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The shrinking value of tips
Consumers complain about tip fatigue, but as base pay rises, gratuities are a smaller piece of the pie at sit-down restaurants.
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May 14, 2019
Evolution of Pay Work Status and Payroll
by ADP Research
This survey was conducted with nearly 7000 employers and employees across the globe to assess how they view pay, what's important, how payment methods are changing and what the future might look like.
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May 13, 2019
What Drives Global Engagement?
by Marcus Buckingham
There is a tendency to place a lot of value on talent acquisition within organizations, but in doing so we bypass a more important question: how can we get the most out of the people that already work for us?
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March 26, 2018
The Business Case for Strengths
by Marcus Buckingham
It’s the single most important driver of team performance – and yet, less than 2 out of 10 employees strongly agree that they get to use their strengths at work every day.
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December 1, 2017
Data Fluency Series #5: Case Study
by Marcus Buckingham
Let’s show you what good data looks like, and what we went through to get it to see what happens on the world’s most productive teams.
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November 23, 2017
Data Fluency Series #4: Do Current HR Tools Give Us Good Data?
by Marcus Buckingham
We know that a good HR tool will have reliability, variation, and validity. Let's look at a few common HR tools and see how they stack up.
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November 14, 2017
Data Fluency Series #3: Variation and Validity
by Marcus Buckingham
If you are using a tool to measure people data, there are two things it has to do: It has to reveal actual variation in the real world, and that variation has to validly relate to something else.
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November 7, 2017
Data Fluency Series #2: How to Get Reliable Ratings Data
by Marcus Buckingham
How do we know that the people data we’re collecting is reliable? How do we know that it’s measuring what we say it’s measuring? And can you really measure something like performance in another person?
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October 31, 2017
Data Fluency Series #1: How to Tell Good Data from Bad Data
by Marcus Buckingham
Bad data is a pervasive problem in our world, and especially in the world of work. People are being promoted and fired because this faulty data that actually tells us nothing about our employees.
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