Social Media
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Study Touts the Benefits of Internal Social Networking Sites
A recent study conducted by Baylor University found that developing an internal social networking site could help a company acclimate its new hires into the corporate culture, improve employees' morale and reduce turnover rates.
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Status Update: Using Social Media for Learning Gets Better Foothold in Workplace
Large U.S. firms tripled their spending on social tools such as internal blogs, wikis and communities of practice in 2012, a new report says
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SAP Looks to Spread the Word
SAP employees become social brand ambassadors while participating in corporate social responsibility programs.
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Your Brand, Their Words, Your Reputation: Keeping ‘Brand Ambassadors’ on Point
How to make your most prolific employees a positive representative of your brand.
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It’s Mobile HR Software, but It’s Not an App
Many tech vendors offer their services via websites that have been optimized to work on smartphones as an alternative to providing a true mobile app.
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Mobile HR Apps Picking Up Steam
Next year, payroll and timekeeping are expected to equal or overtake recruiting as the top human resources use for smartphone apps, the latest sign mobile-native software is starting to stick.
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Michigan Bill Aims to Keep Businesses From Seeking Online Passwords
The bill would outlaw the practice of employers requiring prospective hires to turn over their passwords to social networking sites as a condition of employment. It also pertains to educational institutions and prospective students.
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Facebook Launches Social Jobs App
The app provides a central location where recruiters post open positions sorted by industry, location and skills. The app launched yesterday with more than 1.7 million employment opportunities provided by BranchOut, DirectEmployers, Work4Labs, Jobvite and Monster.com.
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Employers Struggle to Develop Rules, Policies Around Social Media Misuse: Survey
Best practices for employers navigating social media rules, policies and local and federal regulations include a dedicated and well-communicated policy on social media and a clearly stated policy on social media monitoring in the workplace, which should be limited to business purposes only,...
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Social Referrals Could Be the Best Hire Money Can Buy
Recruiters across industries know that referrals generally deliver the best candidates, and now thanks to social media sites, they are cheaper and easier to find.
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Recruiting Software Goes Social
Over the past several months, software vendors across the industry have announced social-recruiting releases and acquisitions.
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Facebook the Preferred Social Media Choice for Job-Seekers
A new Jobvite survey found that 52 percent of job seekers used Facebook to help find a job in 2012, up from 48 percent in 2011.
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Don’t Worry If Your Workers Tweet This Story Out, SilkRoad Executive Says
Of the employees surveyed by talent management software-maker SilkRoad, 43 percent worked for organizations that allowed total access to social media, 24 percent said access was monitored, and 16 percent had social media access blocked by their employer.
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Study: Generational Job Seekers Not Using All Their Tools
Recruiters take note: Baby boomers, Gen X and millennials are spending almost all their time job searching online instead of offline. Boomers turn to LinkedIn first, while Gen X and millennials are first using Google and Google Plus.
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Privacy Laws Threaten Compliance
California could become the latest state to ban employer access to private social-media sites used by employees. A law passed by the state Legislature last month still must get the approval of Gov. Jerry Brown, who has until the end of the month to sign it.
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HR, Your Input Is Needed
As companies look for ways to spur collaboration and efficiency, they are naturally drawn to software tools that break down barriers and foster better communication—and human resources needs to be leading this transformation, experts say.
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Working to Disrupt the HR Software Marketplace
The acquisition of work management tools could change the human resources software landscape.
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Demand Up for Recruiters with Social Media Skills
Recruiters with social media skills are most frequently recruited for jobs located in New York City, Chicago, Washington, Boston and Los Angeles.
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Measuring ROI Tops Executives' List of Social Media Challenges
Finding knowledgeable staff to execute social media tasks ranked as the second-most cited hurdle.
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Journalism School Grads Turn to Startup Scene
There's a small but growing number of recent journalism-school graduates who are eschewing conventional career paths to newspapers, magazines and even internships and choosing instead to launch their own digital startups.
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Poll: Social Life, Not Social Media, Is Work's Biggest Distraction
A new ComPsych poll runs contrary to other surveys that indicate that tools such as Facebook distract employees during work hours.
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Big Brother Is Watching: Why Social Media Policies Make Good Business Sense
Social media policies that define what employees can talk about and how employers will monitor them help organizations protect their intellectual property while giving workers a framework for online communication.
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Five Things Every Social Media Policy Should Do
Among other things, a policy should explain why breaking the rules could hurt the company.
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Study: 24 Percent in U.S. Prefer Social Media for Job Search
Twelve percent of U.S. employees approved of personal use of social media at work, but 51 percent say social media has a negative impact on workplace productivity.
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The Last Word: Actually App-etizing
If a company is debating the merits of apps and games in the hopes of enabling employees to learn, track, measure, compete and possibly get healthy, get in the game before it's game over.
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Employers Could Unlike Outcome of Facebook Password Requests
No court has specifically addressed the legality of a social media background check. 'Privacy is very much a floating concept,' one expert says.
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LinkedIn Tops Social Sites for Recruiting: Report
Seventy-seven percent of job openings are shared on LinkedIn, followed by Twitter at 54 percent. Facebook came in third with 25 percent.
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Starting a Social Wellness Program
Social wellness tools won't do much if you don't establish objectives and a time frame for meeting them, says Jennifer Benz, a San Francisco-based employee wellness communications consultant.
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Can Social Media Produce Wellness Results?
To win at employee wellness programs, companies are turning to online fitness challenges and Facebook-style social networks to boost workers' options, improve engagement and cut costs.
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The New HR Software Landscape
How recent acquisitions are changing the field of HR software, and the decisions customers need to make about the future.
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Salesforce.com Buys Its Way Into HR Software
SAP, Oracle and other HR software vendors have a surprising new competitor thanks to the acquisition of Rypple by Salesforce.com.
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Monster Posts Sale Signs as Numbers Continue to Tumble
Assault from niche boards and social sites are gobbling up bigger bites of the once-mighty job board industry.
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Survey: 37% Use Social Media to Check Candidates
Thirty-four percent of hiring managers and human resources professionals said they found information on social media that caused them not to hire a candidate.
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Job Hunters Grow in Numbers: 62% of U.S. Workers Seek New Job
Globally, 66 percent of workers plan to seek new jobs in the next two years, according to the Kelly survey.
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Bill Barring Firms From Requiring Applicant Passwords Awaits Governor's OK
Calls have been growing for federal and state legislation that would bar employers from requiring access to job applicants' social media postings.
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Cultivating a Virtual Culture
Startups operating as virtual enterprises from Day One, companies sending employees home to telecommute, and businesses hiring more mobile workers are changing the conventional wisdom about how to create corporate culture.
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Stir in Your Own Ingredients to Create the Best Virtual Culture Recipe
Consultant Mary Sobon says these ingredients are key to a healthy corporate culture with large populations of virtual employees.
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Employer Requests for Applicants' Online Access Gets Lawmakers' Attention
A letter sent to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asks that agency to issue a legal opinion as to whether asking for passwords violates current federal law.
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Workforce Wins Prestigious Business Honors
Workforce Management won a Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for senior editor Ed Frauenheim's in-depth look at the growing controversy over who owns social media contacts.
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Social Media Archiving Policy Q&A
EPolicy Institute Executive Director Nancy Flynn discusses what companies should and shouldn't be doing.
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Don't Delete That Tweet
As more companies jump on Facebook and Twitter, tech vendors including Synmantec, Smarsh and HootSuite are expanding their social media archiving offerings.
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The CYA Report: The Great Apple Debate
The CYA Report podcast is a partnership between Workforce Management and Fistful of Talent. In this edition, Managing Editor Rick Bell and Senior Editor Ed Frauenheim debate Apple Inc. and the working conditions in China.
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NLRB Hones Workplace Social Media Policies
The case of a worker at a popcorn packaging facility who was fired for criticizing a supervisor in a Facebook posting has attracted the most interest, as it ‘highlight[s] what is likely to become the NLRB's new test for deciding whether the action for which an employee was disciplined was so...
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Gen Y Execs Shake Up Office Culture
Young, tech-savvy CEOs are transforming the workplace at New York startups.
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Turning Off Email, Turning Up Productivity
Execs find the best way to promote efficiency is to minimize online distractions.
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Siri Says: It's Time to Get to Work
As companies warm up to Apple's voice-controlled assistant, apps are appearing on iTunes, and rival software from Google and Microsoft are in the works.
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Five Ways to Use Siri at Work
The iPhone 4S voice-activated assistant can make calls, schedule appointments and a lot more.
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Social Studies: How to Use Social Media to Build a Better Organization
More and more companies are turning to social media as a way to tap the innovation and talent that leaders know could blossom, if the right people could connect. How can your organization use social media to solve problems and create a sense of community?
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Adopting a Social Media Mind-Set
Social media tools can unleash forces that are difficult to control. Giving everyone a voice can challenge the worldview of people who are used to calling the shots.
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Social Media and Collaboration Tools
Getting started with social media needn't be complicated. Many software tools are available – and you may already be using one without realizing it.
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FTC Warns Mobile App Marketers Providing Background Checks
The Federal Trade Commission has sent letters to marketers that the agency says may be providing criminal background information to employers through the marketers' background screening applications—an activity the FTC says may violate the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
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NLRB: Employer Social Media Policies Should not Bar Protected Worker Activity
An analysis of the NLRB's rulings also indicates that if an employee makes a comment on Facebook and fellow employees respond, it is considered protected activity. It is not protected, however, if only friends respond to the posting.
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Mobile Apps for Managers
What are some of the best mobile apps for business leaders? Here are a few to get you started.
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Mobile Apps Help Executives Manage Daily Business
New smartphone apps allow business owners and professionals to work better,
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2012 HR Technology Forecast
The new year will usher in more cloud-based apps, 'bring your own device' policies and merger and acquisition deals for tech vendors.
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HCM Vendor Scene Heats Up
Industry watchers predict a year of HR tech vendor deals in the wake of SAP's SuccessFactors acquisition.
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Survey: Crowd Sourcing a Second Job for Many
Crowd sourcing can involve breaking up a large task such as validating data or translation into many small tasks and farming them out to numerous workers online instead of hiring a single worker or small number of workers to do the single large task.
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Designer Can Sue Firm for Tapping Social Media Accounts While She was Injured
The woman alleges the accounts were accessed while she was recovering from a brain injury she sustained after being hit by a car while running an errand for work.
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Facebook: The New Recruit in the Recruiting Game
Watch out LinkedIn: a raft of new recruiting apps help companies better scout for talent from inside Facebook, the 800 million member social network.
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Six Facebook Recruiting Apps
Use these tools to advertise job openings and mine the social network for prospects.
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Background Checks Push Envelope for Employers, Job Candidates Alike
The growing practice of peeking at job candidates' social media activity has raised the bar for background checks, but also elevated concerns over privacy and legality.
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Doing Social Media Checks Right
Social media background checks on potential job candidates have raised some red flags in the legal community, which has created uncertainty for companies on the issue.
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Experts Still Warn to Beware of Information from Social Media when Hiring
There is 'so much information that's available out there' that the employer has to filter out the information to be sure it does not learn about issues it should not know about, such as religion and politics, panel contends.
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Employee Facebook Complaints Protected by NLRA
The NLRB has received an increasing number of charges related to social media in the past year, but this is the first case involving Facebook that resulted in an administrative law judge's decision after a hearing.
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Heightened Awareness of Benefits Plays Pivotal Role in Employee Experience
Employers spend a great deal of time and money trying to educate employees about their benefit options, but do employees most understand and use them effectively? Here are some of the do's and don'ts of benefits communications.
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Worker Policies Must Consider Ever-Changing Web Landscape
“Certainly, almost every large company in the U.S. has a social media policy today, but the maturity and adequacy of policies varies widely,” a consultant says.
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NLRB Upholds Car Dealership Worker's Firing Over Facebook Post
A Chicago-area judge made a ruling on two Facebook postings, but said one is a concerted activity and the other is not.
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New Tools Cast a Wider Social Network for Recruiters
With the launch of BranchOut in July 2010 and BeKnown and Google Plus, which made their debuts in June, recruiters are trying to decide how to best use a dizzying array of tools to find top talent.
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Online Café Serves Up a Heaping Helping of Training for Staff
Studies suggest companies are getting comfortable using social software to drive employee learning. Cheesecake Factory, Kelly Services and Amway are among the early adopters.
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Companies Look to Capitalize on Viral Voices
Thanks in part to the explosion of social media, more employers are capitalizing on the credibility and power of employee word-of-mouth.
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Legal Experts Stress That Social Media Background Checks Create Risks
Performing an Internet search on a job applicant is akin to interviewing them, according to a lawyer who spoke at a session on social media at the annual Risk & Insurance Management Society Inc. conference in Vancouver.
