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When it comes to holding onto talented workers during the Great Resignation, companies are reverting to a tried-and-true strategy: reimagining benefits. This time, they’re re-conceptualizing the employee health benefits they can offer to better recruit and retain talented employees. To understand why health care is becoming a hot topic among business leaders, it’s important to understand […]
According to the American Institute of Stress, workplace stress costs U.S. industries around $300 billion every year and is on the rise as workdays get longer, workers work harder, and job insecurity continues to increase. If you want to mitigate workplace stress at your organization, here are a few best practices to keep in mind.
The decision to “implement DEI practices” is sometimes viewed as a quick and definitive response to addressing the needs of an organization. However, for many organizations, implementing DEI as a “solution” requires support from leadership and an intentional approach based on a collective effort. Or to say it a little differently, implementing DEI requires strong […]
Does your organization provide short- and long-term disability insurance for employees? If not, is this something the organization has considered adding to your benefit package?
For everyone who interviews applicants, there is a long list of pitfalls, but surely some of the most challenging and confusing to avoid are those relating to interviewing applicants with disabilities. Determining just what is a disability has always been a challenge, but recent court rulings indicate that the focus should be on the accommodation […]
Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s nomination to serve as Secretary of Labor has renewed both interest and the need to understand the role and responsibilities of this position. That’s especially true for business and the HR professionals who must be aware of and responsive to potential changes. Role of the Secretary of Labor At a high level, the […]
Choosing a new service provider for your business requires decision-makers to take a variety of factors into account. When looking for a new background screening provider, for example, companies consider the cost, the provider’s history of compliance, its accuracy rates, and its turnaround times.
Employee retention is affected by a lot of differing factors, one of which is employee satisfaction. Satisfaction levels can be greatly influenced by how much control or autonomy employees feel they have over their day-to-day work life. For a job with little change and little opportunity to exercise any type of control, employees may get […]
The move to “digital” systems is a priority across virtually every organization. Most departments have been through some form of this disruption, including HR teams, where paper-only files have given way to workforce management, talent management, and other solutions in the cloud.
As the Chief People Officer and Chief of Staff at Oyster, Marina Farthouat is in the business of building something truly human. She leads the people strategy for the global employment solution with a focus on creating a sustainable, inclusive, and human-centric culture across a distributed team. With a wealth of experience scaling remote organizations like Clickhouse […]