Technology
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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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Falling From Cloud Nine
For all its benefits, software as a service isn't a panacea. A successful switch takes planning, organization and lots of training and communications.
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Further Assessment: More Companies Using Evaluation Tools to Identify Future Leaders and More
A recent Aberdeen research report found that companies are including assessment tools in their efforts to identify high-potential talent, to develop workers' interpersonal and leadership skills and to set performance goals for their staff.
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When Innovation Turns Into Exasperation
Failed inventions and initiatives can give rise to painful—unproductive—“innovation trauma.”
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Not Your Grandfather's Industrial Lab
Nowadays, companies ranging from high-tech firms to service companies have invested in a new generation of idea factories. They share one trait: a mantra that time equals money.
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Survey Shows Lack of Innovation Motivation
Four in 10 organizations see themselves as ineffective at fostering innovation, and there's a mismatch between what companies are doing and what they say is effective when it comes to inspiring inventiveness.
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Giving Voice to Recruits
Software by HarQen Inc. enables automated phone screening of applicants, but the technology takes getting used to.
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Compensable Working Time: The De Minimis Doctrine and ‘Rounding’ Time
There are several traps an employer can fall into with regard to accurately recording the time that an employee actually works.
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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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Moneyball for Recruiting Financial Advisers? It Exists
Like sabermetrics in baseball, PriceMetrix Inc.'s data offer insight into future production of possible signings for financial advisers. But what's the OBP?
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2013: A Time for Re-imagining How Work Gets Done
How work gets done, who does it and the tools they use to accomplish the task are all shifting as the new year approaches.
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2013 Employment Forecast: A Fiscal Cliffhanger
How well the job market recovers in the next 12 months could depend on what Congress decides in the next few weeks.
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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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Beyond.com Buys Job Board, Career Fair Operator
Beyond.com acquired Human Capital Solutions LLC, which does business as JobCircle.com, a job board that serves the mid-Atlantic area and has more than 1.3 million registered members.
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Younger Workers Taking a Pass on Taking Over the Business
So-called NextGen financial advisers are reluctant to buy into the business. The trend is potentially troublesome for owners of financial advisory firms who have been banking on selling their businesses to junior advisers.
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Oracle, CedarCrestone Legal Battles Heat Up
The former Oracle partner says the lawsuit signals a 'broader war on competition' against the third-party support industry.
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Big Fish Swim Into HR Software Waters
Click on the image below to view the full infographic highlighting the “seascape” that has resulted from the actions of leading consolidators. Roll over the companies to learn about their key mergers and acquisitions.
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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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How LinkedIn Plans to Solve the World's Skills Gap
Matching people and skills with available jobs
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Inaugural Virtual Career Fair for Veterans Gets a Salute from Employers
Chicago-based energy provider Exelon was among the 24 companies across the United States that participated in the October event. About 1,100 veterans visited Exelon during the job fair, 205 of whom were in states where Exelon has openings.
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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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HR Policy Association Takes Down SHRM’s Human Capital Metrics Standard
The association's continuing opposition to guidelines for human capital metrics means the standard will likely never make it to an American National Standards Institute review.
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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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Whirlpool Warms Up to E-Learning
Until the recession hit, the U.S.-based appliance-maker steadfastly avoided online training in favor of classrooms. Now, it's a proponent of virtual online learning.
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HealthPass New York Selects Bswift to Provide Exchange Technology, Services
Bswift Inc. will provide HealthPass New York clients and members with functions and capabilities including reporting tools, dashboards and alerts for employers, as well as shopping tools, decision and enrollment support for employees.
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Robert Half Survey: Shopping at Work OK
Thirty-three percent of chief information officers said their companies block access to online shopping sites, down from 60 percent last year.
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Tech Vendors Venture Out of North America
People management software vendors are courting multinationals and other clients looking to evolve to a single, cloud-based system to replace a crazy quilt of existing local and regional programs.
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Five Things to Consider When Choosing a Global HR Software Vendor
Thoroughly investigate what's being offered to uncover shortcoming before it's too late.
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It’s in the New Game: How Electronic Arts Revamped Recruiting, Itself
To shift from retail to online sales, the game-maker used LinkedIn, other tools to hire creatively as part of a global talent overhaul.
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Monster Plans Restructuring, China Sale
Monster announced the restructuring Nov. 8 as it also reported third-quarter results with third-quarter revenue of $221.7 million, down 10.8 from $248.6 million in the same quarter last year.
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LinkedIn Locks Up Major Recruiting Market Share
In four years, the 187 million member business network has amassed 13,700 corporate customers for its recruiting software and related services.
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LinkedIn Recruiter Software Offers New Features
New features let LinkedIn's corporate customers measure their effectiveness on the network, among other things.
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Learning Contributes Directly to Bottom Line: Study
Oakland, California-based research firm Bersin & Associates says companies with a sophisticated approach to employee development averaged three times higher revenue growth from 2008 to 2011.
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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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Sandy Prompts Companies to Improvise People Management
Telecommuting policies and rented hotel space help organizations cope with the storm.
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New York City Media Agencies Set Up 'Pop-Up' Shops
Businesses set up shop at hotels and cafes to power through electricity outages and complete projects on deadline.
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State Jobs Banks in Michigan May Not be Open to All
Michigan officials have received calls from about 30 staffing and recruiting companies concerned with the policy. While the state is not changing the policy for now, a workaround is available, officials say.
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Internal Surveillance Cameras can Reduce Workers' Compensation Fraud
Workers' comp experts say cameras can be effective in preventing fraud. Video footage is an added safeguard for employers that are trying to keep comp costs down.
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Get Healthier or Pay Up
That's the approach some new wellness ventures and employers are embracing to inspire employees to kick bad habits.
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Integrating Wellness Programs With Incentives
A company that sees itself as a 'universal remote' for wellness programs aims to help employers and their workforces see all of a program's offerings in one place.
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Workday IPO Shines Spotlight on Healthy HR Software Market
It's not just Workday that will benefit from the higher visibility the stock offering has brought to SaaS-based people management vendors.
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HR's Future Looks Strategic—or Does It?
A new survey notes that with advances in technology, human resources managers will have time away from administrative tasks to help their CEOs with big-picture questions, though one expert contends that things haven't changed much.
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Big Data’s Big Promise
Every software provider in the industry wants to be the one to help companies with workforce analytics.
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ADP Pushes Further into HR Software
ADP is making more noise in an HR software market that has heated up dramatically in the past year.
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GM Plans to Hire 3,000 HP Employees for Insourcing
The employees being hired already work on GM's business at HP and are expected to be on GM's payroll within six months. An undisclosed number of HP employees currently assigned to GM are not affected, the companies said.
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HR Software Firm Workday Stock Jumps Nearly 75 Percent on First Day
The hottest tech IPO since Facebook brings $637 million to the cloud-based HR software vendor.
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Study: Generational Job Seekers Aren't 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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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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Screen Savior
In the quest for the perfect candidate, many companies rely too much on software to weed out applicants, experts say. It could be one reason qualified candidates are being overlooked for good jobs.
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Awarding Companies for Engaging Candidates
In 2011, the TalentBoard, a San Francisco not-for-profit founded by talent management experts, released its first set of Candidate Experience Awards, recognizing companies with model recruiting programs, and the board is in the process of selecting a second set of winners for 2012.
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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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Chicago Mayor Takes Tech Recruiting Trip to Illinois Campus
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is taking Chicago tech to Urbana-Champaign on Oct. 2, joined on the road trip by representatives from some 40 of the city's tech companies, including Boeing Co., BrightTag Inc., Cleversafe Inc., Google Inc., Groupon Inc. and GrubHub Inc.
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The Last Word: Taking the Road Less Traveled—to Work
It's hard to believe, but a Deloitte study notes that 46 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds would choose Internet access over owning a car.
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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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David or Goliath: An HRIS Problem for Small Businesses
How to choose between software giants and smaller vendors when choosing an HR system.
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Steps to Buying an HRIS
Pick priorities, weigh pricing and prepare for training in the selection of core HR software
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Japanese Company Buys Online Jobs Aggregator Indeed.com
The acquisition by Japan's Recruit Co. will fuel the jobs site industry leader's advertising and activity overseas, especially in Asia.
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Employees Will Need to Be Educated About Benefits Eligibility
Fortunately, most payroll and human resource information system vendors either already have a robust time and attendance system or are building one to meet the new employer record-keeping requirements mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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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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Tech Firms Pony Up Pay for Top Gen Y Workers
A new survey reveals average salaries for millennials are topping $90,000 at some technology firms, although pay for the typical younger employees were far less, with average salaries at $39,700.
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Workday Going Public
The human capital management technology darling wants to raise $400 million in a stock offering that's the latest sign of how high profile—and competitive—the market has become.
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Workday’s IPO Signals in HR Technology Market
The stock offering is the latest indication of how quickly the human capital management technology market is maturing
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Inside Workday’s S-1
Highlights from the leading software-as-a-service HCM vendor's proposed initial public stock offering.
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Tracking True Cost of Lost Productivity Remains a Challenge
Large, sophisticated employers are struggling to track and measure how much the lost productivity resulting from employee absences and presenteeism costs their companies.
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Staggered Introduction of North Carolina E-Verify Compliance Dates Begins in October
Under legislation approved by North Carolina's General Assembly last year and signed into law by Governor Beverly E. Perdue in June 2011, employers with between 100 and 500 employees have until Jan.
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Corporations Adopt the Hackathon
Small businesses are using hackathons as cost-effective tools to tackle problems, recruit talent and unleash innovation. The hackathon presents a quicker, scrappier way to tackle large-scale problems with whatever resources they have on hand.
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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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Multiskilled Web Designers Flying High on Recruiters' Radar
With the national unemployment rate for Web designers at just 3 percent, demand for their skills in animation, graphics, social media, apps design and video is at an all-time high, says one staffing firm executive.
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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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IBM Leaps Into HR Software With Kenexa Acquisition
Big Blue sees deal with talent management firm as part of 'big data,' social business strategy.
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Analysis: Transforming the Mobile Workplace While Keeping an Eye on Ergonomics and Underlying Health Risks
While mobile device use in and outside of the office is still too new to know the long-term impact on employees, this reality holds true: Workplace injuries can leave your company at a competitive disadvantage.
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Crain Buys Stake in Internet Week New York
Crain Communications Inc. expands its Web presence by taking over the management of the weeklong festival featuring the best of the Web.
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Move Over, Millennials
When many people envision digital startups, they think of young, would-be Mark Zuckerbergs in hoodies and T-shirts spending late nights coding at a company with a name that's missing a vowel. There is, however, a small but growing number of over-forties trying their hand at Web 2.0 entrepreneurship.
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Data Bank Focus: HR Analytics: Broad Use, Broad Frustration
The burgeoning amount of data available to human resources professionals provides a new opportunity to more effectively manage the workforce. A recent survey of employers, reported by Visier Inc.
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Rent-A-Desk Scene Heats Up
As the number of local co-working communities doubles, work-space owners must get creative to stand out.
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Vulgar Language Must Be Viewed in Context in Sexual Harassment Case: Court
Said one attorney, in cases where off-color language is used, the ruling signifies the importance of finding out 'how that language was used to determine what steps the employer should take and how they should go about investigating' it and imposing discipline.
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Oracle Moves Deeper Into the Cloud
Almost six months after acquiring Taleo, Oracle is following through on plans to dominate the software-as-a-service industry.
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In Search of a Standard Measure of Talent
Under SHRM's draft human capital metrics standard, companies would report on topics including spending on training and development, ability to retain talent, leadership quality and employee engagement.
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Small Firms Seeking Big-Company HR Needs Turn to Professional Employer Organizations
Throughout New York City, fledgling and existing small companies are turning to PEOs—and not just to free themselves of the headaches and overhead of handling HR issues so they can concentrate on growing and managing their operations.
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IT Onboarding Crucial to Productivity: Survey
Despite their agreement on the importance of onboarding programs, 57 percent of IT leaders say they have a formal, strategic onboarding plan less than 20 percent of the time, while just 18 percent of IT professionals say sufficient attention is given to developing a strong onboarding program.
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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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Putting a Dollar Value on Talent
How a former chief financial officer is linking human capital metrics to bottom-line results.
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Lawyers Say Health Care Law Will Spur Employees to Sue Over Technical Issues
At least four federal agencies (the IRS, the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services and even the Department of Housing and Urban Development) are writing hundreds of pages of regulations that will apply as health care reform is implemented over the next six years.
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Corporate Executive Board to Buy Assessment Vendor SHL for $660 Million
The proposed deal, expected to close in August, boosts the management consulting firm's position as a 'big data' provider in a nearly $4 billion global talent management industry.
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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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Brain Training Is Becoming the New Push in Employee Wellness
Not only is employee well-being an essential component of overall wellness efforts, researchers say a healthy brain is crucial to employee engagement.
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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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Data Bank Focus: Tech Talent
The 2012-13 Occupational Outlook Handbook, released in March by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows the high cost of and growing need for technology talent.
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Data Bank Focus: Bring Your Own Device to Work
Survey after survey conducted by information technology firms confirms that employee use of personal devices in the workplace is widespread and that most organizations are embracing this "consumerization of IT." A recent survey of 605 U.S.
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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.
