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The Fundamentals of Employee Engagement

Achievers

There is an international employee engagement crisis. According to a Gallup survey , 85% of the worldwide workforce feels disengaged. On the bright side, this issue can be prevented with the use of initiatives that recognize employees the right way. This finding offers an opportunity for employers to address the need to add value to their employee’s work experience.

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Your Hiring Process Impacts Your Culture

HR Bartender

I like to think that we all know diversity in the workplace produces positive results to the bottom-line. But did you know that people are looking at a company’s diversity as part of their investment strategy? Morgan Stanley has produced a research piece titled “ An Investor’s Guide to Gender Diversity ”. It outlines their research showing that investors should look at diversity when making stock picks.

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5 Self-Improvement Goals That Can Improve Your Personal Development At Work

Take It Personel-ly

Many of us are always looking to improve various aspects of our lives a positive way. From having a better work-life balance to improving our health and well being, having those clearly defined goals is a good way to better yourself. However the rewards from having goals can only come through making an effort to […].

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9 quick tips for handling overly social employees

Insperity

Overly social employees may be costing your business more than its peaceful atmosphere. In fact, the price you pay in lost productivity could be pretty steep. But how can you establish a correlation between excessive socializing and lost productivity? CareerBuilder surveyed more than 2,000 hiring and human resource managers and 3,000 employees from a variety of industries and company sizes to identify the biggest productivity killers in the workplace.

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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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benefitexpress Announces New Leader in Information Technology

WEX Inc.

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — benefitexpress, the leading provider of cloud-based technology software and services for employee benefits administration, announced today that Bill Blount joins its leadership team as Chief Information Officer. In his new role, Blount will lead all areas of benefitexpress’ technology organization including Development, Information Security and IT Operations.

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How The Wrong Employees Can Negatively Affect Your Business

Take It Personel-ly

Businesses require powerful, talented and hardworking employees to succeed. They are one of the reasons that a business grows and earns great profits. However, there are many businesses that give little thought to this and suffer huge losses along the way when some employees negatively affect the business. According to a survey taken by Career […].

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Auto Dealer Payroll: What to Expect During Implementation with a New Platform

Hireology

Accurate and efficient auto dealer payroll is critical to overall success and profitability – payroll and other people-related costs can make up 50% or more of a dealership ’s overall operating expenses. So when it comes to switching payroll providers, it’s critical to make a smooth transition. Switching to a new payroll provider is no overnight task.

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How to Build a High Performance Team, According to Patty McCord

BetterUp

Patty McCord, a workplace innovator, culture and leadership consultant, and former Chief Talent Officer at Netflix, recently shared her insights on the future of work at BetterUp Shift 2018. The event brought together the most innovative leaders and thinkers in HR and people development to discuss how to infuse greater meaning into the employee experience.

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Make Your Data Easy to Consume – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

Years ago, I worked for a company that decided HR was going to produce a “metrics scorecard” each month. Three full pages of data about HR activities. Everything from cost per hire and time to fill to grievance trends and training effectiveness. I’ve always joked that HR closed the month similar to the accounting department. It took us days to prepare every report and distribute it.

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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 Future of Payroll

Ascender

The past years have seen the rise of several trends in modernising Human Resource (HR) processes, with payroll management right at the forefront. Trends such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), the transition to cloud-based services, integration of Human Capital Management (HCM) software, and the emphasis on data security and compliance have been seen and mentioned in countless discussions on HR and payroll articles and forums, and Ascender intends to lead the way in innovation and change.

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New Resource: The Home Health Care Hiring Guide

Hireology

Health care spending is rapidly growing and projected to reach $5.7 trillion by 2026. And as spending increases, so does the demand for home health care services, as the aging population and other patients opt to receive care at home over visiting a doctor’s office or hospital. Despite the demand, home health care businesses face significant challenges securing quality talent and, as a result, remaining profitable.

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Five things HR needs to know about employee engagement

cipHR

David Godden, VP at Thymometrics, offers advice on why engagement matters, the failings of traditional surveys, and how real-time feedback could benefit your organisation. 1. Low engagement is a serious problem. “Employee engagement around the world has become a real problem,” says Godden, citing a Gallup report which found that 87% of the global workforce is actively disengaged at work.

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Should You Stay or Should You Go? Five Questions If You’re Considering Quitting

Take It Personel-ly

It starts as an inkling, but it eventually becomes all you can think about: You need a new job. Sometimes, though, immediately jumping ship isn’t the right move. Instead, you should consider the pros and cons of quitting before you announce your decision to your boss. The best way to weigh the good and bad […].

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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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Reverse mentoring: 5 key reasons your business needs it

Insperity

Reverse mentoring is becoming a popular buzzword in business circles lately, but is it right for your company? First off, let’s define it. When we think of mentoring, we tend to think of seasoned employees taking younger employees under their wings and teaching them the ins and outs of business. Reverse mentoring flips the script. It’s designed to empower younger workers to share their expertise and ideas with more senior employees.

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Meet the Bayzlanders: Chafic Dakroub

Bayzat

Up next on our Bayzlander’s list is Chafic Dakroub – our resident Product Manager. Armed with a degree in Finance and one in Political Science, Chafic spent two years as an associate at Clarington Investments – a Canadian.

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How Can HR People Be More Valuable? 

Hppy

In my experience, there has always been mixed views on what HR should be accountable for. There are traditional duties that need to be performed up by this group such as recruitment, compensation, benefits, payroll, pension management (for those employees fortunate enough to work for an organization still offering them) training and performance management.

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Opinion: Next year’s gender pay gap reports will be the true test for UK employers

cipHR

While most people are picking over the 2018 statistics, it’ll be 2019’s numbers that actually prove if organisations have bothered to tackle their gender pay challenges, writes Cathryn Newbery. The gender pay gap reporting deadline of 4 April ended up being something of a damp squib. The government website predictably crashed on the morning of the deadline as hundreds of employers scrambled to submit their figures in time.

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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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15Five To Pilot New Elon Musk Venture: SpaceAds

15Five

In the wake of SpaceX’s successful launch of a Tesla into space in February, Elon Musk today announced the launch of his latest idea — SpaceAds. This new venture will allow the world’s most innovative companies to place branded artifacts in space to advertise their “out of this world” offerings. Starman Waiting In The Sky. The world stood transfixed earlier this year as the most powerful rocket in operation, the Falcon Heavy, placed a shiny red Tesla Roadster into an ell

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3 Tips for Staying Compliant with a Reduction in Force (RIF)

UpstartHR

Ask any business leader and they’ll tell you that a reduction in force, or a RIF, is one of the hardest activities to carry out. Often times good employees are hit by these decisions through no fault of their own, and the resulting morale issues can doubly affect the workplace in a negative way. That said, there are times when a RIF is an essential part of business continuity and operations.

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How to Keep Your Employees Engaged

Hppy

The role of a manager is to be a leader, because it is only when he or she leads his employees can the team as a whole succeed. One of the ways that a manager or employer can lead their team to success is to keep their employees engaged. Also read: 15 Employee Engagement activities that you can start doing now. When your employees are engaged, they actively participate and want to work for you, rather than simply going through the motions.

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Single Touch Payroll Product Bulletin | April 2018

Ascender

Preceda – Single Touch Payroll Update. Ascender wish to advise that as of March 27, 2018, all Ascender payroll platforms are now covered by a Single Touch Payroll (STP) deferral issued by the Australian Tax Office. Each Ascender solution has been issued with an individual Deferral Reference Number (DRN). Whilst most Ascender solutions will be ready for STP by the due date of July 1st, the deferral has been obtained to assist customers in moving to an STP compliant release and being ready t

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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 You Need to Unfriend Paper-Based Benefits Enrollment

WEX Inc.

Paper is an office essential. It is so ingrained into daily processes that some forget to develop workflows that can perform more efficiently without it — and employee benefits enrollment is not excluded here. To help you understand just how toxic paper-based benefits enrollment actually is, first personify it. What kind of person is paper enrollment, anyway?

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AssuredPartners Promotes Colin Lowe

AssuredPartners

National Broker Renews Focus on Small Commercial and Personal Insurance Business. LAKE MARY, FL – April 5, 2018 – AssuredPartners, Inc. today announced a new position to bring greater emphasis to their. strategy for personal and small commercial insurance clients. AssuredPartners President and COO Tom Riley announced that Colin Lowe. will assume the new role to lead the initiative as National Practice.

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Do I Need a Performance Appraisal System?

Hppy

Most companies now run on an appraisal system of one sort or another. Typically, the performance appraisal process is used to evaluate employee achievement and behaviour. Also read: Why You Should Discuss “Proud Employee Moments” In Performance Reviews. The most common type of appraisal is still the annual review, which is conducted by a manager. The review discusses overall work performance and showcases the strengths and weaknesses of an employee.

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Infographic: how to improve workplace wellbeing

cipHR

It’s estimated that a quarter of all people will suffer work-related stress at some point during their working lives. But work doesn’t have to be unhealthy; this infographic offers helpful advice on how to actually improve employees’ health while they are at work. This article was first published in May 2013, and republished in April 2018. .

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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.