2022

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12 virtual employee appreciation ideas for recognizing remote workers

Achievers

At this point, there’s no denying that remote work is part of our new normal. For many employees, that is a relief. They can spend more time with their families and less time commuting. They can set aside time for deep work without the inevitable interruptions that come with an in-office day. And they can make themselves truly comfortable wherever they decide to get the job done.

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6 types of employee rewards and how to use them

Achievers

What motivates you? Ask 100 employees, and you’ll get 100 unique answers. Maybe it’s the prospect of working on something they’re passionate about. It might be an organizational culture that makes them feel like they really belong. And some simply keep striving for a steady paycheck with the promise of raises, bonuses, and other financial incentives.

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5 ways you can help employees prepare for retirement

Business Management Daily

Retirement security, or insecurity, has caught the eye of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh. He’s right. Fewer employees are covered by traditionally defined benefit plans. DB plans are retirement plans. The plan sponsor, most likely the employer, bears all the investment risk and pays you a fixed amount every month until you die. It’s a good deal, if you can get it.

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Adrian Cooper: Where next for financial wellness?

Employee Benefits

The nascent financial wellness industry is set to evolve into a fragmented market offering specialised solutions to meet different financial challenges. The current approach is to offer a one-size-fits-all package. Yet the financial challenges people face are not homogenous. At the start of their working life, young people may be saddled with debt from university.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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Everything HR Needs to Know About People Science

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes. Where would your organization be in a month if everyone focused on improving every single week? It’s a big question to consider. And right now is a perfect time to focus on improvement as organizations think about their post-pandemic business and talent strategies. I’ve been hearing about the term people science for a while and wanted to learn more about how people science can help managers and employees improve – not just once but on a continuous basis.

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How Narcissism At Work Is Destroying Your Company Culture

Vantage Circle

Do you work in an environment where some coworkers seem to go out of their way to draw everyone's attention to themselves? If that's the case, you're most likely dealing with a textbook case of narcissism at work. You might not notice narcissism. However, if it goes unnoticed, it can severely influence your culture, people, and engagement levels in a negative manner.

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Do Workplace Wellness Programs Save Money? We Find Out.

HR Digest

Healthcare costs are a major expenditure for most business owners. Healthcare is an essential and a necessary investment for both employers and employees. A lackadaisical workforce can be detrimental to productivity. So, are wellness programs a sound investment? Do they drive down a company’s health investment costs or not? Let us find out. A study conducted by Harvard in 2015 found for every dollar spent on wellness programs, the employer saves $3 in healthcare costs and another $3 in absentee

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8 Ways to Support Employees With Mental Health Challenges

International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

As Mental Health Awareness Month (in the U.S.) continues, we’re sharing strategies and approaches to help leaders respond to employees with mental illness in a psychologically safe way. When employees have. Read more > The post 8 Ways to Support Employees With Mental Health Challenges appeared first on Word on Benefits.

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10 organizational culture qualities every company should have today

Insperity

When it comes to driving the success of your business, organizational culture is – without exaggeration – everything. It impacts the: Engagement and satisfaction of your workforce Cohesion and harmony among people Behavior of your people Leadership style in your organization, which has an effect on the relationships between managers and their direct reports Willingness of your organization to embrace change and evolve Innovation and creativity of your workplace.

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5 Trends to Help Your Organization Boost Job Satisfaction and Productivity

Treating your workforce as the organization’s top priority improves customer satisfaction and revenue growth and can boost job satisfaction and productivity. Read about five trends that are helping organizations around the country improve their people’s career well-being.

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Remote workplace challenges: How the US and UK compare (and what to do next)

TLNT

After dramatic events of the last few years, remote and hybrid work is commonplace. And all the signs are that it is a trend that will continue. According to a recent study, ‘ How managers are investing in remote and hybrid team success, ’ 93% of organizations across the USA, UK, Canada and Australia say they intend to keep a hybrid or remote model beyond the pandemic.

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How to Freshen Up Your Email Marketing Strategy

Take It Personel-ly

Email marketing is one of the most effective ways for businesses to engage with their target audiences regularly. It’s also a great avenue for tapping directly into various customer segments – especially those with high sales conversion potential. The start of a new year is the best time to think about freshening up your email […]. The post How to Freshen Up Your Email Marketing Strategy appeared first on Take It Personel-ly.

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Employee involvement: The value of increased employee participation

Achievers

The groups you claim membership in shape your life. Families, classes, sports leagues, and, of course, employers are just a few examples. When you consider the groups you enjoyed most, what made them that way? Chances are that, among other factors, they made you feel heard and accepted. You knew your involvement and voice actually mattered. In the workplace, this feeling of employee involvement is critical to building an engaged team.

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Procrastination at Work: How to Practice Better Time Management

Business Management Daily

A little bit of procrastination at the office is surprisingly common, with 88% of workers reporting that they put off important work tasks for at least one hour each day. Yet, procrastination at work is a much more severe problem for some workers. 15 – 20% of workers say they avoid important tasks regularly, which qualifies as chronic procrastination.

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Fertility Benefits for Every Age: A HR Roadmap from Gen Z to Baby Boomers

Speaker: Lauri Armstrong, SHRM-SCP - Sr. Director, People Operations at Carrot Fertility

Today’s workforce includes multiple generations of employees all looking for something different from their benefits package. While meeting these disparate needs can be challenging, a comprehensive fertility benefit can support everyone from junior staffers learning about their fertility health to senior leadership managing menopause and low testosterone symptoms.

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Employee Benefits free webinar: How important is women’s health at work?

Employee Benefits

A free webinar hosted by Employee Benefits, titled How important is women’s health at work? in association with Peppy, will be broadcast live at 11am on Wednesday 7 December 2022. Employee Benefits’ editor Debbie Lovewell-Tuck will be joined by Sam Blevins, health and wellbeing development manager at John Lewis Partnership, Debra Gardner, head of HR and ESG at LSL Property Services, Francesca Steyn, director of fertility and women’s health at Peppy, and Ellie Vaughan, head of reward and benefits

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Connecticut Paid Family Leave and What to Know

Patriot Software

Connecticut joined the paid family leave states when employers began handling Connecticut paid family leave contributions in 2021. Time has flown by and it’s now 2022. What does that mean? Employees in Connecticut can now apply for benefits from the state’s paid family leave program. Read on to learn about the new Connecticut paid family […] READ MORE.

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Mental Health Stigma: 10 Tips to Fight Discrimination

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is stigma? The cost of mental health stigma. Why is mental health stigmatized? 6 types of stigma. How mental health stigmas impact individuals. Ways to cope with mental health stigma. What can I do about stigma?

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Lonely at the Top? Here are 9 Ways to Deal

Vantage Circle

Leadership comes with a lot of power. However, the nature of power and its psychological effects frequently leave the debilitating feeling of being isolated from others. It's a feeling so common among successful people that it's become an idiom: "It's lonely at the top." In a wide-ranging interview in 2016 , Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke candidly about the challenges of running one of the world's most iconic companies. "It's sort of a lonely job," he admitted.

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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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7 Amazing Employee Wellness Ideas to Boost Morale

HR Digest

Find out what employee wellness ideas you can implement to ensure your employees have a safer, productive return to work. Employee wellbeing isn’t a new concept, but it has taken on a whole new meaning since the Covid-19 pandemic. Employee wellness initiatives are now higher up on the agenda — particularly mental well-being activities and programs — as more employers closely scrutinize how effectively they look after their employees.

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How to Support Mental Health in Your Workplace

International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

Earlier this year, I experienced a mental health crisis. I spent five nights at an in-patient program. This was followed by over six weeks at a partial hospitalization facility, which. Read more > The post How to Support Mental Health in Your Workplace appeared first on Word on Benefits.

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Top recruiting mistakes you want to avoid

Insperity

Has finding high-quality talent become a challenge? Make sure you’re not committing the biggest recruiting mistakes, which only make the process that much harder. Here are some of the most common mistakes your team can make while recruiting and how to avoid them. 1. Basic, less-than-compelling job postings. Review a recent batch of your company’s job postings.

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Are you ready for NYC’s anti-bias AI law?

TLNT

On November 10, 2021, New York’s City Council enacted Int. No. 1894-A – legislation, (effective from 1 st January 2023), that requires employers to conduct a ‘bias audit’ on artificial intelligence (AI) technology used to review, select, rank or eliminate candidates for employment or promotion.

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Being Mindful of Menopause To Create a Truly Inclusive Benefits Strategy

Speaker: Andrea Wuchiski - Senior Account Executive, Mid-Market Sales

Although menopause is a significant phase of life that affects about 20% of the workforce at any given time, it is seldom given any attention by employers. Employees' physical and mental health can suffer as a result of the symptoms, thus reducing productivity. According to a recent survey, only 8% of respondents felt their employer provided them with meaningful support, which may explain why 70% of respondents considered changing jobs to better manage symptoms.

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IRS Proposed Regulations Would Permanently Allow Remote Witnessing of Spousal Consent

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

The IRS issued new proposed regulations that would permanently change the rules that require spousal consent for plan distributions to be signed in the physical presence of a notary or plan representative. Specifically, the proposed regulations would allow plans to accept remote notarization or witnessing by a plan representative if the remote process meets certain standards aimed at ensuring the integrity of the process.

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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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9 communication skills leadership can’t succeed without

Business Management Daily

Communication skills are the most important soft skills for many professions. Having great communication skills can help you get ahead regardless of where you fall in the business hierarchy. However, they are especially important for leaders. Effective leadership communication can make or break a business. Business leaders play an important role in representing the company to investors, customers, partners, employees, and media outlets.

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32% want to return to the office for their mental health

Employee Benefits

Nearly one-third of working Brits want to return to their offices this month (January) because they feel it would improve their mental health , according to new research. Smart building management platform Infogrid interviewed 2,000 UK employees via a OnePoll online survey for its 2022 Hybrid workplace report, which revealed that 32% were keen on a swift return to the commute on mental wellbeing grounds now restrictions have eased.

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.