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A Major Tech Gap Could Impede the Hybrid Work Transition
Forbes | When many workplaces were forced to go virtual in early 2020, the tools and technology they needed already existed. The main challenge was adopting them quickly and updating longstanding processes. For a workplace where some employees are together in the same office and some aren’t, there’s a significant gap in communication, productivity and engagement tools.
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How ‘Gray Collar’ Workers Became the Overlooked Essential Employee
Employee Benefit News | “They have been hiding in plain sight,” says Cecile Alper-Leroux, vice president at research and innovation company UKG. “This huge, critical labor force.” The term “gray collar” was first coined in 2004 and compared to its blue and white counterparts, it is entirely a product of a modernized workforce.
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The Future Workforce Will Need a Workplace of Trust and One That Engages Them While Honoring Flexibility
Entrepreneur | According to a global survey conducted by The Workforce Institute at UKG, 35 per cent of Gen Z workforce demand schedule flexibility to deliver their best work. They bring new expectations to the workplace, driven by their digital upbringing and self-identified emotional barriers to success.
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Relinquish Outdated Management Models to Power People the Right Way
Forbes | Cecile Alper-Leroux, a 20+-year HR tech veteran, is UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) Group VP of Research and Innovation. While academic theorists have for some time championed the idea that a company’s primary stakeholder is its employees, the multiple crises of the past year and a half have elevated just how vital people are to our overall economic and business survival.
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An Early End to Federal Unemployment Pay is not Getting People to Work
CNBC | UKG, a payroll and time-management firm, found that shifts among hourly workers in those states grew at about half the rate as states that continued the benefit — the opposite trend of what one might expect. Specifically, in states that ended benefits, shifts grew 2.2% from May through July; they grew 4.1% in the others that kept federal aid intact, according to UKG’s analysis.
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U.S. Hiring May Have Slowed in July Amid COVID Surge - Data
Reuters | Payroll firm UKG said growth in employees across a wide set of industries grew 1.1% from mid-June to mid-July, coinciding with the period when the federal government employment survey is conducted. That was about half the 2% rate of growth seen between May and June, ahead of a blockbuster June national jobs report showing 850,000 additional positions added to payrolls.