Retaining talent by supporting older workers

Avoid legal pitfalls of ending employment contracts. In today's employment climate, very few terminations are without some level of legal risk. Often, employers approach termination decisions without fully considering their legal obligations, and they fail to take important steps that will reduce the risk of legal claims. Managers and HR professionals may spend years wrapped up in litigation that could have been avoided by devoting an hour or two toward evaluating and planning a termination. Identify key steps that every employer should take in preparing for a termination, and how to approach a termination in a manner that decreases rather than increases the risk of a wrongful termination claim.

The employee-employer relationship has been challenged and changed in the last two years. This is complicating organizations’ ability to measure the full employee experience as engagement is no longer enough. Learn how organizations are thinking beyond engagement to build a holistic measure of employee experience, including well-being, resilience, work friction and connectedness. Join this complimentary HR webinar to understand how employees value their work and how understanding those values underpins building and measuring a compelling employee experience.

Determine if text message recruiting is the right fit for your candidates. Text messaging can be a valuable tool to work with candidates, particularly millennials - because they grew up text messaging family and friends. Setting interviews and conversations are much easier using texting. However, text messaging is not Staples' Easy Button for the balance of the Recruiting Process. A particular concern is the desire of the candidate to only use text messaging to communicate.

The offboarding process is an essential part of the employee lifecycle. As we gradually return to a more typical day-to-day post-pandemic, the workplace experience is also reconstituting, and there is an opportunity to simultaneously streamline the offboarding process through automation, but more importantly, make the experience more human.