Ahmed's Universe

APRIL 13, 2019

PARIS I recently came back from one of my regular stays in my home away from home in Brazil. On the very day that I arrived in Rio de Janeiro there was only one headline news topic: Former president Michel Temer had been arrested on corruption charges. (During my last stay in December my Copacabana neighborhood only gossiped about another fallen leader, former Renault-Nissan head Carlos Ghosn, whose swanky Nissan-owned penthouses, just a couple of blocks away from mine, was being searched and co

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15Five

APRIL 17, 2019

Disruptive companies aren’t created by accident. In order to hold this badge of honor, a business must successfully change how people think and behave. This is quite a tall order, especially for those companies just getting off the ground. While there’s a recipe for each business that makes it unique, only the top companies deliver innovative ideas that destroy all old ways of doing something.

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Best Money Moves

APRIL 17, 2019

Retirement concerns: is financial literacy the solution? Those workers that do have a 401k aren’t saving enough to cover expenses in retirement, even when employers match contributions. Retirement is a far-off goal most Americans don’t even think about while they’re paying down debts, struggling to pay for childcare and taking care of aging parents.

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Take It Personel-ly

APRIL 17, 2019

At some point in life, you may feel like you’re surrounded by negativity, which snuffs out your dreams and kills your hope. Once that happens, you may go through your day overwhelmed by negativity and believing that it’s part of life. Even though you don’t always have control over what happens to you, you have […].

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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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Insperity

APRIL 18, 2019

The best ideas don’t always come from upper management, sometimes it is the bottom-up ideas that can help put a company on top. Whether the next great bottom-up idea will make a positive impact on your company’s bottom line may depend on what procedures are in place to communicate such suggestions. Ideas from the bottom can sometimes be lost, especially if no process is in place to facilitate communication from all levels of an organization.

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HR Digest

APRIL 17, 2019

Team communication is a crucial aspect of collaboration at work. It allows members working on a project to offer their best input and to work towards a common goal. This is why project managers won’t stop looking out for effective ways to improve team communication. The idea is to alleviate misunderstanding, energy waste in doing irrelevant tasks and chances of conflict.

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UpstartHR

APRIL 15, 2019

In the digital world we live in, we spend a TON of time work on computers and mobile devices. Screens aren’t just part of our work life–they are how we interact with most people during the course of the workday. This isn’t a natural experience for us and it’s now how we were designed to operate, which means we must take care or we’ll inevitably run into issues with our health.

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Insperity

APRIL 16, 2019

The more time you spend managing employee issues, the less time you have to run your business. But by ignoring your employer responsibilities to employees, you could cause a rift in your workforce and create potentially costly legal battles. Fortunately, many of these concerns can be alleviated by outsourcing to a Professional Employer Organization (PEO).

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Benefit Resource Inc.

APRIL 16, 2019

This is a two part series regarding Medicare. This post will focus on the impacts of HSAs and Medicare. Watch for Part 2 as we address Medicare and COBRA. Basics of HSA Eligibility. Health Savings Accounts (or HSAs) are sometimes confusing. Let’s be honest, what benefits program or tax-program isn’t a little confusing? And HSAs are both!

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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.

Vantage Circle

APRIL 18, 2019

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” - BABE RUTH. The age-old question of how to bring teams together and encourage a culture of collaboration has troubled managers for decades now. You have the best employees in the market and yet that doesn’t convert to any results.

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Take It Personel-ly

APRIL 17, 2019

Thinking of becoming a freelance writer? More and more people are giving up their regular jobs and going it alone for good reason. Even if you don’t have any experience writing professionally, it can provide a great work-life balance that allows you to work from anywhere. However, it’s a competitive market and one that can […].

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HR Digest

APRIL 13, 2019

There are highs and lows of celebrating 420 day like getting fired for off-duty marijuana use. 420 day is no longer celebrated behind closed doors and their party invitations no longer include codes. With recreational marijuana legalized in ten states, 420 friendly people can indulge in herb satisfaction without any repercussions. Getting high like a kite without any repercussions sounds like a dream and sadly, that’s exactly what it is.

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Winston Benefits

APRIL 16, 2019

Group Implementing new benefits enrollment software can yield significant improvements for many companies, not only helping you control costs but also making it easier for employees to pick the benefits they want. Technology also allows benefits managers to be more strategic and focus on the exceptions or unusual cases by minimizing manual tasks. The right software even helps ensure you’re offering the best benefits to your employees.

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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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cipHR

APRIL 16, 2019

Helen Armstrong of Silver Cloud HR outlines what you should do when choosing new programs for your business. Finding the correct HR system for your organisation isn’t always easy – and sometimes you can get it wrong. So what should you do to make sure you do it correctly next time? Helen Armstrong, managing director at Silver Cloud HR – an independent HR and payroll technology consultancy – shared her tips for making HR systems selection projects a success in a recent CIPHR webinar.

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Take It Personel-ly

APRIL 15, 2019

Every time another year begins, it’s been standard practice to identify the trends that may change the game in whatever industry you’re in. And with progress moving at a fast pace along with all the technological advancements going on, you can bet even the HR industry has recruitment trends to watch out for. Industry changes […].

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Wellable

APRIL 17, 2019

Companies that want to attract and retain employees are pumping up their benefits offerings, but as new generations of employees enter the workforce and as current employees’ needs change, the benefits that were once popular can become less so, as employees demand new perks.

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Genesis HR Solutions

APRIL 17, 2019

As a leader of a nonprofit organization, your mission is everything to you. Anything that takes you away from the work you do to fulfill that mission is a distraction—like handling the details of HR and compliance issues. That’s why you should consider hiring a PEO (professional employer organization) for your nonprofit. This article identifies three common challenges nonprofits deal with and how partnering with a PEO can help you overcome them—and get you back to working on your mission.

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Hireology

APRIL 19, 2019

Tax day 2019 has officially come and gone but your business might be theoretically getting taxed in an unexpected way. Given the historically-low unemployment rate and competitive hiring market, many employers are paying far above market value to secure top talent. Does your team measure how much you’re spending on recruitment marketing efforts – and whether or not your current recruitment marketing strategy is driving results?

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Business Management Daily

APRIL 18, 2019

Take these real-life lessons as a gentle reminder to review your Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) compliance. The post Lessons learned from real-life OSHA regulation violations appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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Take It Personel-ly

APRIL 17, 2019

A few years ago, you could only publish your book through the traditional channels. But that’s the past. You can now self-publish your own book, thanks to the Internet and advancement in technology. Are you having an idea you want to convert into a book or maybe you’ve written one but are wondering what to […].

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Genesis HR Solutions

APRIL 19, 2019

There’s a lot of information—and misinformation—about professional employment organizations (PEOs) floating around online. Unfortunately for small and midsize businesses who need help managing their HR and benefits, it can be hard to tell the difference between what’s true and what’s not. (In fact, we recently received an email claiming some outlandish things about PEOs that really frustrated us, because it just wasn’t fact-based!).

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Hireology

APRIL 16, 2019

We’re excited to announce Hireology has been #45 named on the Crain’s Chicago Business Best Places to Work 2019 list and #9 for midsize companies. To determine the rankings, Crain’s Chicago Business partnered with Best Companies Group and surveyed more than 14,000 local employees about their companies. As part of the survey, benefits taken into consideration for the ranking include: 401(k) match, medical benefits, paid time off (PTO) policies, telecommuting options, onsite fitness facilities, tu

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BerniePortal

APRIL 18, 2019

HR Best Practices blog series. Navigating the world of HR can be overwhelming—period. That’s why we’ve created a blog series to answer common HR questions. To help answer each question and define best practices, we have three HR heroes with very different approaches to HR: Bythe Book, Sam Blackheart, and Peggy Prag. You may find yourself relating to one (or more) of our heroes depending on the given situation.

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Abel HR

APRIL 16, 2019

Tackling timekeeping can be a formidable challenge for any business owner. If you and your employees are lazy with timekeeping , you’re opening yourself up to financial hardship and a huge headache with a whole lot of hard work to fix the problems. One easy answer to timekeeping troubles is to meet with the off-site HR professionals at a Professional Employer Organization (PEO), who can help to set up and enforce timekeeping policies that take the burden off you, the business owner while en

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SnackNation

APRIL 17, 2019

10 Office Management Tools To Make Your Life A Breeze. Being really good at office management means being able handle a wide variety of tasks and responsibilities. The title “Office Manager” might as well be changed to “Jack (or Jill) of All Trades.”. What is office management? Office management is managing and improving the logistics within an office in order to support all the employees within that organization.

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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.

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