Check out what the following blogs had to say about HR trends, news and more. Below is a list of our top five favorite posts from this week. Check back every Friday for five more!
1. Prepping for Obamacare? Why Not Every Business Should Shift to Part-Timers.
This post on Entrepeneur.com discusses how to go about a serious analysis to determine how to move forward with your recruiting after the Affordable Care Act goes into effect next years for all companies with more than 50 full-time workers.
2. Home Depot Employees Arrested For Stealing Personal Information Of 300 Co-Workers
Three Home Depot staffers were recently arrested for stealing co-workers personal information to open fraudulent credit card accounts for themselves. Find out how 300 employees were affected.
3. Oracle’s Larry Ellison: How to Manage Your Most Precious Assets
Oracle’s Larry Ellison discusses how Human Capital Management has become one of the two most important functions in this article. After carefully laying out this new and improved approach to HR, Ellison was asked why? Why was he putting such a major emphasis on HCM? “It’s the application everyone in the company uses,” he explained. “And it’s the application that manages your most precious assets—your people.”
4. The 20 Happiest Jobs In America
This trending post on Business Insider discusses the findings of their quest to identify the 20 happiest jobs in America. After receiving nearly 57,000 employee evaluations, and 450 job titles, the findings may surprise you.
5. 5 Ways to Tell You’re a Workplace Bully & How to Stop Right Now
This insightful post on Glassdoor.com asks that you ask yourself 5 simple questions to determine if you are a bully in your workplace. With stats showing that 35% of the American workforce has been bullied at one time or another, the questions are certainly worth looking at.
Let us know in the comments below if we missed any great HR posts for the week.