Saying No to Entrepreneurship?
Despite all you’ve heard about the rise of the entrepreneur and the growing number of young job seekers striking out on their own rather than adhere to today’s workplace status quo, Challenger Gray...
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Employees Treated Pretty Well on Memorial Day
Happy Memorial Day everyone! No doubt most of you are not sitting at computers right now, but prepping for some enjoyable barbecued fare and time outside. Regardless, just in case you “stopped by” for...
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Top 10 Reasons to Test Adverse Impact Correctly
This one caught my eye. Not that I’ve been a big David Letterman watcher (past my bedtime), but — as Merrily Archer put it in this LinkedIn post — “resuscitating the Top Ten list one last time” before...
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With Union Petitions Up, Get Your Message Out … NOW!
Since sharing this blog post the day before the National Labor Relations Board’s “quickie-election rules” went into effect on April 14, I’ve been waiting to see if the predictions shared therein would...
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Drug Use, Addiction at Work Continues to Rise
The use and abuse of drugs in the workplace isn’t slowing down at all. Latest reports indicate the percentage of American workers testing positive for illicit drugs such as marijuana, cocaine and...
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Unions Helped, But Now Hurt, Cannabis Industry
Yea yea … last week it was drug abuse and addiction. This week it’s marijuana. Trust me, I’ve taken my share of ribbing around the halls of HRE for having seemed to take on the “drug beat.” (Though...
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Know When the ADA Trumps Your Policy
Beware your urge to discipline. That seems the best mantra for HR leaders in this new ADA day. Two reminders of the mounting murkiness when it comes to drawing the line between your work policies and...
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On HR Leaders and the Strength of Love
I am feeling very compelled to share this with you at this time. I had seen this post on the HRExaminer site a while back, but what I’ve just been through personally has been bringing it front-of-mind...
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Intel’s Diversity Progress is Now ‘In the Book’
Considering all the steps Intel’s leaders have been taking to improve diversity at the giant Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker, it should come as no surprise that the company’s first mid-year...
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Restraining Orders as Legal Arsenal
When an email came my way recently, touting yet another approach to keeping employers safe from liability — restraining orders — I nearly discarded it, thinking it was surely common knowledge among HR...
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Not So Fast on the Netflix Good News, Says Group
Invariably, any large company — especially one that’s in the news — attracts its detractors as well as its fans. Just try “Googling” “anti-Walmart websites” and see what comes up on the nation’s...
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Slight Differences in Employers’ Holiday Plans
Permit me, please, to have just a little numbers-comparison fun this Labor Day. I couldn’t help but notice some discrepancies and similarities when this release came my way — totally expectedly, I...
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Report: HR Really Is Becoming More Strategic
Back view of businessman We’ve all been hearing and talking about HR professionals becoming better strategic leaders and business partners for years, so there’s no real surprise here. But in this...
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Parental-Leave Parade: Where Could This Lead?
At this point, I’m wondering where this parental-leave maelstrom will take us. Earlier this month, protesters of the Netflix-leave announcement descended on that company’s headquarters in Los Gatos,...
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Concern Over U.K.’s Older Workers Hits a U.S. Chord
This article from the United Kingdom caught my eye. Called “Missing Million,” it was put out by Business in the Community, one of the Prince of Wales’ charities. It talks about older workers (50 year...
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Top Performer, Or Just Great at Interviewing?
I was intrigued by Robert Herjavec’s take on the interviewing process that he recently shared on LinkedIn enough to share it here myself. He’s the founder of the Herjavec Group, a Toronto-based...
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Employers Worry About Pay-Ratio Perceptions
Results of a recent poll by New York-based Towers Watson show it’s not the mechanics of complying with the new CEO pay-ratio-disclosure rule — such as data gathering, getting the right sampling,...
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BJ’s Gets Boost to Promote from Within
Jeannine Loy, director of talent development at BJ’s Restaurants, took the podium Monday at the 18th Annual HR Technology Conference and Exposition® to tell her story of the Huntington Beach,...
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Learning How to Listen at Sony
Sony Pictures and Modern Survey teamed up Monday in an HR Tech Conference session designed to “tell the story” of real engagement and better ways to listen to employees, as Modern Survey’s president...
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