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Large employers currently pay about $500 more in healthcare costs per employee than they did just a year ago—money every company would love to have back. With healthcare costs increasing yearly, many HR departments are struggling to contain healthcare spending, which has become the largest cost to many companies outside of payroll.
Diversity training is only the first step your company needs to take to be truly inclusive. To retain diverse employees, education and awareness need to continue well past the initial training program. Here’s how to keep diversity and inclusion thriving in your company.
Remote work has become the “new normal” for many during the past few months, with some organizations going so far as to make the switch to remote work permanent. No matter how permanent virtual workplaces are, employees and leaders must adapt.
If you’re looking to hire a new employee, you’re probably posting your job opening in a variety of places. If you use social media as a recruitment tool, you may have noticed the platforms have become more “pay to play”—i.e., if you don’t put dollars behind your posts, they won’t be seen nearly as often […]
If I had a dollar for every article, blog, or book I have read about “company culture” over the course of my career, I would be well on my way to a comfortable retirement. There are so many opinions about what “company culture” means and how it develops. Some believe culture is driven by those […]
The coronavirus crisis continues to impact how we work, making it clear that the situation will not simply return to normal in a few months. Leading companies are looking ahead, anticipating that the recovery will likely be a long journey and planning for a new normal. Organizations are embracing technologies that enable team members to […]
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: If you want to attract top talent you need to have the technology candidates crave; with the modern workforce, it’s in their DNA. Randstad US has released new data that reveals the extent to which job satisfaction is dependent on an employer’s ability to use and […]
Health and Wellness Survey The HR Daily Advisor research team conducted the 2016 Health and Wellness Survey in April 2016. Health and wellness programs are widely used and diverse in nature. We asked participants everything from their perceptions on health and wellness programs to what steps they take to get employees involved, to what they […]
Before March 2020, courts frequently rejected claims by workers who said they should be allowed to work from home as an accommodation for a disability. Judges routinely concluded that on-site attendance—coming into the physical workplace—was an “essential job function” and that working from home wasn’t a “reasonable accommodation” that employers had a duty to offer […]
Although newer research suggests that people are actually less depressed and less suicidal around the holidays, the World Health Organization reports that the number of people living around the world with depression increased 18.4% between 2005 and 2015, and that suicide was the second leading cause of death among those individuals aged 15 to 29 […]