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HR Isn’t Just Support Anymore. It’s Running the Show Behind the Scenes

More than ever, HR is a vital part of an organization that bursts silos in every department, aligning people strategy with business strategy to make gains in productivity that extend way past the norm. Why? HR is far more than reactive in the form of administration for the successful organization. Instead it intakes strategy set out by management and delivers ex*****on of that strategy. Remember that in business (and in life for that matter) the devil is in the details. Powerful HR departments know this and make sure that people are a strong part of the success chain.

Think HR is admin? Try scaling without it.

Most companies think HR is a support function — policies, hiring, compliance, and employee experience. In high-growth organizations, however, that definition has evolved into something far more central to how work gets done.
In a recent conversation with Cierra Olson, head of people operations at DOOR, a different reality emerged. HR is not just a support function. It is the enablement layer of the organization. When it fails to operate that way, strategy doesn’t fail in theory. It fails in ex*****on.

https://nimblereporting.com/blog/hr-isnt-just-support-anymore-its-running-the-show-behind-the-scenes

Employees Don’t Understand Benefits: 6 Fixes for Open Enrollment

Studies show that many employees view benefits as the single most important piece of their compensation, even more than salary. So when they don’t understand their benefits the results can be devastating to an organization. People can leave, they can quiet quit, they can distill rancor, etc. And the actual benefit program may be fine, or even bountiful in the eyes of some of the workforce. But they just don’t understand what they are getting. So it is up to management and HR to ensure that they do, and mitigate any issues that shouldn’t even come up in the first place. Here’s how.

Nearly 90% of your employees don’t understand benefits. And that’s a real concern as open enrollment season is knocking on our doors. Employees need to understand the benefits they have, the benefits they need and the benefits they could have. That means HR pros and their teams want to improve the education so employees understand benefits and make better decisions during open enrollment. Then, they can use and engage with what’s available and ideal for them throughout the year.

www.nimblereporting.com/blog/employees-dont-understand-benefits-6-fixes-for-open-enrollment

Recruiters Say Job Boards Like LinkedIn Are Dead. Here’s How to Hire Instead

Finding the right people has always been a tough job for HR. Job boards seemed to have helped ferret out the right candidates but these days, recruiters and HR pros are finding that these resources have definitely jumped the shark. Whether the playing field has been too leveled by technology, or the wrong information is produced, or that it’s just too, too noisy, smart HR people have been leveraging much more manual and grass roots techniques with much better results. Take a look at this article and see if these strategies resonate with you and your department.

www.nimblereporting.com/blog/recruiters-say-job-boards-like-linkedin-are-dead-heres-how-to-hire-instead

8 Experts’ Work and Technology Predictions for AI in 2026

While there is no doubt that artificial intelligence is a boon to both business and life in general, it does have a significant downside. Dependence on AI replacing the labor that actually breeds intellectual experience —right now unreplicatable by AI — are just two aspects. Some think that the speed of the workplace which was geometrically increased with the advent of technology itself will now find itself at superspeed with AI, ratcheting up the stress level of the organization to the breaking point. And there are many other considerations to be made. How we handle them will be the new differentiator in the marketplace and propel some companies to new heights while causing those that cannot handle the new thinking and speed of business crash and burn. This is a critically important article to review.

www.nimblereporting.com/blog/8-experts-work-and-technology-predictions-for-ai-in-2026