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10 Rules for Video Call Etiquette for Business

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes. I don’t need to produce any statistics to convince you that video calls are popular. Over the past year, the use of video call technology has grown exponentially – to the point where we actually have video call fatigue. Personally, I think one of the reasons that we have video call fatigue is because we haven’t developed any universally accepted rules or etiquette.

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How To Address Caregiver Churn in the Home Care Industry Right Now

Hireology

This is a post from AlayaCare , a Hireology partner that offers cloud-based home health care software. . In 2021, as in years past, employee churn is a major pain point in the accelerating, competitive home care industry. It’s a challenge with many dimensions. Churn can cause staff shortages that compel an agency to turn away potential new clients. It raises the risk of missed visits, hurting client satisfaction and causing last-minute scheduling scrambles.

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6 Tips to Help You Relax After Work

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Work can be very stressful. Often, you come home, drag yourself through the door and find yourself on the couch three hours later, still dwelling on the office. Unwinding from a long day’s work is essential to a healthy work/life balance. Stress can cause all sorts of problems, from depression and insomnia to heart disease […].

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What is E-Verify – and how does it work for employers?

Insperity

Are you required to E-Verify your new hires , or just interested in adding this step to your onboarding process to ensure you have a legal workforce? Better yet, what is E-Verify? And how does it work? Here’s the need-to-know information about how E-Verify works for employers, including: E-Verify basics Reasons employers use it Enrolling in the program The verification process Using an employer agent.

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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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How to Track Employee Retention Metrics | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Countless employers are focused on hiring top talent, but how many organizations commit the same time and resources to employee retention? Companies can save money and headaches in the long run—and get a leg up on the competition—by overhauling their retention strategy. As you begin this process, use the following metrics to measure your efforts.

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Try These Fun Team Building Activities

Take It Personel-ly

Team building activities serve many different purposes. They help your employees get to know each other better, learn each other’s strengths and weaknesses, communicate more effectively, and solve problems creatively. Ideally, they’re also so much fun that your team members forget that they’re learning anything at all. Unfortunately, however, some team building activities are tired, […].

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The turnover tsunami is on the way. How can your business avoid it?

Business Management Daily

It is being widely reported that a turnover tsunami is on the horizon. With vaccines becoming easily accessible across the nation it will soon be time for employees to return to the office. However, they may not be returning to the same office that they left in March 2020. 27% of employees are planning to change jobs in 2021. Changing priorities and the desire to seize the day and try something different are driving employees to look elsewhere.

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Do Employer Vaccine Incentives Violate the ADA or GINA? | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

The Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) released updated information called technical assistance that clarifies whether or not employers can provide vaccination incentives for their employees. Read on to find out.

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How to use an HRA to attract new hires

PeopleKeep

When recruiting new employees to your organization, one of the most important things to showcase is your health benefits. After all, more than half of U.S. adults with employer-sponsored health benefits say that liking their health coverage is a key factor in deciding whether or not they would stay at their current job.

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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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5 Tips To Simplify Your Expenses and Income

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Income and expenses (and money) management, in general, can be a tricky subject for many. Perhaps you’re worried about saving for retirement or anxious about not having money for the rainy days. The good thing is there’s no shortage of ways you can simplify your income and expenses and manage your money better. For many, […].

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Gamified Fitness: A Fad Or The Future?

Wellable

Though there are many effective wellness promoting activities and behaviors, reaping and keeping the wellness benefits that they offer can take a considerable amount of time and effort. As a result, some individuals struggle to motivate themselves to engage in these behaviors frequently enough to obtain the desired benefits to their health.

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Overtime FAQ: How to Answer Commonly Asked OT Questions | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

The ins and outs of overtime policies can get tricky. From federal government regulations and exempt vs. non-exempt status to everything in between, find out what employers need to know about OT compliance in the workplace using these FAQs.

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Event Recap: Consolidating Pre-Hire Tools to Hire Faster

Hireology

Our final installment of our “Reimagining the Workforce” series took place yesterday, and if you didn’t get a chance to attend, you can watch the recording below. We covered how consolidating your tech stack can help you hire your team faster by reducing friction between softwares that don’t speak to each other. And here’s a summary of what was covered: In an applicant economy, the speed in which you can attract and hire talent is critical.

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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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Why A Digital Detox is More Important Than Ever

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Since the pandemic wrought havoc across the world, it has changed our ways of living completely. With nowhere else to go but their living rooms, more and more people are taking to digital platforms to pass the time and to continue work. According to the Harris poll, conducted between March and May 2020, between 46% […].

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Pulse Check: A Crash Course In The Taxability Of Wellness Incentives

Wellable

Many employers offer incentives to their employees to encourage them to engage in wellness promoting behaviors. Many of these incentives are monetary in form (i.e., employers either give their workers money or something with a fair market value). By and large, these monetary incentives are taxable, but this may not appear obvious to many companies, largely because the federal paperwork that discusses the taxability of these incentives is tough to comb through and extract central themes from.

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Expectations to stay connected contribute to employee burnout

Business Management Daily

Last summer there was nowhere to go and no one to go with. Thanks to vaccinations, things are looking up this summer. And right on time, as employees are reporting feeling burned out. A recent survey conducted by Robert Half reveals that 44% of professionals say they’re more burned out on the job today compared to a year ago. Last year 34% said they felt burned out.

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5 Benefits for the Post-COVID Workforce

Best Money Moves

5 Benefits for the Post-COVID Workforce. As the US recovers from the pandemic, organizations must reevaluate which benefits can best help their employees. . The Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic brought significant change to the way that many Americans work. Some workforces have pivoted to full-time remote work, while others have blended models. However across all sectors and industries it’s clear that many employees have changed over the course of the pandemic and, as a result, the benefits they ne

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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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How Can Teams Work Together Even When Working Remotely?

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Today, it may seem like an office is not required. More people than ever are working remotely. The reality is that the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated a trend that was already taking place. Throughout the past few years, more people have been looking for ways to do their jobs from home. The reality is that this is […].

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Are Employers Required to Provide Breaks?

Stratus.HR

I was recently asked if employers have to offer breaks to employees. The answer probably sounded like the most canned response an HR professional can give: it depends. There’s no federal law that requires you to offer breaks, but that doesn’t mean you’re off the hook. While providing rest periods is generally good business practice, you may be required to provide breaks based on the following: Which state your company is located; How old the employee is; What the employees’ job duties are; What

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Marijuana Legalization: What Should Employers Know? | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

As more states move toward marijuana legalization, employers will have to be prepared with workplace policies in place and keep up with federal and state laws. From testing protocols to ever-changing cannabis legislation, read on for what employers and HR teams need to know.

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Small group health insurance for beginners

PeopleKeep

For many small employers, offering a competitive health benefit to employees can be a real challenge. This is especially true when there are larger competitors in the industry offering higher salaries and even more robust benefits packages.

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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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How to Make Sure Your Business Receives Good Reviews from Customers

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Customer reviews are essential as they enhance the brand to better your business. Customers read reviews and seek out recommendations before purchasing to establish trust. Every business should analyze customers’ reviews carefully to stand. Highlighted below are ways on how to make sure your business receives good reviews from customers. Make the Process of Writing […].

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What Is EFTPS, and How Can it Benefit Your Business?

Patriot Software

Let’s face it: paying taxes isn’t anyone’s favorite part of running their own business. The process can be time-consuming and filled with confusing paperwork. But, what if there was a way to make paying your federal taxes simple and fast? The good news is that the IRS has an EFTPS system that does just that—and […] READ MORE.

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Summer Items that are HSA and FSA-Eligible | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

While summer inspires thoughts of out-of-the-office messages and PTO, employees should also be thinking about their HSA and FSA funds. There are a lot of eligible everyday items and services that employees purchase that they can spend their FSA and HSA dollars on in the summer.

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How to Become an Effective Recruiting Leader? What Do You Need to Implement?

Hppy

Being some sort of a leader has been desirable since the beginning of our existence. In ancient times, people were always fighting for that one place that would allow them to rule others. It can be said that it is in human nature to have such intentions and thoughts. It gives people self-confidence and a feeling of being more valued as an individual.

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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.