With so many amazing HR blogs out there (don’t forget newsletters!), even choosing which ones to read can be a time-consuming affair.
If you don’t have time, no big deal…we’ve picked some out for you!
About Our HR Blog Selections:
Some of the websites we listed might seem slightly outside the scope of HR, we decided to include critical topics like employee engagement and company culture. These areas are becoming so important to the expanded role of the modern HR pro and what we believe is missing from other top HR blog lists.
Once you finish picking out your faves, consider rounding out your selections with a couple of business newsletters. We also recommend checking out Bambee if you are looking to further optimize your HR procedures and automate areas of administrative redundancies.
Here are the best HR Blogs that you’ll want to bookmark.
1) The Bonusly Blog
Owner: The Recognition and Engagement experts at Bonusly
Favorite Post & Free Content Downloads:
- 2022 Annual HR Leader Report
- 11 Diversity & Inclusion Statistics That Will Change How You Do Business
- The Guide to Modern Employee Recognition
- The Ultimate Retention Checklist for Managers
- The Essential Guide to Employee Engagement
What it’s all about: The Bonusly Blog is about sharing fresh perspectives and insights on employee engagement, recognition in the workplace, the employee experience, company culture, and employee rewards. Since their team counts thousands of organizations as happy customers, expect expert advice on building better workplaces. You’ll learn about a wide range of topics, from how to address high turnover to examples of employee recognition in action.
2) The Kazoo Blog
Primary Writer: Every post is a Kazoo team collaboration
What it’s all about: Kazoo’s blog is all about the latest trends and best practices in employee engagement. Whether they’re covering the science of employee appreciation, tips for company goal setting, or first-day checklists for new hires, Kazoo offers actionable advice on a variety of HR topics.
3) The Assembly Blog
Owner: Assembly is a free recognition and engagement platform that helps scale company culture.
What it’s all about: The Assembly Blog provides unique takes on employee engagement and recognition in the digital world. They are focused on building out great content around company culture, employee feedback loops, culture gamification, employee retention strategies, and much more. We recommend trying out their free employee recognition software here to put these topics into practice at your company.
4) NectarHR
Owner: Nectar is a 360 recognition & rewards platform designed to reinforce great work through meaningful appreciation – anytime, anywhere.
What it’s all about: The Nectar Blog focuses on today’s most relevant HR topics including company culture, employee experience, employee recognition, employee engagement, and corporate wellness. Gain insight into the latest trends, especially those involving remote work culture and “the new normal”.
5) The SnackNation Blog
Primary Writers: Richard Fendler, Tyler Simpson, Emil Shour, Jeff Murphy, Ashley Bell
What it’s all about: Yes, we shamelessly included ourselves in this list. But let us explain! This blog proves even “non-traditional HR blogs” can still be important ones for people who work in HR. The SnackNation blog helps companies improve culture, explore new workplace wellness ideas, and increase employee engagement. So if you’re trying to make your office an environment where people are happy and healthy, you’ve landed in the right place!
6) The Blueboard Blog
Primary Writer: Blueboard’s content team, the company’s, HR experts, sales leaders, and a cross-section of passionate Blueboarders and friends. If you’re interested in contributing, email [email protected].
What it’s all about: Blueboard’s blog is designed to inspire HR and sales leaders to recognize their employees in authentic, meaningful ways. You’ll find fresh perspectives on trending topics like what trends will shape the future of the industry and how to successfully adapt recognition programs in uncertain times. Best practices, smart strategies, and creative tactics abound in their robust webinar recaps as well. Much like their experiential rewards, you’ll find Blueboard’s blog packed with adventure. Feel free to use any of their ideas for your programs, from employee engagement and motivation to employer branding and sales recognition!
7) Evil HR Lady
Primary Writer: Suzanne Lucas (The Evil HR Lady)
What it’s all about: The Evil HR Lady and her blog are on a mission: to demystify the HR department and clear up your most pressing questions about what goes on in Human Resources. From payroll to discrimination, the Evil HR lady candidly answers everything you might be curious about. She even takes questions via email.
8) Namely Blog
Primary Writer: A team of HR, payroll, and benefits experts (and enthusiasts!)
What it’s all about: Namely’s award-winning blog is the go-to resource for all things HR. From industry best practices to breaking compliance news, each article is designed to help HR professionals at all stages. With a dedicated team of HR thought leaders, the Namely blog has everything you need to build a better workplace.
9) The HR Capitalist
Primary Writer: Kris Dunn, Chief Human Resources Officer for Kinetix
What it’s all about: While other HR blogs are all strategy, this one gets specific. HR Capitalist writer, Kris Dunn, says:
“My eyes get glossy when HR people start talking about being strategic without being specific.”
And that’s one of the reasons he started HR capitalist—to build a community that turns strategic ideas into specific takeaways to benefit HR practitioners everywhere.
10) Workology (formerly The Recruiter’s Lounge)
Primary Writer: Jessica Miller-Merrell, workplace technology, and HR anthropologist
What it’s all about: Some of the best HR blogs focus on one topic…to help you become an expert on it. This one is all about recruiting, whether it’s job searching, sourcing, tactics, or technology. Each post explores the nebulous and constantly changing world of recruiting, so you can expect something new every time you land on the blog.
11) TINYpulse
Editor: Andrew Sumitani, Sr. Director of Marketing for the TINYpulse blog
What it’s all about: This company culture blog’s topics include employee retention, recruitment strategies, reviews, organizational culture, remote work, and even more. As a bonus, this blog has a sense of humor, makes fun of popular culture references, and touches on some subjects other HR blogs might be afraid to cover, like strange co-workers with quotes.
12) CareerPlug
Primary Writer: Natalie Morgan (Director of HR) and Desiree Echevarria (Content Marketing Manager)
What it’s all about: The CareerPlug blog is focused on helping non-HR people hire better; we’re talking about anyone from small business owners to franchise operators to people who have never even heard the term “candidate experience” before. If hiring isn’t your primary job duty, CareerPlug is the blog for you. They require every one of their employees to become certified Hiring Experts so you don’t have to be. The advice they share is practical and actionable, all taken from their proven hiring playbook they’ve spent years perfecting.
13) The Harvard Business Review
Owner: Harvard Business School Publishing
What it’s all about: While HBR isn’t technically a blog, it is a website publishing expert posts that anyone in business should read. This non-blog ended up on our best human resources blogs list because it epitomizes intelligent online discussions about business, including HR topics like generational issues and leadership development.
14) Laurie Ruettimann
Primary Writer: The blog’s namesake, Laurie Ruettimann
What it’s all about: Laurie Ruettimann isn’t afraid to share her expertise on HR, even if it’s not exactly what you want to hear. This blogger is always direct, fresh, and honest, and shares posts that get you thinking about the way you work. Plus, with the range of topics she posts about, you’ll never be bored. One day it’s interview questions and the next day it could be writing a performance improvement plan.
15) EddyHR
Primary Writer: The HR-specific content team at EddyHR
What it’s all about: EddyHR is helping HR professionals explore new ideas and topics in human resources through a clear and concise voice. Their content is relevant to HR trends, topics, and issues, often providing comprehensive insight that helps readers understand more about HR. The blog features different categories users can sort through such as benefits, PTO, payroll, company culture, and other related topics, with key information that proves beneficial for readers within each post.
16) The Good.Co Blog
Primary Writer: Every post is Good.Co team collaboration
What it’s all about: The company behind the blog has been called “the job-hunting lovechild of e-Harmony and LinkedIn.” Good. co guides people in finding career matches with quizzes and articles that use the company’s Proprietary Psychometric Algorithm. Because other blogs on this list don’t have access to Good.Co’s proprietary data, you won’t find posts like theirs on any other site. Using this data, their posts explore gender equality, personalities, companies, trends, and more.
17) The Fond Blog
Primary Writer: Every post is a Fond team collaboration
What it’s all about: This blog covers the latest in employee happiness. The Fond company is all about helping offices find ways to give their employees perks, and their blog naturally follows that progression with tons of ideas on employee happiness and engagement.
18) The Officevibe Blog
Primary Writer: Content Team at Officevibe
What it’s all about: This blog is all about achieving those good office vibes that everybody wants, but are often so hard to find. It covers employee engagement, company culture, performance reviews, and everything and anything else that influences the vibe of your office…using awesome illustrations and share-ready infographics. With a company goal of making workplaces better places, this blog produces more highly-focused content than many other blogs out there.
19) The Employer Handbook
Primary Writer: Eric B. Meyer, Pennsylvania Employment Lawyer
What it’s all about: From accommodating peanut allergies to firing flatulent employees, this blog helps you navigate the legality of all of your tricky HR questions…and pushes the envelope. If you’re wondering what you legally may or may not do in sticky situations, this blog probably has an answer.
20) Bob Sutton Work Matters Blog
Primary Writer: Bob Sutton, Stanford Professor, and Author
What it’s all about: This blog’s primary writer, Bob Sutton, is also the author of the bestselling book, The No Asshole Rule, which tackles workplace negativity head-on. Just like his book, Sutton writes this blog for business and HR leaders who want to examine the deepest issues lurking in their offices, and more importantly, do something about them. While other HR-focused blogs often revolve around the opinions of the writer, Sutton commits to an evidence-based approach to his advice.
21) Christopher in HR
Primary Writer: Christopher Demers, a.k.a. Christopher in HR
What it’s all about: In addition to the usual topics on HR, Christopher writes about overall self-improvement habits that carry over to the workplace, no matter what your profession. If your office’s HR team sent daily inspirational emails, they would probably sound a lot like Christopher’s posts.
22) Insperity Blog
Owner: HR and business performance specialists from Insperity
What it’s all about: The Insperity blog has one main goal: to be a trusted provider of new ideas and business best practices for people creating, leading, and transforming business. Their blog posts provide in-depth HR advice from Insperity’s experts whose authority comes from careful analysis, study, and extensive industry experience. They cover a wide range of today’s most talked-about HR and business improvement topics and questions.
23) The Labor and Employment Law Blog
Owner: Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin Law Corporation
What it’s all about: While some of the other blogs mentioned here like to keep you entertained, The Labor and Employment Law blog just want to make sure you’re well informed about new laws and how they affect your work. But in the process of informing you, this blog is vastly entertaining, as it condenses the legal information you need to know into snackable blog posts. It’s hard to keep track of fast changes in laws, statutes, and regulations, but this blog makes it easier for you.
24) The Tim Sackett Project
Primary Writer: Tim Sackett
What it’s all about: Tim, who was kind enough to share some wisdom on employee engagement with us, is a 20-year HR pro currently serving as President of HRU Technical Resources. He’s insanely knowledgable on recruiting and his writing style is very genuine. Plus he’s a pretty funny guy (he claims to be the “World’s foremost expert on Hugging” on his Twitter bio). This is one blog you MUST bookmark if you’re serious about HR.
25) Tiny Buddha
Primary Writer: Lori Deschene, but to clarify through her own words, “Though I run this site, it is not mine. It’s ours.”
What it’s all about: The Tiny Buddha blog is not specific to HR, but it makes it onto our list for one very good reason: every HR manager (and every person really) could use a little more zen and positive thinking in their lives. This blog gives readers a fabulous dose of mindful positive thinking…just what they need to manage a positive workforce.
26) The Workplace Psychology Blog
Primary Writer: Steve Nguyen, Ph.D. Leadership and Talent Consultant
What it’s all about: Dr. Nguyen’s blog digs deep into psychology to help readers understand and deal with what happens in their offices every day. The blog is split into three main focus areas:
- Industrial-Organizational Psychology, and how new theories can be applied in the workplace
- Occupational Health Psychology, and the general well-being of workers
- Organizational Behavior, namely how people behave at work
They separate themselves from other HR blogs through their commitment to presenting scholarly information, and their promise to only cite the most credible sources.
27) engage
Owner: Powered by Achievers.com
What it’s all about: engage has a serious passion for employee engagement. So much so that their posts aim to make everyone else as passionate about employee engagement as they are. They cover benefits and perks, HR trends, wellness, and more.
28) Motivosity Blog
Primary Writer: The Happiness experts at Motivosity
What it’s all about: Every list of HR blogs needs one that’s all about employees and their well-being. The Motivosity blog turns out employee-centric content from a fresh perspective, answering all of your most pressing questions about employee happiness and pumping out tons of amazing ideas you can easily implement in your office.
29) Culture Amp
Primary Writer: Culture Amp’s team of writers, People Scientists, and other industry experts.
What it’s all about: It’s a great time to be in Human Resources. As more HR leaders get a seat at the table and People and Culture become the catalyst to business success, everyone wins. The Culture Amp blog brings clarity to what it means to be a successful HR and People leader today with forward-focused content on employee engagement, performance, diversity and inclusion, wellbeing, and more.
30) upstartHR
Primary Writer: Ben Eubanks, HR professional
What it’s all about: The tagline for an upstart is “making HR better, one HR pro at a time,” and that’s exactly what every post aims to do. This blog covers ideas, tips, best practices, and even book reviews, and the author hopes that both new HR professionals and HR veterans will have plenty to take away from his blog. In short, each post will inspire you to keep your passion for HR going strong.
Bonus – 31) The Psychology Today Blog
Primary Writer: Experts from all fields of psychology
Favorite Post: Avoid These Trust Diminishing Potholes at Work
What it’s all about: People skills are at the top of any HR manager’s skill set, and that’s why the Psychology Today blog lands on our list. Skip straight to the work section to find a treasure trove of posts that help you digest the latest psychological research, and use it to help get a little insight into why the people in your office do what they do.
Bonus – 32) ‘a’ Magazine
Owner: Powered by OC Tanner and the OC Tanner Institute
Favorite Post: Great culture? Look at the cows
What it’s all about: The chic, user-friendly design of the posts makes this one of the glossiest HR blogs out there. And in addition to looking like your favorite magazine, ‘a’ Magazine produces consistently amazing HR content as well. The blog’s goal, in its own words, is to:
“Help anyone in any role be an a-player, contribute to an a-team and bring their a-game.”
In blog content speak, this translates to great articles on leadership, engagement, insights, and more.
Bonus – 33) Clear Review Blog
Owner: Clear Review Blog
Favorite Post: Performance Management Trends
What it’s all about: The Clear Review blog is headed up by a team of human resources experts who value simplicity above all else. Dedicated to straightforward, jargon-free content, CEO and Founder of Clear Review, Stuart Hearn, publishes regular posts on anything relating to performance management — including how to engage employees, how to avoid burnout, and the importance of great employee-employer relationships. They also publish a yearly post detailing the emerging performance management trends for the upcoming year.
Bonus – 34) recognition, the Baudville blog
Primary Writer: Allison, Baudville’s Senior Content Writer.
What it’s all about: What separates this blog from others in the pack? Passion, a hyper-personal voice, and some kick-ass employee recognition ideas. As far as HR blogs go, this one is about as close as you can get to sharing a cup of coffee with an HR expert. Allison, the primary writer for the blog, has a passion for sharing everything she’s learned in over 20 years of working in offices…and it shines through all of her posts.
Bonus – 35) Fistful of Talent
Primary Writer: A powerhouse collaboration of HR leaders
What it’s all about: This blog brings all of the HR experts you may read on other blogs together to write a blog that….well, leaves out what you might read about in other Human Resources blogs. When recounting how the blog got started, FOT recalls the words of the founders:
“We want to hire you to create a Talent Management blog for our new website. Like the HR Capitalist, but without all the boring HR stuff like legal issues and employee relations tactics – just the sexy stuff.”
So basically, you’ll find lots of interesting insights and commentary on HR and workplace issues…but don’t expect to be bored.
Conclusion
To become a master of your craft, it pays to read from industry experts. These 30 HR blogs will help you stay on top of everything you need to know to be an HR rockstar.
