What is People Operations? This is not a question that a lot of people outside of NY and California are currently asking, but it should be. While every other aspect of a business has been optimized and scraped clean for value, few businesses are looking to add that same rigor to HR practices, to satisfy …
A Typical Job Ad Situation You get requests to fill a role from managers, and you think “we can totally fill this role with a nice time to hire.” After all, the organization does spend a nice amount of money on a shiny ATS (Applicant Tracking System), and you are confident that you’ve done a …
Recently, I had a late-night conversation with a friend, discussing how we are most influenced by people with which we spend the most time. We see how the physical environment can affect us, but we also know that the people in the workplace can influence our behavior, our goals, and our success.
Gone are the days of willful internal isolation, in which a company could tout it’s structure as a kind of secret sauce. Business conditions evolve quickly, and without much notice. With teams becoming more distributed, more virtual, more critical of their employers, and more vocal on social media platforms, operating Human Resources in a silo …
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Employees at companies with inclusion are 50% less likely to quit. Along with this, they are likely to be more productive and happier overall. Making diversity and inclusion a priority in the workplace is crucial, especially if you’re looking to keep your workplace lively and vigorous. No matter what your background is, you can build systems …
It’s every founder’s dream to build a resilient organization that grows in value quickly and evolves to deliver long term value in any market scenario. However, 2020 is throwing everything short of a moon at us. To survive a pandemic, mass protests, and a collapsed economic environment, teams have to be almost superhuman to thrive and excel. …
The New Business Case for Diversity Training Very similar to how COVID 19 made the business case for digital transformation more palatable and easy to explain by forcing the move to remote work, recent protests around systemic racism against black people/ African Americans and police brutality have laid bare the case for Diversity, Equity, and …
Yes, You Need a Job Description Whenever there’s a need to increase your output, execute faster, replace lost KSAs (knowledge, skills, and Abilities), or delegate key business functions, there is a set of core requirements captured in a job description. Those requirements form the basis for what comes next, which is generally to hire someone as soon …
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People who work at a company and just go to work to do a job and provide for their families do not like the HR profession. They don’t want to be subjected to draconian restrictions by HR policies divorced from life as it is in the 2020s. For every goofy and archaic policy human resources …
Change is continuous. Businesses, people, processes, effective methods, and technologies adjust and change over time. This rapid change impacts business ecosystems around the world. Therefore, securing external partners via HR outsourcing becomes a great tool to manage positive and negative outcomes from change. Next, we break down some of those below. Outcomes of HR Changes …
The year 2020 is here. Now that all the celebration has ended and we all returned to work, we now look forward to assessing our schedule. We are warned of compliance tasks to be done, but most of the time, people wait until the very last moment to handle these until it’s nearly too late. …
