For 20 years, I’ve been a diversity trainer and consultant – as an internal employee, subcontractor for other firms, and president of my own company. Aside from providing excellent value to my clients, my goal has been to improve the…
This is the question posed by Ohio House Bill 704. Let's be clear. This law, if enacted, would not require drug testing as a condition for all applicants for unemployment benefits. Only those: for whom there exists reasonable cause to suspect…
The Society for Human Resource Management has never struck me as a powerhouse on Capitol Hill. Oh yes, SHRM members have testified before Congress in the past. One exchange has stuck with me. It was a testy discussion in 2009…
Among the hundreds of benefits that employers can offer employees, health care is king. The Society for Human Resource Management released its annual benefits survey on June 19, and one major trend seen among the 3,518 HR professionals surveyed was…
Artificial intelligence for recruiters makes the jump from science fiction to reality at the 2018 SHRM Conference in Chicago.
The second day of the 2018 SHRM Conference featured a call for HR to finds its voice and adapt to a volatile business environment.
"Say SHRMeese!” That’s a phrase one person chose to use when he was asked…
One major lesson that the #MeToo movement has taught the human resources profession is that HR has a responsibility to address harassment in workplace policy level as well as in public…
Earlier this spring when I met with new CEO Johnny C. Taylor Jr. at SHRM’s offices near Washington, D.C., I asked him what his inaugural speech to conference attendees would look like. “It’s like coming to a church revival on…
Workforce is speaking to workplace experts via live stream during the SHRM 2018 conference on various HR trends.
Historically, the role of human resources in managing emergency mass notification systems has been somewhat restrained, with HR professionals often deferring to IT and security decision makers, or those responsible for facilities management and business continuity. But HR is increasingly…
There’s good news and bad news about our current preoccupation with eliminating offensive language and behaviors from the workplace. The good news is that the feelings and experiences of a wider swath of humanity matter more now. Women, people of…
Of all the things that will send a chill through a workplace, setting the office thermostat has employees either hot under the collar or giving one another the cold shoulder. Based on a new survey, setting and re-setting the temperature…
From artificial intelligence and automation to machine learning and semantic search, we’ve been inundated with the industry’s hottest buzzwords, but what do these terms really mean for us in the talent acquisition space and for the future of our profession?…
SHRM’s new CEO Johnny C. Taylor has an ambitious agenda for his first year leading the world’s largest HR organization. Much of that will focus on the organization’s backbone — small and medium-sized businesses.
An organization’s culture can be, and often is, the driver of many things within a company. And as such, it’s a very important part of the whole. Since the culture of any company is the sum of the behaviors of…
The world was rocked last week, first by the suicide of Kate Spade and then by that of Anthony Bourdain. American suicide rates have skyrocketed, up 30 percent since 1999, emblematic of the larger mental-health epidemic we are facing. Many…
As thousands of HR practitioners come to Chicago to educate themselves on the latest HR trends at SHRM’s annual conference, Shelli Nelson, president of the organization’s Chicago Chapter, provides her guidance.
Constant technological advancement is seen as a positive for some and a negative for others. That progression in the workplace is affecting people’s health due to fear of losing their jobs, according to a new study. “County-level Job Automation Risk…
In a case that sharply divided the Supreme Court on ideological lines but which will delight many employers, the court ruled that employees who sign arbitration agreements can be precluded from participating in class actions and thus must litigate their…
