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HR Strategy

Google employees signed a petition opposing the company’s ties to ICE. Here’s what HR needs to know.

One employment lawyer shares what employers are legally required to do when employees sign a petition.


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This HR leader’s mental health counseling background helps her lead culture, engagement, and talent development at Fortune 500 company

“You’re looking at how people work, how groups work, how teams work, and that’s really what I was trained on.”


HR Strategy

This HR pro makes sure she can ‘answer the why’ for every HR decision she makes

Christie Moon knows that some HR work is emotional labor, and that’s helped her make sure she can own every decision at work.


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HR Strategy

Considering non-drinkers could help HR craft drinking guidelines for work events

‘You’re not trying to create laws. You’re trying to steer the event,’ one former CPO says.


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HR Strategy

How to avoid generation wars in your workplace

A better workplace for older workers requires removing prohibiting labels and adding inclusive spaces like ERGs.


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Pegasystems CEO and CPO have daily conversations to drive company success

Founder CEO Alan Trefler relies on his chief people officer, Katherine Parente, to sustain culture in a hybrid world.


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HR Strategy

When political disputes arise at work, HR can listen first and then make policy clear, HR experts say

In increasingly polarized times, how should HR handle political disputes between employees?

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