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Streamlining HR administration: Enhancing efficiency and focus

Insperity

A robust human resources (HR) infrastructure is like the foundation of a house: If it’s not there or your HR administration is unwieldy and ineffective, everything falls apart at a company. On the flip side, a well-built HR infrastructure with streamlined and efficient HR administration is the base that supports many of a company’s successes. It’s also the secret behind doing HR well.

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The Top Tech Buzzwords of 2024, According to Google Trends

Spiceworks

We love to hate buzzwords. but what happens after some time has passed? Peter Tsai takes a deep dive into how some of 2022's biggest buzzwords have held up. The post The Top Tech Buzzwords of 2024, According to Google Trends appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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The McKinsey Crossword: Cutting Edge | No. 199

McKensey

Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you’re looking for a quick win.

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Levels of Employee Engagement and Ways to Improve it

Vantage Circle

Has it ever occurred to you how engaged your employees truly are? Are they all engaged on the same level, or do their levels vary? Given the utmost significance of employee engagement today, it is high time to ponder where your employees stand in engagement levels. Understanding the different levels of employee engagement is vital for organizations aiming to cultivate a positive work culture and boost productivity.

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The next era of private credit

McKensey

A new private credit ecosystem is emerging across asset managers, banks, and insurers. Here’s what it means for the industry.

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The Link Between Workplace Design And Productivity with Janet Pogue McLaurin

All Work

A Journey Through Workplace Design: Insights with Janet Pogue McLaurin Setting the Stage: An Architect’s 42-Year Legacy We kick off with a warm welcome to Janet Pogue McLaurin , who has dedicated over four decades to Gensler , contributing her vast expertise to workplace research and design. Janet’s experiences range from working with the largest global corporations to managing offices across continents.

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How to turn your nontraditional background into an interview (and career) asset

Work Life

My morning routine has remained largely unchanged over the years. Just as I did when competing as a D1 athlete, I still wake up early and work out. Only now, instead of heading to my practice, I shepherd my kids to different schools and their early morning practices. Then, I dive into my career: the strategy work and support I give to my team as they tackle the deluge of job applications I sift through every day in my role as VP of Talent Acquisition at Guild —by my count, about 1,000 per week.

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The Gap Between Labor Rights and Employee Well-Being

CoreHealth Workplace Wellness

Labor rights laws vary globally and affect employee well-being differently. They aim to establish baseline standards for employee treatment, focusing on work hours, occupational safety, and fair wages. While labor rights laws aim to protect the employee, they provide a minimum standard, often leaving the employee to fill in the gaps for their needs.

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Magnusson Klemencic Associates (MKA) Offices – Seattle

Office Snapshots

Weaver Architects and Ekorn Studio reimagined 32,000 sf into a timeless sense of place for Magnusson Klemencic Associates (MKA), a Pacific Northwest structural engineering icon with a global presence. Designed with the firm’s vision, identity, and culture in mind, the result offers a host of flexible and dynamic spaces that energize and engage the professional talent for whom the space is meant to cater.

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Here’s the science behind mixed emotions

Work Life

Countless parents across the country recently dropped their kids off at college for the first time. This transition can stir a whirlwind of feelings: the heartache of parting, sadness over a permanently changed family dynamic, the uncertainty of what lies ahead—but also the pride of seeing your child move toward independence. Some might describe the goodbye as bittersweet, or say that they’re feeling mixed emotions.

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5 Ways to Show Your Value at Work

Success

After two years of scrambling to attract talent, companies are suddenly focused on cutting staff. More than half of U.S. business leaders (60%) said their company is likely to have layoffs in the second half of this year, according to a survey from ResumeTemplates.com. Several companies , including Cisco, Intel, IBM and Goldman Sachs , have announced plans to cut staff.

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The 50 colleges and universities making an outsize impact on business and society

Work Life

Welcome to the first-ever edition of Ignition Schools, a collaboration between Fast Company and our sibling publication, Inc. The Ignition Schools list honors the top academic institutions that play an enormous role in shaping the businesses that influence society. Innovation and entrepreneurship—the editorial lodestars for Fast Company and Inc., respectively—are also the focus of Ignition Schools.

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Author Talks: The fight for fairness at work

McKensey

Among many educated women, hard-won workplace gains appear to be waning. Why—and what does this mean for organizational performance?

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These schools don’t fear artificial intelligence. They put it to work

Work Life

A year and a half ago, in the wake of ChatGPT’s enormously popular release , instructors at every educational level rushed to understand how the coming onslaught of artificial intelligence might transform their field, even disrupt it. “Folks in higher education were absolutely scrambling,” says Andrew Maynard, professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University, in Phoenix (No. 40 on Ignition Schools ‘24). “It was almost like organized pa

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Lockheed Martin’s Stacy Kubicek on using multidomain tech in defense

McKensey

Whether they are monitoring threats or involved in active operations, a country’s defense forces must remain connected and unified, which can be achieved through multidomain technology.

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5 rules for succeeding in a family business when your mom is your boss

Work Life

If you work for a family business, you’re not alone. Nearly 60% of employees around the world work at family-owned businesses. Such enterprises, McKinsey & Company note, thrive because they are “adaptable and resilient.” One set of employees faces a specific set of opportunities and challenges. These are the children of the owner. While there are, of course, undeniable privileges that can come with working for a family member, there are also certain difficulties; and children will confront b

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The Rise Of Ghost Jobs

Success

Finding a job has become increasingly difficult. Unemployment rates rose to 4.1% in June , and Americans are staying unemployed for longer. With all the factors involved, job hunting can often feel like a full-time job in itself. But one look at all the job openings on recruiting platforms and LinkedIn suggests a different story. Why? Ghost jobs. “Ghost jobs, which are open positions that companies list but have no intention of filling, create a false sense of opportunity,” says Stephanie Alston

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How Sherri Shepherd fought her way to the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Work Life

As a popular talk show host, Sherri Shepherd’s job is to get celebrities to share their personal stories. But the most fascinating tale might be her own. The host of Sherri, which kicked off its new season on Monday, has come a long way from her hardscrabble early days of getting evicted from her apartment as she tried to make it in show business.

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Data: The Foundation of High-Impact Workplace Experience Teams

Yarooms

The workplace experience (WX) is a key factor in driving business success, and companies that excel in optimizing their work environments understand that workplace experience teams are essential to creating spaces that foster employee satisfaction, productivity, and alignment with business goals.

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Rutgers offers a one-stop innovation shop for its aspiring founders

Work Life

The journey of any invention from inspirational spark to marketable product is complicated under the best of circumstances—even more so when the inventor hails from a university campus. To bring their best ideas out of a lab and into the hands of the public, such founder-researchers must learn a set of skills they might struggle to pick up in the hallowed halls of academia: the art of securing capital.

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Apple’s Customer Loyalty Continues to Thrive Despite Sluggish Demand for iPhone 16

Success

Expectations were high before Apple unveiled the latest iterations of its smartphone lineup. But now that the iPhone 16 series is finally here, preorders got off to a rather slow start, sparking discussions on what could have gone wrong for the Cupertino giant’s premium devices. On Sept. 9, Apple formally introduced a slew of new devices or, technically speaking, yearly updates to its existing products.

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Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures proves you don’t need to move to a tech hub. Just build your own

Work Life

Attracting early-stage investment is never simple, but aspiring founders in Silicon Valley and New York and Singapore take for granted that even if individual deals can be hard to secure, there sure is a lot of money flowing. For those living beyond the easy reach of a high-tech hotbed and prefer it that way, opportunities can be much harder to come by.

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The science and art of change management

Workplace Insight

With all the talk about generative AI, the impact it will have on people, businesses and industries, I started to think what will be the impact on change management and particularly the role of a change professional? And I realised that change management , like potentially most professional roles, is actually split into two halves with one being science and the other being art.

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Stanford, Carnegie Mellon take different interdisciplinary approaches to innovation—with the same great results

Work Life

Many future founders arrive on campus the first time just like the rest of us, unsure of which major they’ll declare, let alone whether their startup idea could be a billion-dollar business. The commitment to building a company—the confidence that takes—appears only once they’re immersed in college life. On this count, schools deploying an interdisciplinary approach to innovation have an advantage: they cultivate fertile ground for budding entrepreneurs to grow their ideas.

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Introducing the Best Practices for Space Management

fm:systems

Optimize office space management with FM:Systems. Discover best practices in our comprehensive guide for facility managers.

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Stellantis searches for a new CEO to cut losses

Work Life

Struggling Jeep and Ram maker Stellantis is looking for a CEO to succeed Carlos Tavares , but the company says it’s just part of a normal leadership succession plan. Tavares has been under fire from U.S. dealers and the United Auto Workers union after a dismal first-half financial performance when the company was caught off guard with too much high-priced inventory on dealer lots.

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Revolutionizing the ‘E’ in ESG: Radical Climate Breakthroughs Taking Center Stage

fm:systems

This session explores the best practices and methodologies for monitoring, measuring, and reporting environmental data.

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3 essential tips for hiring managers to level up their interviewing skills

Work Life

As an executive recruiter with over 20 years of experience, I have interviewed at least 10,000 candidates. A big part of my success as a recruiter is being highly skilled at interviewing and teaching my clients how to interview excellently. A lot of time, effort, and money goes into a recruitment process, so it would be a terrible shame if great candidates don’t take your role because their interview gets mishandled.

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G2 IWMS Grid High Performer Fall 2024

fm:systems

G2 IWMS Grid High Performer Fall 2024

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Advancing inclusive care pathways for people with disabilities

McKensey

Across disease types, patients with disabilities experience inequities all along the care pathway—with consequently worse outcomes. Inclusive pathway designs and targeted interventions could help.

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Women who played sports are more likely to be business leaders

Work Life

Half a century since the passage of Title IX, generations of girls who played sports have grown up and climbed the corporate ladder. Title IX, which was enacted as part of the Education Amendments of 1972, prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools and subsequently requires that institutions provide equal athletic opportunities for both men and women.

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How to Be a Happy, Successful Incurable Schizophrenic

Mad in America

I have known since August 1963 that I am a schizophrenic. It was then that, at the age of seventeen, I had my first schizophrenic hallucination. It was a Beatific Vision. From April 1965 until May 1966, I was hospitalized at McLean Hospital, given large doses of Thorazine and Stelazine, and told by so many psychiatrists in so many ways that I was a hopeless, incurable case and the sooner I realized that I could never lead a happy, productive life, the better it would be for me.