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By Bob Urichuck If you want a happier, more productive work environment that motivates and keeps employees, focus on recognizing what they and—just as importantly—you do right. While we see ranking of the factors that drive performance shifting with each study over time, recognition holds its own as a powerful motivator at all levels of […]
By Catherine Moreton Gray, JD Employers must become “Talent Mobilizers,” according to Dr. Susan Lawley of Lee Hecht Harrison. Talent must be positioned to quickly adapt to rapid change, which means developing a “hyper-efficient workforce” with “just-in-time employees who are skilled, prepared, and ready to move into new roles quickly,” Lawley explained at the American […]
By Holly K. Jones, J.D. Take a moment and picture your workforce. They come in each day and serve customers, build products, promote brands, and counsel clients, but what is their “why?” What are the primary factors that drive your employees to come into work, even when they have a case of the Mondays? Maybe […]
ManpowerGroup Solutions has released a report, “Making the Connection: Best Practices in Candidate Experience,” based on research into candidate preferences, behaviors, and motivators. The report finds one in three prospective employees wants to receive more detailed information—not only about the specific job opportunity, but about the company itself—as well as more frequent, human connection. The […]
We are trying to determine our PTO policy for rehires. What are our options? Also, employers can choose how to treat PTO accrual in rehire situations, so long as we are consistent, correct?
The Holiday Gift Check Program announced the addition of a ham to the purchase items for the holiday gift checks provided to employers interested in giving their employees a welcome gift during the holidays as a sign of their appreciation.
For the fifth year in a row, employers will hold per-employee health benefit cost growth to under 5%, according to a new survey of more than 1,200 employers conducted by Mercer.
Creating good job descriptions is critical for most organizations. That seems obvious enough, yet this is a simple thing that often gets overlooked—especially when it comes to keeping those job descriptions continually accurate and updated in an ever-changing work environment.
The Cadillac Tax is coming, and you need to make some decisions. One of the most controversial provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Cadillac Tax, is an excise tax on “rich” health insurance benefits. As of 2018 when the tax begins, “rich” means a value that exceeds $10,200 for self-only and $27,500 for […]
Employers that purchase small group coverage that is federally regulated under the Affordable Care Act will have additional assurances that their plan members will not be balance billed in certain situations, under proposed rules issued in pre-publication form on Nov. 22. The rule also plans for the adoption of network adequacy provisions to compensate for […]