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The Value of Employee Incentive Programs for Manufacturing

Achievers

Jobs in this sector require high levels of skill, training and the ability to use new technologies, and applicants simply don’t have the right skills manufacturers need. Meanwhile, turnover tends to happen within four years or less. Your employees are challenging to obtain and too valuable to lose. Harness the power of recognition.

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How to Handle Spousal Coverage for Your Staff

InterWest Insurance Services

Creative approach: You can use a carrot instead of a stick. Many employers view offering spousal coverage as a way to keep up morale and serve as a recruitment and retention tool, but others consider the option a burden. And if they are forced to go to a public insurance exchange, their bitterness could deepen further.

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20 Best Nutritious and Healthy Snacks For Work to Energize Your Day

Empuls

In this blog, we're delving into a comprehensive collection of 20 wholesome and nutritious healthy snack ideas that are tailor-made for the demands of your work environment. Hummus and veggie sticks Creamy hummus paired with colorful carrot sticks, cucumber slices, and bell pepper strips.

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Vaccine Mandates and the Workplace: Where We Stand Currently

AssuredPartners

Over the course of the pandemic we have blogged fairly extensively about the evolution of COVID-19 vaccines as it pertains to the workplace and health plans generally (links below), capturing not only the progress made in the area but focusing on employer-sponsored vaccine incentive programs and mandates as well.

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The do’s and don’ts for rewarding your sales team

Achievers

This is dangerous territory because employees will see the rewards as a carrot on a stick. The carrot-and-stick mentality is a dated practice that only speaks to the outcome and fails to recognize the meaning and reward in performing the act itself. Rely on rewards as the sole way to motivate employees to perform.

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Electricity and Socialism

Florida Workers' Comp

We tend to think of the world as static and many struggle to understand that our modern world is pretty recent. You can make a case for automobiles dating to the 1880s, according to Whisbi. But the Stanley Steamer is given credit for much and was initially on the scene only in 1897. Communism is simply not that old. That makes sense.

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Employee perk ideas to improve employee satisfaction and attract top talent

Business Management Daily

In this blog, we’re talking about why perks are important, how companies can provide incentives employees want, and how they can do it without blowing the budget. In this blog, we’re talking about why perks are important, how companies can provide incentives employees want, and how they can do it without blowing the budget.

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