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What an HRIS Actually Is, and What It Is Not
An HRIS is a system of record, and almost every disappointment with one comes from buying it as something else.
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When HR Needs a Ticket System
HR resists ticketing because it feels impersonal, and what actually feels impersonal is losing somebody request.
New Hire Orientation: The Day You Only Get Once
Orientation is a social event with a little information attached, and most of them are built the other way round.
New Hire Paperwork Without the First-Day Pile
What you must collect is not yours to decide. When it happens, how many times you ask for the same detail, and who does the typing are entirely yours
The Onboarding Checklist Worth Keeping
A list addressed to everybody is addressed to nobody, which is why the master checklist is opened twice and never used.
The Onboarding Process That Actually Works
A good first day followed by an empty second week is the standard shape, because the part everybody prepares for is the part that matters least.
Employee Onboarding: What It Is and Who Owns It
Ask three people who owns onboarding and you get three confident, different answers. The four separate jobs the word covers, six ownership arrangements
What Performance Management Actually Is
The phrase covers four separate jobs sharing a calendar, and the annual cycle gets blamed for all four. The four jobs reviewed, how to tell which is broken
What Workforce Management Actually Covers
The phrase covers four separate problems that share a set of tools, and most organisations are failing at exactly one of them.
Writing an Attendance Policy Somebody Will Follow
Most attendance policies are written for the rare disciplinary case and read at six in the morning by somebody who just wants to know who to call.
