December, 2019

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3 Reasons to Boost Your Employee Benefits Offerings in 2020

Achievers

“I don’t really care about my employee benefits,” said no employee ever. When it comes to employee benefits, if your business can offer it, employees want it. That’s the case for any employee benefit, from time off to healthcare to flexible work arrangements to workers’ comp insurance. Naturally, most businesses can’t afford the king suite of benefits—unlimited PTO, free insurance, etc.

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13 Employee Engagement Trends for 2020

Vantage Circle

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change. -Charles Darwin. Darwin might not have quoted the above line with respect to business, but his words seem to echo in the business world, now more than ever. And managing people is no exception. Employee engagement is a very abstract concept. It is the “emotional connect” that an employee feels towards its organization.

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Scrap Everything You Knew About Withholding Allowances: The New W-4 Form Is Here

Patriot Software

Have you just started getting acclimated to the effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act? You may have the updates to the tax withholding tables down pat, but there’s another curveball coming each employer’s way. The long-awaited new W-4 form is here to shake up how you handle income tax withholding. If you’re like […]. The post Scrap Everything You Knew About Withholding Allowances: The New W-4 Form Is Here appeared first on Patriot Software.

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How to Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle at Work

PeopleStrategy

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle can be challenging in general, let alone at work. You’re constantly thinking, focusing on multiple tasks and projects, staring at computers and eating lunch out and on the go. While living a fast-paced lifestyle and juggling multiple things, it is easy to let your healthy living practices slip away from you. But there are some ways you can alter your daily routine to take better care of yourself while on the job.

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We’re Here to Help! How to Navigate Your Top HR Priorities

Are you helping your people proactively plan for retirement? How are you prioritizing the mental health of your HR team? These are a few of the questions that HR professionals are seeking answers to today. Luckily, Gallagher’s consultants came together with four robust articles (and one infographic) that help address these pain points and provide you with proactive planning tips to help you simplify, personalize and create flexibility in your benefits offerings to help ensure your people thrive

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The ethics of workplace gift giving

Insperity

As the end-of-year holiday gift-giving season approaches, you may start to stress about buying gifts for colleagues. Workplace gift giving can be tricky. You may wonder what to buy, who should receive a gift and how to go about the process of giving presents at work. Thankfully, the etiquette is less complicated than one might think. Below are the do’s and don’ts of giving gifts at work.

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6 Ways Leadership Can Build a Positive Culture

Achievers

Workplace culture is not a mere buzzword that is here today and gone tomorrow, nor is it the latest industry trend that will fade with time. Rather, culture is the very fabric that holds our leadership and our workforce together. Ultimately, our company culture defines who we are, our values, what we believe in, and our core mission. A positive culture develops happier and more engaged employees, which studies show can boost productivity (17 percent), reduce turnover (41 percent), lower absentee

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Looking Ahead: The Biggest HR Trends in 2020

HR Digest

From welcoming flextime in the workplace to understanding how workforce analytics can impact business decisions, these are the biggest HR trends that you’ll see as we move into 2020. Human Resource is all about recruiting, mentoring and tending of the greatest assets of any company—human capital. Traditionally, Human Resources restricted itself to hiring, payroll, and some administrative duties.

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27 Excellent Ways To Foster And Boost Happiness At Work

Vantage Circle

In the corporate workplace culture, happiness plays a crucial role in determining the productivity and satisfaction of a workforce. It also enhances the image of a company and improves its ability to retain its employees for the long term. So, it is fair to say that happiness at work is indispensable. Yet, the concept of happiness at work has only started to gain prominence in the past couple of decades.

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Tips to help you streamline HR tasks

PeopleStrategy

As an HR professional, you know how hard it can be to keep all of your ducks in a row. Managing the long list of human resources (HR) tasks, whether they’re annual, quarterly or everyday processes, can be overwhelming. Right now, for example, you may be wrapping up open enrollment , ensuing all employees have enrolled in – or waived – coverage.

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4-Week Roadmap for New Hires

Nearly one-quarter of employees (23%) admit they’ve cried within the first week! Give new hires a positive start with this four-week onboarding roadmap. This schedule outlines all the turns, detours, and speedbumps new hires can expect in their first month. We’ve included suggestions for each week to help you make your new employees’ highway to success an easy road.

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Managing introverts: 11 do’s and don’ts

Insperity

Have you ever been tasked with managing introverts in the workplace? As a business leader, you’ll undoubtedly encounter diverse personality types and working styles among your team members. People typically fall into one of two camps: People who are more outgoing (extroverts) and people who are more reserved (introverts). Regardless of whether you’re an introvert or extrovert, managing introverts can involve certain challenges: How do you help someone to stand out who may be naturally resistant

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Careers With Purpose, Not Just Passion, Enrich Employees’ Lives

Wellable

When it comes to deciding on a career path, sayings like “do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” and “follow your passion” get thrown around frequently. While it certainly sounds good, it doesn’t appear to be practical. Studies show this advice may be oversimplifying, at best, and actively detrimental, at worse.

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10 Ways to Enhance Your Leadership Skills for 2020

Achievers

Leaders at all levels often struggle to balance their many responsibilities. Constant demands on time, along with an expectation to be constantly connected can leave a leader feeling overwhelmed and burned out. This leads to issues with morale and performance. As 2019 comes to an end, this is the time to reflect on ways to improve for the year ahead.

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Letter of Recommendation Sample Templates for Mentors & Employers

HR Digest

A Letter of Recommendation is an attempt to praise the merit of a particular person so that his/her efficiencies, skills and past accomplishments can be highlighted. Therefore the letter of recommendation needs to be written professionally so that the concerned person can be conveyed the message in the most righteous and relevant. The letter of recommendation sample templates can be from different people.

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

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CIPHR acquires Payroll Business Solutions to offer customers end-to-end HR and payroll

cipHR

Today ( 16 December 2019 ) CIPHR i s pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of its long-term strategic software and services partner, Payroll Business Solutions (PBS). . The acquisition is a natural fit, as CIPHR and PBS have worked closely for many years and already have more than 50 joint customers that benefit from integrated HR and payroll s of tware , including household names such as Dreams, CitySprint and Z oopla. .

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Understanding Indeed Search Quality Standards

Hireology

Starting in October 2019, Indeed changed its job feed from Hireology to have “Sponsored Only” visibility. A sponsored post on Indeed means an employer pays for the job posting to appear in job seekers’ search results. . For your jobs to appear in Indeed’s organic feed, we can partner with you to get your jobs scraped directly into the organic feed from your careers page.

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Critical thinking skills: How to develop them in every employee

Insperity

While most of our everyday brainpower is dedicated to automatic and routine tasks, employees with sharp critical thinking skills are an essential. It’s so important that some thought leaders believe a lack of critical thinkers could contribute to business failures. As a business leader, you might be asking: Is it possible to teach employees critical thinking?

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Recruiting Trends 2020: Top 5 Features for Financial Wellness Programs

Best Money Moves

Recruiting trends 2020: Top five features for financial wellness programs. Employees want features that are engaging and easy to use to help reduce financial stress. Employers know that financial wellness benefits are a must, especially with the latest data from Financial Health Network indicating less than 30 percent of Americans consider themselves financially healthy.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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The Importance of Regular Feedback

Achievers

In theory, we are all very aware of how important feedback is. In practice, the sheer amount of work we need to get through on a daily basis often prevents us from thinking about delivering and requesting feedback from others. With the workplace undergoing more dramatic and turbulent changes, we are forced to reconsider the way we operate. With the increased expansion of the gig economy, and when remote work is slowly becoming more and more common everyday ( with 16 percent of U.S. companies ful

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2019 HR Leaders of the Year

HR Digest

The Human Resource industry has seen some significant changes in the last two decades. Earlier, HR personnel were the backroom boys whose job was more of an administrator and recruiter. HR’s traditional role was payroll, benefits, and procedures. As the workplace ethos changed with technological advances and a new generation of workers, the focus has shifted to employee management and performance and productivity.

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2020 Employee Wellness Industry Trends Report

Wellable

The arrival of the new year means the release of Wellable’s 2020 Employee Wellness Industry Trends Report. This annual report aims to quantify and better understand the wellness strategies companies are implementing in the upcoming year, providing a guide for all employers to help them create a healthy, happy, and productive workforce. Employers and brokers can use this information to make better benefits decisions to ensure they are creating competitive wellness plans to address the needs of cu

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Hireology Hosts Insp(H)ireology Career Training Event

Hireology

On December 5, Hireology welcomed participants from three local Chicago organizations to our first Insp(H)ireology event. The purpose of the event was to increase awareness of tech career paths and help provide economic opportunity for communities that are typically underserved in Chicago. The organizations that participated in the event included: re:work training : Rework’s mission is to reshape hiring trends and empower Chicago’s underrepresented communities by providing free career trai

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The Diversity Reckoning: Can HR Survive Without New Perspectives?

Speaker: Jeremy York

2024 has tested every organization, and 2025 promises no less - the warning signs are everywhere. If you’re relying on superficial approaches to diversity, you might find yourself scrambling to catch up. Thought diversity - the fuel for new ideas, fresh perspectives, and disruptive innovation - is more than a buzzword. It's a survival strategy. And if you’re not building it into your workplace culture right now , you’re heading for trouble.

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Harnessing The Power Of Gratitude At Work

15Five

When is the last time you felt a true sense of gratitude? Maybe your friend did a selfless favor for you when you needed it most, or maybe a grand act of kindness from a stranger brightened your entire day. While these gestures may seem modest, the results are anything but… These often fleeting, yet transformative moments can have profound impacts on our physical and emotional well-being and can boost levels of happiness and positivity in spectacular ways.

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How to Talk about Diversity and Inclusion at Work

Flimp Communications

In 2019, diversity and inclusion has been a hot topic – one which can be delicate and, therefore, difficult to discuss. These issues require more than employee communications technology to be effectively addressed. What’s the most appropriate way to approach these topics within the workplace? A way that educates and recognizes differences without alienating anyone?

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Workplace sexual harassment: what it is and how to combat it

Insperity

Growing public conversations around workplace sexual harassment highlight a harrowing reality: It’s both widespread and frequently mishandled. As an employer, you have an opportunity to learn from the collective concern about this sensitive topic and use what you’ve learned to create a healthier and safer workplace. Even if this is an issue you’ve faced on the job in the past, it’s helpful to look at this topic using three essential questions to guide further exploration: What constitutes sexual

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How to retain Millennial and Gen Z in the workplace?

HR Digest

Millennial and Gen Z are the new age workforce of the companies including young and vibrant employees who can work hard and smart, making it easier for the organization to maintain its sustenance and growth in the long run. But the question arises how the employers and their organizations can retain these millennial and Gen Z in their workplace. Several methods can be suggested to serve this purpose. 1.

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Testing Innovations in Cancer: How to evaluate and use new technologies

Amidst rising cancer prevalence and soaring costs, new cancer technologies and innovations are emerging to support the early detection, treatment, and surveillance of cancer. Read this guide to understand how to evaluate these solutions for your employees and members – and to learn more about the current state of coverage, clinical and cost effectiveness, and impact on quality and outcomes.