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The Benefits of e-Signatures

If there’s one thing that is a constant in the field of HR, it’s paperwork. Lots and lots of paperwork. In fact, in onboarding a new employee alone, an HR professional can process anywhere from 10 to 60 documents. A number of HR tasks require careful documentation, but printing, gathering signatures, and...

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Compensation Conversations: Tips for How to Talk About Pay

Editor’s note: This piece was originally published on the BambooHR blog. As a kid, you probably learned that some topics were rude to discuss, like religion, politics, money, and which birthday your mother was celebrating. While you might still choose to keep some of these hot topics out of the office, money...

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How to Offboard an Employee

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Nathan Richardson, SEO specialist at BambooHR Companies give a lot of attention to new employees and the onboarding process, and rightly so. But what happens when someone leaves? A successful offboarding process can not only protect your company legally, but it can also offer...

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7 Signs That a Company Knows How to Hire Great Employees

It’s a great time to look for work in America. Unemployment numbers hover at historic lows, so you have more options in your job search than at any time in the past fifty years. It’s the perfect opportunity to find a good match with an employer that knows how to hire great...

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Why Employee Retention is Important & How to Improve It

Have you ever walked into a workplace and seen more empty chairs than employees? “Wow,” you might think. “Where did everyone go?” Even a few empty chairs can be a sign of an employee retention problem that hinders the company’s progress. When too many employees start finding jobs elsewhere, the organization they’re...

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Vacation is crucial for employees: Here are (Xn) reasons why

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Nathan Richardson, SEO specialist at BambooHR Why is vacation important for your organization? It almost sounds like a trick question, until you start thinking more critically. You can probably rattle off several easy answers, from simply complying with labor laws to reasons like the...

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How to Use Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on the BambooHR blog. Understanding what emotional intelligence is and why it’s so important in the workplace is crucial in today’s increasingly competitive world. People are by nature emotional creatures, but only the emotionally intelligent can recognize emotions—both their own and others—and work with them to...

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Employee Assistance Programs: What You Need To Know

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on the BambooHR blog.  Your employees have mental and emotional health issues. This isn’t an insult, just a pure statement of fact. Whether they’re facing a chronic illness, experiencing the effects of addiction, or just feeling like Charlie Brown in December, your employees need support from your...

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How to Scale a Team: Vision, Values and Culture

This article was originally published on the BambooHR blog by Brian Anderson. It’s one thing to recognize that your organization needs to do more—get more clients, spend more advertising dollars, fix more software bugs, create more ad campaigns. It’s another thing to organize the teams that make it possible to achieve these...

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Developing the Best Benefits Package for Your Unique Workforce

Unemployment is down. Recruiting is competitive. Employers are having to work harder than ever before to make themselves stand out. None of this is news to you; in fact, your organization probably knows firsthand how challenging it can be to attract and retain awesome employees. The Importance of Employee Benefits One of...

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Creative Ways to Keep Remote Employees Engaged

Editor’s note: This article is written by Rob de Luca and first appeared on the BambooHR blog. Looking for research? View PayScale’s Research and Strategy Guide on How to Set Pay for Remote Workers You get it: You’re fully on board with all the reasons why telecommuting is a great thing, and that’s why you’ve...

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How to Build Employee Incentive Programs that Work

Editor’s note: This blog post is written by Darren Perucci and was originally published on the BambooHR blog. Why do your employees do what they do? It’s not an easy question to answer, sometimes not even for the employees in question. Yet understanding the many factors that motivate your employees is the first...

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How to Use eNPS to Improve Employee Satisfaction

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Tori Fica, a HR Copywriter at BambooHR. You’ve likely read your fair share of ebooks, articles and infographics on how employee satisfaction and engagement can impact your organization; keeping your employees happy with their jobs and engaged in their work can indeed lead to...

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A Comprehensive Guide to HR Best Practices You Need to Know This Year [Infographic]

HR best practices have been under close examination for many years and continue to be a hot debate topic in business circles. Editor’s note: This piece was originally written by Tori Fica and published on the BambooHR blog.  So what is the definition of HR best practices? It is the idea that...

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13 HR Trends and Statistics for 2018 That May Surprise You

This blog post was originally written by Rob de Luca for BambooHR. We love writing listicles as much as you like reading them (which is to say: a lot), and there’s nothing we like more than a whole list of surprising HR trends and statistics about the HR industry. You may be...

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Three Culture Tips for Increasing Efficiency in the Workplace

Editor’s note: This article was originally written by Brian Anderson for the BambooHR blog.  Most organizations have one thing in common: they’re interested in improving their results. They want to feed more children, make more money, or provide a better experience for their local citizens. But with limited resources, there’s a constant...

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The Best Employee Benefits and Perks (HR Experts Weigh In)

This article was originally published on the BambooHR blog. At BambooHR, we believe in people. We believe that the most valuable resources an organization has are its human resources. And we believe in showing employees how valuable they are to the organization. That’s why we encourage offering valuable benefits and perks to...

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Lead, Match, or Lag: How Your Relative Pay Positioning Affects Your Recruiting

Editor’s Note: This piece was written by Brian Anderson, HR Copywriter with BambooHR. It can be tempting to dismiss recruiting as a simple project, a one-time task to take care of as quickly as possible. The SHRM Human Capital Benchmarking Report found that the average cost per hire for companies was $4,129...

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The Dangerous Relationship Between Gender Bias and Performance Reviews

This post is written by Kelsie Davis and was first published on the BambooHR Blog. Meet José and Sally. They do the same work, have the same amount of experience, report to the same manager and, unlikely as it may seem, have the exact same strengths and weaknesses as employees. You would...

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Hidden Ways to Empower Employees and Retain Top Talent

Originally written by Rob de Luca for BambooHR. For managers, one of the biggest challenges is figuring out how to make team members stick around and keep performing at their peak. Fat salaries and endless perks don’t guarantee retention and performance; they’ll attract a steady stream of applicants, but they won’t make...

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How to Give Feedback to Employees Who Can’t Handle Criticism

Originally written by Brian Anderson at BambooHR. Giving feedback is important. It’s an essential part of effective communication and a key to helping employees improve. And most of the time, it’s well received: according to a study by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman published in Harvard Business Review, 57 percent of employees...

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3 Reasons Your Employees Want Frequent Feedback

By Tori Fica, BambooHR   If you’re an informed, strategic HR professional (which, if you’re here, then you must be) you’re well aware that traditional annual performance reviews are rapidly falling out of favor within many companies. Reserving feedback for one session per year is silly—as silly as asking sports coaches to...

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The Case for Keeping Performance Management

Tori Fica, BambooHR In the 1950s, the first fast food restaurants—as we know them today—entered the dining industry. These diners boasted delicious food for the whole family, all of it ready in just a few minutes. Speed and convenience were the name of the game, and people loved it. However, over time...

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Underpromise and Overdeliver for Improved Employee Experiences

By Bryson Kearl, BambooHR Generally speaking, I’m a slow learner. Which explains why I used to make promises to my kids. It took me far too long to realize that if I promise we’ll go for ice cream one day, and we don’t do it, disaster will ensue. Even minor expectations unfulfilled—like...

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Workplace Happiness: a Little Happiness Brings a Lot More Productivity

Kelsie Davis, BambooHR Some business leaders dismiss happiness as something that employees can do on their own time. Unfortunately, a lack of attention to employee happiness isn’t just bad business practice because it makes your workplace miserable, it also has a negative impact on employee productivity. In fact, one study found that...

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The Top HR Conferences in 2017-2018 You Can’t Afford to Miss

Rob de Luca, BambooHR Which HR conferences are you interested in attending this year? It’s hard to overstate the value of a good conference.  The benefits of networking alone are worth the investment. The problem is knowing which conferences are worth the cost. (If you’re looking for a solid free option, make sure...

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The Top HR Conferences in 2017-2018 You Can’t Afford to Miss

Rob de Luca, BambooHR Which HR conferences are you interested in attending this year? It’s hard to overstate the value of a good conference.  The benefits of networking alone are worth the investment. The problem is knowing which conferences are worth the cost. (If you’re looking for a solid free option, make sure...

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Remote Work: Fleeting Fad or Enduring Evolution?

Looking for research? View PayScale’s Research and Strategy Guide on How to Set Pay for Remote Workers Tori Fica, BambooHR The late ’90s and early 2000s brought an armada of trends we’d like to just as soon forget—frosted tips in the hair, ultra-baggy jeans, Furby, walkmans. Let’s not continue. However, it also introduced cellphones,...

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The Role of HR: Central Nervous System for Your Organization

Brian Anderson, BambooHR In biology, the centralized nervous system is one of the hallmarks of an advanced organism. It coordinates essential functions like heartbeat, reflex, and growth so effortlessly that we don’t even have to think about them. This frees us to succeed at more than just basic survival, giving us space...