The human resources cheat sheet for small businesses without an HR person

whitePaper | November 10, 2022

Being able to listen to, recognize, and value employees can be a challenge, but it's one that effective organizations need to be able to manage. Leaders who heed feedback build trust and create opportunities for achievements to be celebrated daily.

whitePaper | February 7, 2023

Employees want to grow. It’s no longer a lifetime commitment to an employer, but if your people stay an extra year or two, everyone benefits. There is vested interest in career mobility that benefits both when done well.

whitePaper | October 5, 2022

Although the candidate and recruiter experiences are distinctly different from one another, they’re also deeply intertwined. When the end-to-end candidate experience is positive, it’s a good bet that the recruiter experience is too. When candidates are struggling to cope with poor, disjointed, or protracted experiences, recruiters and hiring managers are likely struggling with similar issues.

whitePaper | December 9, 2019

The human jobs that remain require specialized skillsets, not just warm bodies. And as technical competencies are increasingly automated, what were previously considered soft skills are becoming the hard skills. These are mainly behavioral in context and are often referred to as transversal competencies. That’s according to the Future of Jobs Report 2022, published by the World Economic Forum, which identifies the skills that are increasingly in demand and those that are becoming less important.

whitePaper | June 30, 2022

The new world of work is a hybrid environment, and the confluence of people and technology is the way forward. From 2020 to 2021, the world witnessed a paradigm shift that would change the state of HR. Economic uncertainty and the “Great Resignation” played a crucial role in convincing HR teams to shift from traditional setups to more flexible working arrangements. Companies that digitized their HR processes early on had a clear advantage in their transition to hybrid work. Meanwhile, other companies have begun using HR technology more in the hybrid era but to varying degrees of success. The next step now is for HR leaders to leverage HR technology to address new challenges such as employee engagement and retention.

whitePaper | December 17, 2021

The needs of the modern enterprise are no longer built on labor arbitrage but on creative innovation. In the last 40 years, the contributions of digital technology in enabling this innovation has proven prodigious. Today, we stand at a new threshold, with a confluence of transformative tools of our own making, such as block chain, machine learning, neural networking, and artificial intelligence, just to name a few. When combined they possess the potential to offer us the ability to create a new kind of workforce, a digital workforce, one that can work alongside humans to help them make the best, data-driven decisions and enhance productivity.