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MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVES: Waste of Time When People Don't Admit They Need Help?

According to Forbes, poor mental health is sky-rocketing with 70% of the C-suite reportedly considering quitting their job to search for a job that better supports their mental health and...

Lothar de Keyne (Bevoy, Co-founder)Carla Serra (Futturwork, Director, HR Consultant)

RTO: Forget culture and productivity, it’s all about avoiding a real estate value drop.

Since the start of Covid in 2020, the way many of us work has changed dramatically. While certain people love the fact that they are able to work from the comfort of their homes, others don’t. So...

Paul LaLonde (CEDA, Vice President of People & Culture)Tracie Sponenberg (Tracie Sponenberg LLC, Founder, Chief People Officer)

EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION: Time to say thank you a lot more (and mean it).

According to Miriam Connaughton, Chief People Officer at Simppler, retention will become a bigger priority in 2024 as anxiety about current and future economic conditions continues to linger and...

Paul LaLonde (CEDA, Vice President of People & Culture)Tracie Sponenberg (Tracie Sponenberg LLC, Founder, Chief People Officer)

4-DAY WORKWEEK: from radical to routine in 2024

Early January, Gartner published their 9 Future of Work Trends for 2024. Among those, there was one prediction in particular that caught my eye. Let me elaborate :-) According to their own...

Alexandre Hernandez (Jobgether, Co-founder)Vanessa Monsequeira (Philips Innovation Services, Sustainability Strategist)

UNLIMITED PTO: wellbeing improvement or cause for burnout?

Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) is, as the term suggests, a vacation policy that allows employees to take as much free time as they want as long as it does not interfere with their ability to complete...

Griet Deca (Tryangle, Chief Happiness Officer)Marie Richter (Marie Richter HR Consulting, Fractional Head of HR)

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT SURVEYS ARE FLAWED

Employee engagement remains a difficult thing to tackle for a lot of organizations. In their quest for higher engagement levels, and for lack of a better alternative perhaps, many of them turn to...

Barry Flack (BF Consultancy LTD, Fractional HR Executive)Laura Tejada (SkyBounders, People and Scale-up Consultant)

EMPLOYEE MONITORING IS NECESSARY FOR PRODUCTIVITY

Employee monitoring is a growing practice in which companies use digital tools to track work, employee performance, and work in progress. Businesses use different monitoring methods to: ·...

Barry Flack (BF Consultancy LTD, Fractional HR Executive)Laura Tejada (SkyBounders, People and Scale-up Consultant)

PARENTAL PREFERENCE IS REAL: NURSERY RUNS OUTWEIGH YOGA CLASSES

Where there still is a lot of work to be done when it comes to parental leave, there seems to be such a thing as parental preference when people are back to work. Let me elaborate. The inspiration...

Sophie Hedestad (NOQX, CEO and Founder)Noah Warder (Accent Inns, VP People and Culture)

PARENTAL LEAVE IS THE BIGGEST HYPOCRISY IN THE WORKPLACE

A few months ago I was talking about the topic of parental leave with an HR Debatable guest. She mentioned how she’d been in a company where people said things like ‘This candidate is over 40 so she...

Sophie Hedestad (NOQX, CEO and Founder)Noah Warder (Accent Inns, VP People and Culture)

EMPLOYEE WELL-BEING CRUCIAL TO TOTAL REWARDS

Employee well-being has gotten a lot more attention over the past years and rightly so. In 2022, for instance, 87% of Americans felt anxious about inflation and 7 in 10 employees worried that their...

Rachel Gibbs (Merities Consulting, Reward Consultant)Sarah Maximilian (New Pay Collective, Founding Member)

THERE'S NO HR FOR HR

The inspiration for our second debate comes from a post our moderator came across on LinkedIn last year by Yagmur D: “There's no HR for HR. Think about it: who does HR go to when they're having an...

Kimberly Burns (humaneer, Co-founder)Careen Redman-Matthews (humaneer, Co-founder)

THE BURNOUT CRISIS IN HR IS CAUSED BY ... HR?

HR practitioners around the world are exhausted. One 2022 study by Workvivo revealed that 98% of HR professionals are burned out. Other data shows that 53% of HR leaders feel overwhelmed and that...

Kimberly Burns (humaneer, Co-founder)Careen Redman-Matthews (humaneer, Co-founder)