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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>KnowHR Blog - Latest Comments in How to Keep Your HR Communications from Turning Into a Playtpus</title><link>http://knowhr.disqus.com/</link><description></description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:31:20 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: How to Keep Your HR Communications from Turning Into a Playtpus</title><link>http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2008/07/24/how-to-keep-your-hr-communications-from-turning-into-a-playtpus/#comment-1825748</link><description>Frank,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;My take on HR "platypused communication" is that the message is frequently hard to understand by the average employee because of the legaleze and/or the use of jargon coined by Human Resources. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The other problem is our tendency to candy-coat a negative message. Somewhere buried in that communique from HR is the information that the employee now has a copay that has doubled. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then we wonder why our PR is not so hot!  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I always tried to look at our HR communication from the employees' eyeballs.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Ron Ulrici</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:31:20 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>