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Using Big Data to Understand What Job Candidates Expect
When there is a 4.5 million-person gap between supply and demand in tech jobs, and when an estimated 38% of tech workers have been stagnant in their positions for the past three years, it becomes easy to see why having the right recruitment infrastructure has become a critical competitive advantage for companies. “The pandemic actually […]
BY Angelica Frey | October 12, 2021
We Are Their Village: Reimagining HR to Help Parents Thrive
“Ten years ago, you’d never say you were stressed or anxious. You just wouldn’t even use those words in the workplace with your manager. Today, we talk about that. And I think once we opened that door, employees have had the expectation that we will also help them with that,” said Maribeth Bearfield, chief HR […]
BY Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza | October 11, 2021
How Employers Can Respond to Back-to-school Uncertainty
Before he began his presentation, “What Back-to-school Looks Like for Working Parents in a Post-pandemic World,” Mike Civello acknowledged that he had been amending and retooling his remarks several times since he started putting them together. Which was highly relatable from the point of view of parents, since that’s what they’ve been doing too. “We […]
BY Angelica Frey | September 13, 2021
Making Employee Recognition a Priority in Your Hybrid Workplace
Morgan Chaney has been taking pottery classes as part of her “quarantine gift” during the coronavirus pandemic, indulging in the type of activity that helps employees to “get away from our screens and into the world to spend time with the ones we love–to help escape those pressures from life and the workplace overall,” said […]
BY Sheila Flynn | August 11, 2021
How Leaders Can Excel by Promoting ‘Followership’
In business, massive scale can bring its own weaknesses. Case in point: a few years ago the Nestlé corporation, the world’s largest food-and-beverage company, decided that in spite of its dominance, it needed to change. A focus on cost-cutting had discouraged its employees from taking ambitious risks. One of the results was slower growth. And […]
BY Emily Nonko | August 11, 2021