In our feature two-part series this week John Sumser lays out the questions that HR departments should be asking (but aren’t). Don’t miss the newest addition to our ongoing Skill Gap series, Skills Gap 5 – The Future is Here. Plus, our resident lawyer and editor Heather Bussing has an important update on the FTC’s […]
The way we work and the way we manage are both changing in front of our eyes. The only way to avoid seeing it is to squint. Here are some snapshots from the front lines.
Senior engineers and first line supervisors found themselves without a map of the new territory. All of the vectors that defined work one day were invalid the next. A trench level employee who looked like he was slacking off might actually be waiting for the machine to finish processing.
While the fancy analysts declare that there are not enough quant heads in HR, it looks more like a shortage of imagination and the ability to visualize stories. Each of the fifteen items in the overall list involve understanding and digesting the impact of data flows on the way we think about our people.
The workplace is changing rapidly, right in front of us. Driven by Moore’s Law, the relationship between our people and their technology is reshaping the way that work gets done, the way we interact with the HR Tech System, how we communicate with each other and the rate at which our companies adapt or die.
If your company is involved in social media, or if your employees blog or tweet as part of their work, they need to remember the FTC’s transparency requirements. The Federal Trade Commission is the consumer agency that brought you “truth in advertising.” Okay. They’re still working on it.
In this week’s feature What Law Applies to Your Virtual Workforce?, Heather Bussing explores the tricky intersection of local employment law and virtual workers who are located in other states. We welcome Jeff Dickey-Chasins aka “The Job Board Doctor”, to the HRExaminer.com Editorial Advisory Board. Be sure to read Jeff’s post Job Board Evolution. John Sumser has three stories – Skills Gap 4: Undercapitalization, Recent Demos, and Five Links: The Unevenly Distributed Future. Enjoy!
Each one of these articles should cause you to scratch your head. The world is changing fast and these ideas are at the forefront of the change. How the outside sees your labor practices, man-machine integration, democratic big data, brain drain is good, build a utility with your brand. Enjoy.
Sometimes, it feels like Demo Central around here. We generally see a couple of software demos a day. Here’s the best of them from the past couple of weeks.
The demands of cashflow management and finance terms don’t really allow for workers to have much onboarding time. This has increased employers’ desire to have plug and play workers. Some of the skills shortage is simply a question of the company’s debt load. They can’t afford to hire someone who is ‘close enough’.
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