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7 Things to Communicate to Employees as we Return to Normal

Hireology

More than a year after the onset of the life-changing COVID-19 pandemic, life is slowly returning to normal. Thanks to widespread vaccination efforts, people are reverting to their pre-pandemic routines and businesses are beginning to open up to full capacity. Although a return to normalcy is great, big changes like these can cause stress and anxiety for your employees — particularly if they’re customer-facing.

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Things You Need to Think About When You Start to Expand Your Business

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When you’ve reached a point in your business where you can begin to expand and scale up, you’ll face a series of new and exciting challenges. While it’s a lot of work, expanding your business can be massively rewarding in both personal and financial ways. Here are four things you need to think about as […].

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7 Countries with the Best Paternity Leave

Global People Strategist

Parental leave across the globe ranges from a total of three years to nothing at all. Paternity leave is an important topic to address as there are still several countries that do not offer fathers the same benefits as mothers. Many countries make the leave flexible by offering it as parental leave and open to utilization by either parent. Depending on your geographical location, company, and employment laws, paternity leave can vary.

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Examples of Employee Engagement Survey Questions

HR Digest

Employee engagement is a necessity if your organization wants to achieve growth and progress. Fully engaged employees mean greater productivity, improved image and better work culture. Despite the obvious benefits of employee engagement, many companies struggle to get their employees fully on board, and with the new reality of remote work , the task has become doubly difficult.

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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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Product Update: Introducing Mass Transfer

Hireology

If you’re looking to hire for a new role quickly, you know that the best candidates are often those who have applied to roles at your company before. These folks are typically the most serious about working for you and if they’ve made it to the interview stage for a previous role, you already know that they’re qualified. To successfully re-engage these candidates, it’s important that you make it as easy as possible for them to apply for a different position within your organization without start

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What to do with nice, but underperforming employees

Insperity

What do you do when a team member is a great people person but is ineffective at their job? It’s a common challenge for managers – one that is difficult to deal with. An underperforming employee hurts everyone: the person, the team, the company and your clients. If you allow it to go on, it can damage relationships among team members and with clients.

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Student and institutional success begins with the employee experience

Ascender

by Sandy Forrest, General Manager for Ascender ANZ Public & Enterprise Services. The higher education sector is one of Australia’s top contributors to the economy. The past decade has seen the industry generating A$30 billion in revenue year on year from 2016 until 2019 , with international education comprising around 20% share in these profits.

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Five tools every insurance agent should have

PeopleKeep

With thousands of Americans looking to agents and brokers for help navigating the confusing world of health insurance, qualified insurance agents are in high demand in the U.S. In fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that employment of insurance agents is projected to grow 5% by 2029—that’s higher than the average for all occupations. Given this demand, it’s essential that agents today are prepared with the right tools to meet this growing need and aid the many Americans who need guidanc

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How to Have a Stress-Free Moving Experience

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While moving to a new home or office is one of the most exciting times of your life, it is also highly stressful. That is why you need to plan it strategically. Here are several proven tips to help you get the most out of your moving experience. Build a To-Do List Moving requires a […].

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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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The Future of Employee Benefits | benefitexpress

WEX Inc.

The future of employee benefits: A four part series. The ongoing pandemic is undoubtedly the number one factor driving changes in what your employees want and need from benefits programs.

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Should Employers Require Proof of COVID Vaccination? | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Coronavirus compliance is complex. As more and more employers contemplate returning to the office, HR teams might struggle with a particularly complicated issue: mandating employees to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination. Learn more about how this works and why employers should avoid this if possible.

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QSEHRA self-administration for first-timers

PeopleKeep

If you’re a small employer offering health benefits to your employees for the first time, the qualified small employer health reimbursement arrangement (QSEHRA) is an excellent first step.

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Seven astounding benefits of promoting EQ in the workplace

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The corporate culture is undergoing a paradigm shift. In fact, a lot about how businesses function has changed already. If you have been in the corporate scenarios for a while, you would have been a witness to most changes. Today, skills and practical expertise have become the cornerstone for enterprises. Given that, there is a […].

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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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Terminations — making a difficult conversation easier

Business Management Daily

From meetings to chats with coworkers, talking keeps the workplace going round and even makes it a bit more fun. However, a termination talk? That’s a different story! These challenging conversations are characterized by hesitation, reluctance, and a general uncertainty, but they’re important conversations that must happen. As a manager, you know that you’ve done your due diligence in determining the cause of termination , consulting with legal counsel, and giving the employee both written

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Tips and Tricks to Successfully Offboard Employees | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Offboarding departing employees is a stressful endeavor. From. compliance forms and work handoffs to everything else that needs to be handled, the stakes are even higher than they might seem. Find out how small businesses and HR teams can offboard employees in a way that sets up organizations for success down the road.

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Perks of offering a QSEHRA and an HSA together

PeopleKeep

Opportunities to offer more flexible and personalized health benefits have grown a lot in recent years. With new tax-free vehicles emerging, including account-based health plans (ABHPs), small employers now have multiple ways to increase employees’ benefits. Two of the most popular ABHPs are health savings accounts (HSAs) and health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), including qualified small employer HRAs (QSEHRAs) made specifically for small businesses with fewer than 50 full-time employees.

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The 6-Step Skin Care Routine Every Girl Should Know

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Your skin care routine is an essential part of self-care. A smooth complexion can take years off your face and make applying makeup easier and more fun. Unfortunately, many of us women don’t know the right skin care routine that can improve our skin and keep it smooth and clear. While everyone may have a […].

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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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Close shave: Is it legal to set a no-beard facial hair policy for male staff?

Business Management Daily

Working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic provided many men the welcome opportunity to grow out facial hair. But as vaccination efforts and waning occupancy restrictions continue to allow more workers back into offices, will those razors come out of retirement? Undoubtedly, some men will choose to go back to shaving regularly. Others may not want to abandon their new look.

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Recap: Highlights from Weekdays with Bernie 2021 | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Each year, HRIS platform and company BerniePortal convenes hundreds of HR industry leaders and innovative thinkers for best-in-class learning opportunities, networking, and strategic solution-oriented sessions—plus the chance to earn CE credits for attending. This year’s Weekdays with Bernie was BerniePortal’s first hybrid conference, which combined the best elements of our virtual event from last year with all of the in-person benefits from years past.

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Nonprofit HR management: recruiting talent when money is tight

Insperity

Nonprofits have an interesting challenge when it comes to recruiting and hiring. If you’re in nonprofit HR management, you may be resource constrained – meaning you don’t have: Large budgets to hire outside recruiters In-house recruiters who can lead your search for new employees. Also, many times the compensation you can offer candidates is less than what someone in a similar role could earn at a for-profit institution.

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benefitexpress Ben Admin Services Recognized

WEX Inc.

benefitexpress ben admin services earns it Top Vendor Award for Benefits Administration Solution and Benefits Decision Support Tool. SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — benefitexpress™, a leading provider of cloud-based technology software and services for employee benefits administration, announced today that it has earned two badges on the Shortlister Q2 2021 Top Vendor Report for HR Technology.

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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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The “ins and outs” of how to manage change in the workplace

HR Digest

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a great wake-up call for companies and their ability to manage change in the workplace. Things needed to change and fast, there was no time to experiment and slowly turn the wheel. Organizational change management is about bringing changes in a company’s management style by first identifying problems (or potential ones) and then implementing suitable changes.

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Strategies for Safely Hosting a Company Event in 2021 | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

With increasing availability of vaccinations and new guidance from the CDC , some workforces are returning to the office and company events are sure to follow. However, company events might not look like they used to for some time. In order to host events for your organization—from conferences and learning seminars to in-person celebrations—consider the following tips.

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How Is Data Science Is Used In Fintech?

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For years now, Fintech has been the leading in financial technology. With the leadership of Cane Bay Partners CEO, the company is growing fast in technology innovation and highly preferred for a venture. It focuses on developing new ways to deliver banking and financial services to clients across the world using PayPal, amazon pay, or […].

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Why Your Employees Want Benefits Decision Support

WEX Inc.

The importance of benefits decision support. The pandemic has forced many of us to make difficult decisions when it comes to our health, finances, and our benefits. These decisions could have created sleepless nights and major anxiety for individuals and their families, especially if they did not receive the support and education they needed to make these choices.

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.