When it comes to attracting and keeping the best tech employees, there’s one low-cost benefit that can make a huge difference.
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A company gets suspicious of an employee’s behavior. So, with the help of Google, they find out that the guy had been fired for shady activities before. The company fires him, and he sues for wrongful termination. Read the facts and decide - Who won this case?
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Tags: firing, Google, searching employees
IT manager Billy Smith had a great group of IT workers. But changes in the department meant that a lot of them no longer had the right set of skills. Here’s how he found a way to keep them in the company.
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Many companies ban online videos at work for sake of productivity and bandwidth efficiency. But here’s a case where YouTube has helped a company manage employees.
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Tags: corporate video, Rohm and Haas, Training, YouTube
In a recent court case, one company that thought it was buttoned-up against ID theft ended up paying $550K to employees because of a security breach. That’s just one example of how new data security laws are raising the stakes for HR and IT.
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Tags: data breach, employee data, HR security, identity theft
It’s one of the most important electronic recruiting tools, but a lot of companies don’t get enough of the “Careers” section of their corporate Web sites. Here’s why a German bank was rated as the best page by job seekers - and how you can learn from them.
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Tags: careers, Deutsche Bank, recruiting, Web page
Here’s another reason to do everything you can to keep inappropriate material off employee’s computers - to avoid getting dragged into court for sexual harassment.
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At a time when some companies are finding it difficult to recruit IT employees, many of them aren’t doing enough to attract a significant segment of the population: women.
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Tags: diversity, female employees, harassment training, IT staffing
As new research shows, a huge chunk of “electronic discovery” rulings against companies stem from employment lawsuits. Here are some things HR and IT can do to limit the risk of getting fined.
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Tags: Document retention, e-discovery, employment litigation, HR data
E-mail scammers have a new tactic for stealing people’s personal info: posing as their employer’s HR manager.
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Tags: e-mail scams, HR fraud, identity theft, phishing
