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Employee Engagement and Commitment Are Not the Same Thing

HR Bartender

As recruiting remains a challenge, I believe organizations will focus their resources toward making sure that they can keep the employees they have. Just like it’s easier to retain a customer (versus getting a new one), organizations will realize the same about employees. . So retention will be a priority for companies, which means employee engagement will be a priority as well.

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Why Leaders Need to Be Conversationalists Not Communicators

Achievers

It’s an open secret leaders are often poor communicators. “I’m not a people person” or “I’m not good with words” are often cited as reasons for avoiding conversations with staff and colleagues. Even though it’s well documented employee performance increases when leaders give staff feedback , many in authority choose not to put in the extra effort. Why is this?

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141 Inspirational and Motivational Quotes for Work

SnackNation

141 Inspirational and Motivational Quotes for Work. Good motivational quotes for your employees should be inspiring and empowering…and should not sound like something you lifted from a cheesy greeting card. Imagine: It’s Monday morning and your team is gathering together for the beginning of the week meeting. Your team is fresh off the weekend and may not be in the most energetic of moods.

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Unhappy at work? Here are 10 ways to brighten up your day

cipHR

When you’re feeling the pressure it can be difficult to stay positive. Here are a few simple ways to enjoy a better day at the office. Most of us spend a great deal of our time at work, often in an office environment. Remaining happy in your job and knowing how to cope with all of the stresses and strains of working lives is essential to remaining physically and mentally healthy.

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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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Work Life Balance: Every Age Group Wants It

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Capella University. Capella is an accredited online university dedicated to providing an exceptional, professionally-aligned education that puts you in a position to succeed in your field. They offer bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees as well as certificate programs for human resources and business professionals.

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What GDPR Means to Payroll

Ascender

What does the introduction of GDPR mean for Payroll? Last Friday, 25th May, the European Union (EU) brought the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into force. This is one of the biggest changes to data protection rules over the last two decades, changing the way businesses collect, process, store, transmit and use two types of data: Personal data and, its subset, Sensitive data.

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5 fail-safe tips for motivating employees in uncertain times

Insperity

Motivating employees can be difficult, especially in uncertain times or when change is on the horizon. Some organizational changes are self-initiated, like mergers, acquisitions or layoffs. Others are uncontrollable, like natural disasters, lawsuits or legislative changes. However, any or all of these circumstances can easily impact your employees’ level of engagement and motivation – and, when mishandled, not for the better.

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Replacement Planning: 3 Steps to Develop Your Organization’s Strategy

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from my new book, “ The Recruiter’s Handbook: A Complete Guide for Sourcing, Selecting, and Engaging the Best Talent “ (SHRM, 2018) SHRM members can order a discounted copy at the SHRMStore. Enjoy!). If there’s one activity that has more of an impact than succession planning, it’s replacement planning.

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4 Ways To Push Your Employees Up The Career Ladder

Take It Personel-ly

Your employees are central to your business, and without them, your business wouldn’t be where it is today. There’s a lot to be said about company loyalty these days, and with people far less likely to enjoy a ‘job for life’ at one company like they used to, it can be difficult to retain talented […].

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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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Webinar | The Alphabet Soup of Carrier Integration: EDI vs. API

WEX Inc.

If you have ever compared benefits administration software vendors, you’ve likely heard the acronyms EDI and API presented as carrier integration offerings. At the core, both integrations transmit data from one platform to another, but what is the difference between the two? And, most importantly, why should you (and your clients) care?

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Workplace wellness programs: Worth the investment?

Insperity

What’s in it for companies that devote time and money to workplace wellness programs? Lower health insurance premiums? Happier, healthier employees? The benefits of helping employees achieve better health can seem nebulous, and much of the research following such programs doesn’t show a profoundly positive return on investment. Still, employee wellness programs remain popular with businesses and employees alike.

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3 Ways Your Dealership Can Get High School Students Excited About Fixed Ops Careers

Hireology

Between record low unemployment rates, Baby Boomers retiring at a rapid pace and fewer young job seekers interested in dealership careers, dealerships across the country are facing challenges with keeping fixed ops departments fully staffed. But with the added challenge of declining new vehicle profit margins, dealerships need ensure they’re fully staffed to turn their fixed ops department into a profit center.

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How Modern Marketers Can Confront Email Personalization Challenges

Take It Personel-ly

Personalized emails have become the gold standard for savvy email marketers. By using personalization, marketers can target the content of an email to the needs of the customer. Ultimately, this targeting ensures that the email message is perfectly tailored to the subscriber. Additionally, subscribers like when the marketing messages they receive are personalized to their […].

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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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Calendar Management For Executive Assistants to Save Time & Stress

SnackNation

Calendar Management For Executive Assistants to Save Time & Stress. How much of your day do you spend on calendar management? We hear you, and we know you’re way too busy actually managing calendars to research ways you might be able to save time on managing calendars. Plus, it seems like good old organization skills can only get you so far when you’re taking on the modern calendar, whether it’s for an executive, a conference room, or an entire team.

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Stop! Do You Really Need Another Employee Survey?

UpstartHR

At a recent event I had the chance to speak with several HR leaders about their challenges, issues, and problems. Inevitably when I would ask them how they planned to follow up or dig into the issues, they mentioned the same thing: an employee survey. But is that the right avenue for gathering information? Are there times when surveys might not be the best way to gather intelligence on what’s happening in the business?

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Retirement Research Will Blow Your Mind

Best Money Moves

In the Best Money Moves Roundup, we run down the latest news on retirement, student loan debt assistance, and retention. Will your employees be ready for retirement? The Federal Reserve’s recently published report shows some improvement in the economic well-being of U.S. households, but it also highlights some startling concerns. More than 60% of Americans are not on track with retirement savings.

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We Want More Flex Time – Work Perks

Take It Personel-ly

Think about all the things that makes your workplace attractive to you and other people. Maybe you just really like your co-workers, and find your team a creative, interesting, productive bunch. Or maybe there’s an incredible fitness facility as well as a commitment to healthy living as part of your company ethos. Or perhaps there’s […].

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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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Episode 37 | How to Refresh Your Brand for Massive Growth, with Amir Haque (Mistress) and Alysse Burroni (SnackNation)

SnackNation

Episode 37 | How to Refresh Your Brand for Massive Growth. with Amir Haque, Partner at Mistress. & Alysse Burroni, Director of Brand Marketing at SnackNation. A logo that you designed yourself on a cross country flight. Package design you slapped together in powerpoint minutes before the first production run. A brand name that you landed on because, well, the URL was available.

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[Infographic] Wasting Time At Work

Hppy

Unfortunately, we’re all guilty of wasting time at work in some way or another. The reality is wasting time at work is commonplace, with time being spent on Facebook alone costing the UK economy £25 billion, and with 35% of people spending more than an hour on the site alone every day. After all, time is money, and time wasting at work is costing businesses and the economy as a whole a lot of money, day in, day out.

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Help Clients Improve the Benefits Enrollment Experience for Millennial Employees

WEX Inc.

With four distinct generations operating in today's workplace, benefit advisers and consultants are wise to build strategies that can best advise employers on how to craft a benefits enrollment experience that feels personalized and intuitive to their multi-generational population. But with many human resource departments strapped for time and resources, which generation should they focus their efforts on first in order to receive maximum employee satisfaction and engagement throughout the open

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5 Important Things That Every E-Commerce Business Should Have

Take It Personel-ly

Running an e-commerce business takes a lot of hard work and dedication. There are many challenging steps and important decisions that need to be made along the way. Before starting an ecommerce business, you must first decide which e-commerce solutions are right for you. It’s important to be knowledgeable about your options before diving into […].

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

Speaker: Speakers:

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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Whiteboard Wednesday: New EEOC Wellness Rules

Wellable

With the U.S. District Court’s decision to vacate the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC's) wellness rule effective January 1, 2019, employers are rightfully scrambling to determine how to react and what the rule revisions mean for their wellness programs. In Wellable’s first-ever guest appearance on Whiteboard Wednesdays, Al Lewis provides his perspective on how employee wellness programs will never be the same.

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5 (Unexpected) Things You Need To Include In Your Employee Handbook

Hppy

When it comes to the onboarding process, whatever you can do to streamline it, the easier the adjustment period will be for your new hire. And while you might be tempted to skip creating an employee handbook (too much work!), having one could help you reduce turnover and make happier employees. But First: Why an Employee Handbook is So Important. Nobody reads them anyway, you groan, so why bother creating one?

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What employers need to know about serving notice of dismissal

cipHR

Nina Robinson from ESP Law explains the ins and outs of dismissal, from statutory and contractual notice periods to garden leave and working the notice period. The recent Supreme Court ruling in Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust v Haywood has brought the deceptively difficult principle of effective service of notice back into the spotlight. In this article, we explore the learning points from that case and explain what employers need to know about serving notice of dismissal on employees.

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5 Reasons Why Startups Win And Others Don’t

Take It Personel-ly

Many self-made billionaires in this era made their bones from small startup companies that they managed to grow into a billion-dollar industry. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Elon Musk (Tesla), Evan Spiegel (Snapchat) and many other CEOs owe their early success to their innovative startup companies that eventually made it big. Now it cannot be denied that […].

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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.