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What Will Human Resources Look Like in the Near Future?
The last decade has seen lots of changes in human resources. Looking back, it seems hard to predict that social media and other emerging trends would have taken hold. What's in store for the future of human resources and are there steps our HR organization should take to prepare?
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2022: A Workplace Odyssey
… phones have changed in just five years—but the future workplace isn’t all about technology taking over either ..... Today and is a founding partner of consulting firm Future Workplace , says Ignite smartly fosters collaboration skills …
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Possible Civil Rights Reform Under Obama Could Benefit Businesses
Human resources departments nationwide could be rewriting policies and drafting new procedures over the next four years if the president and his administration are able to accomplish the goals expressed in his second inaugural address.
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Wellness Programs Can Reduce Worker Medical Costs by 18 Percent: Study
The report said wellness programs could reduce costs for risks such as physical inactivity, smoking, high blood pressure and obesity. If the risk factors were lowered to “theoretical minimums,” health care expenses could be lowered by an average of $650, or 18.4 percent, for all working adults, the
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Disaffected Workers Want Out of Unions
As organized labor loses leverage in a race-to-the-bottom global market, some workers are becoming so disillusioned by what their unions can, or rather can't, do for them that they want out.
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Credentialing, Competency, and MOOCs
Our lives will be enriched by technology with advances in learning and communication beyond the limited horizon of our vision. As we move forward, though, we need to take measured, careful steps and keep in mind that learning at work needs to produce ongoing results … not high scores for our ...
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EEOC Settles Seventh Day Adventist Religious Discrimination Suit
Experts say religious discrimination claims in the workplace are expected to be a growing problem for employers.
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The Last Word: 'Papa John,' Can You Spare a Dime for Health Care?
… quality coverage. Some, like value-based insurance design and direct primary care, could be the wave of the future . Workplace clinics, which have existed for decades, are undergoing a huge renovation. If politics is Papa John's newest …
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Skilled Workers Scarce Despite Unemployment
Staffing company ManpowerGroup of Milwaukee said in a 2011 survey that 52 percent of employers were having problems filling critical positions. That number was up 14 percent from the previous year.
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Don't Forget These Five Security Issues in Your BYOD Policy
Any successful bring-your-own-device program results from a synergy among the C-suite, legal, IT, HR, and risk management. Involve all of these departments to make sure that your BYOD program is successful, and addresses all necessary security issues.
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Are Your Policies Updated to Account for Ohio's New Ban on Texting While Driving?
Remind employees that texting while driving is not only against the law, but also against company policy. Your insurance carriers, and, believe it or not, your employees and their families, will thank you.
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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. 1, 2013, to comply with the law, while employers with between 24 and 100 employees have until July
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The Midnight Shift Returns as Automakers Boost Output
By the start of 2013, 22 of the 83 assembly plants in North America will operate with three shifts of workers, and nearly half of all vehicles built here will come from a three-shift plant.
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General Motors' CEO Dan Akerson Urges Employees to 'Behave With Integrity'
Akerson told employees he wants to focus GM more on brands and customers, and better position the company to survive the next 50 or 100 years.
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Group Health Plan Costs Up 4.1 Percent in 2012, Smallest Increase in 15 years: Mercer
The 4.1 percent increase brought health plan costs to an average of $10,558 per employee in 2012, compared with $10,146 per employee in 2011, according to the survey.
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Health Care Reform a 'Badge of Honor' for Democrats: HHS Secretary
During her speech, Kathleen Sebelius detailed what she said are some of the achievements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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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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NLRB Continues to Attack Facially Neutral Employment Policies
Employers, I wish I could whisk up a magical elixir to solve this problem. Alas, at least for the time being, we are stuck with the NLRB's intrusiveness into the world of work rules, and the grave uncertainty that comes along for the ride.
