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HCSC Drives Change with Relationship Data
Social diagramming and relationship analytics at Health Care Service Corp. (HCSC) was on a pretty fascinating display Tuesday at the HR Tech Conference. Speaking on behalf of the Chicago-based,...
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Employees as Social Ambassadors
Though the 2015 18th Annual HR Tech Conference in Las Vegas is behind us now, and early plans are already under way for next year’s conference in Chicago, one session from Las Vegas that didn’t get...
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Parental Leave Enters Political Storm, Too
Paid parental leave has certainly taken over the media waves of big businesses trying to one-up each other in just how accommodating to new parents they can be. (See our most recent HRE Daily posts on...
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All Eyes on Volkswagen’s Amnesty for Answers
It’ll be interesting to see what comes of Volkswagen’s move to offer amnesty to all its bargaining-unit employees in hopes of uncovering just who was/is behind its emissions-cheating scandal. According...
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Poll: Mindfulness Training Really Works
OK, full disclosure here. A company that provides online mindfulness programs for employers, insurers, wellness companies and employee-assistance programs recently announced results of a survey showing...
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Accenture Boards the Gender-Equality Bandwagon
Another big company has thrown its hat into the gender-equality ring, this time with a very personal message to all of us from the company’s CEO. In announcing his organization’s new commitment to grow...
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Beware What Constitutes Concerted Activity
You may not “Like” this much, but the warning shot from a recent ruling broadening the definition of protected concerted activity is still reverberating and worth keeping front of mind as you go about...
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Taking Paternity Leave is Still a Challenge
Came across this LinkedIn post the other day by Jake Anderson about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recently announced few-months’-paternity leave for his daughter. Anderson, co-founder of FertilityIQ,...
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DOL Gives a Holiday Gift to Parents
I’m not usually one for repeating content here one week to the next, but I simply had to share news of this pretty sizable gift while we’re all in the midst of the gift-giving season. In an...
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A Few Lessons from a Few HR-Related Fiascos
I thought this might be a good post the day before New Year’s Eve. Consider these Key Lessons from Recent HR Fiascos that O.C. Tanner’s David Sturt and Todd Nordstrom posted on their company blog a...
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Leadership Development Needs Sponsorship at Top
There has certainly been no dearth of studies and stories, both here at HRE and beyond, on the challenges and failings of leadership-development programs. Here, for instance, is our last look at this...
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NLRB Helping Nonunion Employees Protect Rights
Having followed and posted earlier about the Triple Play Sports Bar and Grille case — namely, the Second Circuit Court of Appeal’s upholding of a National Labor Relations Board finding that posting and...
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How Favoritism-Free Do You Really Want to Be?
Here’s an interesting question for you to ponder on Martin Luther King Day, posed in this piece by Simma Lieberman on the Workforce Diversity Network: “Before you spend your next dollar on...
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CEO Turnover vs. CEO Tenure: Two Takes
Interesting, somewhat divergent reports on CEO longevity appeared recently from some big-name research consultancies. One, a study from Equilar compiled for CNNMoney, shows tenure for S&P 500 CEOs...
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Xerox’s Move to Split Into Two
The spin-offs keep spinning. Friday’s announcement by Xerox that it will separate into two entities caps a lot of spin-off activity of late. This latest, as announced here on USA Today‘s website, will...
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Maersk Goes Global with New Maternity Benefits
You might say the parental-benefits bandwagon has just charged into the world arena. Copenhagen, Denmark-based Maersk Group announced recently that, starting April 4, it will be implementing a new...
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Want Performers? Then Share Your Information
If you want your high-performing team members to really perform by participating in leadership decisions, then you’d better be giving them — or training your managers to give them — the information...
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Not Your Father’s Factory Floor Anymore
Today’s top manufacturing firms are hardly in the category of your dad’s or granddad’s factory of yore anymore. At least, that’s according to the latest Great Place to Work Report on this sector, Best...
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Is the Tide Turning on Retirement-Readiness?
There appears to be a shift away from what, heretofore, have been dismal findings on Americans’ retirement preparations. You’ve heard them. You’ve read them. And we’ve certainly written about them, all...
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A Real Account of Long-Term Unemployment
It’s been awhile since we’ve reported on efforts to solve the nation’s long-term-unemployment problem. (Here are our HRE Daily posts and here are our HREOnline.com news analyses examining the problem...
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