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New hires need culture-focused onboarding

We can’t expect employees to be in step with our unique cultures from day one. Onboarding new employees into the culture, and implementing ongoing cultural training for incumbent employees, is an important way to keep your organization’s values front and center.

An HR guide to managing bonuses remotely

As we are still battling the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, this year is an opportune time to thank your employees for their hard work and dedication, despite very challenging circumstances. Even if your company hasn’t offered bonuses in the past, this gesture can go a long way in showing appreciation to your teams.

How you should market your employer brand

Company branding doesn't stop at products. Employer branding—how employees and potential future hires perceive your company—is a valuable brand asset that deserves as much thoughtfulness as your products.

Top 5 HR goals for 2021

In order to meet the needs of a post-COVID workplace, employers need to determine what to focus on for the coming year, and start to plan accordingly.

The advantages of the hybrid work model

Following the lifting of COVID lockdowns worldwide, a wide range of hybrid arrangements have emerged, granting employees flexibility that was seldom offered before. Read more about why hybrid work is an advantage.

The guide to addressing cultural safety for employees

Cultural safety in the modern workplace involves both psychological and physical security, as well as diversity and inclusion initiatives signaling that every employee is respected and valued.

The guide to addressing cultural safety for managers

In this guide, managers can find concrete recommendations for leading cultural safety initiatives that put your most valuable asset—your people—front and center.

How to implement your first compensation plan

When pay decisions rely on gut instincts, gender bias, and unreliable data, compensation decisions can create complications and setbacks. To replace your ad-hoc compensation plans with a solid strategy, you must consider what’s included in the program, how compensation impacts the employee life cycle, as well as when—and how—you should launch your strategy.

Performance management templates for easy and effective cycles

Performance management, when done right, can help employees become more productive, develop new skills, and take an active part in promoting organizational goals. Organizations can improve processes, systems, and procedures towards greater efficiency and growth.

An HR Guide to developing performance management strategy

Performance management can improve employee engagement—and happier more engaged employees are more productive employees. Performance management, when done right, can help employees become more productive, develop new skills, and take an active part in promoting organizational goals. An effective performance management strategy can also help organizations improve processes, systems, and procedures towards greater efficiency and growth.

Why you should manage compensation using HR Tech

Managing compensation is a complicated task. It’s an essential part of administering and ensuring equitable pay, meeting employee expectations and maintaining organizational fiscal responsibility. Using HR Tech, HR teams can manage, find, and leverage HR data in a fraction of the time it takes when that data is stowed away in a spreadsheet.

How to automate HR processes using Task Lists

Task Lists are an automation feature in bob that allows you to build chains of events, one triggering another, so you can set it, forget it, and still keep everyone happy. Meet some of our favorite Task Lists, built for people-first cultures.

Your HR strategy checklist

Want to get HR a seat at the table? You need to be strategic. Set aside time to plan out your biggest goals. Hit the ground running with all the facts, figures, and strategy you need to succeed. Here’s a checklist to help you structure your strategic HR plan.

Performance and compensation, should they be connected?

When building a compensation strategy or updating an existing one based on organizational growth, it’s imperative to consider how compensation connects to performance, and how that connection can inspire your employees to drive the organization forward.

The guide to addressing cultural safety for HR leaders

The pillars of cultural safety: 1. What does cultural safety mean? 2. Existing laws protecting cultural safety 3. Beyond legal standards 4. HR’s culture safety role 5. Long-term strategies for protecting cultural safety