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EMPLOYEE CHRISTMAS GIFTS: THE BENEFIT OF AN INDIVIDUAL APPROACH

Employee Benefits

Ahead of our Commercial Director, Graham James, leading an Insight Session at the recent CIPD Conference and Event, we ran two polls on LinkedIn. For the first poll, we asked employees to tell us what makes a positive impact on wellbeing in the workplace. For the second, we asked employers and business leaders to tell us their wellbeing priorities. In this blog, we take a look at: the poll results, a difference in opinion, understanding your employees, and a local approach in a global business.

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Employee reward systems: A practical guide

Achievers

Every organization rewards its employees in some way, whether it’s simply through the salary and benefits they receive or the occasional awards ceremony celebrating an anniversary or other milestone. But a paycheck and a plaque aren’t enough to make workers feel valued. That requires incorporating rewards into every part of the employee experience, from business development to wellness initiatives.

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75+ Ways for HR to Enhance the Employee Experience (EX) in 2023

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Improve retirement readiness by avoiding cash-outs and consolidating 401(k)s

Employee Benefit News

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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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3 Ways to Support Divorced Employees at Work

Best Money Moves

3 Ways to support divorced employees at work. Divorce is a common but often overlooked strain on your workforce. Here are 3 ways to support the divorced employees on your team. . The saying that, “half of all marriages end in divorce,” still holds true, according to data from the CDC. But despite the number of divorced employees in the workforce, employers are often unaware of how badly divorce can affect productivity and employee wellness.

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A Must-Have Checklist For Your New Year’s Corporate Party

Vantage Circle

The countdown to the New Year has finally begun, and you would agree that there’s one thing that is more important than everything else. And that one thing is partying your way into the New Year. In this blog, we have curated a must-have checklist for your new year’s corporate party. Let’s dive in! Read our blog on: 16 Best Office Party Ideas That are(actually) Out of the Box.

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Strategic Planning: A 10-Step Planning Process

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is strategic planning? What is strategic plan management? Benefits of robust strategic planning and management. 10 steps in the strategic planning process.

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Workplace Road Safety

Florida Workers' Comp

Thanksgiving week 2022 was one of difficult news stories. There were multiple reminders that the workplace is a dangerous place. We can focus our attention on making it safer through regulation, training, and attention, but there will always remain risks. That ultimatum of risk should not deter us from the remediation we strive to bring. That we cannot render the workplace immutably safe should not keep us from trying.

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Employee Benefits free webinar: How important is women’s health at work?

Employee Benefits

A free webinar hosted by Employee Benefits, titled How important is women’s health at work? in association with Peppy, will be broadcast live at 11am on Wednesday 7 December 2022. Employee Benefits’ editor Debbie Lovewell-Tuck will be joined by Sam Blevins, health and wellbeing development manager at John Lewis Partnership, Debra Gardner, head of HR and ESG at LSL Property Services, Francesca Steyn, director of fertility and women’s health at Peppy, and Ellie Vaughan, head of reward and benefits

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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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Final SEC Clawback Rules: Key Dates that Issuers Need to Know

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

On November 28, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) published the final clawback rules (the “Final Rules”) under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”) in the Federal Register. Now that the Final Rules have been published in the Federal Register, issuers should be aware of the following key deadlines [1] : January 27, 2023 : The Final Rules become formally effective (60 days after the Final Rules were published in the Federal Register).

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Bad at Job Interviews? Why and How to Fix It

BetterUp

Jump to section. Good vs. bad interviews: what’s the difference? What not to do during an interview. It doesn’t end with “no”. Keep your chin up.

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10 Unique Extrinsic Rewards That Your Employees Will Love In 2023

Vantage Circle

Imagine. What would happen if your employees knew that behind every great job they do, there is a tangible reward waiting for them at the end of it? Deadlines would be met sooner, people would be more motivated, and productivity would skyrocket. And that precisely explains the power that extrinsic rewards hold. Definition Of Extrinsic Rewards. Extrinsic rewards are a type of incentive that motivates people by rewarding them with something tangible — such as praise, fame, or money —

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Hallmark Care Homes unveils £1.3 million winter support package

Employee Benefits

Hallmark Care Homes has invested £1.3 million into a winter support package to help its employees with the cost-of-living crisis. The measures include paying all of its 2,300 members of staff at or above the new rate set by the Living Wage Foundation from today (1 December), ahead of the implementation deadline of 14 May 2023. Living wage salaries have been raised to £10.90 per hour across the UK and £11.95 for those based in London, ensuring that a full-time worker on the UK rate receives more

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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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Employee Training Template for Easy Onboarding

HR Digest

A training template is something that every business should own. The best employees are the ones who understand the company’s processes and goals, and you can’t expect that if they don’t know how to do their job. When you’re training your employees , make sure that it’s done in a way that’s relevant and helpful—they’ll appreciate it.

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Poor indoor air quality is a threat to health, say people coming into the office

Workplace Insight

A new poll claims that ‘hybrid employees’ in the UK are worried about how healthy their work environments are as we approach the winter season, with 53 percent saying they’re concerned poor air quality and ventilation will impact their general health, rising to 70 percent amongst London-based hybrid workers. The survey of 2,000 UK people by OnePoll, on behalf of Infogrid , claims that hybrid workers are facing a Catch-22 moment as we enter the colder months; balancing worries over th

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The eight small business owner structures

PeopleKeep

When starting a business, one of the most important steps is deciding which type of structure your organization will have. As a business owner, you get to decide what type of legal entity 1 you're going to establish, as well as what kind of organization you'd like to be taxed as. The type of business structure you choose will determine which income tax return form you file and may impact how you structure benefits and perks for yourself, your family, and your employees.

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NatWest gives 59,000 employees cost-of living payment

Employee Benefits

Credit: William Barton / Shutterstock.com. Banking organisation NatWest has implemented a one-off cash payment for all employees in junior and junior manager positions, benefitting approximately 59,000 global members of staff during the cost-of-living crisis. For the 39,000 UK-based employees, the payment was agreed at £1,000, with equivalent amounts in all other locations.

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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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The Pay Transparency Trend and How to Prepare

PeopleStrategy

Openly communicating pay-related information to current or prospective employees is called pay transparency. Employers can provide this information through various channels, such as online job sites, job postings, during an interview, or through other company communications. As a result of changes in the labor market, more and more employees are demanding pay transparency.

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Many Injured Workers Feel Unsupported, Frustrated by Claims Process

InterWest Insurance Services

A recent study has found that injured workers are often left feeling frustrated and fending for themselves after they file a workers’ compensation claim. The survey of injured workers by researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada found that workers reacted in a number of ways when experiencing “procedural” unfairness, frustration in how their claim is being handled, or poor communications from their claims adjuster or employer.

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Some work distractions can actually reduce stress levels

Workplace Insight

Positive interventions that distract us from difficult tasks actually help to reduce our stress levels, according to new research published in the Journal Work & Stress. The study, conducted by an international team of researchers at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and Trinity Business School suggests that short positive work distractions can help people to overcome daily demands like dealing with annoying emails or the tasks they dread.

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75% of HR professionals see mental wellbeing as key focus for 2023

Employee Benefits

The majority (75%) of HR professionals stated that mental health and wellbeing would be the most important area in which to provide support to staff in 2023, according to research by WorkNest. The research, conducted at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) annual conference in November, surveyed 105 respondents who cited the cost-of-living crisis (70%) and retention of staff (69%) as the biggest challenges for 2023.

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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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Packed schedule? The secret benefits of unscheduled moments at work

Insperity

Have you found yourself in a new scenario, whether it be from your childhood or time in school, where you learned something you didn’t expect? Maybe you had stretches of free time over the summer where you explored and discovered something new. Or, early in your career, a tenured co-worker went out of their way to help you, mentor you or even coach you without formally being asked.

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Narrow Networks, Tiered Plans May Reduce Costs

InterWest Insurance Services

Inflation, an aging workforce and people catching up on care they skipped during the COVID-19 pandemic are some of the main ingredients that will drive the cost of group health benefits over the coming years. The key for employers grappling with these higher costs is how they can reduce their impact by switching up plan offerings and choosing plans that do a good job of managing specialty drug costs, which have been spiraling over the last decade.

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Majority of firms currently using technology to plug talent gaps

Workplace Insight

In the face of hiring and skills issues, 77 percent of UK organisations say they are finding ways for technology to do jobs formerly performed by people, according to a new poll from Rackspace Technology. According to the survey, two thirds (64 percent) of UK companies are downsizing their staff, facilitated by technology, out of a necessity, with roles in customer service the most likely to be automated, as identified by 70 percent of business decision makers – followed by IT operations (62 pe

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Confessions of a benefits manager: Candid has leadership training

Employee Benefits

I am deeply worried. It might seem a strange thing to get upset about, but I have been put forward for our ‘special’ effective leadership training. There are only two ways to get on the programme: one is to be assessed as high potential , the other is if you are such a bad manager that it is a sort of remedial treatment for poor behaviours. You will know by now that bad management is pretty much normalised in my company, so I think you would have to kill someone to qualify that way.

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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.