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Wall Street banks opt for greater automation for grunt work to retain talent

HR Digest

An internal survey by Goldman Sachs junior employees detailing the crushing workload and the accompanying stress due to demanding bosses has led to some stocktaking about the working conditions in the industry and the high attrition rates. Banks now insist on weekend offs, no excessive overtime, and greater use of technology for routine work.

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Align the Scales Correctly for a Better Work-Life Balance

HR Digest

Image credit – Freepik) A work-life balance, meaning a balanced experience of your career and the rest of your life, should be the natural state of matters as most of us work to be able to provide good lives for ourselves and our families. This leaves us full of work-life balance ideas, chasing a packed schedule with no actual net gain.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

Technology has exploded, giving us instant access to information and knowledge, and it all moves and changes so fast that some of what Boomers have learned during their careers may be obsolete. What is the historic attrition and turnover rate and how do these map to the skills that keep you competitive? Who will do this work?

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Making Progress on Diversity and Inclusion Means Getting the Data Right

HR Digest

Should it be on reducing attrition for people of color? Emerging technology and new tools have the ability to gather and analyze data that can provide organizations with real insights into their D&I efforts. Embracing technology doesn’t mean doing away with the human touch. But they didn’t know where to focus their efforts.

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Selling Products Is Good. Selling Projects Can Be Even Better

Harvard Business Review

But increasingly, what companies sell are projects. Selling products limits the revenues you can make from clients: Unless you are innovating and continually updating your product offering, customer attrition tends to be high, and incentivizing repurchases can be hard. And that is just one type of project.

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How Deloitte Consulting LLP and Salesforce Are Using Technology to Transform the Employee Experience - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DELOITTE’S CONNECTME AND SALESFORCE

Harvard Business Review

I’m Angelia Herrin, Editor for Special Projects and Research at HBR. We’re focusing today on how new challenges and new technologies are changing human capital management, and how to ensure that this key resource becomes a sustained competitive advantage for your company. And we really think about those in five buckets.