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How To Motivate Yourself: 15 Ways To Hit Any Goal

BetterUp

It’s normal to wonder how to motivate yourself. See 15 evidence-based techniques for finding the motivation to achieve personal or professional goals.

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What's a good 401(k) employer match?

Employee Benefit News

Most companies that offer to match employees' 401(k) contributions offer a match of between 3.00% and 4.99% of their employee's pay.

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Contextual People Analytics : Empowering HR Decisions with Deeper Insights

Darwinbox

Discover how contextual people analytics revolutionizes HR decision-making by integrating internal and external factors for deeper insights, enhancing talent management, performance evaluations, and employee experiences.

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The Essential Guide to Streamlined Employee Compensation Management

Qandle

Managing employee compensation is one of the most critical aspects of Human Resource Management (HRM). It’s not just about paying salaries; it involves understanding the complexities of compensation structures, ensuring compliance with legal standards, and providing fair and motivating rewards to employees. However, compensation management can be an overwhelming process if not handled properly.

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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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What is Hire-to-Retire (HTR)?

HR Lineup

Hire-to-Retire (HTR) refers to the comprehensive employee lifecycle management process that spans from the moment an individual is recruited until they retire or exit the organization. This end-to-end process encompasses various stages of employment, including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, learning and development, compensation and benefits administration, career progression, and eventual retirement or departure from the organization.

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Employers are Firing Gen Z Graduates and Don’t Plan on Hiring More

HR Digest

Companies are hiring and firing Gen Z graduates faster than ever, creating a very miserable work experience for everyone involved. The rapid firing of Gen Z in multiple companies is not surprising as employers have spent the last few years complaining about how this particular group of employees is hard to work with, but the scale at which this is occurring does not set a good precedent for the future of work.

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Four Indiana Counties Have Income Tax Rate Changes Effective October 1

PayrollOrg

Indiana Department of Revenue revised Departmental Notice No. 1 effective October 1, 2024. Four counties have income tax rate changes.

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Sally Benton: Employers can offer a lot of support to employees with addictions

Employee Benefits

Addiction is a serious mental illness that has a devastating impact on people’s lives. Everybody knows somebody impacted by addiction, at home, in families, or work. This is why it is important that employers start to consider employees who may be impacted. Statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in December 2023 estimated that approximately 3.1 million people reported using a drug in the last 12 months, 2.5 million people reported using cannabis and around 1.1 million people re

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The Shift to Cashless Tips and What It Means for Workers

3Sixty Insights

Recently, I came across a feature that caught my attention—Dayforce’s new cashless tip functionality, which is integrated into their Dayforce Wallet. In a world that’s rapidly moving toward cashless transactions, the tradition of cash tips is starting to fade. This change is significant, especially for tipped workers who have historically relied on cash for immediate, untaxed earnings.

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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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Four steps to easing back-to-school financial anxiety

Employee Benefit News

Mounting pressure to manage the competing demands of school-related expenses and ensuring a family's long-term financial stability can lead to stress and anxiety.

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Massachusetts Pay Data Reporting Requirements in 2025

PayrollOrg

Effective February 1, 2025, certain employers in Massachusetts will be required to submit pay data reports to the Secretary of State.

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64% of employers have seen rise in absenteeism due to mental health issues

Employee Benefits

Two-thirds (64%) of organisations have seen a rise in absenteeism due to mental health issues , with younger employees most affected, according to research by consultancy Barnett Waddingham. Its study of 301 HR directors and C-Suite business leaders in UK organisations also found two-fifths (41%) of these have responded by increasing their spend on mental health support, while 28% boosted training around mental health challenges.

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How Insurance Brokers Are Evolving to Meet the Changing Needs of Businesses in a Rapidly Shifting Landscape

3Sixty Insights

The recent Advisory Services Research published by isolved paints a fascinating and revealing picture of industries in a state of rapid change. Whether those advisory services are being offered by banks, financial advisors or accounting businesses, the pressure to deliver more value, more fully, is clearly visible in the responses. However, it is perhaps the insurance broker industry that is facing the greatest pressure to adapt most rapidly.

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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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The Employee Healthcare Crisis: This is How To Help

Best Money Moves

Employees Face a Healthcare Crisis. Here’s How You Can Help. Employees are experiencing a healthcare crisis due to financial concerns. These are the best strategies employers can use to help. American families are in the midst of a healthcare crisis and employer-sponsored health insurance can’t keep up. Even with support from employee health insurance programs, millions of American families cannot afford the full care they need.

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7 Keys to improve your hiring process.

Professionals Alternative

Companies can use their business brand to communicate to customers through their managers, especially when the brand presence is worldwide. The principal motive to have an employer brand is to differentiate you… “The main goal of working, nurturing and growing your business brand is to define what makes you unique” A strong business brand shows employees are happy and connected, which results in a great holistic experience and a great reputation.

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Vicky Lomas: How employers can support employees with addictions

Employee Benefits

It might not always be obvious when an employee is struggling with challenges with drugs or alcohol. Employers may feel uncomfortable, or unsure of what to say or do, but it is important to know that they can help them. Before having a conversation with them, employers should prepare and speak to their HR team. They should look at what support their organisation might provide, such as an employee assistance programme or occupational health support.

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GenAI will change the nature of work and encourage people to spend more time working together

Workplace Insight

UK chief executives see implementing Generative AI (GenAI) as an opportunity to change the nature of work and create highly skilled workforces without reducing the number of jobs in the market, according to KPMG’s 10th annual CEO Outlook survey. KPMG surveyed more than 1,300 CEOs around the world – 150 in the UK – in July and August, revealing that two thirds of UK CEOs (65 percent and 76 percent globally) see GenAI as a positive disruptor with 68 percent (65 percent globally) agreei

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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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Cultural understanding unlocks engagement of Hispanic workforces

Employee Benefit News

Creating a work environment that makes this growing segment of the U.S. labor force feel valued and included will help lower turnover and burnish workplace culture.

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Southwest Airlines Announces Job and Service Cuts in Atlanta

HR Digest

Southwest Airlines has turned to flight cuts, and by extension, job cuts in Atlanta. Around 300 pilots and flight attendants are expected to be impacted by the Southwest Airlines reductions plans next year. The changes were announced in a company memo that was circulated to employees, coming a day before Southwest’s investor day where further discussions on their future strategy are expected to take place.

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Exclusive: RSPCA to discuss inclusivity at Employee Benefits Live 2024

Employee Benefits

Patrick Ismond, head of diversity and inclusion at the RSPCA, will present a session on inclusivity on the second day of Employee Benefits Live 2024. The session, titled Advancing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at the RSPCA: A journey towards inclusivity will take place on Wednesday 9 October at 1pm. It will explore how the RSPCA embedded diversity, equity, and inclusion into its culture and operations, and how understanding human behaviours and their impact on adopting an open and inclus

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What Is an Existential Crisis, and How Do You Overcome It?

BetterUp

At one point or another in our lives, chances are we all have said something along the lines of “I’m having an existential crisis.” It’s a concept we are quite familiar with, yet it is not often that we stop and think “What is an existential crisis? How do I know if I’m having one? How can I overcome it?

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Transform Employee Wellbeing and Control Costs Through Data-Driven Strategies

In today's dynamic business environment, HR leaders face immense pressure to optimize costs while maintaining a competitive edge to attract, retain and engage their workforce. Gallagher can help you meet that challenge head-on. Our proprietary data and people analytics platform, Gallagher Drive ® , provides the elevated insights you need to make impactful program decisions that are aligned with your organizational goals and set your strategy up for long-term success.

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Did you hear the one about offices and creativity?

Workplace Insight

There is a famous episode of Seinfeld in which the character George is insulted in a business meeting and only thinks of a perfect retort while driving away from the office. This being George, he decides that he doesn’t want to waste his ‘killer line’ so engineers a second meeting so he can use it with the person who had insulted him, only for it to blow up in his face yet again.

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What is a qualified medical expense, according to the IRS?

Employee Benefit News

FSA, HRA and HSA plan administrators must beware of companies that are misrepresenting which food and wellness expenses can be reimbursed.

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Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders: Employers Improve Response, but Employees Continue to Struggle

International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

New Survey Data Reveals Prevalent Conditions and Increased Telehealth Use As more employees grapple with mental well-being, organizations are challenged with implementing new solutions to support mental health in the workplace. Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Benefits: 2024 Survey, a new […] The post Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders: Employers Improve Response, but Employees Continue to Struggle appeared first on Word on Benefits.

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Levels of Employee Engagement and Ways to Improve it

Vantage Circle

Has it ever occurred to you how engaged your employees truly are? Are they all engaged on the same level, or do their levels vary? Given the utmost significance of employee engagement today, it is high time to ponder where your employees stand in engagement levels. Understanding the different levels of employee engagement is vital for organizations aiming to cultivate a positive work culture and boost productivity.

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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.