Over 200 HR professionals from a variety of forums participated in the HR Horror Story Contest from Halogen Software earlier this month. This year, HR pros shared their insights into some of the spookiest HR issues around, and many shared their own personal HR Horror Story. Some were funny, while others were downright disturbing! Here’s a summary of the survey results, as well as the winner (and runners up) for the best HR Horror story. [...]

I saw this post on the Fast Company blogs that at first seemed unrelated to what we talk about here. It was all about the increasing emphasis on companies to measure environmental outputs like carbon, etc:

One of the things we often hear from customers and prospects is that they struggle to define the “ROI” or return on investment of an automated talent management system in order to justify its purchase. Let’s face it, most of us don’t have deep training in finance, and are sometimes a bit intimidated by the prospect of financial calculations and estimates. And a lot of people think that you can’t quantify the “soft benefits” that automated talent management brings – things like improvements in employee engagement, better employee satisfaction, better organizational alignment, better employee retention.

This morning we announced a new money back guarantee, which is the first of its kind in the talent management industry. Our Certain to Succeed Money Back Guarantee is setting a benchmark for the industry to follow. Offering this guarantee was really the next step for us, in our drive to deliver the most brilliant customer experience in the software industry, and we see it as the right thing for a market leader to do.

Let’s face it, as an HR pro, you probably have countless horror stories to tell. This is your time to vent and scare the pants off the rest of us!