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Fighting political corruption - Brazil vs France

Ahmed's Universe

PARIS I recently came back from one of my regular stays in my home away from home in Brazil. On the very day that I arrived in Rio de Janeiro there was only one headline news topic: Former president Michel Temer had been arrested on corruption charges. (During my last stay in December my Copacabana neighborhood only gossiped about another fallen leader, former Renault-Nissan head Carlos Ghosn, whose swanky Nissan-owned penthouses, just a couple of blocks away from mine, was being searched and co

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15 Incredibly Useful Tips To Drive High Team Performance

Vantage Circle

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” - BABE RUTH. The age-old question of how to bring teams together and encourage a culture of collaboration has troubled managers for decades now. You have the best employees in the market and yet that doesn’t convert to any results.

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Read These Top Articles For Greater Organizational Agility

15Five

Disruptive companies aren’t created by accident. In order to hold this badge of honor, a business must successfully change how people think and behave. This is quite a tall order, especially for those companies just getting off the ground. While there’s a recipe for each business that makes it unique, only the top companies deliver innovative ideas that destroy all old ways of doing something.

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10 Surefire Ways to Increase Motivation and Positivity

Take It Personel-ly

At some point in life, you may feel like you’re surrounded by negativity, which snuffs out your dreams and kills your hope. Once that happens, you may go through your day overwhelmed by negativity and believing that it’s part of life. Even though you don’t always have control over what happens to you, you have […].

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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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Should I foster bottom-up ideas? Yes, here’s how and why

Insperity

The best ideas don’t always come from upper management, sometimes it is the bottom-up ideas that can help put a company on top. Whether the next great bottom-up idea will make a positive impact on your company’s bottom line may depend on what procedures are in place to communicate such suggestions. Ideas from the bottom can sometimes be lost, especially if no process is in place to facilitate communication from all levels of an organization.

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10 Effective Ways to Improve Team Communication

HR Digest

Team communication is a crucial aspect of collaboration at work. It allows members working on a project to offer their best input and to work towards a common goal. This is why project managers won’t stop looking out for effective ways to improve team communication. The idea is to alleviate misunderstanding, energy waste in doing irrelevant tasks and chances of conflict.

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Office Workplace Health Risks: Computers, Screens, Sitting, and More

UpstartHR

In the digital world we live in, we spend a TON of time work on computers and mobile devices. Screens aren’t just part of our work life–they are how we interact with most people during the course of the workday. This isn’t a natural experience for us and it’s now how we were designed to operate, which means we must take care or we’ll inevitably run into issues with our health.

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7 ways a PEO can help you manage your employee-related to-dos

Insperity

The more time you spend managing employee issues, the less time you have to run your business. But by ignoring your employer responsibilities to employees, you could cause a rift in your workforce and create potentially costly legal battles. Fortunately, many of these concerns can be alleviated by outsourcing to a Professional Employer Organization (PEO).

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Medicare Series: Part 1 – What you need to know about Medicare and HSAs?

Benefit Resource Inc.

This is a two part series regarding Medicare. This post will focus on the impacts of HSAs and Medicare. Watch for Part 2 as we address Medicare and COBRA. Basics of HSA Eligibility. Health Savings Accounts (or HSAs) are sometimes confusing. Let’s be honest, what benefits program or tax-program isn’t a little confusing? And HSAs are both!

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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 Only 11-Step Guide to Becoming a Freelance Writer You’ll Ever Need to Read

Take It Personel-ly

Thinking of becoming a freelance writer? More and more people are giving up their regular jobs and going it alone for good reason. Even if you don’t have any experience writing professionally, it can provide a great work-life balance that allows you to work from anywhere. However, it’s a competitive market and one that can […].

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Off-duty Marijuana Use On 420 Day – Can Your Employer Fire You?

HR Digest

There are highs and lows of celebrating 420 day like getting fired for off-duty marijuana use. 420 day is no longer celebrated behind closed doors and their party invitations no longer include codes. With recreational marijuana legalized in ten states, 420 friendly people can indulge in herb satisfaction without any repercussions. Getting high like a kite without any repercussions sounds like a dream and sadly, that’s exactly what it is.

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What to Know When You're Implementing a New Benefits Enrollment Solution

Winston Benefits

Group Implementing new benefits enrollment software can yield significant improvements for many companies, not only helping you control costs but also making it easier for employees to pick the benefits they want. Technology also allows benefits managers to be more strategic and focus on the exceptions or unusual cases by minimizing manual tasks. The right software even helps ensure you’re offering the best benefits to your employees.

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10 tips to help you pick the right HR system

cipHR

Helen Armstrong of Silver Cloud HR outlines what you should do when choosing new programs for your business. Finding the correct HR system for your organisation isn’t always easy – and sometimes you can get it wrong. So what should you do to make sure you do it correctly next time? Helen Armstrong, managing director at Silver Cloud HR – an independent HR and payroll technology consultancy – shared her tips for making HR systems selection projects a success in a recent CIPHR webinar.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Retirement Concerns: Is Financial Literacy the Solution?

Best Money Moves

Retirement concerns: is financial literacy the solution? Those workers that do have a 401k aren’t saving enough to cover expenses in retirement, even when employers match contributions. Retirement is a far-off goal most Americans don’t even think about while they’re paying down debts, struggling to pay for childcare and taking care of aging parents.

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PEO For Nonprofits: Breaking Down The Challenges & Benefits

Genesis HR Solutions

As a leader of a nonprofit organization, your mission is everything to you. Anything that takes you away from the work you do to fulfill that mission is a distraction—like handling the details of HR and compliance issues. That’s why you should consider hiring a PEO (professional employer organization) for your nonprofit. This article identifies three common challenges nonprofits deal with and how partnering with a PEO can help you overcome them—and get you back to working on your mission.

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Hireology Ranked #45 on Crain’s Chicago Business Best Places to Work 2019

Hireology

We’re excited to announce Hireology has been #45 named on the Crain’s Chicago Business Best Places to Work 2019 list and #9 for midsize companies. To determine the rankings, Crain’s Chicago Business partnered with Best Companies Group and surveyed more than 14,000 local employees about their companies. As part of the survey, benefits taken into consideration for the ranking include: 401(k) match, medical benefits, paid time off (PTO) policies, telecommuting options, onsite fitness facilities, tu

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5 Steps to Self-Publishing Your Own Book

Take It Personel-ly

A few years ago, you could only publish your book through the traditional channels. But that’s the past. You can now self-publish your own book, thanks to the Internet and advancement in technology. Are you having an idea you want to convert into a book or maybe you’ve written one but are wondering what to […].

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Bridging the Gap: The Intersection of DEI Initiatives and Employee Benefits

Speaker: Jaye Johnson, CBP

Unlock the secrets to transforming your organization’s employee benefits into a strategic tool for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). During this informative session, we will discuss common pitfalls in traditional benefits and then delve into the essence of DEI in employee-centric benefit offerings. This involves not only defining DEI in the workplace but also understanding the pivotal role that employee benefits play in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.

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Do I really have to run background checks?

BerniePortal

HR Best Practices blog series. Navigating the world of HR can be overwhelming—period. That’s why we’ve created a blog series to answer common HR questions. To help answer each question and define best practices, we have three HR heroes with very different approaches to HR: Bythe Book, Sam Blackheart, and Peggy Prag. You may find yourself relating to one (or more) of our heroes depending on the given situation.

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Lessons learned from real-life OSHA regulation violations

Business Management Daily

Take these real-life lessons as a gentle reminder to review your Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) compliance. The post Lessons learned from real-life OSHA regulation violations appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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Seven Expert Tips to Track Time Better

Abel HR

Tackling timekeeping can be a formidable challenge for any business owner. If you and your employees are lazy with timekeeping , you’re opening yourself up to financial hardship and a huge headache with a whole lot of hard work to fix the problems. One easy answer to timekeeping troubles is to meet with the off-site HR professionals at a Professional Employer Organization (PEO), who can help to set up and enforce timekeeping policies that take the burden off you, the business owner while en

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10 Office Management Tools To Make Your Life A Breeze

SnackNation

10 Office Management Tools To Make Your Life A Breeze. Being really good at office management means being able handle a wide variety of tasks and responsibilities. The title “Office Manager” might as well be changed to “Jack (or Jill) of All Trades.”. What is office management? Office management is managing and improving the logistics within an office in order to support all the employees within that organization.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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Why technology is disrupting the insurance industry

BerniePortal

What investors see in the insurance industry. It seems like every week there is a new headline about HR software securing millions of dollars of funding. Just recently, Zenefits founder Parker Conrad made headlines for raising $45 million for his next venture , Rippling. In fact, according to CB Insights , more funded startups are operating in health insurance than all other insurance types combined.

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Five ways onboarding software can deliver a great employee experience

cipHR

Welcoming new starters is too important to leave to chance. Here’s how specialist HR software can help. Onboarding – the process of welcoming a new member of staff into an organisation – is a crucial, but sometimes overlooked, part of the employee experience: one that you, as an employer, only have one opportunity to get right. Fail to do so and your employer-employee relationship will likely get off on the wrong foot, perhaps irrevocably so; workers are 69% more likely to stay with a company fo

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Employee Wellness Benefits Winners and Losers

Wellable

Companies that want to attract and retain employees are pumping up their benefits offerings, but as new generations of employees enter the workforce and as current employees’ needs change, the benefits that were once popular can become less so, as employees demand new perks.

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Episode 98 | 5 Deadly Marketing Mistakes Most CPG Brands Make…And How To Avoid Them, with Hawke Media CEO Erik Huberman

SnackNation

Episode 98 | 5 Deadly Marketing Mistakes Most CPG Brands Make…And How To Avoid Them, with Hawke Media CEO Erik Huberman. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Subscribe on Stitcher. There are things you’re doing right now that are hurting your business. It’s ok. You’re not the only one. It can be hard to keep up in the constantly shifting landscape of social media platforms, direct to consumer retail channels, marketing best practices, and latest and greatest growth hacks.

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How to Implement Pay Transparency: A Comprehensive Guide

With pay transparency legislation on the rise globally, it can be difficult for organizations to navigate how to share salary ranges due to administrative complexities, lack of clear job architecture, employee reactions, and more. To help make this process easier, Barley's comprehensive guide shares how to begin implementing pay transparency while staying true to your compensation philosophy.