For Benefits directors at employers offering calendar-year-based health plans to their employees, summer is never quite the relaxing vacation season it is for some of their employees. It’s plan renewal season, and if costs increase dramatically year over year, those employers have just a few short months to decide on changes—sometimes sweeping changes—to those plans […]
New hire “ghosting” – the situation where a new hire accepts their offer from an employer but fails to show up on Day One of employment – is the subject of several myths among employers. These include the following: (a.) It is rare, (b.) it is limited to specific industries like hospitality or retail, and
Imagine that you are a Vice President of HR at a large services organization, you just completed a quarterly virtual all-hands meeting with your extended department, and you followed up with a lengthy e-mail, a portion of which went like this: Thanks, all, for attending today’s quarterly meeting. As we discussed, we have several new
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It would not be overstatement to say that the COVID pandemic and its impact on the U.S. workforce has put HR professionals on a “roller coaster” over the past 21 months – and not the fun kind! In late spring of 2021, just as COVID vaccines were becoming plentiful and the trio of horrifying metrics
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For decades, while the theory of performance management has been studied, written about, and improved “on paper,” the actual process has made little progress. Most often, it is still largely a paper-based, period-bound procedure with inputs limited to subjective observations by some combination of three sources: the employee themselves, the supervisor responsible for the review,
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On August 26, 2020, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“the SEC”) announced its first significant set of investor disclosure requirement revisions in the past 30 years. These revisions require that investor communications such as prospectuses and annual reports include more detailed descriptions of human capital management risks and impacts to the organization. They are
“Failing to plan … is … planning to fail.” (quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin) On December 13, 1972, Irwin Allen’s arguably most famous disaster flick, The Poseidon Adventure, debuted. Ultimately producing $125 million in box office (that was BIG back then, second only that year to The Godfather), it also produced just one Oscar win,
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An unusual thing happened on the way to finalizing this issue of WSR: the world changed, seemingly overnight, and more fundamentally and dramatically than we’ve seen in the past 100 years. The impact of the Coronavirus pandemic has been profound – on employees, HR practitioners, IT professionals, businesses and the economy in general, to name
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“This virus is essentially malware aimed at the source code of humanity.” – Amy Webb, Quantitative Futurist On the last day of January, 2020, the average HR Information Technology professional in America was probably upbeat, working within a thriving economy, challenged by projects designed to harness the latest HR technology innovations, and focused on typical
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