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Workforce cybersecurity ACCORDING TO the independent study Security, privacy and the next-generation workforce (https://bit.ly/2Lsn4nI), commissioned by Centrify Corporation, more than a third of senior executives believe that younger employees are the main culprits for data security breaches in the workplace. The study into attitudes of the next generation workforce about cybersecurity also reveals that: ● more than a third (36%) of 18–24-year olds are able to access any files on their company network ● only one in five (20%) have to request permission to access specific files ● less than half (43%) have access only to the files that are relevant to their work ● only 58% of managers worry about company information being taken away from the workplace ● one in five workers are not bothered about how their social media activity might affect their employers. Barry Scott, a chief technology officer at Centrify, observed: “If you give employees access to any information at any time from any place, or fail to enforce strict password and security policies, they are likely to take full advantage, putting both their own jobs at risk as well as the company itself.”
MHR contracts A PARTNERSHIP agreement has been signed by HFX, a leading provider of software-as-a-service flexitime and workforce management solutions, and MHR, a specialist provider of human resources (HR) and payroll software, enabling MHR to offer the entire suite of HFX’s Imperago cloud-based solutions. Anton Roe, chief executive officer at MHR, stated: “HFX’s range of products perfectly complement those of MHR, enabling us to extend our proposition to our client base. This is an important addition to our fully integrated HR solutions.” Nicola Smart, chief operating officer at HFX, commented “We are delighted to be working with MHR to introduce the HFX range of products to their existing and future customers.” Connect Health, which has 500 employees and is the UK’s largest specialist provider of musculoskeletal services, has partnered with MHR for the provision of its cloud-based HR and payroll solution, iTrent, and the UK’s first HR chatbot to unify its critical business processes on a single system and drive employee engagement. Tamworth Borough Council has selected MHR’s knowledge content management and training solution Enable Now to support the transition of system knowledge and upgrades to its iTrent HR and payroll system to help optimise user competency levels and accelerate the adoption of best practice processes. ComplyRight victim of cyberattack IN LATE May 2018, ComplyRight – a USA-based provider of products and services addressing the real-world challenges employers face daily – was alerted to a potential issue affecting tax form preparation websites using its platform. ComplyRight disabled the platform, remediated the issue and took swift action to secure the data of its partners, business customers and individuals potentially impacted. Forensic investigators concluded that personal information – names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, social security numbers – for some individual recipients of tax forms such had been compromised (i.e. accessed and/or viewed) but could not confirm whether it had been downloaded or otherwise acquired. (https:// bit.ly/2LE8hpV) Confidence gap a myth
Payroll administrator apprenticeship THE APPRENTICESHIP standard for the role/occupation of payroll administrator, which has recently been approved for delivery, can be viewed on the website of the Institute for Apprenticeships (https:// bit.ly/2NrYBzd). Amongst other things, this means employers can use apprenticeship levy funds for this apprenticeship which is at level three and intended as an entry level to the payroll profession. In recognising the depth and breadth of the profession, the apprenticeship trailblazer group is seeking to expand on professional body recognition and has compiled a short survey (visit https:// bit.ly/2L83rFe) to gather views to support the addition of further professional bodies to the apprenticeship.
RESEARCH BY Laura Guillén, professor of organisational behaviour at ESMT Berlin, in collaboration with Margarita May of IE Business School and Natalia Karelaia of INSEAD, reveals that the ‘confidence gap’ between men and women is a myth because women viewed as self-confident aren’t more likely to get ahead. The research, which examined high-performing workers in a male-dominated technology company employing more than 4,000 people worldwide, suggests women are also expected to care for others on top of their workload, whilst men are held to a lower standard of key performance indicators. Laura says: “Despite there being no visible confidence gap in the way high-performing men and women rated themselves, their reasons for gaining influence in the company showed a sharp gender disparity. Although men viewed as self-confident were more likely to get ahead, our research demonstrated that this was not the case for women, who were judged on their warmth, or how caring and social they seemed. “In order to get ahead, women are having to care for others whilst their male counterparts focus on their own objectives.”
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