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How to Save Your Employee Recognition Program From Failing

Achievers

How can you ensure your employee recognition program is successful ? Your employees may be aware of the program, but awareness alone won’t magically improve their performance and engagement. “More than 80 percent of American employees say they do not feel recognized or rewarded, despite the fact that U.S. companies are spending more than a fifth of their budgets on wages,” according to a recent study by Harvard Business School.

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How to help employees through grief

Insperity

The process for how to help employees through grief is, unfortunately, one of the hardest and most delicate tasks you’ll undertake as a business leader. In any circumstance, death is extraordinarily difficult. When we lose someone important to us, life as we know it feels as though it has stopped. Sadly, life won’t ever be the same again without that person – you simply learn to go on with your “new normal.”.

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How to ask messy employees to keep a clear desk?

HR Digest

Cleanliness means different for different people. For some, it is a spotless and perfectly organized home or workplace, whereas for some it may be days until a person cleans up the place. For a person who is messy and make go days or even months to clear a place, sharing the workplace with such a person becomes a pain. Especially in office, where clientele and colleagues pass by or visit their desk, an unclean desk is undoubtedly a no-go place.

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How to boost your productivity in the first ten minutes of your day

Take It Personel-ly

There’s no moment quite like January to promise yourself a new leaf: smarter work, greater productivity, and more meaningful breaks. But did you know you can make the biggest impact on your working style in the first ten minutes of your day? There are lots of habits we tend to repeat as we get started […].

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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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Offering Child Care Benefits to Employees

Best Money Moves

Offering child care benefits to employees. Employers can address work-life balance and aid recruitment and retention efforts with child care benefits for employees. Both parents are employed in more than 60 percent of American families, yet only 6 percent of companies offer child care benefits, according to research by Clutch. Another study, by New America’s Better Life Lab and Care.com, found that the average annual cost of full-time center-based child care ($9,589) is more expensive than in-st

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Fun Employee Engagement Activities for Valentine’s Day

HR Digest

Valentine's Day is a celebration of love, of feelings and affection for one another. It is not only a day specifically meant for couples, but for everyone to show their love for another! Say Valentine's Day and the only thing that comes in mind are hearts, chocolates, heart-shaped balloons and flowers. Couples go out and enjoy a gala time; lovers write poems, letters to each other and express their love and feelings.

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7 Brands Who Are Turning to Environmentally Friendly Packaging

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Not so long ago, businesses and consumers alike were using unsustainable materials like there was no tomorrow. But recent years have seen a rapid rise in environmental awareness. We’re starting to wave goodbye to single-use plastics and other products that are harming the planet. At the heart of environmental efforts, you’ll find brands leading the […].

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Is Your Accounting Job Boring? Try These Top Tips To Help

Professionals Alternative

Numbers, numbers, numbers. It’s the point of most accounting jobs , and also the scourge of the role in general. Once you have reached a certain level of proficiency in your work, you’re not learning every day, the challenges are fewer, and boredom often sets in. If your days are starting to run together like a bad Netflix series that never seems to end, you might be feeling like it’s time to shake it up.

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Tech Trends for HR Managers: The Year Ahead

Flimp Communications

HR managers are in the midst of a global revolution for the better. We’re currently experiencing the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The first of these revolutions saw the introduction of mechanization with both steam and water power. The second featured mass production made possible by electricity. Finally, the third saw the development of automation as well as both electronic and information technologies.

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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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The Ultimate Break Room Etiquette

HR Digest

Break rooms are a necessity in the office. A break room is a space for workers to relax, get a mini-me time or enjoy a coffee or lunch with co-workers. Having a break room in the office improves efficiency and increases employee satisfaction in an organization. However, the break room shouldn’t be a place full of litter, dirty dishes and ill-mannered workers who don’t possess the etiquette to clean up and keep the break room a comfortable spot.

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Will 2020 Be the Year of the Gig Economy?

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In the last decade, technology has evolved at an incredible pace – and it had a major influence on the way we work and live. Smartphone owners demanded faster mobile broadband, and with it came an abundance of mobile-first (and mobile-only) services. With the spread of high-quality, fast internet connections, young professionals from all over […].

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The Employee Benefits Millennials Care About Most

WEX Inc.

What is a millennial? By now, the answer may seem like common knowledge - but the topic of millennials, especially when related to employee benefits, is still one that raises many questions. And as the largest group in today's workforce, cracking the code on millennials continues to be a key component of HR and benefits strategies.

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Job consolidation: How to effectively merge positions

Insperity

Job consolidation can be the best option for a company when budgets are tight, or a major change is on the horizon. But it can be a challenge for managers and teams to pick up the slack. Here’s what you need to know about redistributing a departing employee’s work, including: How to talk about it. How to get the work done. How to keep your team engaged.

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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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A Short and Effective Cell Phone Policy

HR Digest

If you don't have a cell phone policy at work, this guide from The HR Digest will help you create one. . Cell phones have become an extension of the self in today’s milieu. The mobile revolution has changed the way we conduct business and social behavior. There are more than 6 billion cell phone users in the world. That means, nearly 68 percent of the world is using some form of mobile technology.

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First Impressions 101

Take It Personel-ly

First impressions can make or break any initial meeting, whether it be an interview, networking event, or presentation. They’re made quickly and can create a lasting impact, so it’s important that you leave a positive one. Here are some easy, effective ways to improve your first impression in any professional setting: Overdress. Clothing is one […].

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Building Your Employee Wellness Plans for 2020

Flimp Communications

It’s 2020, and the employee wellness industry is growing. Employers and HR managers have long realized that investing in these programs has long-term advantages for all employees, even if not all of them opt in to optional employee wellness initiatives. Everyone, from entry-level employees to c-suite executives, benefits when they feel more comfortable at work.

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5 coaching skills to coach employees to greater performance

Business Management Daily

As a leader at your company, your job is to do more than initiate goal setting, make plans, and evaluate your employees. You have to support your staff in reaching their greatest potential. That often requires that you serve as an employee coach. While you might not consider yourself a coach, you certainly have to employ many coaching skills to help your employees thrive in their position.

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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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Caregiving Support Retains Top Talent

Wellable

Employee benefits that support their caregiving efforts are rapidly growing in importance. Workers that care for elderly parents or other relatives devote resources, time, and energy after work hours—often at the expense of their own personal health, wellness, and productivity. As a result, it’s having a direct impact on companies’ abilities to retain and attract top talent.

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5 Reasons Your Small Business Needs Quickbooks

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Did you know that 60% of small businesses aren’t profitable, and over 80% of failing businesses attribute failure to cash flow problems? If you own a small business, proper accounting procedures are crucial. Most small business owners aren’t accountants, and hiring an accountant is expensive. What if there was another way? There is! Try a comprehensive, easy-to-use […].

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8 Accounting Interview Questions to Ask

Professionals Alternative

In the effort to optimize your interviews, shortlist more effectively, reduce your time-to-hire, work like a true accounting recruiter , you need to ask your accounting candidates the right accounting interview questions. General questions can reveal a lot about an accounting applicant’s soft skills, but what about their experience? People can look great on paper, but you don’t want to take anything for granted.

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Introducing 15Five’s Best-Self Academy For Employee And Manager Development

15Five

More and more company leaders, like CHROs and chief executives, are realizing that people managers are the key to success. This explains the massive adoption of technology tools in the last few years to enable manager-employee communication and performance tracking. We’ve known for years that software tools improve performance , and we’ve also known that manager training can significantly amplify those results.

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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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The Benefits Of Outdoor Activities for Work productivity

Vantage Circle

Are you feeling stifled by the four corners of your office cubicle? Are you longing for the warm sunny ray that sips through your window during that board meeting? Well, guess what! It's normal for every human to long for nature's pleasantries since this is made possible through biophilia. Within the core of every human, there exists a connection to nature known as biophilia.

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4 Ways to Improve Communication Between Employees and Customers

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Building effective relationships between your employees and customers is an essential part of maintaining success within your business. You should always remember that your customers are essentially the backbone of your company and that they play an important role in your company’s growth. Employees who have direct contact with customers should be properly trained and […].

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Survey: Company Culture Varies By Region

Wellable

The Harvard Business Review (HBR) recently conducted an assessment that looked at how corporate cultures differ across the world. Between December 2017 through May 2019, readers of HBR provided over 12,800 responses about workplace cultures from an organizational (not individual) standpoint. With more than 43% of responses coming from outside of North America, the survey provided an excellent lens with which to examine corporate culture across different regions.

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6 Reasons Why Office Hygiene is Important

Hppy

Poor office hygiene can lead to both physical and mental health problems. The average office worker spends 8 hours a day in their workspace, therefore, it is critical these long lengths are spent in a clean, hygienic and comfortable environment. GCC Facilities Management, providers of commercial and office cleaning, recently conducted a survey involving over 650 office workers to discover how often offices and office items were cleaned.

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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.