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If you are an HR professional in Illinois, here is a heads up. While you are comfortable dealing with employees who are Illini, you may soon be confronted by employees who are ETs! Some of your employees may not have self-identified themselves as Klingons! And you may be translating your training sessions and handbooks into […]
For many workers, the holidays aren’t just about joy and celebration; they’re also a time of overwhelming stress. Between juggling work responsibilities, family obligations, and financial pressures, it’s no wonder that over half of employees (53%) say they feel more stressed than usual during the holidays, according to a recent Monster poll. Even more concerning, […]
L&D professionals don’t often think of first-aid training as a standard part of workplace safety training or onboarding unless they work in the medical industry or highly hazardous environments. And even then, sometimes first-aid training isn’t always seen as a necessity. But emergencies and injuries happen all the time in the workplace, regardless of whether […]
Workplace culture has been in flux for more than a year, and clarity might be further off than employers had hoped. A surge in COVID-19 cases has caused employers that made the transition to remote work last year to delay or reverse plans to return to the office. Meanwhile, large numbers of employees have chosen […]
The training question is, “Since supervisors are bound to have a variety of learning styles, how do you tailor a training session to accommodate them all?” Here is how our training expert responded: Savvy trainers incorporate a variety of learning styles into their training programs and adjust their explanations during training according to an individual’s […]
Monday September 18th is International Equal Pay Day. Monster recently found that only 15% of the workforce hasn’t experienced a form of pay inequality. And, the workplace shifts to be more and more transparent, 63% of workers admit speaking to their coworkers about their pay. In honor of Equal Pay Day and to encourage leaders […]
The media has dubbed the Millennial generation lazy and entitled, but these stereotypes couldn’t be further from the truth. Additionally, many forget that the oldest Millennial will be 37 this year, which means that the way you attract and retain this generation should be different from how you recruit and hire younger, Gen Z talent.
As the third anniversary of the pandemic approaches, it’s hard to overstate how profoundly the outbreak and its aftermath affected the way we work. Analyses of how businesses have evolved over the past few years tend to focus on digital transformation, which makes sense because the pandemic greatly accelerated a preexisting trend toward digitalization across […]
The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, which stands for COBRA, has been around for a long time. Still, it remains the source of thorny compliance problems and a fertile ground for litigation. The sheer complexity of the COBRA scheme, and the timing issues involved, can throw off even the most diligent and conscientious employer. COBRA […]
According to Deloitte research, the corporate wellness market is projected to be worth $11.3 billion by 2021, and two-thirds of organizations inside the United States already claim that well-being programs are a critical part of their employment brand and culture.