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Is “Unplugging” Right for Your Business?
In recent years, there’s been an increase in people speaking out against certain types of technology and our dependency on the Internet, smart phones, social media, and iPads (to name a few). In March, there’s even a National Day of Unplugging that asks people to pledge against using their phones, social media, and the Internet for twenty-four hours.
In a recent article published on the New Yorker's website, Casey N. Cep wonders how the digital age turned into the age of technological anxiety. ...
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How a Blog Can Make Your Business Better
In February, we talked about how HR can effectively use social media. A blog is an extension of social media, and in many ways can do more for your business than what Facebook or Twitter alone can. Blogging can be a great tool for HR departments, especially when trying to drive potential clients to your website.
Here are a few examples of how a blog can be a great addition to your business:
Accountability: In order to write an efficient business blog, you ...
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Should Your Business Offer a Corporate Wellness Program?
Corporate wellness programs have been gaining in popularity for some time now--many companies offer a corporate wellness program, offering cheaper insurance and other benefits to those who enroll.
These types of programs have only been made more popular with the rise of wearable fitness technology, which helps keep better track of individual and organizational fitness. But why are so many companies interested in corporate wellness?
Corporate wellness programs offer many benefits, including some of the following:
Cheaper insurance costs: Many insurance companies offer lower insurance ...
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3 Benefits to a Well-Run HR Department
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal, called "Companies Say No to Having an HR Department," notes that companies ditching traditional HR are finding that "the only thing worse than having an HR department is not having one."
While HR is often perceived as a pain, it doesn't have to be that way. Human Capital Management software, coupled in with the right people, allows your HR department to function like it should instead of continuing to carry a negative perception.
Here are a ...
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Steve Bogner Hosts an SAP Panel with Mike Timm and Brigid Sternberg
As Steve Bogner of Insight Consulting Partners jokes about SAP, "once you get into payroll, you don't go back."
While the SAP HCM Payroll module is immensely useful, taking full advantage of its functionality requires an intimate understanding of the processes at play behind the scenes--something that isn't always easy, given how many factors are involved.
This is a well-known dilemma for many business owners using SAP HCM software, which is exactly the reason that the SAPinsider studio hosted an SAP panel at ...
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SAP to Acquire Fieldglass
Just yesterday, SAP announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Fieldglass, a "provider of cloud-based vendor and labor management services."
As Business Cloud News noted, SAP "said the acquisition will help bolster the company’s enterprise resource management offerings amongst businesses that require strong contingency-based resource management capabilities."
With the rise in popularity of the cloud, more and more businesses have been looking for HCM software that utilizes the flexibility and scalability that the cloud offers. And with SAP's acquisition here, there's a ...
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4 Tips for Making the Most of a Business Conference
If you've been following our blog within the past couple of weeks, you've probably seen the many posts we've done recently on HR 2014.
And even if you haven't been following our blog, if you're involved in the SAP HCM space, you're probably very familiar with the many HR and SAP HCM conferences that take place throughout the year.
Business conferences are a great time to learn and to network--but there is certainly a right and a wrong way to go about attending ...
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HR 2014: Final Photo Recap
As we mentioned in our last post about HR 2014, HR 2014 was truly a delight.
To wrap up our several-post series about HR 2014, have a look at the rest of my photos from this year's excellent conference:
Want to learn more about how ICG’s SAP HCM solutions, or how we can help your entire business–HR included–run more efficiently? Let us know on Twitter or LinkedIn–we’d love to hear from you and would be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.
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HR 2014 Recap
HR2014 was a delight, and the days went way too quickly to catch all the great content!
It was obvious from the start that SuccessFactors was going to take center stage, and all attending had the opportunity to learn in great detail. We learned from David Ludlow that SuccessFactors and SAP ECC has an ever-growing amount of new and stable virtual integration. If you missed the keynote, you can catch it on demand at SAPInsider.
I had great conversations throughout the days and evenings ...
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HR 2014 Photo Update: Day 2
A lot has happened at HR 2014 since my first update on Tuesday morning.
Of everything I've seen thus far, one of my favorite events was the panel discussion in Bay Lake between Sharon Newton (@sharonnewton) and Steve Bogner (@stevebogner), moderated by Brandon Toombs (@brandontoombs).
One of the best quotes--made in jest, of course--was that "you'll have to fire everyone," in response to an attendee asking what moving to the cloud would mean for their staff. It was obvious from the questions and answers ...
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