HR - Tracks

From well-known classics to surprisingly helpful non-HR titles, these are the recommended summer reads of some of the most revered leaders in EX.

U.S. employers added 75,000 jobs in May, and the unemployment rate held at 3.6 percent, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report.

Building a team is more complicated than collecting talent. I once tried to solve a problem by putting a bunch of PhD's in a room. While comments like that sounded good and got me a lot of projects above my level, they were rarely effective at delivering actual results.

Following last month’s historic ballot initiative in Denver that decriminalized psilocybin magic mushrooms, Oakland City Council has passed a resolution decriminalizing the adult use of all entheogenic plants, including magic mushrooms, cactus and any natural materials used to produce ayahuasca.

The industry's hiring challenges stem from tech advancements, baby boomer retirements and misconceptions about manufacturing jobs, SCORE said.

The employee experience is getting our attention today. There are ways to stop rules and policies from having negative effects on candidates.

Data scientists may well save and elevate the function of human resources, writes Talent Management columnist Peter Cappelli.

The automotive sector led job cuts last month, but retail leads on the year with more than 46,000 losses.

There’s no way to sugarcoat this one. Yesterday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals handed a big loss to gig economy companies by concluding that last year’s Dynamex decision from the California Supreme Court and its wide-reaching 'ABC' test should be applied retroactively. That means the ABC test – which makes it very difficult for gig economy businesses to properly classify their workers as independent contractors rather than employees – will be applied to federal cases when evaluating relationships that businesses thought were to be judged under a much more flexible standard. The background Rewind back to April 2018 when the

A new study finds that when companies transition to pay-for-performance, prescriptions for anxiety and depression medications go up.

In an expletive-laced complaint made in a restroom open to the public, a Quicken Loans employee expressed annoyance about a client wasting his time.

The company allegedly refused to let a bus driver wear an abaya, citing safety concerns, and proposed she wear a knee-length skirt over pants.

The company claims to have zero tolerance for sexual harassment, but it is not doing enough to protect workers

Columnist John Sumser lays out a dozen pitfalls forward-thinking HR leaders need to avoid in the coming years.

It's a fair question. Does IBM deserve to be an expert in the world of HR? When you think of IBM today, you probably think of Watson, the supercomputer that resides at the intersection of processing power and artificia

Even though more states have legalized marijuana for recreational purposes, most of them allow employers to enforce zero-tolerance drug policies and fire employees for off-duty use.

Hot off the press! The Omnipress annual Training Trends Report is now available!
For the third consecutive year, Omnipress conducted a survey of more than 100 training and continuing education professionals. The results reveal emerging trends in learning, technology and program delivery. They also give insight into how other organizations are managing both the opportunities and challenges facing today’s education professionals.  The 2019 Training Trends report provides industry data you can use to leverage your organization’s greatest asset for engaging new and existing learners—education.
 
2019 Training Trends Report
 
This year’s report indicates that 51% of respondents currently offer at least 11 different programs or courses, with 60% of respondents expecting to increase that number in 2019. The good news is that the perceived value of ongoing training and continuing education for industry professionals is on a steady rise. But this increase in programming does present some significant challenges for training pros who already manage a broad portfolio and wide array of responsibilities—particularly as they are also tasked with navigating changes in learner preferences and emerging trends and technologies.
 
Some of the questions and themes explored in this report include:

How are organizations delivering their educational programs today, and what changes to they foresee in the future?
What challenges are organizations facing in delivering this content?
How much are organizations focusing on new and emerging trends?
Are organizations prepared for young professionals?

It’s not quite as allegorical as the renowned English author Charles Dickens may have posited in his well-crafted prose, but the White House convened in December to explore the threat that AI poses to put American workers out of jobs. With the summit themed “Industries of the Future,” it was clear that organizers were spinning more of a Dickens-esque tale of dread, woe, and social satire than the progressive innovation that many know AI to be, poised to revolutionize our global marketplace and unlock untold amounts of business opportunities. So despite many factions of the media and industry still conjuring

So, after much consideration and hand-wringing, you've finally decided you have no choice but to fire someone. What possibly can go wrong? Plenty.

Employers "can't excuse the shortcomings of younger workers while bringing down the hammer on older workers," the court said.