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Introducing Your New Trusted Source for Compensation and Benefits

PayrollOrg

The American Payroll Association (APA) is thrilled to announce the launch of a new online community for payroll professionals: Comp & Benefits Today.

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7 Types of Employee Surveys and the Best Way to Use Them

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes. (Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Criteria , a leading provider of pre-employment testing services. To learn more about how pre-employment testing can benefit your talent acquisition strategy, check out Criteria’s “ Definitive Guide to Pre-Employment Testing ”. I’ve found it to be a comprehensive guide that I keep handy all the time.

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13 common red flags in a relationship to look out for

BetterUp

Jump to section. What are red flags in a relationship? 13 red flags in a relationship to look out for. Yellow flags vs. red flags. How to approach red flags in a relationship.

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Metaverse’s Impact On Employee Social Well-Being

Wellable

Silicon Valley is hard at work creating the building blocks for the metaverse—an immersive digital world with the capacity to replicate every aspect of our physical existences, from interacting with coworkers to traveling the world to owning items and property.

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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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How Narcissism At Work Is Destroying Your Company Culture

Vantage Circle

Do you work in an environment where some coworkers seem to go out of their way to draw everyone's attention to themselves? If that's the case, you're most likely dealing with a textbook case of narcissism at work. You might not notice narcissism. However, if it goes unnoticed, it can severely influence your culture, people, and engagement levels in a negative manner.

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Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler!

Florida Workers' Comp

In March 2022, the American Bar Association Trial and Insurance Practice (TIPS) section is bringing back its mid-year meeting. This annual tradition has come to have special meaning for the workers' compensation attorney community because of the College of Workers' Compensation Lawyers (CWCL). TIPS was crucial to the formation of the CWCL. And, each year the CWCL has traditionally held its induction dinner at the mid-year.

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66% of workers unaware of total pension savings

Employee Benefits

Two-thirds of workers do not know how much money they have saved towards retirement, research has revealed. Of 500 people surveyed by online pension provider PensionBee, 66% said they were unaware of the total value of their pension pots. The research found that PensionBee’s working customers over the age of 40 have saved an average of £37,100 for retirement , accumulated by consolidating an average of two pension pots and making extra contributions.

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3 Reasons You Need Financial Wellness in the Workplace

Best Money Moves

3 reasons y ou need financial wellness in the workplace. Morgan Stanley’s new study, The State of the Workplace finds employees in need of financial wellness support and looking to their employers for help. COVID has caused huge changes for employers and employees alike. That’s why Morgan Stanley at Work conducted a first-of-its-kind financial benefits study, called The State of the Workplace.

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Latest Podcast Episodes Explore the Human Aspect of Payroll

PayrollOrg

The American Payroll Association’s (APA) most recent “PayTalk” podcast episodes, new one to be released February 4, provide insight from a C-suite executive in how and why “payroll is sexy.” Be sure to subscribe to “PayTalk” on your favorite podcast app so you don’t miss a single episode.

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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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How to Freshen Up Your Email Marketing Strategy

Take It Personel-ly

Email marketing is one of the most effective ways for businesses to engage with their target audiences regularly. It’s also a great avenue for tapping directly into various customer segments – especially those with high sales conversion potential. The start of a new year is the best time to think about freshening up your email […]. The post How to Freshen Up Your Email Marketing Strategy appeared first on Take It Personel-ly.

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Pimlico Plumbers loses holiday pay appeal

Employee Benefits

A heating engineer who claimed he was owed holiday pay by Pimlico Plumbers after the Supreme Court ruled that he was a worker and not self-employed, has successfully appealed against a ruling made by the Employment Appeal Tribunal last year that his claim was out of time. Legal experts are warning that the ruling could have “huge” implications for organisations that wrongly engage workers as contractors, as well as employers whose staff receive any kind of variable pay.

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It’s Time to Focus on Employee Mental Health

HR Digest

HR professionals understand mental health and employment go hand-in-hand. The problem is that many companies don’t take employee wellbeing seriously enough. They assume that employees should be able to handle their workload without worrying about their mental health. Workplace stress and burnout are common problems. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 60% of workers suffer from some form of mental illness.

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Child Support Report Features Information on Independent Contractors

PayrollOrg

Read APA’s article, “Collecting Child Support from Independent Contractors,” in the January 2022 edition of the Child Support Report, published by the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement.

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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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Reasons Why Your Property Needs Fencing

Take It Personel-ly

Putting up fences throughout your property is not cheap. It also requires maintenance from time to time to make sure that it lasts for an extended period. If you don’t have any idea about fencing, you might not also be aware of the advantages they offer. Nonetheless, there are things about fencing that make property […]. The post Reasons Why Your Property Needs Fencing appeared first on Take It Personel-ly.

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What support can employers offer for staff going through gender transition?

Employee Benefits

Employers can help by constructing a manageable timeline of changes they may want to implement, such as changing names or pronouns at work. Employers may want to look at how a transitioning employee would like their transition to be communicated to other staff. Ultimately by having effective and meaningful wellbeing support in place will create a healthier business, both culturally and commercially.

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Future of Work Is the Hybrid Workforce

HR Digest

We know that it’s easier said than done, but when you want your business to grow , you need to collaborate with a formidable hybrid workforce willing to do more than one thing. It can be difficult for companies that are either brand new or just getting off the ground because they don’t have the resources like others out there. . How do you collaborate with a hybrid workforce?

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Show Your Chapter Pride by Entering a Chapter Contest

PayrollOrg

Each year, APA chapters celebrate their successes and see how their efforts stack up against other APA chapters by entering in the APA’s annual chapter contests. Participating in an annual chapter contest gives each chapter the chance to tout its accomplishments, ideas, and activities from the prior year. Enter today!

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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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5 minute team building activities that really work

Business Management Daily

Team building activities are a great way to bring your work teams together to get to know one another better and improve collaboration. Employees tend to be happier, more productive, and more engaged when they have healthy and meaningful relationships with their colleagues. MIT’s Human Dynamics laboratory noted in their study on building great teams that successful teams communicate with one another directly rather than solely through management, carry on side conversations with team members, co

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347,000 more staff used an EAP in 2021

Employee Benefits

Soaring numbers of UK workers looked for support from an employee assistance programme (EAP) last year, research has revealed. The Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA) found that 347,000 more employees used an EAP in October 2021 than they did a year earlier. Its data is based on evidence from information provided by 3,200 HR professionals using the association’s UK Return on Investment (ROI) Calculator to analyse EAP usage, impact and financial returns.

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7 Ways to Create a Good First Impression at Your New Job

HR Digest

My first day at work was Halloween. My boss asked some of us to dress up for the occasion: “Feel free to dress up if you’d like.” I went to work dressed as a bagel/avocado. It was hard not to miss me in a sea full grey-blue shirts. Talk about making a great first impression at work! By the end of the day, I had earned the reputation of being all juiced up for holidays.

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10 Tips to Become a Successful Entrepreneur

BetterUp

Jump to section. What are the benefits of being an entrepreneur? What are the tips to succeed as an entrepreneur? How hard is entrepreneurship? Is it worth 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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Clarifying pay issues around COVID infections & vaccinations

Business Management Daily

Most of OSHA’s covid vaccinate-or-test-and-mask mandate is officially dead. Nevertheless, OSHA is still encouraging employers to institute their own shot mandates. And many have obliged. But issues regarding the circumstances under which you must pay employees and whether you must extend FMLA leave continue to linger. Let’s see if we can clear up some of the confusion.

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Co-op shop floor staff progress equal pay claims

Employee Benefits

Co-op has agreed that its shop floor workers can compare their roles to that of their colleagues in distribution centres for the purposes of assessing equal pay claims. More than 1,600 people represented by law firm Leigh Day have brought equal pay claims against the supermarket, arguing that their work is as demanding as distribution centre roles. Comparability is the first stage in a three-step legal process for equal pay claims, according to the law firm, with Co-op now required to show that

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HR Challenges and How to Face Them

HR Digest

How do you plan to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to HR issues? What are some of the biggest challenges facing HR professionals today? As the workforce continues to change, human resources departments face new challenges daily. From managing the changing demographics of the workforce to dealing with the rise of artificial intelligence, HR professionals are constantly faced with new challenges.

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Celebrating art, allyship, and authors for Black History Month

BetterUp

There’s something special about reading a book. Books don't care about your gender, economic background, or race, and there's no better way to try out walking in another person’s shoes for a while.

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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.