Remote work is a hurdle for career advancement
Employers may be favoring in-person employees with more development and networking opportunities.
Training
How to prevent your DEI efforts from losing steam
Diversity and inclusion must involve more than hiring quotas and anti-bias training in order to change your company culture.
Spend a little, save a lot: 6 cost-effective ways to train your workforce
Make the most of your skill-building budget.
Benefits Think How to onboard employees remotely
With this massive shift to remote work, many HR processes now need to be conducted online, including the onboarding of new employees.
Gilles Bertaux
Livestorm
Technology can bridge the workplace diversity gap
Employers are utilizing artificial intelligence and virtual tech tools to navigate the conversation about diversity and inclusion.
HR startup Degreed raises funding at $1.4 billion value
Degreed, a software company serving human resource departments, provides training and career development programs.
Employers feel confident their workforce has the skills to succeed post-COVID
Employees have improved their technical, analytical and project management skills during the pandemic.
Benefits Think How to upskill employees for the digital age
It’s critical companies and their employees see skills development as a constant process rather than the one-and-done event it used to be. Here’s how to go about it.
Kristen Griffin
University of Phoenix
Employee education is the key to preventing costly skills gaps
Employees want opportunities to advance and learn new skills through development programs offered by their employers.
Unconcious bias training may hurt corporate diversity efforts
The movement against unconscious bias training, once a key element of employers’ diversity and inclusion strategies, is growing.
Estee Lauder creates new division to oversee diversity promises
The goal is to ensure the company meets commitments, which include increasing Black employment to population parity at all levels of the business.
Chipotle expands benefits to focus on employee education
The majority of employees say it’s difficult to find a good job or advance at their current position because of the pandemic.
Best of the week: Employers pushing to reboot business in 2021
Employers have big plans to recruit more workers in 2021. But deciding where they’ll work is the most recent workplace debate.
New SHRM initiative tackles workplace toxicity
Just 32% of employees report feeling satisfied with their jobs amid COVID. That’s a decline from 57% before the pandemic, according to research firm The Martec Group.
5 workplace benefits employees want this year
From diversity efforts to greater workplace flexibility, employees have high expectations for what their employer has to offer in the new year.
Gamifying training, onboarding can help boost engagement for Gen Z
From rewards and incentives to leaderboards — here’s how engaging technology such as gamification can help train and onboard the younger generations of employees.
5 ways to prevent unconscious bias from ruining your company culture
Unconscious bias can impact an organization’s hiring practices and overall company culture — and unfair habits may be intensifying under the isolation of quarantine.
Microsoft, LinkedIn to retrain unemployed workers for in-demand jobs
The program uses LinkedIn data to find the jobs that employers most want to fill, and offers free access to content that helps workers develop the required skills.
Why annual diversity training isn’t enough to combat racism
While 98% of companies offer diversity initiatives, training cannot be the only tool in a company’s arsenal to combat bias in the workplace.
Internship programs altered amid coronavirus pandemic
Firms are delaying, shortening or making virtual their internship programs this summer as efforts to slow the pandemic around the world leave employees working from home.
