Employees at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island have started a unionization campaign, citing safety concerns, poor pay, long shifts without proper breaks and extreme hourly quotas. Brian Huseman, head of public policy at Amazon, says that employees have a right to join a union and that the company respects that right.
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Employees are "ghosting" employers at a high rate, with applicants not showing up for interviews, hires never appearing on the first day of work and employees leaving without notice, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Analysts cite a tight labor market.
Include experiential learning and role-playing in your learning and development activities, writes Tanya Worsley of Kaplan. "Employees are afforded with the chance to reflect and take in feedback from challenges they have encountered -- a much needed opportunity that could have been missed otherwise in the hectic setting of on-the-job training," she writes.
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A survey by Bankrate finds 62% of workers have not gotten a pay increase during the past year, up from a 2017 finding of 52%. The survey finds 91% of participants have the "same or greater confidence" in the job market than they did in 2017, but only 25% of respondents who have not gotten a raise plan to look for a different job.
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To maximize HR software as a service, consider the low adoption rate of cloud services, be innovative and ensure software has appropriate protection for company data, writes Franz Gilbert of Deloitte Consulting. A survey by Sierra-Cedar finds half of companies have moved to the cloud, but this might change in the near future.
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Goals might not be negotiable, but the methods teams use to achieve them should be left to them, writes Dan Rockwell. "Engagement results from owning the process, even if you haven't chosen the goal," he writes.
