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How Company Culture Drives Employee Performance

Achievers

When you work in the HR department, it’s easy to become enmeshed in all the ins and out of compensation, benefits packages, and employee performance reviews — it’s a big part of the job! But money isn’t everything, and employees know it. In a survey of talent trends , three things in particular rose to the top of employee wish lists: flexibility, wellness, and purpose. .

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Digital Transformation is Rewriting Work

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. I’m sure that the title of today’s article isn’t really a surprise to anyone. Technology has been disrupting business and the economy for quite some time. However, one of the things I’ve been hearing consistently since the pandemic became front page news is how unprepared organizations have been for digital transformation.

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Your 2021 payroll questions answered.

Business Management Daily

Although things are starting to calm just a little, the impacts of pandemic-related legislation, sudden moves to remote work, and more are still being felt. Now is when the flood of confusing legal questions arises as businesses start to try to return to normal (and perhaps realize that normal doesn’t quite exist anymore). Regardless, you can’t put payroll on hold simply because things are confusing.

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COVID-19: Where Do We Now Stand?

Money Talk

COVID-19 has impacted American families- and indeed the world- for about 18 months. In just the last seven months, we have gone from fierce “Hunger Games” style competitions for a limited number of vaccination slots to “vaccine hesitancy” and the use of various incentives, such as free donuts and million dollar lottery prizes, to get people vaxed. With federal government eviction moratoriums sent to expire for renters on July 31 and Delta variant transmission picking up speed, now is a good time

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Combatting the Effects of Inflation: Keeping Benefits Competitive While Cutting Cost

Speaker: Jaye Johnson, CBP - Employee Benefits and Total Rewards Leader, World at Work Content Author, and Speaker

After years of facing the global pandemic, we are now struggling with a new problem: inflation. No one could have predicted the impact of inflation on employee benefits and how it affects both employees and employers. Employers are now trying to maintain or lower the cost of benefits while competing for talent in a competitive and tight labor market, but the rising costs of consumer goods and healthcare make it extremely difficult to consider increasing their benefit offerings.

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Used Car Pricing Surges: How Your Dealership Can Cope

Hireology

Over the last several months, used car prices have gone through the roof: Between May and June, the average price of a used vehicle increased by 10.5% — that’s the fastest increase on record (which the Bureau of Labor Statistics began documenting in 1953). Several factors play into the dramatic increase that’s making selling used cars at your dealership difficult: .

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Preparing Your Business for the Next Pandemic

Take It Personel-ly

Image Source: Free Stock Photo in Microsoft Word Over the last year, many businesses, large and small, have come to realize that disaster can strike in unexpected and unprecedented ways, seemingly out of the blue. The pandemic that began taking hold of the business world in early spring of 2020 devastated millions, from business owners […].

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FMLA and Holiday Pay: How Does a Holiday Impact Employee Leave?

Patriot Software

Do you know your Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) responsibilities? Now, throw in a holiday. Do you still know how FMLA and holidays work? Here are some popular questions when it comes to FMLA and holidays: Do holidays count toward an employee’s FMLA eligibility? Does a holiday count as an employee’s days of FMLA […] READ MORE.

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Hireology Partners With myCNAjobs to Offer Access to Wider Network of Healthcare Talent

Hireology

At Hireology, we’re constantly seeking new ways to help healthcare providers more easily attract, hire and onboard top talent. In the past, we’ve partnered with leaders in the healthcare space such as ClearCare , AlayaCare and MatrixCare to help you improve how you manage and schedule talent. We’ve also added new features such as document collection and increased background check options, allowing you to move candidates through the hiring and onboarding process quickly and efficiently. .

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Strategic Business Growth: Now Is the Time to Think Like a Startup

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes. (Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at ChartHop , an organization focused on helping leaders in scaling transparent, productive, and intentional organizations. They recently raised $35 million in funding based on their strong business growth. You can read all about it on TechCrunch. Enjoy today’s article!).

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Unleashing AI in Recruitment: The Ultimate Guide

Discover the power of AI in recruitment with Paycor’s complete guide. Learn how to streamline your hiring process, increase interview pipeline, uncover candidates other tools miss, and save time. Get ready to revolutionize your talent acquisition strategy today!

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How to Select a Business Mobile Subscription Plan

Take It Personel-ly

Mobile subscription plans can be an important part of your business. If you have employees working away from the office, it’s something you should consider. Whether they work from home or in the field, they need to be properly connected. There’s a lot that goes into selecting the right plan for your company’s needs. Since […].

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HR’s role in managing pandemic-related burnout

HR Digest

The 2019 Coronavirus pandemic has brought about irrevocable changes in the way we work. Work from Home and remote working have become the accepted norm. However, this sudden transition from an office to a home office has come with its own challenges–keeping pace with technology, self-starting, communication, availability, a diffusion of work and home life.

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Upcoming Webinar: How to Build a Recruitment Marketing Strategy for Your Home Care Agency

Hireology

Looking for advice on how to get in front of top talent at a time when hiring has never been harder? Join us on Thursday, July 29 for a Home Care Pulse webinar covering all things recruitment marketing. . Today’s applicants search for and research jobs much like they would shop for products or services. They spend time getting familiar with the company and they want to know how the job is going to meet their needs before taking time to apply.

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Employee learning curve: Ways to get employees up to speed fast

Insperity

Probationary periods and employee learning curves don’t always match. Sometimes a new hire catches on to everything like a speed demon. Other times, the learning curve is seemingly paved with mud. What can you do to ensure your employee learning curves are free from roadblocks? Set up employee for success – before they’re hired. To clear the way for employee success is to start the learning process early from your side of the road.

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HR and Employee Healthcare Reform: Keys to Increasing Employee Wellness and Retention

Speaker: Mallory Herrin, CEO & Principal HR Consultant at HerrinHR

Your employees are your most valuable resource. If you want to retain employees and keep them happy, you want to make the incentives more valuable. With a full-stack employee experience, culture, health, wellness and benefits navigation solution, you can provide employees with the wellbeing support they need. The results? Employees who are happier, healthier, and more engaged, as well as a business that is thriving both internally and externally, every day.

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110 Funny Work Quotes To Jazz Up Your Workplace

Vantage Circle

Without lively chats and witty humor, the workplace might become the last place on earth where anybody would want to be. So how about making the environment a tad bit more lively? Amazingly enough, we may have just the thing for you. A hilarious list of funny work quotes that would be perfect for your workplace. Do you know that every chuckle or shared joke brings with it a slew of business benefits, according to research from prestigious schools like Wharton, MIT, and London Business School?

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Pandemic Burnout is Rampant in Corporate America

HR Digest

We need to talk about pandemic burnout. There is an ongoing mental health crisis across the globe as an increasing number of workers report feeling unable to cope with social distancing and the countless coronavirus-related lockdowns. The situation is far from gravy in America – a nation that seems to have entered the last leg of the pandemic. According to Gallup , the average American’s assessment of their own mental health is “worse than it has been at any point in the last two decades.

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New $15 Minimum Wage for Independent Contractors by 2022 | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Following an executive order issued by the White House in April 2021, the Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced a proposed rule to raise the minimum wage for federal independent contractors to $15 per hour. Find out more about this proposal and how it could impact employers and the federal minimum wage.

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Don’t downsize your office before considering these key factors

Business Management Daily

Today we get to don our interior design hat, not something we often get to do in business. However, it’s an important topic of conversation right now for businesses returning to “normal operations.” Many employers are looking at how their workplaces are configured and assessing whether they can downsize since more employees will be working from home at least a few days a week.

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Cancel Quiet Quitting: Detoxing Corporate Culture & Engaging Top Talent

Speaker: Jennifer Brick, Career Strategist and Author

Your employees have checked out. The last few years have been a wild ride, with countless changes to how we work and our workplace cultures, like the sudden shift to remote work, the return to office, and trends like quiet quitting. With productivity, profitability, and your employer brand on the line, leadership is turning to HR to engage employees and recreate your culture in different working models.

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Top challenges facing health insurance professionals

PeopleKeep

Health insurance in America is constantly changing; where it’s being sold, how much it costs, who’s participating in it, and so much more. As health insurance professionals look to the future of the healthcare industry, staying ahead of the oncoming challenges and changes is what will keep you afloat. We’ve identified five of the most common challenges today’s brokers, agents, and claims specialists face today, as well as outlined how you can overcome these challenges to better serve your client

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Post-Pandemic, Workforce realignment is expected

HR Digest

As the vaccinated workforce considers joining work in offices, certain challenges need to be addressed. Foremost among them are: A safe and healthy environment. Work-life balance. Flexibility. Insuring against a future livelihood shock similar to the one posed by the pandemic. The workforce fallout from the coronavirus outbreak , in other words, may have only just begun in the post-pandemic scenario.

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TikTok Resumes: TikTok’s New Tool is Helping Younger Generations Find Jobs | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Social media platform TikTok introduced a brand new way for job seekers to pitch their resumes — through TikTok videos. This new way of resume-sharing comes at a time when companies are struggling to recruit and retain talent. Find out what HR teams should know about this new tool and how to use recruitment tools to brave this year’s high rate of turnover.

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Why men’s mental health needs to become a priority at work

cipHR

Ben Binder – founder of The Fitness Works – shares two ways HR can start to make men’s mental health a priority. “Man up.” How many times has this been said to you? How many times have you said this to a colleague, friend, or family member? It’s a phrase that’s been heavily used by many of us to dismiss how someone feels, but in today’s society, it’s time to stop using this phrase and time to start encouraging all people, especially men, to express their emotions and focus on their mental health

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How Can You Aggressively Manage Benefits Affordability?

Speaker: Alex Anderson - Total Rewards Strategist at Lockton Companies | Leo Tokar - President, People Solutions and Partner at Lockton Companies

Benefit cost increases regularly eclipse all other costs for organizations, yet bringing costs down is illusive. Now corporate priorities are swinging from solely a focus on talent to the need to actively manage benefit expenses, but no one wants to reduce benefits or ask employees to pay more. Join two total rewards experts, Alex Anderson and Leo Tokar, for an in-depth discussion on tactics to efficiently and effectively control and manage benefit cost.

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9 tips for having a difficult conversation over Zoom

Business Management Daily

While far from anybody’s favorite part of the job, being a manager involves sometimes needing to talk to employees about unpleasant topics. From discussing a performance problem or customer complaint, to letting someone know she won’t receive a raise or didn’t get chosen for a prime assignment, nobody likes presenting news another person does not want to hear.

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How much does not offering health benefits cost me?

PeopleKeep

When it comes to government regulations on employer-sponsored health benefits, applicable large employers (ALEs) with more than 50 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees are legally required to offer their employees health insurance that meets minimum value. This requirement, also known as the employer mandate, is what ensures health coverage for millions of employees nationwide.

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How to Boost Retention in Your Organization in 2021 | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

How an employer approaches employee retention says a lot about how they view their workforce. Thanks to the pandemic, hybrid offices, and other vital factors, as many as half of all American workers intend to look for a new job in 2021. Yet small and mid-sized organizations can avoid a high employee turnover rate by focusing on boosting retention efforts that keep team members engaged and encourage professional development.

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10 California Labor Laws Your Business Needs to Brush up On

Patriot Software

The Department of Labor (DOL) enforces more than 180 federal laws. These laws can vary depending on your business and employees. And, some states might have additional labor laws that business owners must follow. One state that has some unique regulations is California. Read on to learn about California labor laws and how they impact […] READ MORE.

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The 5 Types of Hourly Workers: An HR Guide to Recruiting and Retention

All hourly workers want similar things, but when it comes to recruiting & retention, it helps to understand personal motivations. Download Paycor’s guide to learn how to find & keep the 5 types of hourly workers.