Engaging employees in the performance management process is as easy as 1-2-3-4! Check out this infographic for tips on getting employees engaged and keeping them engaged throughout their careers.
Professional and positive feedback builds confidence, promotes commitment, and provides motivation for employees. Read more about how to provide perfect feedback for your employees!
Corporations need a feature-rich Learning Management System that enriches the learning environment with a vibrant online ecosystem. Investing in this type of LMS enables training departments to train entire branches, departments, local offices, franchisees, and more, and transfer knowledge...
In today's day and age, there are so many ways for cyberattackers to infiltrate companies and take them down from the inside. In the below infographic, we discuss the four most common types of tactics used and how to avoid them to keep your business safe.
LightWork Performance provides a user-friendly platform that allows employees to communicate with ease. Allowing employees to voice their idea, concerns, and suggestions gives employees a sense of value and appreciation.
Does your performance management system have journals?\nJournals are a great way to communicate with your employees. Here are some tips for using journals as part of your performance management process!
Have employees on the go? Geotagging is excellent for employees who clock in when they reach their work destination, be it a worksite, another city, state, or country, the office, or even the coffee shop! This helps managers make sure employees are clocking in at their agreed-upon place of work,...
For small and medium-sized businesses, a Learning Management System facilitates development without excessive costs and loss of productivity. For large enterprises, it makes it possible to train entire branches, departments, local offices, franchisees, and resellers, and transfer knowledge...
The terms "Managed Services" and "Professional Services" are used often as more and more businesses digitally transform. As your company grows, how do you tell which works better for you? Read the infographic to determine how digital services can ensure your organization's success.
Many corporations are no stranger to The Great Resignation as the United States experienced a 20-year high in its “Quit Rate” in November of 2021. Avoiding a similar outcome in your company is not an easy feat, but one that should at least be attempted. By giving them a sense of value and...
Employee turnover is at an all-time high, thanks to the Great Resignation. Employees are demanding to be valued and appreciated, and they want their salaries and benefits to reflect that. Many companies are now scrambling to hire after the nation’s “quit rate” reached a 20-year high in November...
Companies across the United States are experiencing what has been dubbed the “Great Resignation.” Employees are seeking workplaces that value them and offer flexibility throughout their employment, as well as listen to their needs and wants. An issue that many businesses face is the variety of...
Providing your employees the training they need to improve and broaden their skill set is more important than ever. By supporting and enabling employees to succeed, high employee turnover and seasonal variability will decrease. Additionally, training employees during onboarding and ongoing...
Digital transformations are affecting every industry and every aspect of business, including Field
Services. It can be used to solve traditional problems and challenges, with many benefits. When
companies are complacent to the waves of digital transformation as they sweep through their...
LightWork’s 9 Box Grid visually displays employees based on their current performance and future potential to help build a path for professional growth, both giving the employee a vision for the future and the company a guide for succession planning. Learn more about how it works in the infographic.
Salary can be a key factor for a candidate when conducting a job search and accepting an offer. Understanding compensation strategies and developing one for your organization can lead to successful recruitment of top talent, and improved employee retention.
The number of remote and hybrid work environments are growing due to COVID-19 and in part to the digital transformation allowing flexibility. This has created a huge opportunity for business owners to hire talent from across the globe, defying the obstacles that occur with in-office positions,...
In 2021, LightWork Software sponsored an HR Research State of the Industry Report \"The State of Performance Management 2021\". This infographic provides some key takeaways from the full report.
Organizations of all sizes face significant cultural difficulties when their workforce is touched by offensive or harassing behaviors. According to an article by NPR, a whopping 81 percent of women report they have been the subject of sexual harassment in the workplace and that number goes even...
An LMS tracks a company’s training and education progress to ensure the workforce and business are in compliance with laws, regulations, and licenses. Employee skills enhancement is also critical to an organization’s growth and attaining its goals and objectives. In this article discover key...
The goal of employee recruitment is to hire the best and brightest candidate for any given role that is vacant in your organization. Sounds clear-cut. But is it? How does recruitment strategy play a part in the success of an organization? Discover why a strategy is important and how to take the...
Tracking employee time and ensuring your organization’s payroll is accurate is what time clocks do. Sometimes, however, employers have rounding or grace period policies that change an employee’s clock-in or clock-out time. It is common for employers to allow slight adjustments so that...
Regardless of the industry, employee skills and their performance impacts the bottom line of the organization. It is the job of human resources to provide the tools to better manage and understand those factors that affect and contribute to employee performance. That is where using analytics to...
Ransomware attacks have been on the rise, so much so that they have become the biggest single money earner for cybercriminals. In 2020, there were 1001 cases reported to the U.S. government affecting move than 155.8 million individuals. The primary cause cited is less than adequate information...
Let’s face it, doing more with less has been an ongoing theme in business for longer than anyone cares to remember. Being resourceful is what Human Resources is all about through developing managers, staff, and teams to improve outcomes and reach organizational goals. Let’s take a look at how to...
Upward mobility is the ability for employees to enter at one level and ‘climb the corporate ladder’ of jobs with progressively more responsibility within an organization. It is the role of Human Resources to ensure that employees are engaged, motivated and see a future with the organization...
Upward mobility is the ability for employees to enter at one level and ‘climb the corporate ladder’ of jobs with progressively more responsibility within an organization. It is the role of Human Resources to ensure that employees are engaged, motivated and see a future with the organization...
Biometric time clocks offer a streamlined way to managed employees’ time, attendance and automate payroll processes. Most biometric time clock systems capture and use an employee’s face or a fingerprint as identification. Biometric information is a highly sensitive form of data that needs to be...
The first couple of weeks at a new job can make or break an employee’s impression of their work and employer experience. As a human resources manager, it is your job to ensure each new hire is integrated smoothly into the company. It is also important to understand that orientation processes can...
Employees are motivated in many different ways, but the one thing that everyone appreciates is being noticed for a job well done. It provides a sense of value and appreciation. The goals and benefits of an employee recognition program are multifaceted and improve employee job satisfaction and...
According to the United States government, reported business email compromise (BEC) scams accounted for losses of $1.7 billion in 2019. So many of us rely on email to conduct business, both personal and professional, it is easy to see why this is a serious line of attack for criminals. What is a...
The ability to track employees is a necessity for any company, but how you do it makes a difference. The tough part is trying to decide which solution may be the best for your organization. Human error is the single biggest factor in most time-keeping systems. When errors happen, managers and...
The ability to track employees is a necessity for any company, but how you do it makes a difference. The tough part is trying to decide which solution may be the best for your organization. Human error is the single biggest factor in most time-keeping systems. When errors happen, managers and...
The third annual State of Performance Management Study, conducted by HR.com and sponsored by LightWork® Software, reports that the primary objectives of performance management are employee and organization growth, at 71 and 70 percent respectively. The more than 340 human resource professionals...
This infographic provides a snapshot of key issues facing HR professionals as 2020 came to a close. COVID19's impact on performance management priorities tops this chart. Learn what practices high-performing companies are doing to succeed. The information is pulled from an research study...
Cyber security is critical to keeping your company and its technology running smoothly. Learn more about privacy and password protection and Start 2021 Off Right with Best Practices for Passwords.
Cyber security is critical to keeping your company and its technology running smoothly. Learn more about privacy and password protection and Start 2021 Off Right with Best Practices for Passwords.
Human resources wears many hats for an organization. Recruiting, hiring, benefits, training, payroll, performance management, employee records, etc. Any number of these, if not all of these areas, may have been affected in 2020 due to the COVID19 pandemic. Large numbers of employees who...
Recruiting and hiring the right candidates involves company branding, positioning, challenging work opportunities, and offering a competitive compensation package. It is not enough to attract candidates with the qualifications, skills and experience that meet the position description. You must...
LightWork® Learning Management gives human resources professionals the ability to deploy customized training to individuals based on job titles, roles and responsibilities.
LightWork Learning Management, powered by dialogEDU, is a unique technology that provides digital learning and...
Discover the advantages of biometric time clocks. Frequently asked questions about biometric time clock uses, functionality and system requirements are answered.
Network infrastructure, systems analysis, backup and disaster recovery, security analysis, and development are just a few areas of expertise that should require a special review within your company to ensure all scenarios and bases are covered. Because the range of operations is so broad,...
Achieving a balance between work and home before 2020 was a process of juggling and prioritizing responsibilities between the two. Now, more than perhaps any other time in U.S. history, employees are facing new challenges because the office, in many cases, is also home.
LightWork® Software...
As more offices shift to a remote workforce, it can be challenging to ensure employee productivity without a physical presence in the traditional workspace. Studies show that in most cases, working from home results in increased employee productivity, but to make sure that your team is staying...
Natural disasters, pandemics, accidents, and/or man-made disasters all are beyond our control. As a business owner, what is under your control is your organization’s ability to survive any of those occurrences.
While having a backup of your company’s data is important, it doesn’t guarantee...
Accurate employee time and attendance tracking is crucial to any company, especially when it comes to payroll. However, sometimes mistakes happen, and employees forget to clock-in or out of their shifts. This brief answers to frequently asked questions about missed employee time punches.
Most morale improvement articles focus on the pleasure of tangible benefits. Employee loyalty programs. Company discounts. Book clubs, coffee mugs, stress balls. While these all have their merits, morale goes beyond what your employees can accumulate based on a points system. The immediate...
