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How to Implement Financial Wellbeing Initiatives That Drive Engagement

Sodexo Engage

Summary: What is financial wellbeing and why is it important for employees? How does financial wellbeing affect engagement at work? How do you decide which financial initiatives to implement? Contact the experts to discuss a financial wellbeing programme. How to Implement Financial Wellbeing Initiatives That Drive Engagement. Money worries are one of the biggest drivers of stress in UK adults, and in the current economic climate this is more true than ever before.

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To win the war for talent, employers need to fix what's driving employees away

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Inflation-Fighting Ideas: Round Two

Money Talk

Almost a year ago, in August 2021, I wrote a blog post for the OneOp Personal Finance team about inflation-fighting ideas for military families. At that time, many experts predicted that inflation would be “transitory” and subside quickly as supply chain “issues” related to the pandemic got resolved. The post included inflation-fighting ideas such as lower-cost product substitutions, time-shifting, and changing habits such as consolidating errands and turning down the thermostat.

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Build Trust With a Consistent Employee Experience

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. (Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Neocase , a provider of cloud solutions for HR transformation. For 20 years, Neocase has been offering solutions to improve the employee experience. They recently announced a new Employee Journey solution that provides a customizable complete onboarding to offboarding experience.

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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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Servant Leadership: Definition Plus Benefits and Drawbacks

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is servant leadership? 10 principles of servant leadership. 7 characteristics of servant leadership. Servant leadership vs. traditional leadership. What does servant leadership look like in practice? Pros and cons of servant leadership. How to become a "servant first" leader.

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Most Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. Here’s how employers can help

Best Money Moves

Most Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. Here’s how employers can help. With inflation the highest it’s been since the 1980s, more and more families are living paycheck-to-paycheck. What can employers do to help their teams? Inflation has caused food, gas and housing prices to skyrocket. Between May 2021 and May 2022, inflation hit 8.6% — the highest increase since December 1981, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics — and economists are unsure when prices may fall.

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Let’s unpack it: What’s an inclusive workplace?

Insperity

Diversity and inclusion are important topics for business leaders to be not only familiar with but actively incorporating into their organizational culture. In action, this can look like prioritizing the hiring and promotion of diverse groups of people within your company, which can make you a stronger organization. So, where does inclusion come into the equation?

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How External Feedback Can Enhance Your Performance Management Process

BetterUp

Jump to section. Why requesting feedback from external parties you work with is so important. How to streamline the process of external feedback. Start gathering external feedback.

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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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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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M&A in your future? You need an Employee Benefits Audit.

CorpStrat

The recent trend of mergers and acquisition of closely held businesses is on the minds of so many business owners these days. Virtually unlimited sources of Venture Capital coupled with inflation, rising overhead expenses, and the great resignation has made pursuing exit strategies increasingly attractive. A thorough employee benefit review is critical for every company, but particularly those that are considering entering and preparing for any M&A activity.

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Should You Be Using a Virtual Benefits Fair This Year?

Flimp Communications

To help you choose the most effective option for your company and your employees, we’ll compare the pros and cons of hosting a virtual benefits fair with a traditional in-person fair. The post Should You Be Using a Virtual Benefits Fair This Year? appeared first on Flimp.

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Social Capital: How Building Relationships Boosts Retention

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is social capital? Where did the concept of social capital come from? Why is building social capital at work important? Key benefits of social capital for organizations. 3 types of social capital. How to invest in social capital.

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Supreme Court: An Employee’s Individual PAGA Claim Must Be Adjudicated in Arbitration

McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

On June 15, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States finally issued its long-awaited decision in Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana. The Court partially overturned Iskanian v. CLS Transportation Los Angeles, LLC (Iskanian), determining that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) preempts the aspect of Iskanian’s holding that precludes the division of Private Attorneys […].

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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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Importance of Autonomy At Work

HR Digest

Autonomy at work is the clear opposite of micromanagement —the absolute difference. It is the culture of allowing workers to do as they please at their set time when handling tasks. Job a utonomy in the workplace doesn’t mean that employees won’t take their jobs seriously, rather, they are just given the free will to carry out the task on their own time. .

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ManhattanLife now Offering BernieBill

BerniePortal

BerniePortal , the all-in-one HRIS for small and mid-sized businesses, announced today that leading supplemental health insurance provider ManhattanLife is now offering BernieBill , creating a streamlined benefits experience for users.

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Survey: 81% Of Employees Have Physical Ailments From Online Meetings

Wellable

The shift to remote work created a boom in technologies that support geographically disparate teams. Most notably, virtual meeting software (Zoom, Teams, etc.) became staples in the everyday work experience, gluing employees to their seats and screens. Like most new technologies, there are both positive and negative outcomes associated with online meetings.

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Sixth Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Some Investment Fee and Performance Claims But Allows Mutual Fund Share Class Claim to Proceed to Discovery

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

The Sixth Circuit recently issued a mixed opinion in a 401(k) plan investment litigation. The Court upheld the dismissal of the plaintiffs’ fiduciary-breach claims relating to the investment management fees and performance of several of the plan’s investment options, but reinstated a claim for breach of fiduciary duty based solely on the plan fiduciaries’ alleged failure to offer less expensive “institutional” share classes of mutual funds.

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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 Hidden Cost of Meetings

HR Digest

Having countless meetings could seem like no harm, but the truth is there is. There’s a hidden cost of meetings that no one seems to know. . Instead of employees focusing fully on work and managers guiding the process of work, they are all constantly going in and out of meetings. What is the meeting for? Well, there are a lot of reasons for a company to have meetings.

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A New Demand for Workplace Wellness Programs As Employees Struggle

International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

Workers faced new or heightened challenges to their physical, mental and financial well-being over the COVID-19 pandemic, and many of those challenges are still lingering. Workplace wellness benefits were forced. Read more > The post A New Demand for Workplace Wellness Programs As Employees Struggle appeared first on Word on Benefits.

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How Telehealth Adoption May Drive Increase in Value-Based Care

McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in significant changes to the healthcare industry, specifically the transition from a fee-for-service model to a value-based care model, and digital health has proved to be a driver of value-based care models. In this Westlaw Today article, McDermott Partners Marshall E. Jackson, Jr. and Jeremy Earl suggest that increased use […].

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Pandemic-Related Remote Work In The U.S. Levels Off

Wellable

The percentage of U.S. employees working remotely because of COVID-19 has dropped by more than 50% from the beginning of the year, leveling off at around 7%. Based on a survey from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the data refers “to employed persons who teleworked or worked at home for pay at some point in the 4 weeks preceding the survey specifically because of the pandemic.

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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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8 HR KPIs to measure in a post-pandemic workplace

Insperity

Many Human resources (HR) key performance indicators (KPIs) have proven useful to track and measure consistently year over year. However, the last few years – dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic and social and cultural unrest – have changed the workplace in fundamental ways. This has pushed specific HR KPIs to the forefront in importance and significance.

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All about Hawthorne Effect in Management

HR Digest

Have you heard about the Hawthorne effect before? It seems like it’s actually a real thing. The Hawthorne effect is a term used to describe the improvement in employees’ productivity that lasts temporarily. If you’ve been in that situation where your employees throughout a certain week seem so productive and the next week, they are back to their usual selves, you might have experienced the Hawthorne effect in management.

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Public Confidence

Florida Workers' Comp

In December 2021, NBC News posted an investigative report article " Robed in secrecy: How judges accused of misconduct can dodge public scrutiny." It is an interesting read, and perhaps brings perspective to the challenges of society in comprehending the role of judges. It certainly brings perspective judges need in appreciating the potential for society to have perceptions of this profession, role, and its challenges.

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Importance of Educating Gen Z Workers on Benefits

InterWest Insurance Services

It always takes more time than usual to onboard new employees — particularly ones who are new to the workforce altogether — to your employee benefits plans. Keep in mind that the ritual of choosing a benefits package is a brand-new experience for people who are new to the workforce, and you should prepare to educate new employees on how to effectively choose and use their new coverages, as well as all the details like premiums, deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses.

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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.