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Looking Ahead: The Biggest HR Trends in 2020

HR Digest

Human Resource is all about recruiting, mentoring and tending of the greatest assets of any company—human capital. Traditionally, Human Resources restricted itself to hiring, payroll, and some administrative duties. They will have to combine the role of sourcing, marketing, and strategizing. Flextime Jobs.

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10 Companies Offering Work from Home

HR Digest

More evolved thinking, a changing social environment, a sheer need to retain talent, has forced the human resource departments to come up with this solution. The number of people who work from home has increased by 140 per cent since 2005. It offers health care products and insurance services. United Health Group.

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Trent Henry on Building Tomorrow’s Leaders

HR Digest

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. The data also helps EY manage its workforce to meet current and future market demands.

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An Unlikely Partnership: When HR and Marketing Join Forces

Harvard Business Review

We've seen success with a novel approach to talent engagement: an integrated HR-Marketing strategy that teams Marketing's brand messaging savvy with HR's internal perspective and expertise. The partnership brings added value to Marketing as well. Employees, at first skeptical, embraced their new work environment.

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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business Review

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.