HR Insights

Canon has conducted research about "Employee Types" - fundamental personality traits which tend to come out in individuals, making them respond to tailor-made management styles.

Canon identified three employee types:

• Focused Employees
• Balanced Employees
• Mobile Employees

A large study indicates that 1/3 of employees would prefer to work at a company where Business Casual attire was the norm.

Just over 20% of American companies allow casual dress every day of the week.

But in a growing result-orientation in American company culture, more businesses are admitting that the way people dress might not have much to do with their productivity.

Industry powerhouse Deloitte has a lot to say about Millennials in the workforce.

As their far-reaching survey concludes, Millennials and employers have to learn to strike a bargain if they're going to work together.

In many cases, Millennials tend to have one foot out the door of the traditional workplace. 

Today's young professionals are likely to hop quickly between jobs, make flexibility a top priority, and value benefits like unlimited vacation time. However, Millennials aren't impossible to please.

Facebook works with a lot of developers to create all kinds of new user experiences. Chatbots are one of the hottest startups in the business, providing conversations between a user and an AI, in the attempt to find information or solve a problem.

New innovations have allowed chatbots to help users find jobs. But is this the end of HR recruitment? Far from it.

Employers around the country are offering endless takes on wellness programming, while others tend to favor workplace flexibility benefits. Some industry writers describe these two benefits strategies as existing in isolated "silos."

Employees who value the freedom to telecommute or do freelance work tend to make personal wellness a higher priority than their office-bound counterparts.

The question is... how can America's businesses split the difference?

While some people might scratch their heads, cat and dog lovers know that the death of a furry friend can be a devastating loss. This is prompting some employers to offer paid leave for bereaved employees following the death of a beloved pet.

With all the talk of physical wellness in the workplace, financial wellness gets little attention.

This is starting to change. Employees of all ages are concerned about making their salaries extend as far as possible.

Millennials may be trying to pay off their student loans, or buying their first homes. GenXers and Boomers may be eyeing their upcoming retirement, hoping to be fully prepared when the time comes to leave their careers behind for good.

In response to a question about upward mobility in HR management, HR career coach Martin Yate offers some advice. Sometimes, in order to get the experience necessary to lead a Human Resources department, an HR professional has to move backward to move foreward.

Yate urges the writer to seek out a job for which she is at least 70% qualified, with the remaining 30% of the job description contributing to skill sets that might qualify her for a future manegerial role.

Just when you thought you were getting used to the Millennial generation, there's another generation (with a catchy name not yet set in stone) entering the workplace right behind them.

That's right. Teenagers are entering the workforce. Born right on the cusp of the new Millennium, these kiddos don't have even the foggiest recollection of the pre-internet days, unlike their older siblings the Millennials.

The ripples they're making through workplace benefits policies are just as ground-shaking, however, and in somewhat the same style.

Need a new piece of corporate-speak for your HR vocabulary? Try "HR Quantification" on for size.

HR has to work with many different departments: employees, the BOD, executives, competitors, management, IT, etc. Each of these groups has a different culture and communication style.

It is HR's job to work with each according to their individual characteristics, not according to one-size-fits-all approaches.