Talent Edge Weekly

02/01/2025

This one-page cheat sheet highlights a few examples of organizations updating their return-to-office guidance. While this list shows just a few examples, it provides a helpful way to stay informed about some of the changes being made. The PDF and links to the full announcements are in resource 15 in this Best of December issue of Talent Edge Weekly. https://talentedgeweekly.com/p/talent-edge-weekly-issue-277-best-of-december

10/09/2024

Research led by a Harvard Business School professor shows that while human ideas often displayed more creativity and originality, AI-generated solutions were typically more practical and easier to implement. https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/generative-ai-and-creative-problem-solving?

Generative AI handles a variety of business tasks, but can it develop creative solutions to problems? Yes, although some of the best ideas emerge when humans and machines work together, according to research by Jacqueline Ng Lane, Karim Lakhani, Miaomiao Zhang, and colleagues.

07/09/2024

When it comes to decisions about return-to-office and work-from-home policies, it's important to utilize scientific research to help separate fact from opinion. Here's an excellent article from the Talent Strategy group, which curates the emerging body of research on the topic. It examines how different work arrangements impact five key areas: performance, creativity, innovation, work relationships, and collaboration.
https://www.brianheger.com/above-the-fray-what-we-know-about-how-wfh-and-hybrid-affect-work-the-talent-strategy-group/

Summarizes the emerging scientific research on WFH and hybrid work to help leaders make decisions based on facts versus opinion.

30/08/2024

AI in HR. Here is our editable one-page template to help HR teams think through which AI use cases might benefit their organizations the most. It can be used as a starting point for team discussions. https://www.brianheger.com/template-for-evaluating-ai-in-hr-use-cases-based-on-impact-and-feasibility-brian-heger/

10/07/2024

Internal mobility (IM—the movement of internal workers across different roles and opportunities within the same organization—is a critical component of talent management. And technology is an important enabler of IM. However, many non-tech aspects of IM must be addressed to enable IM. Here are 6 non-tech barriers to IM to consider in your strategy.

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21/05/2024

Organizations continue to announce updates to their return to office (RTO) mandates, encompassing changes such as increasing the number of required in-office days, restricting specific days to work remotely, and incorporating workers’ compliance with RTO mandates into their performance reviews. Here are 14 organizations that have made recent updates to their RTO.
https://www.brianheger.com/return-to-office-rto-cheat-sheet-on-organizations-announcing-rto-updates-brian-heger/

My updated summary sheet on how 14 organizations are modifying their return to office mandates and guidance.

12/05/2024

Critical Roles—This new template can help identify an organization's critical roles and assess underlying risks to inform talent planning. It will be shared later today at 6 PM EST in the new issue of Talent Edge Weekly. To ensure you get it with +33k others, sign up here. https://talentedgeweekly.com/subscribe

01/05/2024

Here are the 16 best HR, talent, and future of work articles and resources from the April issues of the Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Topics range from workforce planning, internal mobility, and employee retention, to name a few. https://www.brianheger.com/talent-edge-weekly-issue-236-the-best-of-april-2024/

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Here are the 16 best HR, talent, and future of work articles and resources from the April issues of Talent Edge Weekly.

30/04/2024

An employee well-being study conducted by Novartis of 2,400 of its employees shows an increased use (up to 8%) of mental health benefits when they hear stories of other employees using the benefits. https://hbr.org/2024/04/research-more-people-use-mental-health-benefits-when-they-hear-that-colleagues-use-them-too

Novartis has trained more than 1,000 employees as Mental Health First Aiders to offer peer-to-peer support for their colleagues. While employees were eager for the training, uptake of the program remains low. To understand why, a team of researchers conducted a randomized controlled trial with 2,400...

23/04/2024

The Federal Trade Commission issued a final rule to ban noncompetes nationwide. Roughly 30 million workers—nearly 1 in 5 Americans—are subject to a noncompete. Existing noncompetes will no longer be enforceable after the rule’s effective date. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes

Today, the Federal Trade Commission issued a final rule to promote competition by banning noncompetes nationwide, protecting the fundamen

03/04/2024

Return-to-Office (RTO) Mandates. Here are 11 organizations that have announced updates to their RTO mandates over the past 90 days. https://www.brianheger.com/return-to-office-updates-brian-heger/

Udates on a segment of organizations that have announced changes to their return-to-office guidance.

30/03/2024

This article by Jeremy Legg, Chief Technology Officer for AT&T discusses how AT&T embarked on ‘Project Raindrop’ due to an annual employee survey that revealed employees’ frustration with the company’s tools, processes, and systems. The raindrop metaphor is described as follows:

"A raindrop is an annoying policy, an outdated process, or a tool that’s no longer useful — anything that hinders rather than helps you and your organization move forward. One or two of these may be tedious but bearable; pool enough of them, however, and a day at work can make people feel as if they’re drowning in bureaucracy. Every raindrop wastes time, energy, and/or money."

Fixing or eliminating such raindrops has saved AT&T 3.6 million hours over the past three and a half years and helped the company avoid more than $230 million in costs.

Access this and other articles in issue 229 of the Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. https://talentedgeweekly.com/p/talent-edge-weekly-issue-229