According to our recent HR Employee Communication Survey, 23 percent of respondents say they use paper-based processes to communicate with employees, making it the most popular method. That means more HR departments are using paper than email (19 percent) or an intranet (18 percent). This is a potential ticking time bomb. Given the volume of HR documents and the complexity of data retention requirements, paper-based systems can quickly become unmanageable.

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Given record low unemployment numbers, the best candidates for open positions at your company are already working somewhere else. That means candidates are no longer auditioning for jobs. The current job market is very much candidate-driven. Employers are doing the auditioning, while the candidates should be viewed as customers looking for solutions.

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Should you mix business with pleasure? Conventional wisdom says no, but there is mounting evidence that coworker friendships are critical to the modern work experience.

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A few years ago, astronaut Buzz Aldrin shared a surprising anecdote about the 1969 moon landing mission — he was required to file a travel expense report with NASA! His reported expenses for the eight-day, 480,000-mile trip totaled $33.31 for the use of government vehicles, including cars, planes and spacecraft.

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The annual performance review is a time-honored process in which management provides employees with assessments of their job performance throughout the preceding year. Originating during the Industrial Revolution, the formalized review process is now ingrained in the corporate structure. More than 90 percent of businesses say they continue to conduct annual reviews.

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 Over the past year, the FBI, the IRS and numerous security analysts have warned of a marked rise in cyber attacks targeting human resources professionals. Given the type of information under HR’s control, it’s a wonder that such attacks are only a fairly recent phenomenon.

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The vast majority of human resources (HR) professionals say that a growing skills gap is making it incredibly difficult to recruit suitable candidates in a broad range of job categories. To address this gap, organizations are increasingly leveraging their HR intranets to implement, manage, and track a variety of training and development programs.

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The old-fashioned suggestion box once was a valuable tool for soliciting feedback from employees and giving them a voice in the direction of a company. In a 1954 article, Time magazine reported that suggestion boxes generated scores of ideas that saved money and boosted production for U.S. industries.

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Few factors impact an organization’s success more than the ability to make good hiring decisions. To illustrate the point, consider Giovanni Carmazzi and Spergon Wynn.

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Sir Richard Branson once said that he relies on “gut instinct” rather than analyzing “huge amounts of statistics” when making business decisions. It’s hard to argue with his methods —the entrepreneur founded a multinational conglomerate (the Virgin Group) of some 400 companies and has built a net worth of more than $5 billion.

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