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Traditional preferred provider organizations (PPOs) are fast becoming relics of the past, like Model Ts.

Five minutes ago, after taking the obligatory selfies and between games of Candy Crush, one of your employees texted (because, calling in, as if!) from an Ebola quarantine tent to alert you that she will be out of work for 21 days, while under observation for Ebola.

As an employer, what are your obligations? What workplace laws are implicated?

And, of course, because half of you are thinking it, can you just fire her?

While retail sales clerks should see a surge in seasonal job opportunities at the end of 2014, demand for temporary labor in package delivery, cybersecurity, resort services, party planning and a few other niche industries will also be strong, staffing experts say.

And let’s not forget Santa and his elves. With some economic indicators pointing toward the North Pole, seasonal workers who have the requisite girth and mirth to portray Santa at stores and other venues will be at a premium—particularly if they have a genuine beard, as opposed to the imitation variety.

Almost 3 in 4 HR pros say managers don’t reward them for supporting flexible work arrangements

HR professionals say telecommuting and other flexible work options will increase substantially during the next five years, yet nearly three in four of them say it’s “not very true” or “not at all true” that managers reward them when they support such flexibility, according to a new Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) survey.

Understanding job seekers’ profiles and preferences is the first step to attracting top talent, according to the 2014 Candidate Preferences Survey released Oct. 7 by ManpowerGroup Solutions Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO).

Businesses in California now have added motivation to protect residents’ personal information after Gov. Jerry Brown signed A.B. 1710 into law Sept. 30, 2014, amending the state’s data breach notification law.

Insights and Inspiration from the 2014 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Technology
 

“It takes a great man to be a good listener” – Calvin Coolidge

Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results

There is no silver bullet for performance management: not an app, platform or systematic flow chart. It turns our that managing performance is as much about knowing your people as it is knowing the metrics of their performance.

Does paying to freeze eggs suggest motherhood and career are incompatible

With the decision by Apple and Facebook to offer company insurance coverage to women who want to freeze their eggs come questions about the message this may send to women who pursue careers at prominent tech companies. 

The Ebola virus has reared its ugly head inside the U.S. and is spreading at an unknown rate due to the nature of its incubation period. While guidance is available from the CDC and other health organizations, it is not entirely clear that we know everything about how the disease may be transmitted.

The “facts” and updates change hourly, so, by the time you see this post, these will have changed again.

We’re getting closer and closer to another election season.  Even though this is a “light” year for elections locally, that doesn’t stop the candidates who are running for office from filling the airwaves with commercials. And, true to form, there are few candidates who say what they’re going to do.  Instead, they spend millions of dollars to smear their opponent.  People must feel it works because it gets worse the closer you are to the actual election day.

Authors of new book promote unconventional ways to make meetings more meaningful

A decade ago, Eric Lindblad—vice president and general manager of Boeing’s 747 program—multiplied the number of people who attended his meetings by their average hourly rate and concluded that meetings were a pretty costly way to communicate.

If I could sum up what twenty-plus years of multicultural experience afforded me during my time in the Army I’d say it’s humility- and I think many of my fellow veterans would agree.

Remember that Americans with Disabilities Act case involving Walgreens and the $1.39 bag of chips. In that one, the store appeared to really step in it by firing a diabetic who ate a bag of chips from the store without paying for it. The employee claimed that she needed the chips for her diabetes. The store defended its actions by arguing that the employee violated its no-grazing policy. $180,000 later, that case settled.

Employers and recruiters continue to bemoan the lack of skilled talent in the U.S., while at the same time overlooking the masses of returning veterans whose skills and experience make them a goldmine of talent for organizations looking to fill highly skilled positions.

It’s time for HR to step up to the plate—and take a few lessons from baseball.

Beyond the obvious—that HR professionals, like baseball players, do best when they work closely as teams—there are additional baseball practices that can HR leaders can emulate:

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California Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1897, which will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2015. This bill creates new Labor Code section 2810.3, which applies to most companies with 25 or more employees that obtain or are provided workers to perform work within their “usual course of business” from companies that provide workers. The new law makes such companies liable for:

LAS VEGAS —  October 9

Are you a simply irresistible employer? 

That’s the question that Katherine Jones and Stacia Sherman of Bersin by Deloitte asked attendees during their Thursday morning session “Creating a Compelling Employee Experience Through a Unified Talent System” at Human Resource Executive’s 17th Annual HR Technology Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas.  

Moderator: David Gergen, Senior Political Analyst, CNN John W. Boudreau, PhD, Professor and Research Director, University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and Center for Effective Organizations
Steven G. Cochrane, Managing Director, Moody’s Analytics

Jason Averbook of Appirio delivered the thought-provoking session “Creating a Workforce Technology Strategy for the Year Ahead” at the Human Resource Executive’s 17^th Annual HR Technology Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas.  During the session, he challenged HR business partners to lead the technology efforts in their organizations.

On October 8, @weknownext chatted with special guest @DamonLovett at the 2014 HR Technology Conference about the most pressing issues around the successful application of next generation HR technology solutions in #Nextchat: Can I Get a "Cloud" of Witnesses?"

In case you missed it, here are all the great tweets from the chat:

Analytics is a hot topic and HR analytics is no different. New software products and visualisation tools are being launched. Talk of data is everywhere! It is all quite a buzz. But what does it mean? Why does it concern HR? Why is it really so valuable?

1. What does Analytics Mean?

In October, job creation rates will rise in the manufacturing and service sectors compared with a year ago, according to the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) Leading Indicators of National Employment (LINE) survey for October 2014.

With the HR Technology Conference (#HRTechConf) just around the corner, we're inviting our Next Official Bloggers to offer their perspective on how technology is impacting the profession today -- and their predictions for the future.

The following is a Q & A with Chip Luman:

Job creation rates are expected to rise in the manufacturing and service sectors in October compared with a year ago, according to the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM’s) Leading Indicators of National Employment (LINE) survey for October 2014.

With the HR Technology Conference (#HRTechConf) just around the corner, we're inviting our Next Official Bloggers to offer their perspective on how technology is impacting the profession today -- and their predictions for the future.

The following is a Q & A with Jonathan Segal: 

With the HR Technology Conference (#HRTechConf) just around the corner, we're inviting our Next Official Bloggers to offer their perspective on how technology is impacting the profession today -- and their predictions for the future.

The following is a Q & A with Ross Smith:

Q. What's your social recruiting prediction/trend for 2015?

With the HR Technology Conference (#HRTechConf) just around the corner, we're inviting our Next Official Bloggers to offer their perspective on how technology is impacting the profession today -- and their predictions for the future.

The following is a Q & A with Jessica Miller-Merrell: 

With the HR Technology Conference (#HRTechConf) just around the corner, we're inviting our Next Official Bloggers to offer their perspective on how technology is impacting the profession today -- and their predictions for the future.

The following is a Q & A with Next Official Blogger Sharlyn Lauby:

On October 1, SHRM @weknownext chatted with Mike Vandervort (@MikeVandervort) about "The Extinction of the Middle Class Job."  

In case you missed it, here are all the great tweets from the chat:

The next time a supervisor asks you to help “leverage our investment in IT infrastructure across multiple business platforms,” hand her a copy of Accountemps’ 2014 survey on what HR managers consider the most annoying business buzzwords.

Doing so is not likely to earn you brownie points with said supervisor, but it may send this message: However trendy, meaningless jargon tends to confuse workers, which means that no matter how brilliant the boss’s idea is, it may never gain traction if no one can decipher what the boss is saying.