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HP Canada finds balance between inclusion, intrusion while onboarding during coronavirus

mschmit — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 05:30:16 +0000

For many employers, the newly digital office environment necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic can be awkward, especially for recent graduates entering career-track jobs for the firm time. “Personally, I’m saddened by the situation for a number of reasons, but certainly for those students that are graduating and looking for summer internships, . . . hiring […]

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Human Resourcefulness: HR lessons from The Office’s Toby Flenderson

mschmit — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 05:00:22 +0000

The third episode of Benefits Canada‘s new podcast, Human Resourcefulness, looks at the role of the human resources manager through Toby Flenderson of The Office. Our experts are blunt — the passive and indiscrete Toby isn’t great at his job. But what do you do when a Toby walks off the screen and into your office? Priya Sarin […]

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Human Resourcefulness: HR lessons from The Office’s Dwight Schrute and Jim Halpert

mschmit — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 05:00:05 +0000

The second episode of Benefits Canada’s new podcast, Human Resourcefulness, continues this week with a look at The Office‘s Dwight Schrute and Jim Halpert. Dwight cares a lot about his company, but his suspicion and lack of humour make him a difficult colleague to work with. Jim seems like a great guy to grab a beer with […]

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Human Resourcefulness: HR lessons from The Office’s Michael Scott

mschmit — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 04:58:32 +0000

This summer, Benefits Canada is launching a new podcast, Human Resourcefulness, that looks at problems presented in fictional workplaces and asks experts how they’d advise those companies to respond. The first episode looks at Michael Scott, regional manager at paper sales company Dunder Mifflin, from the U.S. version of the TV show The Office. Benefits Canada‘s Sara Tatelman and […]

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Employers should embrace generational differences in the workplace: survey

mschmit — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 04:30:22 +0000

The greatest generational differences in today’s workforce are employees’ communication skills, ability to adapt to change and technical acumen, according to new research by Robert Half Management Resources. The survey, which polled more than 2,220 chief financial officers in the United States, asked respondents to identify where they see the greatest differences among the different […]

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