Category: General
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Hiring the Best Remote Workers
Remote work has been around for a while, but it’s only in recent years that the conversation around the phenomenon has grown. With better Internet connectivity across the globe and a changing work culture, remote work has become increasingly popular. It also benefits employers with Owl Labs finding that full-time remote workers are 22% happier…
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WOH 71: How to Scale HR with a Growing Business
As a business grows we hire more people, but how do you manage the growth of the HR team? What roles do you hire for? How do you align with the business? In this conversation, Ben interviews Kellee Webb about the firm’s growth from 80 to 500+ in the last 10 years, including key details…
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4 Steps that Businesses Can Take to Maintain their Growth Trajectory
All businesses have growth patterns. Rather than being a straight line to profitability and rapid growth rates, they tend to run in a prolonged pattern, followed by one or more periods of stagnation. Often, companies never get out of a stagnation period once they fall into one, so it’s important to extend the period of…
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How To Keep Your Remote Workers Happy
With the advances in technology and the ability to stay connected from just about anywhere in the world, careers that don’t require an office have become really popular. Why be tied to a desk or a city when you can get your work remotely from wherever you want and still be a valuable team member?…
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How AI Can Influence Diversity and Inclusion (for Better or Worse)
Recently, news broke that an AI-powered facial recognition technology used by law enforcement was actually biased against, well, pretty much everyone other than white men. This news hit the public like a slap in the face, but it’s something I’ve been seeing behind the scenes for some time now. Artificial intelligence as a technology isn’t good…
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WOH 70: Hint: There’s No Perfect HR Tech System for Everyone
Did you realize that there’s no perfect system for every HR technology buyer? Also, did you know that applying HR technology to a broken process is a surefire way to make the wrong steps even more efficiently? These are some of the key insights gathered during a conversation with Wade Larson, Director of HR for…
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WOH 69: Pricing Skills Versus Jobs with Labor Market Intelligence
Today’s workplace is more flexible and fluid than ever before. In some cases, jobs are too broad, vague, and slow-moving to account for the speed of business. That’s why skills have become more important than ever before not just as a measurement of capability but as a source of data for hiring and compensation. In…