More companies are boosting their telecommuting workforce, according to Gallup surveys, which note 43% of Americans do all or some of their work remotely. Some companies, such as IBM, are abandoning telecommuting, while others, including Amazon and Dell, are praising the model for improving employee satisfaction, lowering turnover and cutting costs. The Wall Street Journal (tiered subscription model) (6/4)
HR Processes Digitized with E-Signatures HR teams are turning to e-signatures to digitize their processes and make it faster and easier to e-sign HR documents. This paper provides firsthand insights from 7 companies using e-signatures for recruiting, onboarding, performance reviews and more. Learn how to quickly digitize HR in your organization
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Recruiting & Retention
Little progress in bringing women into tech sector Laura Colby reviews efforts to deal with the underrepresentation of women in the tech sector, and so far, there isn't much to celebrate. Women had 27% of computer and mathematics jobs in 1960, a number that had grown to 35% in 1990 but then declined to 26% by 2013. Bloomberg (6/2)
Employees value pet-friendly work policies A survey of 1,000 employees and 200 HR professionals revealed that pet-friendly workplace policies, including pet care and bereavement leave, improve morale and company loyalty and reduce stress among pet-owning employees. Pet-friendly policies might irritate some employees who do not have pets, but a recent study found that allowing pet dogs in the workplace improved productivity among some pet-free employees as well. Employee Benefit News (6/4)
The HR Leader
If you can't beat organizational politics, leverage it Leaders should try to leverage organizational politics to help them overcome barriers to strategy execution, writes Michael Jarrett. He says there are four organizational quadrants of politics that typically exist, including "the weeds," "the rocks," "the high ground" and "the woods," and he explains how leaders can navigate through each to enact change without resistance. INSEAD Knowledge (5/29)
