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7 Things to Communicate to Employees as we Return to Normal

Hireology

More than a year after the onset of the life-changing COVID-19 pandemic, life is slowly returning to normal. Thanks to widespread vaccination efforts, people are reverting to their pre-pandemic routines and businesses are beginning to open up to full capacity. Although a return to normalcy is great, big changes like these can cause stress and anxiety for your employees — particularly if they’re customer-facing.

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Things You Need to Think About When You Start to Expand Your Business

Take It Personel-ly

When you’ve reached a point in your business where you can begin to expand and scale up, you’ll face a series of new and exciting challenges. While it’s a lot of work, expanding your business can be massively rewarding in both personal and financial ways. Here are four things you need to think about as […].

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7 Countries with the Best Paternity Leave

Global People Strategist

Parental leave across the globe ranges from a total of three years to nothing at all. Paternity leave is an important topic to address as there are still several countries that do not offer fathers the same benefits as mothers. Many countries make the leave flexible by offering it as parental leave and open to utilization by either parent. Depending on your geographical location, company, and employment laws, paternity leave can vary.

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What to do with nice, but underperforming employees

Insperity

What do you do when a team member is a great people person but is ineffective at their job? It’s a common challenge for managers – one that is difficult to deal with. An underperforming employee hurts everyone: the person, the team, the company and your clients. If you allow it to go on, it can damage relationships among team members and with clients.

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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Product Update: Introducing Mass Transfer

Hireology

If you’re looking to hire for a new role quickly, you know that the best candidates are often those who have applied to roles at your company before. These folks are typically the most serious about working for you and if they’ve made it to the interview stage for a previous role, you already know that they’re qualified. To successfully re-engage these candidates, it’s important that you make it as easy as possible for them to apply for a different position within your organization without start

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Examples of Employee Engagement Survey Questions

HR Digest

Employee engagement is a necessity if your organization wants to achieve growth and progress. Fully engaged employees mean greater productivity, improved image and better work culture. Despite the obvious benefits of employee engagement, many companies struggle to get their employees fully on board, and with the new reality of remote work , the task has become doubly difficult.

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Student and institutional success begins with the employee experience

Ascender

by Sandy Forrest, General Manager for Ascender ANZ Public & Enterprise Services. The higher education sector is one of Australia’s top contributors to the economy. The past decade has seen the industry generating A$30 billion in revenue year on year from 2016 until 2019 , with international education comprising around 20% share in these profits.

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How Hireology’s Product Team Helped Lead the Charge in Building a Remote Workforce

Hireology

Hireology has always operated with a hybrid work model. Since our founding in 2009, about 40% of our workforce has been located outside of our Chicago headquarters. When the pandemic hit and new stay-at-home orders were put in place, ten years of experience operating a hybrid workforce model served to guide as we rapidly transitioned our entire office to work from home. .

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How to Have a Stress-Free Moving Experience

Take It Personel-ly

While moving to a new home or office is one of the most exciting times of your life, it is also highly stressful. That is why you need to plan it strategically. Here are several proven tips to help you get the most out of your moving experience. Build a To-Do List Moving requires a […].

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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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Nonprofit HR management: recruiting talent when money is tight

Insperity

Nonprofits have an interesting challenge when it comes to recruiting and hiring. If you’re in nonprofit HR management, you may be resource constrained – meaning you don’t have: Large budgets to hire outside recruiters In-house recruiters who can lead your search for new employees. Also, many times the compensation you can offer candidates is less than what someone in a similar role could earn at a for-profit institution.

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Five tools every insurance agent should have

PeopleKeep

With thousands of Americans looking to agents and brokers for help navigating the confusing world of health insurance, qualified insurance agents are in high demand in the U.S. In fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that employment of insurance agents is projected to grow 5% by 2029—that’s higher than the average for all occupations. Given this demand, it’s essential that agents today are prepared with the right tools to meet this growing need and aid the many Americans who need guidanc

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The Future of Employee Benefits | benefitexpress

WEX Inc.

The future of employee benefits: A four part series. The ongoing pandemic is undoubtedly the number one factor driving changes in what your employees want and need from benefits programs.

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Seven astounding benefits of promoting EQ in the workplace

Take It Personel-ly

The corporate culture is undergoing a paradigm shift. In fact, a lot about how businesses function has changed already. If you have been in the corporate scenarios for a while, you would have been a witness to most changes. Today, skills and practical expertise have become the cornerstone for enterprises. Given that, there is a […].

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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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Should Employers Require Proof of COVID Vaccination? | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Coronavirus compliance is complex. As more and more employers contemplate returning to the office, HR teams might struggle with a particularly complicated issue: mandating employees to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination. Learn more about how this works and why employers should avoid this if possible.

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The Pandemic’s Regressive Effect On Gender Equality In The Workplace

Wellable

Prior to the pandemic, gender equality in the workplace was improving, at least in certain respects.

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QSEHRA self-administration for first-timers

PeopleKeep

If you’re a small employer offering health benefits to your employees for the first time, the qualified small employer health reimbursement arrangement (QSEHRA) is an excellent first step.

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The 6-Step Skin Care Routine Every Girl Should Know

Take It Personel-ly

Your skin care routine is an essential part of self-care. A smooth complexion can take years off your face and make applying makeup easier and more fun. Unfortunately, many of us women don’t know the right skin care routine that can improve our skin and keep it smooth and clear. While everyone may have a […].

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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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Tips and Tricks to Successfully Offboard Employees | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Offboarding departing employees is a stressful endeavor. From. compliance forms and work handoffs to everything else that needs to be handled, the stakes are even higher than they might seem. Find out how small businesses and HR teams can offboard employees in a way that sets up organizations for success down the road.

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Close shave: Is it legal to set a no-beard facial hair policy for male staff?

Business Management Daily

Working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic provided many men the welcome opportunity to grow out facial hair. But as vaccination efforts and waning occupancy restrictions continue to allow more workers back into offices, will those razors come out of retirement? Undoubtedly, some men will choose to go back to shaving regularly. Others may not want to abandon their new look.

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Perks of offering a QSEHRA and an HSA together

PeopleKeep

Opportunities to offer more flexible and personalized health benefits have grown a lot in recent years. With new tax-free vehicles emerging, including account-based health plans (ABHPs), small employers now have multiple ways to increase employees’ benefits. Two of the most popular ABHPs are health savings accounts (HSAs) and health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), including qualified small employer HRAs (QSEHRAs) made specifically for small businesses with fewer than 50 full-time employees.

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The Philosophy Of “Being Well”

Wellable

Employers are becoming increasingly concerned with the well-being of their employees. As a result, they are trying to learn how to help their employees be well. To accomplish this task, many companies are looking at what a variety of wellness experts (e.g., doctors, nurses, psychologists, nutritionists, wellness companies, etc.) have had to say about wellness.

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Why (and How) to Switch to a New HR & Payroll Platform

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HR and payroll impact every aspect of your business. Choosing the right provider is one of the most important decisions you’ll make. Before you decide, hear first-hand customer accounts in Paycor’s webinar to learn: The three most important things to look for when switching. How to begin your search. What are some of the red flags?

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Recap: Highlights from Weekdays with Bernie 2021 | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Each year, HRIS platform and company BerniePortal convenes hundreds of HR industry leaders and innovative thinkers for best-in-class learning opportunities, networking, and strategic solution-oriented sessions—plus the chance to earn CE credits for attending. This year’s Weekdays with Bernie was BerniePortal’s first hybrid conference, which combined the best elements of our virtual event from last year with all of the in-person benefits from years past.

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Terminations — making a difficult conversation easier

Business Management Daily

From meetings to chats with coworkers, talking keeps the workplace going round and even makes it a bit more fun. However, a termination talk? That’s a different story! These challenging conversations are characterized by hesitation, reluctance, and a general uncertainty, but they’re important conversations that must happen. As a manager, you know that you’ve done your due diligence in determining the cause of termination , consulting with legal counsel, and giving the employee both written

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benefitexpress Ben Admin Services Recognized

WEX Inc.

benefitexpress ben admin services earns it Top Vendor Award for Benefits Administration Solution and Benefits Decision Support Tool. SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — benefitexpress™, a leading provider of cloud-based technology software and services for employee benefits administration, announced today that it has earned two badges on the Shortlister Q2 2021 Top Vendor Report for HR Technology.

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The “ins and outs” of how to manage change in the workplace

HR Digest

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a great wake-up call for companies and their ability to manage change in the workplace. Things needed to change and fast, there was no time to experiment and slowly turn the wheel. Organizational change management is about bringing changes in a company’s management style by first identifying problems (or potential ones) and then implementing suitable changes.

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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.