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What is employee engagement? A guide to engaging your employees

Achievers

Disengagement is a chronic issue in today’s workplace. Only 21% of employees consider themselves very engaged , and this lack of motivation can impact your bottom line. Disengaged employees cost U.S. companies up to $550 billion a year. On the flip side, Gallup found that highly engaged teams show 21% greater profitability. With so much at stake, it’s no surprise that successful companies put employee engagement at the center of their corporate strategy.

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Financial and Lifestyle Insights- Part 2

Money Talk

In this post, I continue my discussion of tips from webinars, podcasts, and virtual conferences that I heard during the last quarter of 2021. Below are 13 of my key take-aways: Avoid Complacency - Take proactive steps to stay on top of your finances. One webinar speaker recommended checking your bank balance daily because daily swipes on a debit card add up and many people have no idea how much money they have at a particular point in time or how much they are spending on “small stuff.

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Zehmer Finals in Tallahassee

Florida Workers' Comp

Last fall I wrote about the amazing transition of the annual Zehmer Moot Court competition. This is usually held at the annual workers' compensation conference each August, but 2021 was delayed. In Perseverance and Poise (November 2021), I congratulated the organizers and participants for their successful pivot to a virtual preliminary round. I cannot stress enough the contributions of Hon.

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How Is AI Transforming Human Resources Management?

HR Digest

One question arises in recent times and it speaks about the fear of the many employees who are afraid of the new technologies. Is AI changing the way we work? . The answer is yes, and we should be aware of the fact that AI is taking some jobs from the people but at the same time, it is creating new jobs that will be more paid and more beneficial. . Let’s dive into this subject and reveal how AI is changing the way we work.

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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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Closing the wellbeing gap between junior and senior employees

Achievers

From belonging to equity, latest research uncovers the needs that aren’t being met for your most at-risk cohort. There is a great deal of focus on retaining employees and managers now that HR leaders are feeling the ripple effects of the Big Quit. Four million people resigned in July, in America, alone! According to our own research here at the Achievers Workforce Institute (AWI), 86% of employees, including junior team members, sometimes think about looking for a job elsewhere.

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Judge Robert Dietz

Florida Workers' Comp

It has been a tough 2022 (I am cognizant that we are less than 10 days in). Yesterday (01.08.22) brought unwelcome news, a phone call in the mid afternoon. Calls like this are surreal, and I often struggle to accept that I have heard the caller correctly. In this instance, stated simply, "Robert Dietz died last night." The statement surprised me, and for a moment I was literally speechless.

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Impressive Skills to Put on a Resume

HR Digest

Having a well-written and compelling resume is an important step in getting your dream job. But, writing the perfect resume can be difficult. For one thing, it’s hard to find skills that are impressive enough for even the most qualified people. This article will show you a 40+ list of skills for a resume and give you the best resume tips to land your next job.

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What makes a good workplace that gets employees to stay?

Insperity

There are four words every company leader aspires to hear their employees say: “I love my job.”. These words mean that employees are happy and probably aren’t going to leave the company any time soon. Achieving this level of employee praise calls for more than just offering a job that aligns with someone’s interests and skills. Although the job itself is extremely important, this goes much further – it’s about creating a good workplace that makes people think twice about leaving.

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Highland Home Carers motivates staff with shares and bonus schemes

Employee Benefits

Operating across the Scottish highland region since 1994, Highland Home Carers (HHC) supports people living in their own homes with highly complex health and social care needs. It has a roster of more than 400 employees and has been an employee-owned organisation since 2004, rewarding staff with shares for working in challenging roles. The organisation has various schemes in place to both recognise these efforts from staff, and to help motivate them through difficult times.

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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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6 common hiring mistakes to avoid

Business Management Daily

No employer wants to make a bad hiring decision. Bringing aboard someone who ends up performing inadequately or proving a poor cultural fit affects productivity and office morale. Whether you end up firing the new person or the individual realizes on his own that this job isn’t for him and leaves, the company is back to square one in the hiring process — plus time and money wasted.

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How to answer “what is your greatest strength?”

HR Digest

This is one of the common job interview questions asking you to describe the positive attribute that will help you succeed in the position for which you are interviewing. The interviewer wants to know what makes you exceptional, valuable, powerful and unstoppable? Of course, every job requires different skills and attributes; therefore, it is important that when answering this question, you provide an example that relates specifically to the type of work that you will be doing if they hire you f

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Improve Employee Retention in 2022: Utilize Financial Wellness Benefits

Best Money Moves

Improve employee retention in 2022: Utilize financial wellness benefits. Financial stress is an increasing contributor to high employee turnover and now, more than ever, your team needs relief. Last year, a record 38 million Americans left their jobs to look for new opportunities. As a result, employers in 2022 are dealing with low retention and high turnover, leading to a loss of top talent, increased operating costs and an overall unstable work environment. .

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Ikea cuts sick pay for unvaccinated staff

Employee Benefits

Swedish retail giant Ikea has cut sick pay for unvaccinated staff in the UK who need to self-isolate as a result of being exposed to Covid-19 (Coronavirus). The decision by the business, which employs about 10,000 people across 22 stores in this country, could see unvaccinated workers who have been required to stay at home but not confirmed as having the virus receive just £96.35 a week, which is the statutory sick pay (SSP) minimum.

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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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Supreme Court Blocks OSHA’s Vaccine Mandate | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Almost a week after hearing oral arguments, on January 13, the Supreme Court of the United States blocked the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) from implementing and enforcing its Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requiring large private employers to enact a vaccinate-or-test policy mitigating the spread of COVID in the workplace.

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Future of Work: Enabling Collaboration for the Hybrid Workforce

HR Digest

We know that it’s easier said than done, but when you want your business to grow, you need to collaborate with a formidable hybrid workforce willing to do more than one thing. It can be difficult for companies that are either brand new or just getting off the ground because they don’t have the resources like others out there. . How do you collaborate with a hybrid workforce?

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How to Improve Motivation in the Workplace: 13 Effective Ways

Empuls

Whatever be the size or type of an organization, one of the biggest and most enduring challenges that managers face is getting their team to do their best work. Why do people do what they do, and how do you influence them - these are puzzles that can be traced back centuries. From Aristotle to Abraham Maslow, Sigmund Freud to Adam Smith, many thinkers and psychologists have spent a lifetime of effort in understanding human behavior.

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Diversity investment boosts engagement

Employee Benefits

Half of organisations that have not begun to invest in equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging (EDIB) suffered a decline in employee engagement over a 12-month period, research has shown. Employee engagement service WorkBuzz’s The state of employee engagement report, based on insight from more than 300 organisational leaders, HR professionals, and industry experts, discovered that employers progressing EDIB initiatives were more likely to report increased employee engagement levels.

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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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How to improve and handle your finances in 2022

cipHR

The new year brings a new start for people’s finances, giving you the chance to re-evaluate your situation and make changes based on your priorities. This could begin with making a plan to pay off any outstanding debts that have been causing stress, or just being aware of changes that may impact your finances. Here, to help you with your finances this year, we’re sharing the key things you need to be aware of, and the three actions you should be taking.

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What Exactly Is a “Tax Year”?

Kollath CPA

What Exactly Is a “Tax Year”? A tax year is an annual accounting period for keeping records and reporting income and expenses. Types of Tax Year. Calendar year — 12 consecutive months, beginning January 1 and ending December 31. Fiscal year — 12 consecutive months ending on the last day of the month except in December. A 52-53-week tax year is a fiscal tax year that varies from 52 to 53 weeks but doesn’t have to end on the last day of the month.

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Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: The Benefits & Why it Matters

Empuls

Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do. - Marco Bizzarri One could argue that the reason our vast and diverse human race has evolved into this well-oiled machine of progress and precision is that each one of us brings something unique and valuable to the table. Even if our roles or job descriptions are technically the same on paper, no two people will ever perceive them in the same way.

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Action urged to rebalance pension wealth

Employee Benefits

Shareholder returns that feed into UK workers’ pensions “disproportionately benefit a wealthy minority”, according to a report put together by the TUC, think tank Common Wealth and the High Pay Centre. The study found that almost one in three UK shares was held by a UK pension fund in 1990 yet this had declined to 2.4% by 2018 so listed companies paying out in dividends and buybacks had a much smaller impact on pension wealth.

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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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ERISA Wrap Document: What It Is and Why You Need One | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

ERISA covers more benefits plans than many employers realize, and it takes more than a plan booklet to comply with federal regulation. How can small businesses simplify compliance with an ERISA wrap document? Find out more.

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How to Improve Employee Engagement

HR Lineup

Employee disengagement continues to be a persistent problem to many organizations. If you feel like you can no longer trust your workforce to boost workplace performances, it is time you change your company’s culture and working strategy. You also need leadership best practices that improve employee engagement. In this article, we take you through how to improve employee engagement by sharing several working strategies.

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12 Innovative Employee Retention Strategies that Work

Empuls

It would not be wrong to say that we are in the middle of a work revolution. The way we look at work has changed drastically – thanks to globalization, the powerful internet, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. The customer expectations have also gone up exponentially in terms of personalization and brand experiences. The changing pace has left even the best organizations with no choice but to rethink their employee acquisition and retention strategies.

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IRS to Get Tough on ACA Reporting Form Mistakes

InterWest Insurance Services

The time when the IRS offers relief from financial penalties to employers that make errors on their group health insurance reporting forms has come to an end. Starting this year, the IRS will no longer offer protection against reporting error penalties when “applicable large employers” (ALEs) file their Forms 1094-C and 1095-C and the employer has made a good-faith effort to comply.

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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.