Posts Tagged Technology
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Schwartz: Turn Off the Technology, Turn on Your Energy
As work, family and personal demands increase and we are tethered to smart phones and tablet computers to be available instantly to anyone who might need us, our ability to perform at our best diminishes and our physical and mental health suffers. It’s time to revamp the way…
May 3, 2012
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HR Tools and Tech: Jobvite
Jobvite, an innovative and handy tool for recruiters, taps social networks to distribute and target job openings, while tracking the real-time value of job placement ads. In order to promote open positions, make referrals and find qualified candidates, this app leverages social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn, to send…
May 1, 2012 | in Trends
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Gamification and Learning Management – Two Truths and a Lie
Employee engagement and participation in learning and development programs has always been a challenge. With the rapid development and deployment of new tools and technology in the workplace, though, there's more to be learned and mastered than ever. Leaders are now looking for methods to tackle this issue head-on,…
April 27, 2012 | in Trends
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Will a BYOD Policy W-O-R-K for You?
One of the most popular trends in the IT world right now is the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) approach, where employees use their own mobile device at work. Its another case of new technology creating new problems. Before implementing a BYOD policy, you need to weigh the risks against the cost benefits. …
April 13, 2012
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We Know Next Weekly Recap: April 9th-13th
In case you missed it, here’s what happened on We Know Next this week. Facebook itself reported that in the last few months it has “seen a distressing increase in reports of employers or others seeking to gain inappropriate access to people’s Facebook profiles or…
April 13, 2012
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Telecommuting and BYOD Hottest Workplace Technology Trends
It’s no secret that technology as well as social media are changing the way we work and live. Thankfully, corporate America and the U.S. Government are finally getting the clue, learning that technology offers an opportunity to provide more employees flexibility while cutting overhead costs…
April 12, 2012 | in Trends
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Study: Internet Changing Young People’s Thinking, Behavior
The brains of young people growing up “hyperconnected” to the Internet might be wired differently from those of their elders, suggests a recent survey of technology experts, who were split on whether the newfangled wiring is desirable. Researchers from the Pew Research Center and Elon University recently conducted…
April 12, 2012
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HR Tools and Tech: Monster’s BeKnown
Meeting the evolving needs of employers, recruiters, and the emerging workforce, Monster.com, the worldwide leader in connecting job seekers to opportunities, has released BeKnown, a professional networking app for Facebook where users can create professional networks in a Monster-type environment, without ever leaving Facebook. The app allows for the…
March 22, 2012 | in Trends
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Your Next Great HR Hire Is at SXSW
I am just back from the SXSW Interactive Conference where I spent time with tens of thousands of geeks, nerds, dorks, and techie wizards. Not everyone at the conference was a Gen Y hipster — although it felt that way. I was tremendously fortunate to meet amazing men and…
March 15, 2012 | in Trends
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Let’s Talk Social Media @ Work
Social media keeps changing. It’s not just Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, Orkut, Bebo, Ning, Tumblr, Meetup, and Foursquare anymore. Now there’s Pinterest, Google+, Quora, Imgur, GetGlue, and Letterboxd. Tomorrow there’ll likely be some sparkly new network to drag your friends…
March 14, 2012 | in Trends
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We Know Next Weekly Recap, March 5th - March 9th
In case you missed it, here’s what happened on We Know Next. The second annual Telework Week, took place this past week and encouraged businesses, government agencies and individuals to telecommute and evaluate the potential consumer costs and environmental savings. Meanwhile, according to a survey by consultancy Towers…
March 9, 2012
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Virtual Collaboration is Not For Everyone
Many organizations have migrated toward telecommuting and virtual work due to rising travel costs, a global customer base, and the dispersion of talent. While numerous organizations have made significant investments in virtual teams and the technology to support them, a surprising number of virtual teams are not successful. OnPoint Consulting…
March 9, 2012 | in Trends
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#NextChat Recap: BYOD - Managing Devices for A Mobile Workforce
Smart phones, mobile sites and business applications continue to impact the way employees use technology at work. Many organizations are shifting away from company-issued devices and adopting BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policies, which allow employees to use the mobile technology they’re most familiar with. There's a…
March 8, 2012 | in Trends
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In HR? There’s an App for That
With more human resource professionals using mobile devices as their go-to communication tools, it stands to reason that there would be more HR applications or “apps” than ever before for business use anywhere, anytime. While most of these apps once were concentrated in the recruiting arena, in 2012 there…
March 7, 2012
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How to Use Social Media to Find a Job
A 67-year-old man was worried that his age would hurt his job search. So, says Jessica Miller-Merrell, SPHR, “he sent out a simple e-mail to five people and attached his resume. [The e-mail] read, ‘Hey, I’m looking for a job and here are four companies I…
March 2, 2012
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Texting Appears in Employment Litigation
Texts can resurface in employment law litigation, so employees should be trained to keep all of their communications, including texts, professional. All too often, employees think that their texting is personal, according to Christine Walters, MAS, J.D., SPHR, a consultant with FiveL Company in Westminster, Md., and author of…
February 29, 2012
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The Age of Digital – Creating a Better Work-Life Balance and Higher Productivity
We are entering a new digital era, an era in which people are connecting with content and with brands through multiple screens – through their PCs, TVs, smartphones, and tablets. 2011 marked an exciting year for the digital media industry and signaled an even more momentous year ahead with…
February 28, 2012 | in Trends
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BYOD or Bust - Managing Devices for a Mobile Workforce
Via smart phones, mobile sites, business applications and more, the consumerization of IT continues to impact the way employees use technology at work. Many organizations are shifting away from company-issued devices and adopting BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policies, which allow employees to use the mobile technology they’re…
February 23, 2012 | in Workplace
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Survey Findings: How Social Media Is Embedded in Business Strategy
This is part four of a series of SHRM surveys focusing on the use of social media in the workplace. The topics explored in the final part of this series include who is responsible for leading workplace social media activities, the percentage of organizations with staff dedicated to social media…
February 22, 2012
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Media and the 21st Century Resume
In an attempt to circumvent the keyword-laden resume game, job seekers are taking a more creative approach to captivating recruiters. Rather than dropping the resume altogether, the trend seems to be a breakaway from over-automation and a return to the heart of what makes a good hire. Laurie Barkman of…
February 17, 2012 | in Workforce
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#NextChat Success – A Recap of our Twitter Chat on Social Media
There’s no denying that social mediais changing the way we work. From its emergence in the recruitingsphere to the way it is redefining workplace culture and flexibility, organizations and HR professionals are quickly adapting and growingwith each and every innovative step that social media takes. As social media…
February 15, 2012 | in Trends
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Diversity and Inclusion: Getting It
What will you do? If your team or organization is going to get serious about pursuing additional value or advantage associated with diversity and inclusion this year, it will likely be because you decide to make it so. I spoke to a lot of HR professionals in 2011 and…
February 8, 2012 | in Workforce
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Social Media for HR and Recruiting
French novelist Alphonse Karr once wrote, “the more things change, the more things stay the same,” which might explain why this same phrase shows up in Zeppelin lyrics a century after Karr’s death. And nowhere is that more true than HR, which as a…
February 6, 2012 | in Workforce
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Top 10 Workplace Flexibility Blogs Worth Reading
As the workforce grows more complex, businesses and organizations are tapping into new trends and people strategies to recruit and retain the best and brightest talent. With today’s four-generation workforce and the increasing globalization of business, workplace flexibility is an imperative for today’s 21st century workplace.…
February 3, 2012 | in Workplace
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Social Networkers: A Special Breed
Many business leaders have long suspected that active social networkers are a breed apart from other employees. A new report looking at the state of business ethics in the U.S. supports that belief. The nonprofit Ethics Resource Center (ERC) says that corporate ethical behavior will likely get worse…
February 2, 2012 | in Workforce
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Celebrating a Milestone for #Workflex!
Paper — symbolizing strength from the connection of individual threads — is a traditional gift for a first anniversary. Making a strong connection is a fitting description as SHRM marks the first anniversary of the groundbreaking partnership on workplace flexibility with the Families and Work Institute (FWI). …
February 1, 2012 | in Workplace
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Keeping Everyone Safe in the Workplace
“If you come to work with ten fingers and ten toes, then that’s how we intend to send you home each day.” That was the oft-uttered phrase of an Operations Manager with whom I worked. It was the foundation of his…
January 31, 2012 | in Workplace
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3 ways for HR to avoid unlawful, overbroad social-media policies
Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board announced in this press release that it had issued a second social-media report to help provide further guidance to practitioners and human resource professionals. The social-media memo, a copy of which you can obtain here, covers 14 cases, half of which involve questions about…
January 30, 2012 | in Workplace
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4 HR Bartender Predictions for 2012
It’s that time of year again, when we sit around and try to predict what will happen in the months to come. I just read an article that 2012 could be the year of payback. Employees will really make those moves that have been predicted since 2009. …
January 27, 2012 | in Trends
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New Technologies, Apps Boost Social Media Recruitment Powers
As the use of social media as a recruiting tool matures, staffing and talent management companies are applying lessons learned and fine-tuning their social strategies to help close the still-considerable gap between hype and hiring results of these popular networks. These next-generation approaches go beyond creating LinkedIn or Facebook careers…
January 26, 2012
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SHRM Survey Shows HR Has Active Role in Social Media Policies
Social media was clearly among the hottest business topics of 2011, and the results of a survey released on Jan. 12, 2012, by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) shows that human resource professionals have an important role in helping employers deal with this red-hot issue. Approximately 40 percent of randomly selected…
January 25, 2012
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Social Media Policies: Promoting vs. Regulating Use
Fact: most employees occasionally use social media tools at work for personal reasons, anyway. Unsurprisingly, business leaders want guidelines in place for regulating employee use of social media outlets--and protecting against misuse--on personal and company accounts alike. Many 2012 corporate to-do lists include creating an official policy for regulating employees’…
January 24, 2012 | in Workplace
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SOPA & PIPA: Coordinated Advocacy
Social media sites Wikipedia and Google held a blackout day on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 to highlight their opposition to the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) and the "Protect Intellectual Property Act" (PIPA) bills in Congress. Wikipedia claimed that over 162 million people saw the blackout message on its website. One day later…
January 23, 2012 | in Public Policy
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Experts: Flexible Workplaces Should Rely on Social Media
What does flexibility have to do with social media? Plenty. Social media can help employees stay engaged—particularly those who work remotely. That’s what conference attendees learned during a session at the inaugural Work-Life Focus: 2012 and Beyond Conference held recently in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the…
December 13, 2011
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Gaming for Engagement
HR embraces gaming as way to inspire, motivate and train employees More companies are choosing “serious” games and simulations over traditional training methods for their ability to mimic real-world work challenges and keep employees engaged in learning. At the North Shore-LIJ Health…
December 7, 2011
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Social Recruiting: Three Lessons Learned from the Trenches
When it comes to using social media websites for recruiting - what we call social recruiting - how far is too far? Beyond learning the hard way what works and what doesn’t, there are some best practices emerging to help recruiters know when they’ve pushed the…
December 2, 2011 | in Trends
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Telework as ADA Accommodation on the Rise
Often, working remotely is the simplest accommodation for a host of impairments The use of telework as a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has increased in recent years, experts say. It’s unclear, though, how much of the increase was spurred…
December 1, 2011
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2012 ‘Bold New Ideas’ Guide Highlights Workplace Flex Success
Practices by award-winning companies influenced by recession and aided by technology; special focus on meeting military families' needs Fueled by technology and the recession, leading companies are focusing on their employees' measurable work results rather than face time in the office, according to the newly released …
November 30, 2011
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Mobile Collaboration: An Interview with Michael Kroth, author of “Managing the Mobile Workforce”
The growth of mobile technology is simply staggering. According to mobiThinking, there are 5.3 billion mobile subscribers (that translates to 77% of the world's population.) By 2014, it's expected that mobile will overtake the PC as the most popular way to access the web. People are using mobile technologies for…
November 28, 2011 | in Workplace
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Telecommuters Working Longer Hours
Is working from home an efficient alternative to the traditional office job or a productivity killer? The results of a CareerBuilder survey on telecommuting might bolster the arguments for both sides. While nearly one in five (17 percent) of Americans who telecommute at least part of the time spend one…
November 25, 2011
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Five Recommendations to Power-Up Employee Communication Trending
How would you like to keep track of trending topics within your distributed workforce at any given moment in time? This valuable tool would give the chief human resource officer the ability to apprise the CEO of internal workforce trends. Important workforce and operational decisions could be made quickly…
November 24, 2011 | in Trends
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Experts: Telework Still a Hard Sell for Managers
Supervisors find creative ways to engage remote employees What’s the biggest obstacle to telework? It’s not technology. It’s management. So some human resource professionals say they’ve begun to tie management acceptance of telework directly to managers…
November 10, 2011
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Forecast: Tech Positions to See Highest 2012 Pay Gains
U.S. starting salaries for white collar professionals will increase an average of 3.4 percent in 2012, according to a forecast by staffing firm Robert Half International. Technology positions are projected to see the largest gains among all fields researched, with an anticipated 4.5 percent…
November 4, 2011
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U.S. Companies More Open to Remote Work Arrangements
One-third of U.S. chief financial officers (CFOs) say remote work arrangements—such as telecommuting and working from satellite offices—have increased at their companies in the prior three years, according to a survey by staffing services firm Accountemps. The 2011 survey drew on telephone interviews with 1,400 CFOs across…
November 3, 2011
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The Future of the Evolving Workplace
Few would argue the pace of change is increasing, especially in business and technology, along with their impact on the workplace. Wise company leaders sense these changes, and adjust, adapt, plan and execute. Each day brings an evolving convergence of many external influences that shape upcoming days, weeks and years.…
October 10, 2011 | in Workplace
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Technological Innovations Fuel Human Capital Management
A brave new frontier of human capital management is emerging and it’s being fueled by technological innovations that will fundamentally change the way organizations do business, award-winning author and workplace strategy expert Tamara J. Erickson told attendees in September 2010, at the 13th annual HR Technology Conference & Exposition…
July 19, 2011
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Modernizing our Laws to Fit the 21st Century Workplace
As technology transforms the workplace, companies look for ways to compete in a global work environment, and new generations of employees put a higher value on having control over when and where they do their work, flexible work arrangements have become an increasingly important offering. To educate human…
July 18, 2011 | in Public Policy
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Transforming HR Through Technology
Part of the SHRM Foundation's Effective Practice Guidelines Series Sponsored by ADP Human resource management is evolving into a more technology-based profession. In many organizations, employees now see the face of HR as a portal rather than a person. This transformation of HR service delivery, known…
July 11, 2011
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Managing a Nontraditional Workforce
In addition to having traditional employees, many companies rely on temporary workers, independent contractors and consultants. These workers may: Connect with your company independently or through a temporary staffing company or consulting company. Stay for various lengths of time, from one day to several years. Provide various services, from clerical…
March 11, 2011
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Successfully Transitioning to a Virtual Organization: Challenges, Impact and Technology
With an emphasis on a solutions-based approach, this article explores key factors of a successful transition to a virtual organization and includes real-life scenarios to illustrate both effective and ineffective approaches, with a focus on leadership styles, the effectiveness of virtual working teams, communication, technology, virtual meetings and management, and…
February 14, 2011
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Meeting the Needs of the Changing Workforce Survey Report
Changes all around us, including economic factors, are forcing organizations to re-evaluate the way they do business and develop alternative approaches to work. Findings from this research report reveal that the reasons that prompted organizations to offer flexible work arrangements (FWAs) range from requests from employees to organizational reasons and…
January 19, 2011
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Successful Telework Programs: The ‘STIR’ Model
By Robin Rodensky, Jan Rybeck, Heather Johnson and Margaret Rollins, ICF International There are dozens of benefits to creating a flexible workplace and supporting telework programs, but this venture is not free from challenges. Below, we present the Strategize, Transform, Implement, Recalibrate (STIR) model developed by ICF…
August 18, 2010
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Can They Keep Our Lights On?
Here’s one natural disaster the nation’s utility executives can see coming: a tsunami of retirees that could swamp the economy. The electric power industry estimates 30 percent to 40 percent of its 400,000 workers will be eligible to retire by 2013. From executives to plant managers, and from engineers to…
June 1, 2010
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