What Are Today's College Graduates Looking For?
You need the talent & creativity brought by recent college graduates, especially when you take into consideration the looming employment gap occurring as Baby Boomers retire.

What Should HR's Role Be in the 21st Century?
Human resources long-term planning no longer works because the pace of change is increasingly complex and unpredictable.

Perk Place: The Benefits Offered by Google and Others May Be Grand, but They're All Business
Companies want to create both an appealing environment to attract and retain employees and make people feel they belong, but they also want to increase productivity.

Gadgets at Work
Underlying this emerging trend are young and tech-savvy workers entering the workplace, lower technology costs and the need to innovate quickly using web applications.

Most Employers Voluntarily Offer Time Off to Vote
Whether workers are entitled to take time off from work to vote is governed by state law. Be sure to check your state laws for the law that applies in your state(s).

New Developments on Verifying Employment Eligibility
Learn the new rules for Form I-9, which employers must complete to verify that new hires are authorized to work in the United States.

Sleepless in America
A new Sleep in America poll released by the National Sleep Foundation finds longer work days leave Americans nodding off on the job, costing employers billions in lost productivity.

OSHA Benefits for Small Businesses
OSHA encourages all businesses to establish safety and health programs and find and fix hazards to prevent workplace injuries and illnesses.

How Individual States Regulate Safety and Health Programs
The OSH Act of 1970 encourages states to develop and operate their own job safety and health plans under the authority of state law.

After the Pomp and Circumstance - Empowering College Graduates
According to some surveys, today’s college graduates seek more than status and money. “A meaning to life” mantra is also ringing in their ears.

How Small Businesses Recruit at Colleges
Remember that during recruiting all potential applicants are either potential customers or know potential customers.

Tap Into this Talent Pool - College Students with Disabilities
The U.S. Department of Labor has made available a free database of 1,769 new job candidates with disabilities seeking work in a wide variety of fields.

Can Social Media Enhance Employee Communication?
Social media has begun to improve companies' ability to enhance employee communication.

What Can You Do to Adapt and Grow Future Leaders?
Tomorrows leaders can be challenged today to broaden their experience base.

Are You Losing Employees You Want to Keep?
The cost to replace an employee who leaves is 50 percent of that person's salary. Here are five tools for creating an employee retention tool kit.

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More Confident, Less Careful: Why Office Romances Are Hard to Manage
If everything you knew about office life came from NBC's serial mockumentary "The Office," you would be forgiven for thinking romance is the main spice of workplace life.

Tags: office relationships, workplace dating, company culture, office romance, SHRM, Wharton

The True Costs of Employee Turnover
Many companies face challenges when confronted with staff vacancies. Time is money, and unfilled positions translate into lost revenue.

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Playing the Sleuth: Interviewing is the Key to Finding the Right Person for the Job
For companies that want to cultivate a productive, creative and bottom-line-oriented corporate culture, the initial interview of a job candidate is that all-important step in determining who is right for the job.

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One-Third of Employers Don't Offer Orientation Program, Survey Finds
Although businesses want new staff to "hit the ground running," some firms may be hindering employees by not offering enough resources during their first days on the job.

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Multiplier Effect: The Financial Consequences of Worker Absences
When workers take sick days, the financial impact on the company is not always related only to the specific job the sick employee performs. The impact can often ripple throughout the company, especially if the employee is part of a team whose output is time sensitive.

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Is Your Standard Separation Agreement Legally Enforceable? Tips for Avoiding Legal Pitfalls
Many employers enter separation agreements with employees upon their separation from their jobs. So long as those agreements provide for payment of additional money or benefits in addition to what the employee is already entitled to receive beyond their termination, they should always contain waiver and release provisions.

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I Do's & Don'ts: How Changes in Marriage, Divorce & Childbirth Are Redefining the Workplace
According to a new study by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, professors of business and public policy at Wharton, marriage and divorce rates in the United States are both at historic lows. Specifically, the number of people getting married, which has been falling for the past 25 years, is at its lowest point in recorded history, while the divorce rate in 2005 reached its lowest level since 1970.

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Flexible schedules and training important when attracting seniors to employment
Nearly 70 percent of participants to a survey conducted by Experience Works and analyzed by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), said that if we want more older people in the workplace, we need to encourage companies to provide more training for seniors.

Tags: flexible schedules, training, older workers, NIOSH, CCH

Chief Receptionist Officer? Title Inflation Hits the C-Suite
We're all familiar with titles like chief executive officer, chief financial officer and chief operating officer. We have even grown used to chief technology officer, chief marketing officer and chief diversity officer.

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Five Ways to Capture Top Talent Among Today’s Job Seekers
With the baby boomers moving out of the workforce, companies are finding there are more than enough jobs to go around and they must now compete for the best employees. Finding talented people who can make a difference in achieving company goals has become a major focus in today’s economy.

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