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Employee Investment Means Business Results

Through their Employer Solutions Blog, Sage HRMS discusses and provides advice on various HR and payroll topics. Their latest post and infographic illustrates how employees are the most important component in the quest to improve business results. Why are some companies thriving while others struggle to stay in business? What is the distinctive difference between [...]

Frontline Employees: Engaging the Dis-engaged

This post was originally published by CallMe! IQ, the online resource for Human Capital issues facing the Call Center and Business Process Outsourcing industries. The original post: High Cost of Employee Dis-engagement. While this particular post is geared towards call center employees, there’s great information, action plan and case studies that apply across all functional [...]

From Social Media to Social Business at IBM BeNeLux (Case Study)

IBM’s goal is to promote the vision of social business by embedding it into the digital activities and everyday thinking of employees. The challenge is to inspire already technically savvy and digitally motivated employees to become ‘digital citizens’, enthuse them about the value social media can add and motivate them to start exploring the online [...]

Infographic | The Evolution of Sharing and Communication

Original source: The Daily Infographic Communication is the process of conveying information. Almost all species have some sort of communication system. However, successful communication is the trait that has made humans the most successful species. This infographic shows a timescale of how communication has evolved over time. It’s hard to imagine communication long before the [...]

Using Social Media to Enhance Company Morale

Note: We’re excited to have this guest post by Brad Shorr, Director of Content & Social Media for Straight North. See Brad’s bio at the end of the article. We tend to think of social media as a set of marketing tools. But a social strategy focused on employees is an option well worth considering.  [...]

Nobody Puts HR in a Corner! (The invaluable role of HR in organizational strategy)

Image courtesy of KnotworkShop on etsy I know I’m dating myself, but I still get a little faint when I think of the scene in Dirty Dancing where Patrick Swayze comes into the room, finds Baby and says “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” Although often overshadowed and overlooked, she was integral in executing the [...]

Do "Facebook Breaks" Make Your Employees Happier and More Productive?

Putting Social HR in Its Place: The Employee Lifecycle

When I present social business as my passion, I’m often amused by the fact that the average listener assumes I’m talking about Yammer, Facebook or Sharepoint. I suppose I can see, from their perspective, why they think social platforms equates to being a social business. It’s easy to become distracted by shiny, new tools and [...]

Tactical Awareness of Social Engagement and Interaction

I’m not going deny it… I’m quite fond of the folks at Awareness Inc. Not just because they afforded me the awesome opportunity of personally visiting and meeting the folks running the  Super Bowl Social Media Command Center, but because they also put together some phenomenal reports (see the State of Social Media Marketing). In [...]

Work is Murder. Nasty, Nasty Murder.

Source: Is Your Job Killing You, OnlineUniversity.net The productivity of the average worker has skyrocketed thanks to technology, but it comes at the price of a sedentary lifestyle. And mounting research suggests that sitting at your desk for eight hours a day can have a dramatic impact on your health. The past 40 years have [...]