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The complete history of employer-provided health insurance

PeopleKeep

What if we told you that the creation of health insurance was actually an accident? Or that the way we think about health insurance is changing? Here, we’ll cover the history of health insurance in the U.S., how it’s evolved over the years, and what the future of health insurance might bring for you and your organization.

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The Key to Succession Planning for Family-run Businesses

HR Digest

The long-term survival of private, owner-managed, or family-owned businesses, will depend upon a clear and early focus on strategic succession planning. Yet, in many businesses, a little of that goes into determining who’ll preserve the legacy they’ve built when the founders leave the grandstand. There are very few family businesses that survive the passage of time and the winds of change.

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The Top 5 HR Trends to Look For In 2021

Best Money Moves

The Top 5 HR Trends to Look For In 2021. Keep an eye out for these five up-and-coming HR trends as workforces everywhere adjust to a post-COVID world. . It’s no secret that 2020 was a disruptive year. Fallout from the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic forced millions of Americans to work from home, and changed the way employers think about employee wellness.

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A Detailed Overview of Federal, State, and Local Minimum Wage Law

Patriot Software

True or false: As an employer, you can pay employees any amount you want. False. It’s 100% false. Why? Because of minimum wage law. But, what’s minimum wage? Depending on your business location, you might have differing federal, state, and local minimum wage rates. To ensure your business is compliant with labor laws, get to […] READ MORE.

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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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Hiring in the ‘career consumer’ era: 3 rules

Insperity

Today’s job candidates aren’t just looking for a job, they’re looking for a brand experience. Hopeful job hunters have transformed into savvy career consumers – behaving like customers shopping for the best product or service among many choices. These career consumer candidates are empowered in their search for the best-fit employer. By merely having LinkedIn, Indeed and Glassdoor accounts, they can: Keep tabs on new job opportunities in real time.

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14 Best Virtual Employee Engagement Ideas That Works

Vantage Circle

Engaging employees is already hard as it is. But doing so in a remote, pandemic-ridden, anxiety-filled world is even harder. But is it really as difficult to connect with our people in the new normal? Not really. We’d be exploring some easy, fun, and effective ways to make your remote workforces happy through the aid of some amazing virtual employee engagement ideas.

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Start to appreciate, not dread, difficult conversations at work

Business Management Daily

Whether you’re giving difficult feedback to an employee, approaching your supervisor with a problem, or having an uncomfortable conversation with a peer — handling difficult conversations at work is enough to fill anyone with dread. Still, these conversations need to happen. In fact, you should want them to. Difficult conversations may be challenging, but they’re also incredible opportunities.

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3 Tips For Unlocking Employee Career Growth Through Performance Reviews

15Five

Whether you’re fresh into the workforce or 40-year a veteran–everyone wants a fulfilling career that aligns with their personal purpose. But, people don’t always have what they need to achieve their career goals. That’s where managers come in. For managers, helping employees map out their career goals and uncovering opportunities to lead them in the right direction isn’t easy to do during casual, weekly one-on-ones.

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5 Things to Do if You Have a Negative Credit Card Balance

Take It Personel-ly

5 Things to Do if You Have a Negative Credit Card Balance Photo by Avery Evans on Unsplash Did you log into your online banking account to find that you have a negative balance on your credit card? Your heart might have dropped for a moment — how could you have accrued this much debt? […].

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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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benefitexpress 2021 Top Vendor for Benefits Admin Solutions

WEX Inc.

benefitexpress earns 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 Q1 2021 Top Vendor Report for HR Technology.

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Tax FAQs: Questions Employees Might Have in 2021 | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Tax season is busy for employers on both a personal and professional level. With responsibilities that carry a heavy weight—including penalties if certain forms aren’t delivered to their respective parties on time—employers and HR teams need to make sure they have all their tax information organized and be available for any questions employees may have.

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7 Benefits Of Promoting Gender Diversity In The Workplace

Vantage Circle

Gender diversity is becoming an essential factor for companies in creating an equal and positive work environment. It affects the employees' decision to work at a certain organization. That makes gender diversity a crucial part of retaining and attracting star employees. Making gender diversity a priority in the workplace is a sign of diverse and inclusive culture.

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How to Improve Wellness of Your Home Workstation

Take It Personel-ly

Working from home may sound fantastic, but you still need to make certain adjustments to make it comfortable. Taking frequent breaks to rest is crucial, but a lot of your productivity also depends on the space you are in. If you are setting up your home workstation, here are tips on how to improve wellness […].

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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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The normal 40-hour workweek might soon be a thing of the past

Business Management Daily

In the future, people may listen to the Dolly Parton classic “9 to 5” and wonder why she chose that timeframe. Among the many things the COVID-19 pandemic has changed are the hours and days businesses expect their employees to work. What started as adjustments for safety and flexibility during the crisis may very well turn into permanent changes to the traditional 40-hour workweek.

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Best Practices for Remote Job Orientation | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Orientation is usually an opportunity for companies to welcome new employees, set up their workstation, and introduce them to colleagues on their first few days. However, with companies still operating remotely—some for good—how can employers introduce new hires to the company culture and conduct productive orientation when they aren’t in the office?

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Want to Show Employees the Money? Here’s How to Calculate a Raise

Patriot Software

Employees have money on their minds. Only 19% of employees are comfortable with their rate of pay. And, 54% say they would leave their job to make more money elsewhere. To avoid losing your top employees, you might consider offering pay raises. Learn about criteria for raises, when to give salary raises, and how to […] READ MORE.

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DOL Issues Guidance on “Outbreak Period” Extension Rules

Corporate Synergies

New Outbreak Period extension guidance clarifies that the one-year pause on certain compliance deadlines is to be assessed individually. On February 26, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (DOL) issued guidance clarifying the “Outbreak Period” extension. Read More. The post DOL Issues Guidance on “Outbreak Period” Extension Rules appeared first on Corporate Synergies.

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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 get promoted at work quickly?

HR Digest

Every day is an opportunity to get better. Keep reading for the must-know 5 career tips that’ll help you get promoted at work quickly! Thinking about the next step in your career is easy, and assuming that you will climb the ladder higher in due course is a fallacy. Many deserving employees are overlooked because they do not make the proper noise or strategize to move ahead.

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The Employer Guide to Developing a Fair Social Media Policy | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Social media is more ubiquitous than ever. Along with this near-omnipresence comes a complicated set of issues that HR professionals must navigate when overseeing a workforce—including establishing repercussions for workers who violate your company’s social media policies. With this in mind, how can HR develop a fair policy for team members? Read on to find out what you need to know about evaluating and refreshing your employee social media policy.

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3 Types of eCommerce Revenue Models for 2021

Take It Personel-ly

E-commerce sales are expected to reach $6.5 trillion by 2023 increasing from $4.2 trillion in 2020. That’s almost 54% overall growth in 3 years or so. And if this trend keeps up its pace, we are looking at $8 trillion in e-commerce revenue by 2025. Evidently, we are living in an e-commerce era where people’s […].

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A Voluntary Wellness Program is Essential to Benefits Strategies

WEX Inc.

Learn the voluntary wellness program rules. Our teams have been very busy since last summer, responding to employers’ changing needs as they have adjusted to help employees cope with the changes wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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7 Little Things to Keep Employees Happy!

HR Digest

In these difficult times, it’s important more than ever to find ways to keep employees happy, engaged and thriving in their jobs. People who are disengaged are usually not happy in the workplace. It’s not difficult to figure out why. There is a correlation between employee happiness and business success. We’ve put together a quick guide to help you learn how to make employees happy in the office and after they leave work.

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ICHRA administration for first-timers

PeopleKeep

If you’re reading this article, you likely know you want to offer your employees an individual coverage health reimbursement arrangement (ICHRA)—you’re just not sure how to get started. Properly administering an ICHRA that’s IRS compliant is complicated work, but we’re here to walk you through it.

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Five practical ways to support your mental health as a busy professional

Take It Personel-ly

Our mental well-being deserves as much of our attention as our physical health. It deserves the most attention today as our busy and chaotic lifestyle exposes us to a lot of anxiety and stress. If left unchecked, the build-up of anxiety and stress can over time take up the form of physical health troubles like […].

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3 products you should stop buying with your FSA

Benefit Resource Inc.

FSAs are one of the most popular pre-tax benefits in United States. In 2019, more than 68% of employees had enrolled in the account*. Given this fact, it may come as a surprise that there are limits on what can be purchased through an FSA. While certain spending avenues were opened after reform healthcare reform was released in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, there are still certain items that you should not purchase with your FSA. 1.

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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.