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Hiring professionals now use a bewildering arsenal of strategy consultants, efficiency matrices, and algorithms to eschew human judgment and interaction for the “efficiency” of an industrialized, codified assembly line....

The post-digital economy thrives on difference, diversity, and divergent thinking. It embraces exceptions and loves anomaly. It breaks down boundaries, subverts hierarchy and strips it of centralized control. It triggers...

Almost three out of four HR decision-makers view attraction and retention of talent as their top business challenge, according to a recent survey of Canadian professionals who have a say...

According to a new international study with more than 1,000 participants, people who witnessed harassment or discrimination at work told many people about it, but they didn’t tell HR....

From on-premise systems to the cloud, from paper to digital, the digital transformation journey of HR has not been smooth. Not only has it demanded the transition to new systems,...

A new report from the Canadian Labour Congress says "division and scapegoating represent a grave threat to working people and their organizations." It urges workers and unions to tackle Islamophobia...

Four trends are driving the change in relationship, including soft skills, work flexibility, pay transparency and anti-harassment measures, according to the Global Talent Trends survey. These stand out as essential...

IBM’s efforts to use AI to learn who might quit is one of the more high-profile recent examples of the way data science, “deep learning” and “predictive analytics” are increasingly...

The boomerang employee has been a rising phenomenon in the recruitment space for some time now. A Kronos study from 2015 surveyed 1,800 HR professionals, people managers, and employees in...

As new generations and technological innovations disrupt the workforce, the recruiting and hiring processes are subject to change right along with it. This directly affects HR departments, which are responsible for...