The Essential CHRO Roles Every CEO Must Support
Companies must depend on their chief human resources officers (CHROs) in creating corporate values necessary to achieve success. But more CEOs rarely understand the true ...
How To Stop Cell Phone Abuse in The Workplace
There are obvious needs for cell phones at work. Cell phones are used for basic communications, both with family members, colleagues and important external persons. Howev...
Don’t Let the Happy Hour Turn into Sour Hour!
The Office Happy Hour is one of the best ways to let off some steam! After a long tiring day at work where the conversations that take place are strictly business-like, a...
How to Reduce Workplace Conflict
Workplace conflict is a challenge that every manager should know how to handle. There’s no way to completely escape it. But reducing workplace conflict can be better th...
Job Interview Mistakes HR Managers Must Avoid
While a job interview represents a process to examine candidates’ proficiency for the respective roles, it also offers the candidates an opportunity. Potential employee...
How to Discipline An Employee For Absenteeism
Employee absenteeism dents productivity. But all year round, there are events that will warrant employee absenteeism from work. It could be sickness or other unforeseen e...
Do Workplace Wellness Programs Really Save Money?
In 2016, employee absenteeism – health-related absences in the workplace – drained the U.S. economy of $2 billion, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Pr...
Workplace Suicide: An HR’s Guide on Suicide Postvention in the Workplace
We lost Andy last week. I never met Andy but I often saw him on our floor during my three years at The HR Digest. He was important to a lot of us. For selfish reasons, I ...
Why FMLA Doesn’t Cut It for Growing Startups
A quarter-century ago, President Bill Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act, designed to provide workers up to 12 weeks of job-protected, unpaid leave. Over the...
Small Home Office Layout Ideas That Support Productivity
Setting up a small office at home can be very rewarding, but only if the small home office layout supports adequate productivity. A lot of factors are considered before g...
What Are The Benefits Of Cross-Training Employees?
More managers are beginning to depend on cross-training employees as a prolific staff management policy. But some experts have questioned the strategy; if it’s entirely...
How to Become a CHRO
The position of a CHRO or Chief Human Resource Officer is gravely fundamental in every business. They determine if a business is going to fail or succeed. That’s why ev...
Interview Questions to Ask IT Candidates
Hiring candidates into technology-related positions could be very tricky. It requires critical attention and proper evaluation of answers from exceptional interview quest...
Employee Appreciation: How Can Managers Do Better?
While employee appreciation is not shown as often as it should be, often the efforts go in vain when it is done incorrectly. A recent survey by O. C. Tanner Institute pub...
LinkedIn Talent Insights to provide competitive intelligence for workforce planning
Professional network LinkedIn has launched Talent Insights, a data-driven analytics tool for talent. The tool offers users two reports – Talent Pool and Company – to ...
Facebook exec hits back at WhatsApp co-founder: What leaders could learn
Facebook VP of Messaging Products, David Marcus is defending the conglomerate and talks about rating (class) in the company after Brian Acton, WhatsApp co-founder spoke o...
