{"id":1936,"date":"2008-09-19T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/dispatches-from-dc-whats-a-mouse-son\/"},"modified":"2008-09-19T09:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T09:34:00","slug":"dispatches-from-dc-whats-a-mouse-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/dispatches-from-dc-whats-a-mouse-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatches from DC: What&#8217;s a mouse son?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fersht.typepad.com\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href,&#39;_blank&#39;,&#39;scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39;); return false\" style=\"FLOAT: right\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mouse\" border=\"0\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8356fb76c69e2010534b8f27f970c \" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/images\/6a00d8356fb76c69e2010534b8f27f970c-800wi.jpg\" title=\"Mouse\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowledgeinfusion.com\/coe\/blogs\/infuser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><span style=\"COLOR: #0000bf; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\">Jason Averbrook<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span style=\"COLOR: #0000bf; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\">&#160;on HR and technology:&#160; the core theme is about how HR needs to reach outside of the organization to drive performance inside.&#160; And technology and social networking tools&#160;arethe enabler to make this happen.&#160; Here are some of the sound-bites:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&quot;What we thought we were getting from technology is not what we have.&#160; We outsourced benefits and payroll, so what are we left with &#8211; an address book, and IT tells us it&#39;ll cost a million dollars to upgrade!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>So why are people are unhappy with technology?<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><br \/>\nBecause people bought technology without a strategy and LinkedIn knows more about your employees than <em>you<\/em> do. What people are building outside of work are communities &#8211; and who manages all of this stuff?&#160; W<em>e <\/em>do &#8211; <em>we <\/em>are all contributing to this everyday.&#160; So what&#39;s driving technology?&#160; W<em>e<\/em> are<\/p>\n<p>People are communicating with other each day using LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter etc, and employers ask &#8211; how do we block this?&#160; How can we govern this?&#160; <\/p>\n<p>What drives employee engagement?&#160; The once-a-year holiday party?&#160; Are we providing employees with ways of connecting with each other?&#160; So what are these tools and technologies doing? What they are doing..is making us perfectly <em>visible.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Instead,&#160;HR should be asking &quot;how can&#160;we&#160;embrace this to drive collaboration&#160;and innovation&quot;<\/p>\n<p>People&#160;now average&#160;10 jobs before the age of 38&#8230;&#160;they are communicating each other in so many ways. The Gen-Ys&#160;are growing&#160;up with technology &#8211; ask a 4 year-old what a mouse is&#8230; &quot;it&#39;s a thing for the computer&quot;.&#160; It&#39;s a major culture shock to look outside to go inside<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s all about <em>Social Capital<\/em> &#8211; it&#39;s the collective value from a group of individuals or employees. HR systems&#160;am&#160;been&#160;built for HR, but what we really need is to have&#160;them built for employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Averbrook&#160;on HR and technology:&#160; the core theme is about how HR needs to reach outside of the organization to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80,81,838,87,93,832],"tags":[],"organization":[],"ppma_author":[19],"class_list":["post-1936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hr-outsourcing","category-hr-strategy","category-it-outsourcing-it-services","category-kpo-analytics","category-outsourcing-events","category-social-networking","category-sourcing-best-practises"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dispatches from DC: What&#039;s a mouse son? 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