Drawing on a wealth of personal and hands-on research knowledge, serial entrepreneur, author, Forbes contributor and employee engagement junkie Kevin Kruse keeps tabs on the latest articles, blogs and other media related to engagement and shares them on his website and through Forbes. If you want to keep up on what’s topical in leadership, be […]
CRA releases app to help with payments, returns and remittances
Taxes may create fear and panic among many SMB owners in Canada and The US, but a new Canadian government effort aims to make them less of a pain in the app. A new mobile application released recently by the Canada Revenue Agency for Apple iOS, Google Android and BlackBerry allows business owners to create alerts for payments, […]
The Canadian Cloud Council creates ‘un-startup’ event
Always keen to promote all things Canadian and even more inclined to shout about developments in technology, the HR Gazette wanted to highlight some exciting news out of sunny Alberta. The Canadian Cloud Council has announced a quarterly “un-startup event” called Subculture. The inaugural Subculture get-together will be held in conjunction with Mobile Monday Edmonton […]
HR Gazette to release newsletter
The HR Gazette will be launching its e-newsletter this week and we’re so excited that we just had to ‘share the news’ with you! Packed full of news, comment, features and even a few jokes, The HR Gazette newsletter aims to be a resource of choice for HR and management executives across North America and […]
Apps for HR more popular than ever!
The use of mobile apps by workers to view pay and benefits information is continuing to rise. Recruiting vendors are getting particularly more competitive with new mobile apps designed to entice tablet and smartphone users to apply for jobs and learn about companies. Beyond communication and recruiting there’s an exciting expansion of companies rolling out apps […]
I’d love to work from home but what about all the office gossip?
Four employees out of ten say that they’d be able to do their work from home, but most say they’d miss the company of their colleagues. These are the findings of a recent health and safety law consultancy after the right to request flexible working from your employer came into force a month ago. According to […]
Death by reports
Do you ever get into your car and start driving with no idea where you’re going? Not likely! When you start out, you know where you’re going to end up. It’s the same way when we’re managing projects. We begin with the end, or result in mind. It doesn’t matter what aspect of project management […]
Successful Projects – Approaching it back to front
Do you ever get into your car and start driving with no idea where you’re going? Not likely! When you start out, you know where you’re going to end up. It’s the same way when we’re managing projects. We begin with the end, or result in mind. It doesn’t matter what aspect of project management […]
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No.. its super HR technologies that’ll rock your industry!
Tech tools that can change the HR industry Among the trends shaping the HR industry in 2014/15 are cloud computing, virtual workplaces, and mobile tools that provide anywhere, anytime access to information. Here’s the super-human run through of ten HR tech game changes to watch out for! Here are ten awesome HR technology trends forecasted to […]
Workplace Violence: The Declining Power of the Unions
This is the fifth in a series of segments which together comprise a larger paper presented at the Ninth World Conference on Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion, Merida, Mexico, focusing on workplace violence from a “global” perspective. In its entirety, this paper examines the contributing factors of workplace abuse which plague both developed and developing nations. Workplace conditions are, in part, defined by the ability of […]