Wouldn’t we all love to be as flexible as possible in the workplace? Everyone says that when it comes to workplace flexibility, practice makes perfect, but how do you build flexibility? Where do you start? Many managers want to believe they install in their company a culture of flexibility, but when worse comes to worst, […]
Everything About the New Time and Attendance Tracking Law in Spain
Last week the BOE published the order regulating a mandatory time and attendance tracking in companies. The Royal Decree-Law now states that it will be mandatory to do so in every company by May 12th. Let’s go over what the decree says and which steps you need to carry it out. What does the law say? […]
What is Employee Time and Attendance Tracking
Many know the traditional way of employee time tracking: signing when entering and leaving work. But this is only a superficial way of defining time tracking since it entails much more. In addition, there are several ways to carry out this registration. Let’s go over what employee time and attendance tracking is and what it […]
The Importance of HR Management: HR-to-Employee Ratio
Before we explore the basics of HR Management, which we’ll be referring to it as HRM, let’s define HRM. HRM comprises the formal systems designed to manage people in an organization. To best understand HRM, we will look at a brief history, understand the roles HRM plays in organizations and go over when is it […]
Workplace Bullying: What is Mobbing?
Let’s call it like it is, Mobbing is basically “bullying on steroids,” and it is a kind of mass bullying or group campaign of harassment and cruelty, conscious or unconscious, designed to undermine the confidence, impugn the competence, and undercut the effectiveness of certain employees. Did you know that at least 30 percent of bullying […]
Workplace Bullying: Types of Microaggressions
We’ve been talking about how unconscious bias influences the way that we perceive others during the recruitment process. Now I want to shift gears a little bit and focus on how unconscious biases can influence the way that we behave towards others during our everyday life at the office. Perhaps some of you have heard […]
Factorial is one of the finalists in the 4YFN Startup of the year 2019
Great news! Factorial is among the five finalists of the 4 Years From Now (4YFN) Startup of the Year 2019. The 4YFN awards are linked to the Mobile World Congress (MWC), celebrating the new innovative and visionary companies from around the world. Five finalists have been chosen after an intensive selection process with applicants coming […]
Gender Bias in the Recruitment Process
Closing the gender pay gap, ending gender-based violence, promoting gender equality… these have been the hot topics of last year and it’s gaining even more strength now in 2019. Have you ever wondered why despite all that we know about diversity, companies continue to face significant challenges related to diversity and gender representation? Gender bias […]
What is a Blind CV?
A blind curriculum is a new way of developing a typical CV, in this case without including any personal information that hints about the sex, age or ethnicity of a future worker. In general, trying to cancel any type of information that has nothing to do with a person’s work capabilities. It is also possible to […]