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Can you prevent year two of the Great Resignation?

Achievers

Half of employees (49%) job hunted in 2021, according to the fifth annual Engagement and Retention report from Achievers Workforce Institute. Almost as many (41%) say they will definitely job hunt in 2021, with a further 25% saying they’re undecided about whether to stay in their current role. That means two-thirds of your employees have one foot out the door.

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Simplifying Your Financial Life

Money Talk

After work, commuting, eating, sleeping, and/or exercise, many people have less than five hours on a typical weekday to manage everything in their life, including personal finances. Weekends are even more hectic with household chores and family activities. How do you take charge of your finances when time is at a premium? With “low-maintenance” strategies to simplify financial tasks and investment decision-making.

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Living wage would help mental health of 63% of low paid staff

Employee Benefits

More than six in 10 low-paid workers believe receiving the real living wage would improve their mental health , research has revealed. The poll of 1,702 adults in full-time employment but earning less than the real living wage , carried out by the Living Wage Foundation and market research agency Survation, also found that the same proportion (63%) believed their family lives would improve.

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7 Lesser-known ways HR technology can influence your business

Insperity

Leveraging the latest technology in human resource management can be game changing for your organization, offering immediate benefits like convenient access to HR documents, integrated employee information and powerful workforce analytics. But there are several lesser-known benefits many employers just don’t think about when first considering upgrading their HR technology.

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The Ultimate Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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What is personal development and why is it important?

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is personal development? 5 areas of personal development. The benefits of personal development. 6 steps to developing a personal development plan. How personalized development can help.

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Grain Bin Safety Requires Year-Round Effort

AssuredPartners

It’s well-known known that working in and around grain bins is dangerous. In 2020, there were 64 documented agricultural-confined space-related cases, including 35 grain-related entrapments and 12 equipment entanglements, according to a report by Purdue University’s Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department. Grain bin entrapment is the most often identified hazard, but equipment handling, collapsing bins, fires, toxic fumes, and ladders are among the other equally hazardous

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The importance of emotional intelligence in a leader

HR Digest

In the modern corporate world, we need emotional intelligence in leaders more than ever before. During the Corona crisis, we are used to working from home and doing tasks in front of the computer screen rather than in front of people. A leader with high emotional intelligence is now needed to offer the right guidance and give the right motivation to the groups of workers. .

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How (and Why) to Promote Self-Care to Your Employees

Sodexo Engage

Summary: The importance of self-care for employees. How this translates to business benefits? How to promote self-care in your organisation? 1. Employee Assistance Programme 2. Promote and facilitate a healthy lifestyle 3. Support your employees’ financial wellbeing. Could you do more to support self-care and wellbeing at work? How (and Why) to Promote Self-Care to Your Employees.

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Starfish

Florida Workers' Comp

I lack the openness that other bloggers bring to their pages. I have always envied the manner in which people like David DePaolo and Bob Wilson open their lives on the Internet and share unabashedly from their personal relationships and experiences. I am, at heart, a very private person and struggle with sharing such details. I chose today to do so, recognizing that the motivation may be perceived as self-serving or worse.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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COVID Paid Sick Leave May Be Coming Back

InterWest Insurance Services

Legislators in Sacramento have fast-tracked new legislation that will extend paid COVID-19 leave benefits for workers in California. AB 84, which Gov. Gavin Newsom has promised to sign, would require employers with 26 or more workers to provide up to 40 hours of supplemental paid sick leave for employees who are unable to work on site or remotely for one of a number of reasons.

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80 Employee Engagement Ideas to Boost Company Morale

Darwinbox

The most integral part of every organization, the heart that keeps moving, the engine that keeps things running, is its employees. And the metaphorical fuel that keeps it pumping must be something that the management or the HR offers in terms of constant motivation.

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Court Ruling Spurs Fears of Employer Liability From ‘Take-Home’ COVID-19 Lawsuits

InterWest Insurance Services

Can someone recover damages from a business if they claim that a family member caught COVID-19 at work and spread it to them? For California businesses, a court recently said that they might be able to. And courts in other states may use the decision as guidance. A California appellate court in December ruled that a lawsuit filed by the widow of a 72-year-old man who died of COVID-19 in April 2020 could proceed.

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Deducting Business Expenses: Separating Fact From Myth

Kollath CPA

When you’re filing your tax returns, what expenses can you deduct from business income? It’s a complex question. To start with, a business expense must be both ordinary and necessary to be deductible, according to the IRS. An ordinary expense is one that’s common and accepted in your trade or business. A necessary expense is one that’s helpful and appropriate for your trade or business; it doesn’t always mean an indispensable cost.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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What You Need to Know About COVID Test Kit Rules for Group Health Plans

InterWest Insurance Services

Starting Jan. 15, the nation’s health insurers have been required to cover the cost of up to eight at-home rapid COVID-19 tests per month for their health plan enrollees. Insurers are taking different approaches to the mandate and, as an employer, you should communicate with your covered staff about this new benefit, how it works and other advice.

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What’s hot on an employee experience specialist’s agenda right now?

LACE Partners

Reflecting on a community forum ran by LACE Partners and Applaud in November 2021, Aaron from LACE and Katie from Applaud discuss some of the hot topics in the EX space. What are employee experience specialists thinking about right now? The post What’s hot on an employee experience specialist’s agenda right now? appeared first on Lace Partners.

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Issues Mount as Health Plans Offer At-Home COVID-19 Tests

McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

The Biden administration’s January guidance that group health plans and insurers cover the costs of at-home COVID-19 tests has rattled insurers and employers. According to this SHRM article, insurers’ data processing systems have had difficulty paying for tests purchased by consumers at pharmacies, and self-insured employers have struggled to identify the best way to pay […].

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QSEHRA Plan: Health Insurance Alternative for Qualifying Small Employers

Patriot Software

Do employers have to offer health insurance? Under the Affordable Care Act, you must provide health insurance if you have 50 or more full-time equivalent employees. If this requirement doesn’t apply to you, you might decide to establish a QSEHRA plan. What is a QSEHRA plan? A Qualified Small Employer Health Reimbursement Arrangement (QSEHRA) is […] READ MORE.

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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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UAE's New Labor Law: A Smart Guide

Darwinbox

UAE's new labor law came into effect on Wednesday, February 2, 2022, marking the most significant amendment to the current UAE labor law or Federal Law No. 8 of 1980 to date. The much-anticipated Decree-Law No. 33 of 2021 on Regulation of Labor Relations applies to the private sector in the UAE. First proposed by the Emirati government in November 2021, the new labor law in the UAE aims to improve workplace flexibility, combat workplace discrimination, and promote employee safety and efficiency.

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Submitting Receipts – Walk Through

Benefit Resource Inc.

So you went to the dentist, paid for your visit, and then received a request for substantiation. If you’ve ever wondered “What is substantiation and why is it required?” you’re not alone – here’s a quick rundown for you. But knowing is only half the battle – you still need to submit your documentation. Thankfully, whether you are submitting a receipt through the BRiMobile app or by using the BRiWeb secure participant portal, the process is very simple and easy to follow.

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What’s the deal with gender pronouns? Why language matters

BetterUp

Jump to section. What are gender pronouns? Why use gender pronouns? Why using the appropriate pronoun matters. How gender pronouns promote inclusivity. How do you ask someone what their pronoun is? What do you do when you use the wrong pronoun? Tips for using gender pronouns the right way.

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WHAT IS AN EMPLOYEE WELLBEING STRATEGY?

Employee Benefits

Employee wellbeing has grown in popularity in the last couple of years, with many employers introducing benefits or wellness activities to support their teams. And it’s easy to see why! Having a strong wellbeing strategy shows your teams that you care, it can help tackle and prevent employee burnout and reduce turnover and absenteeism. But it needs to be more than just about your employees’ physical health.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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10 ways to figure out what you’re good at

BetterUp

Jump to section. Why should I care about knowing what I'm good at? 5 questions to ask yourself. What you're good at versus what you're passionate about. Soft skills versus hard skills. What to do to find what you are good at. The bottom line.

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iGO4 implements four-day working week

Employee Benefits

Car insurer iGO4 has launched a four-day working week for its 300 employees. All members of staff at the digital business chose to adopt the new pattern, which will give them Fridays off and leave their salaries unchanged albeit with a slight increase to 8.5-hour days Monday to Thursday. The latest switch comes on top of a permanent move to hybrid working by the Peterborough-headquartered business, along with the introduction of certain permanent homeworking roles.

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Best golf clubs for 2022

Higginbotham

There is no shortage of opinions when golfers weigh in on who makes the best golf clubs. One clubhouse sage tells you that Cobra is the best for neophytes, while better players hit Titleist. Then a different guru says TaylorMade is best for distance, unless you’re a feel player, in which case you want Mizuno or Ping. And that person says you should carry Cleveland wedges and an Odyssey putter.

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Musculoskeletal claims most costly for employers

Employee Benefits

Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions are the most costly cause of insurance claims for employers worldwide, according to research. International provider Maxis Global Benefits Network’s (Maxis GBN) new report is based on several years of comprehensive medical claims data from local insurance companies in more than 25 markets around the world. It explored the top drivers of cost in diagnostic and benefits categories across the entire Maxis claims portfolio.

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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.