Sage

None | May 10, 2016

A multi-national company’s India office organised a town hall with its global CEO. The management circulated a mail, requesting all employees to be in formals, in their best behaviour, take less breaks and have polite and inconspicuous conversations. “The idea was to look presentable in front of the CEO but why circulate a mail for it? Don’t we know how to behave when outsiders are coming?” said an irked employee....

HR resource | January 27, 2017

Accounting software firm the Sage Group plc is making it easier for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to manage their workforce. This week the company released Sage People, a cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solution optimized for what it calls “the specific workforce challenges” faced by midsize enterprises, allowing “growing and global organizations” to speed up and streamline every aspect of their workforce management cycle....

HR Dive | December 13, 2018

Candidates want culture fit. One-third of job seekers would decline an offer if they didn't feel there was a good culture fit, and 90% of employers believe culture fit is more important than skills and experience. This shift in thinking has a lot of businesses working hard to promote their corporate culture and ensure applicants get the message.But how do you help candidates, who only see a snippets of organizations during the job hunt process, understand the kinds of companies they ma...

HR Dive | January 31, 2019

Speaking on a Robert Half webinar panel last Tuesday, Jan. 29, Microsoft's Head of Global Talent Acquisition Chuck Edward advised HR professionals to approach organizational culture as a storytelling opportunity — one that illuminates the meaning behind their organizations' work and shows new hires the greater purpose for them within that architecture. "Will they have an impact? Will they have purpose? Will they have scale to their work? Will they have meaning?" Edward as...