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Use cases span from: ;Employee experience (tailored communication, custom surveys, sentiment assessment);; ;HR technology maximization (internal knowledge base Q&A, system copilots, automated document triage);; ;Learning and development (training resource summarization, personalized micro-learning paths);; ;Performance management (actionable review feedback drafting, alignment of team goal-setting);; ;Recruiting (job description generation, resume analysis, candidate matching, interview scheduling); and,; ;Talent analytics (high-volume workforce planning, flight-risk predictions).; Teams that fail to adapt risk falling behind in an increasingly digitized landscape.

To earn the satisfaction and loyalty of the best employees — and subsequently ensure long-term business success — talent and rewards strategies must incorporate people at the center of their design.

Workspan Daily article;The High Cost of Burnout for Employees and Employers , Workspan Daily article;How Workplace Surveillance Impacts Job Performance , Workspan Daily article;Wage-and-Hour Compliance: You Are Either Fine or Fined , Workspan Daily article; It’s no surprise that few people take regular lunch breaks today, but recently coined terms like “hanger” and “lunch guilt” cast light on the impact this trend is having on workplace well-being, culture and productivity.

“Although this increases the day-to-day demands placed on managers, the long-term benefits of having strong managerial relationships pay dividends for organizations,” said Betsy Schwartz, the senior director of the Center for Workplace Mental Health, a program of the American Psychiatric Association Foundation.

What characteristics stand out in terms of what makes a successful team?

Workspan Daily Plus+ article;Use This Template to Create Your Paid Family and Medical Leave Policy , Workspan Daily Plus+ article;What Are TR Pros’ Options for Paid Care Leave Design , Workspan Daily Plus+ article;Checklist for Total Rewards to Be Compliant with H.R. 1 Provisions , Workspan Daily Plus+ article;FMLA Advisor , tool; The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) can provide hours of “entertainment” (a.k.a. complexity, confusion, frustration) for total rewards (TR) professionals with employee bases in the United States as they “count this” and “calculate that” to determine both employer and employee coverage and eligibility.

Key Takeaways Pump the brakes on return-to-office plans.

Workspan Daily Plus+ article;How AI Can Improve Employee Communication , Journal of Total Rewards article;State Laws Comparison Tool , tool; Few HR departments are truly prepared for the unauthorized disclosure of private employee data or the premature leak of strategic plans, such as restructuring and salary freezes.

The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) Enforced by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the NLRA protects employees’ rights to engage in “ protected concerted activity ,” meaning they can discuss the terms and conditions of employment with each other or a union without interference from the employer, including on social media.

The law prohibits employers from making hiring, firing or other employment decisions based on a drug test that finds “ nonpsychoactive cannabis metabolites” in someone’s hair or urine, which do not indicate current impairment, but that someone consumed cannabis recently, up to weeks prior, according to Assembly Bill 2188 that Assemblymember Bill Quirk (D-Hayward) sponsored.