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Sleeping Your Way to the Top
No, I’m not talking about casting couches. I’m talking about naps and the benefits of allowing and even encouraging short spells of sleeping on the job. Especially amid today’s pressure-cooker work climates, 20-minute siestas can improve employee sanity and performance. Not everyone can nap. And
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Flex Schedules Tops Workers' Summer Wish List
A new Robert Half study also showed that employers may be warming up to such perks, with 75 percent of human resources managers saying their company offers flexible schedules during the summer
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Jacksonville Jaguars Owner Targeted by UAW Effort to Organize Auto Parts Plants
Shahid Khan, the Pakistan-born self-made billionaire who bought the Jaguars for more than $700 million in January, traditionally has been a private figure in the auto industry, but his profile this year became more public as the owner of an NFL franchise. His emerging visibility in the NFL has ...
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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. and HRmarketer Services Group, shows that the metrics most valued for quantifying the outcomes of the
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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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Auto Industry Execs: We're Hiring
In the past year, IAC Group North America, the big interior supplier, has hired about 350 employees at its Belvidere, Illinois, plant to supply interiors for the Dodge Dart and Jeep Patriot and Compass made at Chrysler Group's plant there.
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Goodyear Commits to Hiring 1,000 U.S. Military Veterans
Goodyear said it will hire the veterans over the next three years through its partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Hiring Our Heroes program.
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Business Spells COO a New Way: MIA
Across Chicago and the rest of the U.S., chief operating officers are being erased from the org chart. The disappearing act is part of the evolution toward flatter business structures as well as get-lean pressures that have companies looking twice at any personnel expense.
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Alliant Wins Battle With Aon Over Poaching Charges
In a lawsuit filed last year, London-based Aon has alleged that several of its former executives conspired with Newport Beach, California-based Alliant to solicit at least 40 other employees of Aon's construction services group to quit Aon and join Alliant.
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How Should We Use Retirees to Train Our Younger Workers?
Our organization would like to implement cross-training in light of a large number of seasoned employees who are approaching retirement. How can we go about keeping these experienced folks on as consultants after they retire? What is the key to making this solution work?
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Survey: Time Wasted on Poor Performers
Supervisors spend 17 percent of their time, or nearly one day per week, overseeing poorly performing employees.
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Mine Safety Agency Cites Tire, Mining Companies in Worker's Death
Purcell Tire & Rubber Co. said it will contest citations from the Mine Safety & Health Administration over the Oct. 28, 2011, death of a mining tire technician at the Newmont USAgold mine in Carlin, Nevada.
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401(k) Plan Balances Hit Record High for 2012: Fidelity
For the three month period ending Sept. 30, employees' average account balances jumped 4.2 percent from the prior quarter, and 18 percent compared with the end of the third quarter of 2011 when account balances averaged $64,300, according to Fidelity Investments.
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Survey: Two-Thirds Seek to Hire Veterans
Looking to leverage the technical and leadership skills of military personnel, three in 10 hope to fill information technology positions with veterans.
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Meeting in the Middle
It's well known that more and more women have entered the workforce over the years. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that about 31 percent of adult women were employed in 1948, but that figure, which has dipped in recent years, jumped to 55 percent by 2011. What's less well-known
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More Workers Feeling Bullied on the Job: Survey
A total of 35 percent of workers said they have felt bullied at work, compared with the 27 percent who made such a report a year ago.
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Salaries for Training and Development Managers
Changes in data collection techniques make it difficult to compare past, present and future employment numbers and salaries for managers in human resources, compensation and benefits, and training and development. Before 2004, the Standard Occupational Classification system did not capture ...
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How Do We Cope With Generational Conflict?
What best practices do leading companies apply when managing a multigenerational workforce?
