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Employee Satisfaction Surveys: Questions and Tips

Achievers

Your employees spend a great deal of time at work, but do they enjoy being there? Only 17% of employees believe their on the job experience is exceptional, and employees are twice as likely to rate their company poorly as HR professionals. To overcome this dissonance, you need to find out how content employees are while they’re on the job. Unfortunately, 51% of employees who leave their jobs say that no one spoke to them about their job satisfaction in the three months before they left.

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5 Livestock Breeds Small-Scale Farmers Can Raise

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Farming is technically the oldest profession on the planet as humans have always harvested and grown food for consumption. In recent years farming has been done on a huge scale by farmers with large areas of land and massive machinery. However, the prevalence of small-scale farmers is increasing. Much of this is a result of […].

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10 Phone Interview Tips to Get to the Next Round

HR Digest

There’s truly nothing more rewarding than hearing from the recruiter that you’ve landed a phone interview for your dream job. It goes to show that all your hard work and efforts – editing your resume, writing a cover letter, and filling out applications on the web – have paid off. Unfortunately, a few have the skills to leave an impression during the phone screening process.

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How to Make Gratitude in the Workplace an Everyday Practice

15Five

When times get tough (e.g. 2020), dwelling on challenges can often exacerbate those struggles–especially at work. Negativity doesn’t just impact company morale, it directly affects engagement and productivity levels. However, when leaders intentionally spread gratitude in the workplace, they can help their teams, both in-person and remote, bounce back from hard times, keep relationships intact, and maintain motivation.

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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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Managers as Coaches: How To Get Started

Achievers

What’s the most important attribute of a good manager? You’d probably say that a manager’s value to the company is based on their ability to elicit the best possible performance from employees. The manager is responsible for motivating their team to achieve their highest potential. When you think about it, the role of a coach can be defined in the exact same way.

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Section 105 plans for dummies

PeopleKeep

Section 105 plans are a type of reimbursement health plan that allows small businesses to reimburse their employees for medical costs tax-free. Health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) are a popular type of Section 105 plan.

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‘Where Do You See Yourself Five Years From Now’: How To Answer This Tricky Question?

HR Digest

You are in a job interview, and the HR and the panelists ask about your experiences and qualifications. Suddenly the tricky question comes, ‘Where do you see yourself five years from now?’ What do you answer? Of all the questions that the HR asks, this question is asked to test the candidate’s commitment to the job role. How to answer this?

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Burnout: How to Identify and Avoid It on the Job

Achievers

The U.S. has a burnout problem: 76% of employees experience burnout on the job, while 28% feel burned out “very often” or “always.” Despite these numbers, 59% of employees are taking less time off than they normally would due to the pressures of our new normal, and 42% of employees working from home are not planning to take any time off to decompress.

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Easy Ways to Learn Complex Math- Smart Study Tips

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A lot of students struggle while doing math and they end up reacting like “I can’t do this anymore”, “This question took a lot of time”, “I do not understand this”. If your kids are facing the same issue or you yourself as a student facing the same issues. Then, this article is for you. […].

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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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SMART Goals For HR professionals- A Quick Review With Examples

Vantage Circle

The concept of SMART Goals is probably already familiar to you. They're specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely goals. But how does this idea apply to HR? HR departments have different functions, including hiring new staff, managing employee performance, training, development, improving culture and employee experience, succession planning, compensation, and benefits.

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Automate Your Hiring Process With Our New Digital Marketing Playbook

Hireology

The pandemic has brought challenges to your business in all aspects of operations. Hiring employees wasn’t spared, and while the unemployment rate is slowly recovering, it remains difficult to fill certain positions, regardless of industry. . Manual processes make getting new talent in the door even more painstaking, so the best way to speed up your hiring process is to digitize it.

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5 Tips to Successfully Return to Work

Achievers

A hopeful revival of the global economy may be troubled by the recent uncertainty caused by the pandemic, but companies and managers alike are beginning to rethink a return to work. For business leaders, the task of reboarding after a national lockdown can feel unfamiliar. Workplace settings have had to overhaul policies and practices alike, with new safety measures like social distancing and remote work that might cause teams to break apart.

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Top five record-breaking Roulette facts and wins

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As one of the most popular casino games of all time, it’ll come as no surprised that Roulette has made a name for itself when it comes to breaking records! Some people out there are just lucky, and on a handful of occasions, they’ve brought that luck with them to the Roulette table. What’s 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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Changes to W-2 Reporting for Tax Year 2020? You Can Thank COVID-19

Patriot Software

If you thought keeping up with yearly tax law changes was hard enough, you might not be happy to hear this news. There are a couple changes to Form W-2 reporting you may need to pay attention to. Read on to learn about important changes to W-2 reporting for tax year 2020 and what you […] READ MORE.

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Our New Digital Marketing Playbook Can Help Your Healthcare Team Fill Your Urgent Roles

Hireology

Healthcare professionals are more in demand than ever, but hiring qualified applicants is still a challenge, especially if your recruitment efforts aren’t digital. Manual, admin-intensive work can drastically slow down your hiring process, and when you have an urgent role to fill, there’s no time to waste. . Automating your hiring process can make everything run much more smoothly, and get you set up to hire your best team ASAP.

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20 Thoughtful Holiday Messages to Employees

Achievers

What’s the ROI on getting into the spirit of the season? Don’t laugh, there’s real gold for your company in promoting the generosity and warmth of the holidays. You rely on your staff all year round to make your business run. If Santa Claus were real, you’d ask him to show up with the perfect gift for everyone in your company. Until you can figure out a way to make that happen, however, it’s up to you to play Santa.

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What to Know to Prepare for a Deposition

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There are a lot of reasons you might have to participate in a deposition. A deposition is considered part of the discovery process in a legal case. Depositions specifically are oral testimony that occurs under oath. Being prepared and knowing what to expect is important. What is a Deposition? In a lawsuit, all the parties […].

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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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Importance of Practicing Emotional Resilience at Work

HR Digest

“Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”. ? Nelson Mandela. Emotional Resilience is the ability to pick yourself up, no matter how many times life and its events push you down. Psychologists call the ability to walk through bad experiences ‘resilience’. “It generally means adapting well in the face of chronic or acute adversity,” says neuroscientist Dr Golnaz Tabibnia, who studies the neurological basis of emotional resilience at the Universi

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How to ‘sell’ your learning and development ideas to the CEO

Ascender

Development opportunities are a key driver of employee satisfaction and engagement, not to mention essential to the maintenance of technical proficiency and work quality. Despite the critical nature of learning to a company’s ability to progress and improve, all too often, it is seen as an optional extra in the HR budget. This becomes especially true when there is pressure to reduce operational costs.

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Standing Ovation: Recognizing Exceptional Employees | IT Team

WEX Inc.

Standing Ovation Award. A Standing Ovation is a special reward program at benefitexpress that honors employees who have gone above and beyond in fulfilling our Community Pillars. Nominations are submitted by fellow peers, and are tallied, read and carefully considered before being awarded at our company-wide 'Town Hall' meetings each quarter. Each award is read aloud by our chief operating officer to highlight just how much the winners have done to deserve the recognition—and when their names ar

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How to Remain Productive When Working From Your Bedroom

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The new normal has seemingly come to stay. Whether you are working full-time remotely or have a hybrid schedule of both in office as well as your home, it’s imperative you optimize your home office to the best of your ability. If you have smaller living quarters, your bedroom may be the most realistic option […].

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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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Sanford Health replaces CEO who refuses to wear masks

HR Digest

Kelby Krabbenhoft , the long-time president and CEO of Sanford Health , is out of a job days after he sent a controversial email to employees last week about his recovery from COVID-19. The board of trustees of Sanford Health released a statement that the organization has “mutually agreed to part ways” with Krabbenhoft. The 62-year-old told health care staff in an email Wednesday that he will not be wearing a mask to the office because he had recovered from the coronavirus and is, therefore, imm

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How do I calculate the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) employees?

PeopleKeep

xThe Affordable Care Act's employer mandate (aka Employer Shared Responsibility Payments or the Play or Pay decision) requires "applicable large employers” (ALE) to offer health insurance to employees. The definition of an ALE is an organization that has 50 or more “full-time equivalent” (FTE) employees.

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COVID-19: When is it Safe for Employees to Return to Work? | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

The world continues to wait for a COVID-19 vaccine. Some businesses around the country have already returned to the office while others still rely on remote work operations. As companies continue to make progress on vaccines—and as coronavirus cases continue to surge—how should U.S. employers plan for the next several months of work?

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Competitor Analysis Worksheets to Help You Land Your Dream Job

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Applying and interviewing for jobs can be a nerve wracking process. In a competitive job market, you may be wondering how you can stack up against your competition to help you stand out amongst other candidates. Whether you’re a recent graduate newly entering the workforce or a seasoned professional looking to level up your career, […].

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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.