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15 Drivers Of Employee Engagement You Need To Know in 2022

Vantage Circle

" Hewitt Associates (2004) developed an 18-item scale to measure employee engagement. For example, there are significant generational gaps when it comes to benefit preferences: Thirty-six percent of Baby Boomers want to pay parental leave. Thirty-four percent of Generation Xers want to pay parental leave.

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What does DEI mean in todays workplace

Business Management Daily

According to Google Trends, the term saw even more use in 2004, likely due to the buzz of affirmative action and equal opportunity laws as a remedy to systemic racial discrimination. In this blog, we’ll talk about what DEI really means and how it looks in practice. When Did We Start Caring about DEI? DEI is not a new concept.

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The future of FMLA points to paid leave

Business Management Daily

is one of just six nations on earth that lacks mandated paid maternity leave. The move toward paid leave. In 2004, California enacted paid family leave. Patterned after unemployment compensation, leave is funded by an employee paid 1% payroll tax. The study also noted that the U.S. Other states followed.