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In an On-Demand Economy, Will HR Become an App?

It may not be obvious yet, but on-demand services like Uber are not just reshaping the way people hail taxis in large cities; they’re on track to revamp the American workforce in the most profound manner since perhaps the Industrial Revolution.

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Internet, Email Are Making Workers More Productive: Survey

A recent survey by the Pew Research Center of employed adults (full- or part-time) on how technology impacts their work yielded some interesting results.

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Workforce and Time Management Technology: Firms Shifting Focus

For most of the new millennium, the hot topics in HR technology and software have focused on talent management–recruitment, compensation, learning and training, etc. More recently, however, companies are shifting some of their focus to a somewhat neglected (or, more correctly, less "sexy") aspect of the business: workforce and time management technology.

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Apple Security Breach Shakes iCloud Users to the Core

Should recent online leaks of nude celebrity photos give personal and corporate users of the ubiquitous iPhone and iPad devices pause? Maybe so, especially with Apple's release of its latest bell-and-whistle-equipped version of the iPhone. So Reuters reports.

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Navigating the ACA Waters: A Valuable Resource for HR Pros Goes Live

If there is one consistent aspect to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA; aka ACA; aka ObamaCare), it is perhaps the legislation's undoubted inconsistency.

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Take Two Tablets: Samsung Banking on New PRO Models for Execs

Amid the curved, ultra-high-definition TV screens that could accommodate a sizable screening room; the so-called “Internet of Things” universe; and countless other consumer innovations on display at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Samsung Electronics unveiled a new generation of tablet computers aimed not at the retail consumer market, but at corporations and their executives. So reports The Wall Street Journal.

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Workforce Trends in HR Sites for 2014

Technology. Smartphones. Applications, better known by their short-hand "Apps." The Internet.

 

These terms and many others are on everyone’s lips these days, and HR professionals are no exception. Technological innovations of one kind or another seem to be occupying more of our attention these days: from how and why we do our jobs to how we evaluate employees.

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