For HR leaders building a company culture, the currency of trust and transparency has never been more valuable.  We hosted a webinar in partnership with UNLEASH about how bringing transparency and trust into your practices and making positive cultural shifts can help to improve your organization and enhance your employee experience.  We heard from the following panel of HR leaders who shared their thoughts: Toby Hough, Senior Director of People and Culture for EMEA, HiBob Lotta Patrickson, Vice President, Global People and Culture, Antler Felicia Williams, Vice President of People ..read more

It should come as no surprise that recruiting is more complex than ever these days. From talent gaps, skills shortages, and ever-changing market conditions to cumbersome processes and siloed technology, HR and talent acquisition teams have their work cut out for them.  However, one challenge reigns supreme: disconnected processes and technology. In fact, according to the Lighthouse Research & Advisory 2024 Talent Acquisition Trends Study, 75 percent of teams struggle to forecast their needs accurately, and 58 percent of teams missed their hiring plan last year, putting their overall b ..read more

In the modern working world, the role of HR has developed and transcended from its original role of focusing on administrative tasks and people management.  HR professionals are now embracing a more strategic position within their companies, leveraging people data to help drive organizational success and create harmonious, modern, and people-centric company cultures.  We hosted a recent webinar in partnership with Oneflow that shed light on this transformation, offering valuable insights into the strategic use of people data in HR. We heard from the following panel of HR leaders who ..read more

What are the Stevie Awards? The Stevie Awards for Great Employers recognize the world’s best companies to work for, their HR teams, and their achievements. Winning an award can boost your organization’s reputation, help reach more potential candidates, and improve employee satisfaction (a.k.a. Employer Branding). Past winners include IBM, Cisco, NBC, PayPal, Chipotle, Accenture, and Verizon. Are there categories or multiple awards? There are a variety of categories and subcategories, covering general Employer of the Year (by industry), sponsored by HiBob, talent management, and onboarding, a ..read more

The compliance landscape is constantly changing, and depending on where you live—country, state, city, province—laws that offer marginalized and underrepresented people protection against discrimination can change overnight. For HR leaders, this isn’t just an issue of staying on top of the ever-changing compliance landscape. It means thinking about how you can ensure your employees feel safe, protected, and welcome at work, regardless of how they identify. Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility, a day that celebrates transgender people, recognizes our contribution to society, and ..read more

Think about how your day goes when there’s no internet.  Your email or Slack goes down, the project management system won’t load, or the HCM that everyone uses to clock in and out has a timeout.  The entire business feels the effects if anything breaks—or even if it just slows down a little.  But behind the scenes, HR Ops comes to the rescue.  As the backbone of organizations’ tech-reliant functionality, HR Ops’s collaboration with the IT and cybersecurity teams ensures uninterrupted service from the tech everyone relies on in today’s globally dispersed businesses.  Em ..read more

Generation Z professionals are an ever-growing presence in the modern workforce, and it’s fair to say that they operate differently from previous generations. Trends such as “lazy girl jobs” have given many more seasoned professionals a bad impression of Zoomers, with an incredible 74 percent of managers saying that Gen Z is the most challenging generation to work with. Those managers labeled young talent “easily distracted,” “easily offended,” and “unmotivated.” These kinds of terms have given Gen Zers something of a bad reputation, with some professionals even declaring them unprepared to en ..read more

In the current sociopolitical climate, the conversation around diversity is becoming ever more politicized. There is a constant shift between supporting DE&I initiatives and limiting it—sometimes legally.  While many countries worldwide continue to pass laws committed to supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion, affirmative action at the federal level in the United States was reversed, and various state laws outright prohibit diversity and inclusion initiatives based on race or gender. Alongside the legal pushback, an unpredictable economy has companies tightening their budgets—and ..read more

Modern companies have made huge strides to improve their people’s experiences and establish core values of transparency and fairness.  Buffer, the social media management company, openly shares its team’s salaries in a publicly accessible spreadsheet. Salesforce publicly discloses its pay equity findings and regularly analyzes pay disparities based on gender and race.  The gender pay gap is getting narrower, but at a glacial pace as shown by this 2024 Payscale survey.  Let’s take a closer look at pay transparency, and why it’s so important for achieving pay equity. The importanc ..read more

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