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Feb 17, 2022

What's the Best Way to Measure the Effectiveness of your DEI Program?

Protocol | Many well-known and successful companies like Google, Apple and Facebook have shown DEI-related transparency through the release of Diversity & Inclusion reports that highlight progress against their respective diversity, belonging and equity “benchmarks.” While these reports are a good start, in my experience, only using demographic data for measuring the success of belonging, diversity and equity programs limits the potential for impact.

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Feb 17, 2022

IESNYC and Equity in Lighting Create a Thought Provoking Evening

Edison Report | The opening speaker and moderator was the brilliant Dr. Jarik Conrad, VP of Human Insights, UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group). Dr. Conrad opined that as humans we are wired for tribalism, wired to seek out those who share our interests, share our opinions, and look like us.

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Feb 14, 2022

Super Bowl 2022: Should the Monday after the Big Game be a National Holiday?

USA Today | Last year, an estimated 8 million or more said they would take a pre-planned day off on the Monday after the Super Bowl. Overall, a total of 16.1 million said they might punt on work that day – suggesting many would call in sick, according to a survey of more than 1,000 employed Americans, conducted by The Harris Poll for The Workforce Institute at UKG.

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Feb 4, 2022

Omicron Absences Fail to Dent Job Growth

The Wall Street Journal | “It was the tale of two months: a whole lot of people called out sick the first couple weeks of the month and we saw some really bad winter weather,” said David Gilbertson, vice president at UKG Inc., a payroll software provider. “The impact of Omicron really declined quite a bit in the last two weeks.”

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Feb 2, 2022

Special Report: The New Laws of Talent Attraction

Chief Executive | Cecile Alper-Leroux has dedicated her life’s work to helping companies design the best possible experiences for people to achieve great things at work. These days, the veteran economic anthropologist is designing work experiences that extend beyond a physical workspace for the evolving work-from-anywhere model that many companies are adopting.

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Apr 30, 2021

Real-Time Proof the Job Market is Recovering

Marketplace | Dave Gilbertson, at payroll processor UKG, which by the way is a Marketplace underwriter, said, “This high-frequency data is literally how many people were working as of just a couple days ago.” UKG tracks hourly workers punching in, mostly in-person service and production workers.