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Washington Long-Term Care Insurance Payroll Tax Delayed Until July 2023

PayrollOrg

Recent legislation delays the collection of the employee-paid payroll tax to fund the Washington long-term care insurance plan until July 1, 2023. Employers must refund the payroll tax already collected to employees.

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Simplifying Your Financial Life

Money Talk

After work, commuting, eating, sleeping, and/or exercise, many people have less than five hours on a typical weekday to manage everything in their life, including personal finances. Weekends are even more hectic with household chores and family activities. How do you take charge of your finances when time is at a premium? With “low-maintenance” strategies to simplify financial tasks and investment decision-making.

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Strategic Compliance: Making the Case for Change

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. (Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at ADP , a comprehensive global provider of cloud-based human capital management solutions. Industry analyst firm Nelson Hall recently identified ADP as a leader in both the small and medium business as well as mid to large market segments. Congrats to them!

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Gethin Nadin: How the future of work will affect employee wellbeing and engagement

Employee Benefits

The way employers care for and support their people has come under increasing focus over the last two years. But the long-term effects of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic will mean changing employee expectations and growing wellbeing issues are driving employers to have to commit more to employee wellbeing. We have seen a generational shift in attitudes to wellbeing because of the pandemic.

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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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7 Lesser-known ways HR technology can influence your business

Insperity

Leveraging the latest technology in human resource management can be game changing for your organization, offering immediate benefits like convenient access to HR documents, integrated employee information and powerful workforce analytics. But there are several lesser-known benefits many employers just don’t think about when first considering upgrading their HR technology.

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Learning & Development’s Role in Operational Efficiencies in 2022

HR Digest

The last two years have been traumatic and overwhelming for the whole world. The Pandemic changed the way the world functioned in many ways. 2021 was expected to ease things a bit, but the resurgence of variants of the virus put paid to any plans of return to normalcy. And as the Omicron variant spreads across the globe, all plans for a complete return to the office is anyone’s guess.

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Living wage would help mental health of 63% of low paid staff

Employee Benefits

More than six in 10 low-paid workers believe receiving the real living wage would improve their mental health , research has revealed. The poll of 1,702 adults in full-time employment but earning less than the real living wage , carried out by the Living Wage Foundation and market research agency Survation, also found that the same proportion (63%) believed their family lives would improve.

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4 Reasons to Care About Employee Financial Wellbeing

Best Money Moves

4 reasons to care about employee financial wellbeing. Thanks to the pandemic, employee financial wellbeing is a huge point of focus for many workforces. Here’s why that should matter to your team. According to a 2021 Bank of America study, 95% of employers feel a sense of responsibility for their employees’ financial wellness. Indeed, employee financial wellness is the new normal for organizations — and for good reason.

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Mental Health in the Black Community: Access, safety, and well-being

BetterUp

Jump to section. Mental health in the Black community. 4 factors that affect mental health in Black communities. Barriers to mental health care in the Black community. What is the mental health stigma in Black communities? Groups challenging the mental health stigma in Black communities. Changing the stigma about mental health.

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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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Study: Validating NWI’s Wellness Promotion Competency Model

Wellable

As the wellness industry continues to grow, its evolution must be guided by a common set of standards that allow incoming and seasoned professionals to assess their skills, determine whether they have the abilities needed to fulfill their current roles, and prepare for future career opportunities.

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38% of working parents plan to job search in 2022

Employee Benefits

Almost four in 10 working parents plan to look for a new job in the next 12 months, according to research. The 2022 Modern families index spotlight report found that 38% of workers with children under the age of 18 have jobhunting on the agenda this year. Back-up care and nursery provider Bright Horizons’ annual survey was completed by more than 1,000 working parents from across the UK.

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The importance of emotional intelligence in a leader

HR Digest

In the modern corporate world, we need emotional intelligence in leaders more than ever before. During the Corona crisis, we are used to working from home and doing tasks in front of the computer screen rather than in front of people. A leader with high emotional intelligence is now needed to offer the right guidance and give the right motivation to the groups of workers. .

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What sports psychology can teach us about mental fitness

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is sports psychology? Sports psychology: a brief history. Why is sports psychology so important? Training requirements for sports psychologists. Key topics in sports psychology. How rest benefits physical and mental performance. Sport psychology blends peak performance and mental fitness.

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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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We’ve Converted to a Single Enterprise Technology Platform

PeopleStrategy

PRESS RELEASE: PeopleStrategy’s Integrated HR and Benefits Platform Becomes a One-Stop-Shop for Employee Management EDISON, N.J., February 8, 2021 – PeopleStrategy, a one-stop brokerage and provider of a cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions, is pleased to announce they have migrated their entire customer base to make a single, strategic, proprietary platform.

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Lynda Gratton: We need to understand how hybrid work motivates employees

Employee Benefits

I’ve been observing and researching the impact of the pandemic on work since mid-March 2020. It is clear to me that hybrid work, with flexibility about both where and when work is performed, is here to stay. This is in part because these new ways of working have captured and amplified a general feeling that the way we worked before – long commutes, limited time at home, endless face-to-face meetings, crowded ‘factory’ style office layouts – had all created a sense of brooding dissatisfaction tha

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5 Ways to Use Your Benefits for Self-Care

Honeybee

Self-care has been in the spotlight recently for good reason. Our lifestyles have been adjusted, re-adjusted and in some cases, halted altogether. The coping strategies people have relied on in the past may not have. Read more. The post 5 Ways to Use Your Benefits for Self-Care appeared first on Honeybee Benefits.

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8 ways to overcome self-doubt once and for all

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is self-doubt? The cause of self-doubt. Types of self-doubt. 4 signs that you're doubting yourself. How to overcome fear and self-doubt in 8 steps.

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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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How To Develop Employee Handbook

HR Digest

Employee handbooks serve as an important player in a company’s success. They disclose the company standards and set expectations for employees to maintain and inform departing employees of all the professional benefits they are entitled to immediately after their departure. . This guide will teach you how to make an employee handbook and how your small business can benefit from one.

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LGBT History Month: How Far Has the Workplace Come?

Employee Benefits

It’s LGBT History Month this February. A time to celebrate LGBTQ+ history. So, we thought it was the perfect moment to shed some light on whether the UK workplace has progressed in its fight towards a more equal workplace for those within the LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, plus) community. According to the Office of National Statistics, 1.4 million Brits above 16 identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual.

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Employers Offer Flexibility To Help Caregivers Look After Loved Ones

Wellable

Whether through exercise competitions, mindfulness activities, or financial wellness tools, corporate wellness programs have focused heavily on benefits that help employees help themselves.

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How to stop comparing yourself to others: 10 things to do instead

BetterUp

Jump to section. Why do I compare myself to others? How does comparison affect my life? I want to stop comparing myself to others: what do I do? Inspiring quotations to defeat comparisons. The bottom line.

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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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California to Renew COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave for 2022

McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

On January 25, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that his office and state lawmakers had reached an agreement to reimplement a version of California’s COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave through September 30, 2022. It is expected that the state legislature will move quickly to finalize and vote on legislation to effectuate this statewide paid […].

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The job where it pays to be single on Valentine’s Day

Employee Benefits

Something for the weekend: If you’re in a long-term relationship and wondering how to make your 27 th Valentine’s Day together special given that it falls on a Monday this year and your inbox and to-do list are overflowing, spare a thought for certain government employees in a particular municipality in the Philippines. Matt Erwin Florido, mayor of the municipal government of General Luna in the Quezon province of the Philippines, has reportedly announced that his staff can have the day off on 1

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3 Ways HR Technology Gives Employers an Edge

BerniePortal

From recruitment efforts to benefits packages, employers are continually looking for any way to have an advantage on their competitors in the workplace. This extra "edge" could be crucial to attracting and retaining top talent while turnover is at a high during the Great Resignation. Starting from the beginning of the employee lifecycle, here are three ways HR technology can give your organization the extra "edge" that will set you apart.

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Which are the best careers for introverts?

HR Digest

If you’re an introvert like me, maybe you’ve found yourself wondering about the best career path for your personality type. You might have come across articles that help extroverted people but don’t know what career suits them best. And then you go: What is the best job for introverts? This article will explore the best careers for introverts and provide insight into how to start your own successful business or freelance gig. .

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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.