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Understanding the Costs and Causes of Employee Turnover

Tom Spencer

Recruitment costs – it takes time and effort to recruit new employees, and this can be especially costly if the required employees are experienced and the services of a headhunter are required. Randstad, a HR consulting firm, conducted extensive research in 2015 in which they surveyed over 220,000 employees across 22 countries.

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How Learning and Development Are Becoming More Agile

Harvard Business

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. A growing percentage of this investment supports peer learning.

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What I Learned from Trying to Innovate at the New York Times

Harvard Business

Marketers market themselves, directors research deals, the executive talent team doesn’t recruit — that is very much “organism think.” ” They also measure the value of this activity, and expect to see a real ROI. They measure efficiency, productivity, quality of the network, quality of inputs and outputs.

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