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Secrets To Keeping Your Staff Happy
As a business owner who also has staff to take care of, you will have a lot of decisions to make and a lot of responsibilities. The happier you can make your staff, the more productive, loyal, and hard working they are going to be, and that counts for a lot; it means you can…
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Groundbreaking Research on Organizational Agility with Oracle on We’re Only Human
“What we’re telling customers is that we can help make work more human. First is really putting empathy at the forefront of the employee experience. It’s up to HR to work with leadership and create this human experience.” Munjal Munshi, Oracle  We’re Only Human – Episode 93 Organizational agility is a critical part of…
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Identifying the Skills of Enterprise Organizations with Starmind on We’re Only Human
“At the beginning of my career, HR was looked at as a necessary evil. Now it’s completely flipped to where HR is the driving force for how companies grow and expand.” Eric Storm, Starmind We’re Only Human – Episode 92 Skills are the currency of business. Research shows that in the 1980s, 85%+ of organizational…
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Handling the Clash of Parenting and Work in a Pandemic [Video]
Last week I had a chance to bring together an amazing panel to talk about how to support parents in a challenging work environment. This conversation featured: Donielle Buie, HR leader in charge of employee wellbeing at the Broad Institute Shana Sweeney, CHRO of SugarCRM Jonathan Corke, marketing leader at Bright Horizons In the video…
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Blockchain, Skills, and the Future of Work with the Velocity Network Foundation on We’re Only Human
“We as an industry are driving toward the cliff and the HCM [technology] vendors are competing over who offers better tire pressure.” Dror Gurevich, Velocity Network Foundation We’re Only Human Podcast Episode 91 How are organizations gathering skill data inside the business? Our research shows that the most common method is also one of the most…
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Virtual Open Enrollment and Benefits Communication Strategies on We’re Only Human
“We need help communicating the benefits we pour our hearts and souls into and making them successful for our employees.” Jesse Albro, Flimp Communications We’re Only Human Episode 90 Heads up: open enrollment will happen this year. While this seems like the strangest year in, well, forever, it also has some predictable elements to it.…
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Childcare, School, and the Workforce: Practical Ideas for a Universal Challenge
A new study shows childcare shortages in the U.S. are costing employers $12.7 billion a year due to lost productivity. As the dad of four kids ages 10 and under, I can understand where the numbers are coming from. Over the last few months, we’ve seen tremendous growth in the number of conversations about childcare…
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