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5 Steps to Break Through the Noise and Hold Employees’ Attention

By Rod Mickels, Co-Founder & CEO, InVision Communications Oct 15, 2019 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Oct 15, 2019

I suspect I’m not alone in noticing that employees live in a cacophony of content. They have dozens of tabs open in their browsers and pages upon pages of inbound e-mails, and plenty of research shows they’re behind on reading—and that’s just with respect to their day-to-day work. Internal HR and business operations content simply […]

Are Employees Really Slacking Off More Now?

By James Davis, Editor, HR Daily Advisor Jul 31, 2019 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Jul 31, 2019

Remember when employee slacking meant long conversations at the water cooler and frequent smoke breaks? Those were simpler times. Some studies suggest that digital distractions offer a whole new, more time-consuming and effective method of slacking in the modern workplace. But how damaging are such behaviors? Should they be stamped out entirely or maybe even […]