HR Insights

Workplace mentorship is one of the few initiatives that can legitimately claim to save money, develop leaders, and cut turnover.

Mentorship is the act of developing leadership by demonstrating good leadership in action. And even though it is one of the cheapest and most efficient ways to improve your company, it can also be difficult and even intimidating.

In what starts as a conversation about how nice is too nice for employer-provided coffee, a Fortune columnist talks about the point at which HR gets a little too friendly.

Some employees experience management that is overly friendly, without ever breaking company policy in any specific way.

Circumstances keep conspiring to inflame the multi-industry talent shortage.

More than 800,000 jobs were added last year, thousands stopped working altogether, and thousands more became entrepreneurs or freelance contractors.

Businesses continue to grab for the best and brightest with a host of interesting perks and benefits.

There are many great things that might attract someone to a career in HR management. Admin chore drudgery probably isn't one of them.

Today's HR managers are spending 2 of 5 workdays on admin, and it's a drain on the entire department's efficiency. Onboarding alone can require ten or more interactions, at five different departments, and is one of many processes that could be automated to save time and frustration.

Can a business offer benefits to its freelance and contracted workers? Short answer: nope.

The IRS has drawn a fine line between a traditional workforce and employees contracted for a specific task or time duration.

Employers who might want to offer benefits for a valued freelancer employee would be advised to "put a ring on it," so to speak, and hire the individual as a traditional employee.

Millennial employees can be a finnicky bunch.

Now that they're the largest working demographic, their penchant for job-hopping and an independent spirit have their bosses trying to keep them happy.

In a conversation between two great HR minds, we get to mull over the question of HR approval for internal transfers.

It is traditional for companies to give an employee's direct manager the final call, when it comes to question of transfer to another department.

But it is increasingly common for Human Resources to have a seat at the table.

1 in 5 HR Managers tell CareerBuilder that men in their company are paid more than women, for the same job. Their larger survey of American workers indicates that well more than half (and 65% of women) don't believe equal pay exists anywhere.

The continuing conversation surrounding career ascension and compensation opportunity, as they relate to gender, still shows widespread inequality. But there are signs that gender inequality may be working its way out of the workplace.

Younger people reported much more equitable treatment than their older co-workers. And other measures of equity, especially job satisfaction, show few differences between male and female workers.

Despite the apprehension from the business community regarding ACA expenses, employer-based health insurance is showing signs of robustness in 2016. As of today, workplace healthcare covers more than half of working adults, some 147 million people.

Ominous prophecies of mass layoffs in small- and medium-sized businesses have mostly proved unfounded. And despite the threat of penalties for too-skimpy or too-generous offerings, workplace health benefits planners are responding to the mandate for reform.

It's no secret that many professional industries are experiencing a talent shortage, but this doesn't mean that hiring managers are lowering their standards.

37% of managers surveyed report that most people who apply for positions end up being underqualified.

Engineering and Healthcare sectors reported the greatest shortages of talent.