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Student Loan Repayment Options: The Key to Attracting and Retaining Employees

International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

Student loan debt rises in the U.S. each year, and the total reached $1.73 trillion most recently. With young adults joining the workforce having borrowed an average of $30,000 to. Read more > The post Student Loan Repayment Options: The Key to Attracting and Retaining Employees appeared first on Word on Benefits.

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Guide to mid-year plan changes

PeopleKeep

Health insurance can be confusing and challenging for both employers and employees. If you feel stuck in your current health plan, you may be asking yourself, “Can I change my health insurance plan mid-year?”. The good news is that you’re not locked into your health insurance plan forever. However, there are rules for mid-year changes that are vastly different based on if you’re an employer or an employee.

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The Great Resignation: How Employers and Employees Should Prepare

HR Lineup

Recruitment is challenging, and organizations are determined to retain their best talents. However, with the great resignation currently causing tension in the business sector, employers are losing their best workers. So, what could be the cause of this great attrition? While some may blame the situation on poor compensation and employee benefits plans, there is more than meets the eye.

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Facebook at Its Best: Education and Collaboration

Money Talk

Facebook (FB) has had its fair share of criticism in recent years. Concerns include privacy breeches, failure to monitor and take down divisive or questionable content, and encouraging FOMO (fear of missing out), unhappiness, and even depression when FB users are exposed only to the curated best side of others and become anxious about “likes” for their content.

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Future-Proof Your Talent Pipeline

Get ready for the future of business. As HR navigates an ongoing labor shortage, leaders need stronger, more adaptable recruiting strategies. Do you have the tools you need to build a talent pipeline that drives sustainable business growth?

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How to Set Goals and Achieve Them: 10 Strategies for Success

BetterUp

Jump to section. Goals: what are they, and what aren’t they? Why should you set goals for yourself and your team? How to set realistic goals at work and in life. 10 tips to achieve your goals. Ready to set life goals and achieve them? Section 6.

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Best Practices to Hire and Recruit Veterans

HR Lineup

The military community is worth considering when looking for new hires since it is dominated by veterans who have the right skills, discipline, and qualifications needed by most organizations. These individuals can perform various roles in a company better than non-military personnel. Plus, they have all it takes to blend with a company’s culture. However, exploring this talent zone is a challenge to many employers for the worry of how to handle veteran needs.

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5 Benefits for Employers to Retain and Attract Top Talent

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5 benefits for employers to retain and attract top talent. High turnover creates an expensive problem for employers and stressful environment for employees. Retain and attract top talent with these 5 standout benefits. The cost of replacing an employee can range anywhere from six to nine months’ salary, according to data from SHRM. If your team is worried about the cost of losing talent, it could be time to reevaluate your benefits strategy.

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26 Best Diversity and Inclusion Questions For Employee Surveys

Vantage Circle

We know how high diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices are on your priority list if you lead a modern organization. But, before you start doing anything, you must know where your company currently stands in terms of DE&I. This is where you'll need to be ready with some effective diversity and inclusion questions, which we'll go over in this article.

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IRS Sets Health Savings Account Maximums for 2023

InterWest Insurance Services

The IRS has announced significantly higher health savings account contribution limits for 2023, with the amount increasing more than 5% for individual HSA plans. The new limits were announced in conjunction with other changes, such as increases in the minimum deductibles and maximum out-of-pocket expenses for high-deductible health plans (HDHPs). The IRS also announced rises in the maximum contribution amounts to excepted-benefit health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs).

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Understanding Group Medicare for an Aging Workforce: Key Considerations for HR Leaders

Speaker: Shawnequa Albert

As our workforce evolves, so must the way we support it. With more employees choosing to work beyond age 65, HR leaders are increasingly being called upon to guide aging employees through one of the most complex transitions in their professional lives - from employer sponsored plans to Group Medicare. Without clear guidance, confusion around eligibility, coverage options, and cost implications can lead to uncertainty and missed opportunities for optimized benefits.

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IRS Set to Increase HSA Limits for 2023 | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

The IRS has announced updated HSA contribution limits for the 2023 year, which represent a significant increase compared to recent annual increases. This jump creates opportunities for employers to reconsider their contribution amounts and remind employees to contribute as they plan for the enrollment process. Read on to learn more about these updates and how you can use them to best prepare for your next open enrollment period.

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Five Free Ways to Improve Mental Health In Your Workplace

Flimp Communications

No workplace is immune from mental health challenges. Fortunately, there are several simple and cost-effective changes you can make at your workplace to support your employees’ mental health. The post Five Free Ways to Improve Mental Health In Your Workplace appeared first on Flimp.

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Productivity Playlist for the Workplace

Vantage Circle

Today's workplaces are full of distractions. From pinging computers to casual conversations, disruptions are an everyday part of our offices, making concentration difficult. This leads to a decrease in productivity. But did you know that music can be amazing for dealing with these everyday distractions? Music has the power not just to affect our emotions but also to work.

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Cal/OSHA Urges Employers to Protect Outdoor Workers Against Heat Illness

InterWest Insurance Services

As we get closer to another scorching California summer, Cal/OSHA is reminding employers with outdoor workers to take precautions to protect them against the heat. California employers need to be especially mindful as Cal/OSHA has workplace safety regulations governing the prevention of heat illness and the agency actively enforces its heat illness prevention standard.

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Ready to Save Time With AI? Try 14 ChatGPT Prompts for HR

ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can help you quickly brainstorm, draft, and refine tasks on your to-do list. But it can take a bit of strategy and practice to get generative AI to give you the time-saving results you’re looking for. Try these 14 detailed prompts to unlock the power of ChatGPT. You'll discover ways to streamline tasks for hiring, employee engagement, and performance management.

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Facilities managers: you never noticed us because we did such a great job

Workplace Insight

Getting all hot under the collar about brushed chrome door furniture is an understandable but classic displacement activity when much of your work is messy, unglamorous and even occasionally dangerous. You work alongside designers and architects and look longingly at their apparent casual trendiness and clean lines, marvelling at the quality of the beech from sustainably managed European forestries (kiln dried to 10-12 per cent moisture content) with which they have specified the side tables in

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Why CEOs need to be compassionate leaders (and how)

Pacific Prime

The way in which we work has changed drastically in recent years, and mental health is no longer the taboo subject it once was. Employees expect their employers to care about their psychological health – and to show it through employee benefits offerings and more. Employers realize that they need to up their mental health. The post Why CEOs need to be compassionate leaders (and how) appeared first on Pacific Prime's Blog.

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10 Must-Have Skills for Every HR Generalist

Qandle

When opposed to the clerical HR activities of the past, modern HR is a radically different realm. Despite the fact that administrative chores still account for a large portion of their daily tasks, HRs must also address the modern workforce’s needs. The workplace has evolved dramatically in the previous decade, as have employee expectations. Along with their conventional responsibilities, HR professionals are now accountable for boosting employee engagement.

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Unique Employee Benefits Ideas | PeopleKeep

PeopleKeep

Providing your employees with a comprehensive employee benefits package is essential for attracting and retaining workers. With a tight labor market, organizations have to go the extra mile to hire the top talent they seek. Employee benefits and perks are the best ways to support your current employees while making your organization stand out to job candidates.

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The Great Disruption: Leveraging AI To Better Your Benefits Strategy

Speaker: Joana Ardelean, MSHRM, PHR, SHRM-CP, CC

The benefits landscape is shifting rapidly, and AI is at the center of this transformation. From optimizing health and wellness programs to predicting future benefits needs, AI is empowering HR and total rewards leaders to make smarter, more proactive decisions. The challenge? Understanding where AI fits in your strategy and how to leverage it effectively while keeping employee well-being at the forefront.

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The truth about motivation, engagement and the employment of motivated idiots

Workplace Insight

The current obsession with engagement and motivation is evident every time you read the business media these days. This is understandable in many ways, not least because it seems true that firms and employees are often working in an atmosphere of mistrust. But one thing that is often noticeable when a profession such as HR gets itself into a debate of this nature is the gap that can exist between practitioners and everybody else offering a view.

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From Hybrid To Homeroom: Why Hybrid Companies Are Taking Attendance

Wellable

After learning the benefits and drawbacks of remote work, many companies are opting for a partial return to the old way of doing things. Specifically, they are implementing a hybrid arrangement where workers come into the office on some days but not others to create a best-of-both-worlds scenario.

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5 Steps for Running Payroll: A Small Business Guide | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

For small businesses, payroll can seem daunting…but it is doable. Of course, you know that—due to tax obligations and employment law compliance —employers cannot simply hand out cash or write checks on payday. Running payroll is an ongoing process you must manage carefully from the moment your first employee is hired. Here’s what you need to know about running payroll, including how to set it up from the beginning and what your options are.

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Selling health insurance to SMBs: Tips for brokers

PeopleKeep

When you think about what keeps the U.S. economy moving forward, you might first think of the big corporations and their multibillion-dollar efforts in business. However, in reality, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are the true driving force behind the U.S. economy. Oberlo reports over 32.5 million SMBs exist in the U.S., which account for 99.9% of all U.S. businesses.

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10 HR Metrics for 2025: HR Data Toolkit

The right HR metrics can illuminate hidden trends, justify decisions to the C-suite, and give you an edge in this unpredictable economy. Download Paycor’s guide and learn how to calculate your: Cost-per-Hire Total Financial Impact of Absences Voluntary Turnover Rate And more!

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Nature based solutions have the potential to transform cities and buildings

Workplace Insight

The UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) has launched a new framework to help organisations and planners to recognise the significant value and benefit of nature-based solutions across urban developments. The report claims to reveal the scale of positive outcomes which Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) can deliver, as well as the wide range of stakeholders who can benefit from their implementation across cities and urban areas.

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Employers Implementing Return-To-Work Perks

Wellable

As return-to-office transitions prove to be a tough sell, many companies are opting for the carrot over the stick by offering special return-to-work perks.

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ERIC Petitions US Supreme Court on Seattle Healthcare Case

McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

McDermott Will & Emery’s Michael B. Kimberly, Sarah P. Hogarth and Andrew C. Liazos, are co-counsel on a petition for certiorari before the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of the ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC). The petition calls for review of ERIC’s legal challenge to the City of Seattle’s hotel healthcare “play or pay” […].

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How to Create a Continuous Performance Management Plan | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

While more and more small to midsize businesses are trying to move away from the annual performance review, most are still struggling to find a better way. So, what’s wrong with the annual review, and what should replace it? Here’s what you need to know about continuous performance management , including how to implement weekly 1:1 meetings.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.