Sat.Nov 17, 2018 - Fri.Nov 23, 2018

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What Are the 2019 Trends in HR?

UpstartHR

In terms of writing and reading content, I have always been anti-trends. Every year people recycle the same information over and over, and it never really reflects reality. However, this year I partnered with a team to create a list of real trends for 2019 based on where capital is being invested into HR technology, what the forward-thinking employers in the market are doing, and more.

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OSHA to Retailers: Make Black Friday Safer for Workers

HR Digest

Is a $20 Black Friday bargain worth trampling a worker who earns $9 an hour? In 2008, at a Long Island Wal-Mart, over 2,000 people trampled into the store five minutes before it was scheduled to open. The crowd pushed it open, knocking the doors off their hinges and blasting it apart. The employees all of a sudden had to form a human chain to slow down the crowd that kept pouring.

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‘Tis The Season To Be Generous: Cracking Client Christmas Gift Advice You Need!

Take It Personel-ly

When it comes to the holidays, there’s nothing better than the satisfaction of handing over a gift that you know someone will love. When you run a business though, corporate gifting isn’t just a nice thing that you do for the season. It could make a difference to your business and it can decide how […].

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With organization problems, start & end with Management

Business Management Daily

Here is the scene that often plays out: We take our best technical staff and make them managers. We don’t give them the training, coaching and mentoring they need to excel. The post With organization problems, start & end with Management appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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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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How to Improve Gender Diversity in the Workplace

Best Money Moves

How can employers improve gender diversity in the workplace? It starts with tracking representation and setting goals for diversity when hiring and promoting employees. “Progress for women isn’t just slow ? it’s stalled,” reads the alarming introduction to LeanIn’s latest report, Women in the Workplace 2018. In the three years they’ve been studying the issue, corporate America has made almost no progress in how women fare.

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Being in Debt Can Hurt Your Career

Take It Personel-ly

You might think that your debt problems only affect your home life – they’re the thing you worry about when you get home and try to sleep… However, your money problems can affect your work life too, lowering your reputation and even barring you from some roles or industries. Your money problems are right there […].

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How to Strengthen the Employee Benefits Experience to Differentiate Your Company in a Competitive Labor Market [Part 4]

WEX Inc.

If you've been following along with our four-part series, you are well on your way to crafting a strategy that aims to strengthen the employee benefits experience — all with the intention of helping your company attract and retain the right employees in today's competitive labor market. With a solid strategy developed , and S.M.A.R.T goals determined , and the right benefit enrollment system selected for your requirements, you may be tempted to remove your foot from the gas and start working on

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12 Executive Assistant Blogs You Should Be Following

SnackNation

12 Executive Assistant Blogs You Should Be Following. You can learn a lot from a good Executive Assistant (EA) blog. The Executive Assistant blog provides a rare and honest glimpse into the real life of an Executive Assistant. One Executive Assistant blog might provide a healthy dose of comedic relief in the midst of a high-pressure job while a different blog might offer helpful resources and tips that help aspiring or beginning Executive Assistants know what to expect on the job.

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Easy Ways To Improve Employee Productivity

HR Digest

Since the industrial revolution days, companies and economists have been after means of increasing productivity. While economists seek this increase by means of better policies and procedures, companies aimed at improving employee productivity. The fact is: increased productivity is a result of smart work, not just hard work. Generally, most jobs are performed by employees who operate the machines, run business models and design new corporate procedures.

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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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5 steps to supercharge your strategic alliance development

Insperity

Developing strategic alliances is a proven way for businesses to run better, grow faster and make more money. By leveraging relationships with other organizations that are aligned with your target markets, your small or midsize company can gain sales momentum and outperform the competition. But how does an organization go about creating those critical strategic alliances?

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How to Build Your HR Budget for 2019

Asure Software

Can you demonstrate a return on HR programs? It’s the last quarter of the calendar year—a busy time for most… The post How to Build Your HR Budget for 2019 appeared first on Asure Software.

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Want to take your candidate experience from ‘good’ to ‘great’? Sign up for this free webinar

cipHR

Join live at 11am on 6 December or watch on demand. If you want to discover how to take your candidate experience from ‘good’ to ‘great’, then sign up for CIPHR’s webinar on 6 December at 11am , hosted in partnership with ThriveMap. In today’s competitive job market, delivering a great candidate experience isn’t a ‘nice to do’: it’s a ‘must do.

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This Black Friday, Don’t Forget Following OSHA’s Crowd Management Guidelines

HR Digest

Crowd-related injuries during the holiday season’s major sale events such as Black Friday have increased during recent years. A decade ago, a Wal-Mart worker died at the opening of a Black Friday, which led to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) releasing an annual set of “Crowd Management Safety Guidelines” for retailers to follow.

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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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Global Data Privacy Laws: The Ripple Effect of GDPR

Ascender

The Importance of GDPR to Non-EU Based Organisations. Since its implementation on 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has challenged businesses to look at how they manage personal and sensitive data. Despite being a European Union (EU) law, GDPR extends beyond the territory where businesses that process data of any EU resident regardless of where it is processed are required to comply.

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5 Scientifically Proven Health Benefits Of Gratitude

Wellable

For those readers in the United States, tomorrow will be Thanksgiving, and to some, the official start of a month-long holiday season. The holiday began as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year, but at that time, no one knew how beneficial gratitude is to overall health and well-being. If they did, Thanksgiving would be every day!

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CIPHR and PES announce partnership

cipHR

Employee benefits provider PES is the latest company to join CIPHR’s growing network of partners. PES, the award-winning employee benefits provider (which recently secured growth funding via Chiltern Capital) has partnered with HR and recruitment software provider CIPHR to deliver a seamless service to companies offering technology-driven employee benefits and wellbeing services.

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Japan Changes Immigration Policy to Accept Blue Collar Workers

HR Digest

More than 345,000 blue-collar foreign workers are expected to join Japan’s workforce within a five-year period under a new working visa system starting fiscal 2019. The government is considering blue-collar foreign workers to live permanently in the country with their families, as the nation struggles with a serious labor shortage amid an aging population.

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Bridging the Gap: The Intersection of DEI Initiatives and Employee Benefits

Speaker: Jaye Johnson, CBP

Unlock the secrets to transforming your organization’s employee benefits into a strategic tool for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). During this informative session, we will discuss common pitfalls in traditional benefits and then delve into the essence of DEI in employee-centric benefit offerings. This involves not only defining DEI in the workplace but also understanding the pivotal role that employee benefits play in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.

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4 ways to survive commuting during the holidays ?

Benefit Resource Inc.

Commuting during the holidays presents a unique set of challenges. Hours of operation might be shortened or regular routes might be changed or temporarily unavailable. Unexpected delays from weather are more frequent and can make it feel impossible to arrive on time. (No matter how early you leave). Finally, there’s the element of determining how many days you’ll be commuting, working from home, or off.

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The 4 Types Of Health Care Consumers

Wellable

A study from Deloitte Health Solutions describes the U.S. health system as the “Wild West” that is comprised of four types of unique consumers, each of which possesses unique characteristics and propensities to engage with healthcare technology. Although the report focuses on patients, the segmentation analysis provided in the report helps health care stakeholders understand attitudes and behaviors to attract, retain, and engage consumers.

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Understanding Bradford factor scores

cipHR

HR departments often use the Bradford formula to calculate the impact of absence. But how does it work, and is it still a valid metric? What is the Bradford factor and what is it used for? The Bradford factor is a formula used by HR departments to calculate the impact of employees’ absences on the organisation. It is based on the theory that short, frequent, unplanned absences are more disruptive to organisations than longer absences.

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Incredibly Entertaining Office Thanksgiving Party Ideas!

HR Digest

Enough with the holiday-week grind. How about a proper, office Thanksgiving party? At The HR Digest , we have a rule that says Thanksgiving should be more than sumptuous Turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. That’s why this year we’re going to give you some of our favorite ideas for the quintessential office Thanksgiving party. Best of Office Thanksgiving Party Ideas.

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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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Better late than never: IRS releases 2019 tax and benefit amounts

Business Management Daily

The IRS has waited till mid-November to release its inflation adjustments to the tax rates and other fringe benefits. Here’s how things shake out for next year. The post Better late than never: IRS releases 2019 tax and benefit amounts appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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Navigating Insurance for Single Pilot Aircraft Operations

AssuredPartners

{"ops":[{"insert":"Today more single pilot turbine powered aircraft are flying than ever before. Pilots, especially owner pilots, like the flexibility that single pilot operations provide but often see insurance as one of the major obstacles when flying a single pilot turbine aircraft. Below is a look at some of the reasons why underwriters are concerned when flying single pilot in a turbine aircraft and what you can do to make yourself a better single pilot risk.nAccident data on single pilot o

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Making the holiday season happy for everyone

PeopleStrategy

“Making sure the holidays go off without a hitch is a key HR responsibility.” With Halloween behind us and the end of the year ahead, employees are thinking about how they’ll spend their holidays. While members of management and the HR department are no exception to this, they also have to make sure everyone has an enjoyable time during this special time of the year.

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Partnership Specialist, GG-0301-09/11/12- Census-EXT-SC – US Department of Commerce – Clinton County, NY

HR Digest

HR Jobs. Duties Summary This is a Work at Home (WAH) position. The Duty Station will be the selectee's home address. In order to be considered, all applicants MUST. $50,598 - $96,322 a year From usajobs.gov - Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:00:14 GMT - View all Clinton County, NY jobs. Partnership Specialist, GG-0301-09/11/12- Census-EXT-SC - US Department of Commerce - Clinton County, NY.

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How to Implement Pay Transparency: A Comprehensive Guide

With pay transparency legislation on the rise globally, it can be difficult for organizations to navigate how to share salary ranges due to administrative complexities, lack of clear job architecture, employee reactions, and more. To help make this process easier, Barley's comprehensive guide shares how to begin implementing pay transparency while staying true to your compensation philosophy.