Blogs / 2012 / August

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	Onboarding Best Practices

	Good Guy = Bad Manager :: Bad Guy = Good Manager. Is it a Myth?

	Five Interview Tips for Winning Your First $100K+ Job

	Base Pay Increases Remain Steady in 2007, Mercer Survey Finds

	Online Overload: The Perfect Candidates Are Out There - If You Can Find Them

	Cartus Global Survey Shows Trend to Shorter-Term International Relocation Assignments

	New Survey Indicates Majority Plan to Postpone Retirement

	What do You Mean My Company’s A Stepping Stone?

	Rewards, Vacation and Perks Are Passé; Canadians Care Most About Cash

	Do’s and Don’ts of Offshoring

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Blogs / 2012 / August

The overall trend in health benefit plan cost increases showed a significant reduction for a second year, according to our latest annual Health Care Trends survey. This is our 12th annual study, analyzing the health cost trend assumptions that factor... More...

Recognize This! – Don’t settle for employee satisfaction. Push for highly aligned and engaged employees who are themselves pushing your company forward. Let’s get one thing clear – we do not want satisfied employees. “Satisfied” implies sated, c... More...

Employee volunteer programs make employees feel good and, as such, evidence suggests that such programs lead to greater employee engagement. But what good does a corporate social responsibility program do for the rest of us? Isn’t all this corporat... More...

Employees across the globe have a strong preference for democratic, empowering styles of leadership. Yet, this is rarely what they get. We all know the reasons why managers lean toward authoritative leadership styles, and it's fair to say that no ... More...

Multiple Class IP Hosting is a unique method to leverage the search engine rankings of a website over the internet. With the help of multiple IP hosting, any business can reach to the pinnacle of success within no time. High page ranking and better w... More...

Q: My co-worker has a complete “diva” personality and always grabs the spotlight. What can I do to keep my patience and still do my job? A: We all have egos. They give us self-confidence to succeed, but exaggerations in ego can be extremely damagi... More...

Hello there, The following IHR Tableau files are updated based on their latest Event/Webcasts numbers and are accessable online now. 1 BEN 2 CMHE 3 CWTE 4 DOLC 5 HRIS 6 ITM 7 OSS 8 PFMG 9 R&R 10 RPO 11 WPA Please feel... More...

I sat down with each of the employees on the team I had been assigned to. One by one, they shared their tales of woe. “We can’t get any support from anyone!” She said, hysterical. “Why won’t these people listen to us?” He screamed, angrily. “I can’t ... More...

How new CEO Marissa Mayer is using best practices from Google to improve Yahoo's corporate culture 'Best practices' is a term consultants love to throw around. Observe what works well and implement it in your organization. Seems simple ... More...

Kansas City, Kan.— The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported the unemployment rate at 8.3 percent as of July 2012, up slightly from 8.2 percent in June. Although the unemployment rate has increased over the past couple of months, pay increase ... More...

Sixty percent of organizations already have some sort of virtual workforce implemented today, however, with more companies recognizing the benefits of utilizing virtual workers, this number is set to increase to eighty percent by next year. ... More...

SumTotal(r) Systems, Inc. , the global leader in Strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions , today announced the appointment of Jeff Laborde as its new chief financial officer. Laborde will oversee worldwide finance and accounting and will... More...

Most managers and employee agree that performance appraisals don’t really work very well. They don’t fulfill their intended purposes. Even Human Resource professionals acknowledge they fail at least ½ the time. Considering they are the most ... More...

electronici9.com On Thursday, August 23, 2012, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a new (and mostly improved) Form I-9 for public comment. If this announcement sounds eerily familiar, that’s because this is actuall... More...

Executive Coach Corliss McGinty Offers Nationwide Video Training Option for Clients HD Video Training Offers Equal Benefits without the Extra Expense Greensboro, N.C. August 27, 2012 - Gone are the days when being a company's consultant meant s... More...

With 52 percent of Americans saying they work during vacation, having a focus on work-life balance at your organization is more important than ever, according to a July 2012 Harris Interactive report. Because of the increased financial pressures and ... More...

Objective Creating a healthy balance between work and home is not a easy task, especially in today’s fast paced working environment. If you spend more time at work, you lose out on your family and personal life. Alternately, if you spend mor... More...

Call centers have been on the forefront of new and innovative employment models for over a decade. They are no strangers to cost–cutting and outsourcing, and they continue to suffer among the highest voluntary attrition rates in the serv... More...

Join us for Visier’s complimentary webinar hosted by HR.com, on Wednesday September 5, 2012, "How to Make the Business Case for Workforce Analytics," as we discuss the value or ROI your organization can expect from a workforce analytics initia... More...

Authors: Philip Gordon and Kathryn Siegel On August 1, 2012, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed into law a bill modifying Illinois' Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act to limit employers' access to applicants' and employees' restricted socia... More...

Authors: Rod Fliegel, William Simmons, and Inna Shelley In enacting protections from tort liability for negligent hiring and retention claims for businesses that hire and employ rehabilitated ex-offenders, Ohio joins a handful of other states ... More...

Authors: Matthew Hank and Nina Markey The federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) allows an employer to bring a civil action against an employee who accesses the employer's computers "without authorization" or in a manner that "exceeds aut... More...

Authors: Paul Weiner and Elias Kahn Recently, in Chin v. Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 14088 (2d Cir. July 10, 2012), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit made two key holdings involving... More...

Recognize This! – Focusing only on the “what” (results) can lead to unintended consequences. Kevin Kruse (author of Employee Engagement 2.0 ) recently presented in Forbes the idea of Feedforward. Instead of constantly looking back once a ... More...

AUSTIN, TEXAS (August 14, 2012) – Journyx today announces Master Timekeeper, a mass entry feature that allows timekeepers with Journyx Timesheet administrative privileges to quickly and easily create time entries for any number of employees. The bene... More...

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Survey reveals second straight yearly drop in cost increases for Canadian employers

The Difference between Satisfied, Engaged, Aligned and Highly Engaged Employees

Intel: Making The World Better For Every Person on Earth, That’s All

We rarely get the leadership we want

Multiple Class IP Hosting boosting page ranks like never before

ROPELLA ANSWERS: "How Do I Deal With Diva Co-workers?"

IHR Tableau files are updated

Fixing a Broken Team

Best Practices in Corporate Culture from Google

Banking & Finance Pay Increase Budgets Show Slight Increase

Eighty Percent of Workforces Will Utilize Virtual Workers in Some Capacity By 2013

Jeff Laborde Brings to SumTotal 15+ Years Experience

Don’t Worry It’s Not You: Why Performance Appraisals Will Never Work

USCIS Revises New Form I-9 (AGAIN) and Estimates Each Form Will Take 35 Minutes to Complete

The Power of HR Video Training

Don’t Wait To Promote Your Company’s Work-Life Balance Perks! It May Be Your Best Recruiting Tool

3-Day Learning Workshop for Executives at Puri, Odisha on Work Life Balance & Stress Management by Manav Adhyayan Kendra

A new outsourcing wave for call centers?

[Webcast] How to Make the Business Case For Workforce Analytics

Illinois' New Social Media Password Protection Law Handicaps Employers' Legitimate Business Activities

Ohio Joins Handful of States that Offer Tort Liability Protections for Businesses that Hire and Employ Rehabilitated Ex-Offenders

Fourth Circuit Joins Courts Limiting Employers' Use of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to Prosecute Disloyal Employees

Second Circuit Makes Key Holdings Involving Proof Requirements in Individual Discrimination Cases and Litigation Hold Requirements

“How” We Work as Important as “What” We Accomplish

Journyx Announces Master Timekeeper