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Wall Street banks opt for greater automation for grunt work to retain talent

HR Digest

An internal survey by Goldman Sachs junior employees detailing the crushing workload and the accompanying stress due to demanding bosses has led to some stocktaking about the working conditions in the industry and the high attrition rates. Banks now insist on weekend offs, no excessive overtime, and greater use of technology for routine work.

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Could HR be the most data driven function?

HR Digest

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. According to Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2016 , “As technology makes data-driven HR decision-making a possibility, 77 percent of executives now rate people analytics as a key priority, up slightly from last year. The answer?

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The Disconnect that Keeps Your Company from Performing at its Peak

Strategy Driven

Typically, Finance, Marketing, and Operations all have input, direct or indirect, on the creation and revision of the strategic plan. But that familiarity carries a steep cost: slow growth, missed targets, attrition, and unfulfilled potential. I call this obstacle The Disconnect. Sales often have no such contribution.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

Technology has exploded, giving us instant access to information and knowledge, and it all moves and changes so fast that some of what Boomers have learned during their careers may be obsolete. What is the historic attrition and turnover rate and how do these map to the skills that keep you competitive? Who will do this work?

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

Quantitative measures, such as attrition data, employee performance data, and program attendance rates give you the numbers you may need to defend your program to executives. Like rungs on a ladder, each phase builds on the next, so it’s important that you consider each step as you create your knowledge retention program.

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Your Most Pressing Management Problem Right Now

Harvard Business Review

Managers' survival, he continued, in a conclusion that could have been written this morning, depends "on their foresight and their grasp not only of immediate trends and problems in particular organizations but of external technological, social, and political forces of revolutionary proportions.".

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Don’t Move to Silicon Valley Without Preparation

Harvard Business Review

We hear a lot about technology and globalization these days, especially how they are hollowing out the American middle class. But there has been an immense positive impact from the globalization of entrepreneurship, making Silicon Valley’s formula of technology-based start-ups an international instrument for economic development.