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Employee Check-Ins: 6 Essential Components for Success

HR Bartender

( Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Readex Research , which provides expert online and mail survey services to help businesses understand their internal and external customers. Their services include employee experience surveys. Enjoy the post!). Over the past few months, we’ve talked about the importance of “checking in” with new hires to make sure their employee experience is going well.

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Rule 69L-31 Hearing Notice

Florida Regulatory Workers' Compensation News

The Florida Division of Workers' Compensation submitted Notice of Proposed Rule for 69L-31, F.A.C. A hearing will be held Tuesday, November 27, 2018, 11:00 a.m., Eastern, at 2012 Capital Circle, SE, Room 102, Hartman Building, in Tallahassee, Florida. SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Procedures for the resolution of reimbursement disputes between workers’ compensation carriers and health care providers.

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How to Engage Employees During the Holidays

Achievers

The holiday season brings with it an elevated level of fun and excitement. Unfortunately, the holidays can be chaotic and stressful. All this excitement – and stress – can infiltrate your workplace and hinder morale, decrease productivity, and derail employee engagement. The holiday decorations, parties, and gift exchanges can all be quite overwhelming and easily distract your team.

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Calm down, everyone: Mindful practices for a mellower office

Business Management Daily

When Teresa Walsh started looking for a new job, she spent five minutes a day meditating. Mindfulness practices keep people in the moment, engaged in the activity at hand, and able to approach demands with greater clarity. The post Calm down, everyone: Mindful practices for a mellower office appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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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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Microlearning: 5 Reasons Your Company Should Consider It

HR Bartender

There are many different types of learning: social learning, mobile learning, and elearning are just a few. A relatively new type of learning that’s attracting attention is microlearning. Think of it as small learning units or bite sized pieces of content. We use microlearning on a regular basis – we just don’t call it microlearning. Here’s an example.

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Stress, Money and Millennials: Where’s the Pain Point?

Best Money Moves

Today is Stress Awareness Day, so it’s no surprise that for many Millennial employees, money (and financial stress) is still top of mind. A recent Bank of America report , which analyzed the money habits of over 1,000 Millennials, found that the chief concern for respondents was that they weren’t saving enough for future expenses, like emergency funds and retirement.

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Here’s Why Your Business Needs an Elevator Pitch to Job Seekers

Hireology

The unemployment rate is at the lowest in almost 50 years, making the job market highly competitive for employers. Job seekers today are likely already employed and have countless job opportunities at the tips of their fingers, so it’s critical to sell top talent on the opportunity joining your team presents when you have their attention. At Hireology’s recent human capital management event, Elevate 2018 , one of the speaking sessions touched on the importance of employers developing an elevator

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Technology Doesn’t Replace People – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. Kronos is hosting a free eSymposium for HR and payroll professionals next week. The event is also eligible for professional development credits. Check it out and enjoy today’s article!).

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Rules 69L-7.020 and 69L-7.100 - Health Care Provider Reimbursement Manual

Florida Regulatory Workers' Compensation News

The Florida Division of Workers' Compensation submitted a Notice of Proposed Rule for Rules 69L-7.020 and 69L-7.100, F.A.C. Rule Hearings will be held on Tuesday, November 27, 2018, at the times listed below, at 2012 Capital Circle, SE, Room 102, Hartman Building. All times are Eastern. SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Florida Workers' Compensation Health Care Provider Reimbursement Manual, 2018 Edition; Florida Workers' Compensation Reimbursement Manual for Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASCs), 2018

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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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Women's Safety in the Workplace

Vantage Circle

Women’s safety and its issues are discussed and debated all around the globe. Still every year the number of reports on sexual harassment is increasing at an alarming rate. Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our colleagues, our wives, our sisters, our mothers. — Archbishop Desmond Tutu. In the past decade, women have progressively earned a higher standard in the workplace.

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Things to Consider Before You Hire That Employee

Take It Personel-ly

If you are planning on growing your business, it is important that you build your team around the future needs of your industry and your strategy. Hiring people comes with loads of responsibilities and challenges, and it is important that you are prepared. Whether you are new to hiring people, or need a new type […].

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How to Use Psychometric Testing In Recruitment

HR Digest

The use of psychometric testing in the recruitment process is becoming common among HR managers in their candidate selection process. Over 75% of Times top 100 companies now use psychometric testing in their candidate selection whereas more than 38% of all companies use psychometric testing in hiring candidates, according to HBR. The figure is even on a steady rise yearly at the rate of at least 10%, according to the Association for Test Publishers and organizational psychologists.

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Could a shorter work week boost employee productivity?

Insperity

The shorter work week approach to business has been gaining more and more attention. But some companies are still on the fence about whether or not it could provide real benefits. Well, imagine this scenario: It’s 8:30 p.m. on a Sunday. Dinner’s done, the kids are in bed, and Linda is just settling in for a good night’s sleep. Nice image. But for most working Americans, a more realistic scenario might be: It’s 10:30 p.m. on a Sunday, and Linda is up and about because she just got the kids to set

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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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Why Investing in People Strategy Should Be a Top Priority at Your Home Health Care Agency

Hireology

The home health care industry is growing quickly, with Americans are projected to spend $5.7 trillion on home health care by 2026. But despite the growth, the industry faces a variety of challenges when it comes to remaining profitable. These challenges include a record-low unemployment rate, baby boomers retiring rapidly, costly compliance hurdles and a general misconception of working in home health care.

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Smoothing The Bumps In Your Email Communications

Take It Personel-ly

In days gone by, every customer communication in business took place either face-to-face or over the phone. Either way, you would have to physically speak to every customer you were working with at that time. This had its obvious disadvantages, namely that it was pretty time-consuming. But, it had its benefits, too. By speaking with […].

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Why You Need to Train Employees for Future Tech

Best Money Moves

You need to train employees for future tech so they develop the skills needed to meet the rapidly developing technology that your company will inevitably implement. Ninety percent of executives say they pay attention to employee needs when introducing new tech, but half of their employees disagree, according to new research by PwC. It matters because more than half of employees are going to need significant skills training by 2022, according to The World Economic Forum.

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Episode 73 | How this UK CEO Is bringing the Ugly Truth to The States, with Ugly Drinks CEO Hugh Thomas

SnackNation

Episode 73 | How this UK CEO Is bringing the Ugly Truth to The States. with Ugly Drinks CEO Hugh Thomas. This episode is all about Ugly Drinks, the UK’s first flavored sparkling water brand with no sugar, no sweetener and no calories. They’ve become a smash hit across the pond – today you can find them in 5000 UK stores – and this year they’ve been breaking into the States in a big way.

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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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How to Strengthen the Employee Benefits Experience to Differentiate Your Company in a Competitive Labor Market [Part Two]

WEX Inc.

Welcome back to our four-part series designed to help you strengthen your benefits experience so you can differentiate your business in today's competitive labor market. In Part Two, this blog will discuss why goal setting is important and provide examples of key goals you may want to track. Last week, in Part One, we examined how you could update your benefits strategy by reviewing your existing benefits mix, digging into your current participation data, and examining your past communication pl

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Life After Your Thesis

Take It Personel-ly

Perhaps you have been planning for college your whole life or perhaps you really didn’t put a lot of thought into it until your last year of high school. Whether you planned for it, fell into it, or it was expected of you, somehow you now find yourself in the middle of your credits and […].

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Salt and pepper on agenda at IRS hearing on SALT regs

Business Management Daily

Check in here for updates on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. New proposed regs have not gone over well thus far with states. The post Salt and pepper on agenda at IRS hearing on SALT regs appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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Do union-represented moms earn paid maternity leave easier?

HR Digest

Working mothers represented by unions are 17% more likely to use paid maternity leave than mothers not represented by unions. All workers expecting a new baby have the same worry: can she take maternity leave? What are the conditions surrounding it? Will she receive compensation? How can the government help with maternity leave conditions? Policymakers struggle to facilitate paid maternity leave for working mothers and the same trouble is faced by workers in different countries.

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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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We’re Only Human 44: 3 Ways to Incorporate Agility into Talent Management 

UpstartHR

Companies are putting more focus on helping people grow and develop not just for engagement purposes, but to field a workforce with greater potential and possibilities. -John Taylor, RiseSmart. . Talent management is a process that many companies struggle with. Why? Because it’s often burdened with legacy approaches, opinions, and concepts. Taking a more agile approach can help companies to not only survive, but thrive, in today’s fast-paced business environment. .

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Reflections on Shift: Cracking the Code to People Transformation in the Workplace, and Beyond

BetterUp

Recently we had the good fortune to bring together world-renown psychologists, academics, thought leaders, and HR practitioners from some of the largest global organizations to explore human potential and the future of the workplace at our annual Shift conference in Philadelphia. Shift has been a dream of mine and my co-founder, Eddie Medina, since we started BetterUp five years ago.

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Midterms to affect employment law landscape

Business Management Daily

While a divided Congress should reduce the chances for big legislative action, it’s sure to mean one important thing for HR: more regulatory activity. The post Midterms to affect employment law landscape appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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Is radical transparency right for your business?

Insperity

Radical transparency has drawn media attention in recent years, as more and more notable business leaders go public about making it part of their company cultures and processes. But what is it, exactly? Radical transparency can be loosely defined as actions and approaches that radically increase the openness of organizational processes and data. This practice is intended to create an environment where people feel psychologically safe to communicate with one another directly.

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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.