Explore the Differences of Cloud Versus On-Premise Workforce Management Systems
Once you determine that transitioning to a workforce management solution will optimize productivity, your next decision is how to implement it. For a long time, processes and systems used to house employee information were only found at the company. From implementation to daily administrative duties, HR and IT staff typically held primary duties for ensuring…
Maintaining Workplace Diversity
In today’s economic market, most companies understand why it’s important to employ a diverse representation across teams. However manageable it is to recruit and hire diverse employees, diversity is not easy to maintain. Human resource managers are consistently tasked to consider diversity when it comes to employee retention. Diversity enriches the workplace environment in such…
Managers or Mentors? A Millennial’s Take on the Workplace
Millennials: now the largest generation in the US, willing shares with others what they want and expect out of life, careers and the world. They are not shy, expect to enjoy life differently than most of us and tend to “move on” if they do not get what they want. They confuse us because their…
Expanding the Meaning of Workplace Wellness
Well-being in the workplace is usually centralized around physical fitness and nutrition as a principal means of achieving good health. The way employers define wellness is redefined as organizations discover new ways to provide workers with well-being benefits outside of tradition. There are exciting trends on the horizon that take wellness to the next level…
Increasing the Utility of A Remote Workforce in 2018
Working virtually from anywhere will be an increasing HR trend in 2018. In a 20-year span working from home, at a coffee shop, and other convenient locations outside of the job location increased from 4% to 37%. VPN and other technology make it easy to access work and all related cloud based systems from nearly…
What is a Split Shift?
The term split shift is one that is commonly spoken about by those who take advantage of the benefit. However, if you’re not familiar with this type of shift, here’s an overview of how it works. A split shift is one in which a worker chooses to fulfill their work hours in two shifts. Whereas, typically most…
Manager’s Guide: How to Overcome the Challenges of Working with Millennials and Technology
Our world seems to be spinning faster and faster, and in the middle of it are struggling managers who must continually balance technological change while learning to supervise a new generation of employees, known as Millennials. This new generation of employees has different expectations and agendas, which requires that their managers be trained accordingly. Given,…
Are AI Products Making Humans into Former Employees?
AI, or Artificial Intelligence, seems to be the favorite topic appearing in today’s ongoing press releases. There are a lot of talks, a lot of implied fear, and even more confusion and misunderstanding about what exactly AI is and is not. Artificial Intelligence is impacting both current and future states of our nation. It is…