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Employee bonus programs: What’s right for your company?

Insperity

A thoughtful, high-value employee bonus program can help make the difference between struggling to recruit and retain talented employees , and having a workplace that employees never want to leave. That’s especially true in job markets that are tilted heavily in favor of job candidates. But before you dive in and implement an employee bonus program, it’s important to consider your options, evaluate what’s best for your company and find what’s most valuable for your people.

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Why taking a joke isn't the point

BetterUp

Jump to section. When joking isn’t a joke. How different types of humor impact teams. How “joking” damages psychological safety. What happens when you can’t “take a joke?”.

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4 tips for managing and supporting mental health at work

Sodexo Engage

Summary: Why you need to consider the mental health of your employees. 4 ways you can manage and support the mental health of your employees. Looking to support your people? 4 tips for managing and supporting mental health at work. Is your organisation seeing an increase in work-place stress, depression or anxiety? If so, you’re not alone. Although the rate of workplace mental health issues remained flat during the first half of the 21st century, it’s been on the rise since 2010, and the Covid-1

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How to Effectively Manage Payroll Services?

Qandle

Payroll administration is the difficult task of keeping track of your employees’ financial data, such as pay, benefits, taxes, and deductions. Calculating your employees’ salary, issuing payments, preserving payroll records, and collecting tax forms are all part of payroll management. Payroll is handled in a variety of ways by businesses: traditionally, with spreadsheets, or automatically via payroll software.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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National Work Zone Awareness Week, April 11-15, 2022

AssuredPartners

(Excerpts taken from the NWZAW Event Promotion Guide [i] ). Each spring, the American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA) partners with the Department of Transportation (DOT) to promote National Work Zone Awareness Week (NWZAW). It is held at the beginning of construction season to remind everyone about the dangers of reckless driving in construction work zone with a focus on reminding drivers to use extra caution.

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Women Want a Purpose-Driven Career, Gartner Finds

HR Digest

According to a study by Gartner, many women believe that the Covid-19 pandemic affected their perspective on work and its position in their life, which might lead to changes in how companies create jobs and processes. In a survey of 3,515 workers conducted by Gartner in October 2021, 65 percent of women said the pandemic caused them to reconsider work’s place in their lives, and nearly 70 percent of women with children agreed that the pandemic “changed how they value certain aspects

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Back to the Forum

Florida Workers' Comp

The 2021 Workers’ Compensation Forum in Orlando was a much anticipated event. The world at large was seemingly just awakening from pandemic, though Florida had largely returned to normal in 2020. See Happy Anniversary (March 2022). As we neared April 2021, I was asked time and again about operations, and when "normal" would return. Though the workers’ compensation litigation system (the OJCC) had persevered through 2020, there were various businesses that were still struggling with adaptation to

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Biden Administration Foreshadows Impending Nursing Home Quality Reforms

McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

On February 28, 2022, the White House issued a fact sheet outlining several efforts aimed to increase safety, accountability, oversight and transparency in the senior services industry (Fact Sheet). Although the Fact Sheet’s initiatives have not yet been implemented, President Biden reiterated his administration’s focus on nursing home reform during his March 1, 2022, State […].

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Reflections on our latest HR tech event ‘Bridging the gap’

LACE Partners

In case you missed it, we recently hosted an event focused entirely on HR technology implementation where we asked panellists Mark Corden from Parkdean resorts and Alastair Logan and Ceridian to tell us what their key lessons learned were from projects they have worked on. In this podcast our host Chris is joined by Max Bailey, one of our HR technology experts at LACE, to reflect on these takeaways and add further context.

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6 Steps to a Better Compensation Strategy

Compensation is one of your biggest expenses as a business, but it is also your biggest investment in your people and your culture. A great compensation strategy can be an incredible asset that supports your business goals and lays a foundation of trust between your company and your employees. Whether you already have a compensation strategy in place or you’re building one from scratch, this guide will help you level up your approach through these 6 steps: 1.

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No gimmicks. Just one easy way to boost your commissions.

GRA Benefits Group

Why are you doing more for less commission? Carriers are asking agencies to do more. You’re being asked to enter all NB, GWC, and eligibility into their portals. Using insurtech like 1Enroll can reduce labor costs while increasing efficiency and profitability for your agency. Insurtech is revolutionizing insurance by providing customers and service providers an easier, error-free, and safe way to conduct business.

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2-D barcoding may be coming to paper 1040s

Business Management Daily

If the IRS were Superman, paper would be its kryptonite. That’s our analogy to the Taxpayer Advocate’s annual report to Congress regarding the IRS’ well-known pandemic-related problems opening the mail. The Taxpayer Advocate Services’ (TAS) solution is to issue a Taxpayer Advocate Directive giving the IRS 45 days to work with the tax software industry to develop a plan to implement 2-D barcodes on self-prepared 1040s for the 2023 filing season.

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No gimmicks. Just one easy way to boost your commissions.

GRA Benefits Group

Why are you doing more for less commission? . Carriers are asking agencies to do more. You’re being asked to enter all NB, GWC, and eligibility into their portals. . Using insurtech like 1Enroll can reduce labor costs while increasing efficiency and profitability for your agency. . We’ll show you how! Click here to sign up for our webinar. Insurtech is revolutionizing insurance by providing customers and service providers an easier, error-free, and safe way to conduct business. .

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Is pet insurance worthwhile? The facts on pet insurance plans

Higginbotham

It’s generally accepted that people should have health insurance. But what about their pets? Veterinary bills can be expensive, especially when unexpected accidents and illnesses are involved, and pet insurance can help cover the costs. Some pet owners buy coverage on their own, but pet insurance has also emerged as a popular employee benefit. Employers who are considering adding this perk should consider whether it will be worthwhile for their workers.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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5 Crazy-Simple Ways to Improve Your Onboarding

Flimp Communications

For many years, employees have resigned in great numbers. Usually the culprit is easy to figure out: bad pay, bad managers, or bad onboarding. In this post we're going to fit the last one, once and for all. Here are five super simple onboarding tips. The post 5 Crazy-Simple Ways to Improve Your Onboarding appeared first on Flimp.

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What Is Teamwork and Why Does It Matter?

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is teamwork? 4 benefits of teamwork. What are the characteristics of successful teamwork? Why is teamwork so important in the workplace? How to promote teamwork in your job. 3 team-building exercises for the workplace. Moving forward.

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How To Prepare Your HR Department For Employee Feedback

Hppy

The vast majority, as many as 80% of HR people, employees and the atmosphere in the company motivates them to work. A comparable group values ??its direct impact on how an organization functions and develops. More than 2/3 of human resources experts are motivated by respect for employees and management (68%) and the variety of tasks performed (67%).

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Help Employees Use Pre-tax Funds to Save for a New Baby

Benefit Resource Inc.

The cost of having a baby can be overwhelming, even if you have insurance. However, there are ways for employees and employers alike to help make it more affordable. BRI’s VP of Strategy, Becky Seefeldt recently shared her thoughts with BenefitsPRO. It can be hard to manage the things needed to welcome the newest family member, but there are tools available.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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How To Determine Your Employees’ Salaries

Hppy

The world of work is changing fast. The long awaited 4th industrial revolution is threatening to make many jobs obsolete and the rise of remote working may just about have killed off the office cubicle. As well as this, the American economy has witnessed what many have called “The Great Walkout” as unprecedented numbers of workers elected not to return to their old jobs following the pandemic; as such a record number of entry, manual and hospitality jobs still remain unfilled.

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The Two Sides of Retirement: Financial and Non-Financial

Money Talk

Earlier this year, I viewed two very different webinars about retirement. They were actually scheduled at the same time so I recorded one while I watched the other so I could view both. One webinar sponsored by The American College of Financial Services covered financial topics such as income taxes, required minimum distributions (RMDs), qualified charitable distributions (QCDs), and income-related monthly adjusted amount (IRMAA) Medicare premium surcharges.

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