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Potential Shifts in Employee Benefits: A Guide for Employers Under Trump
by Suzanne G. Odom & Melissa Ostrower, Jackson Lewis attorneys at law As we prepare for another change in Administration in the White House, it is crucial for employers and plan sponsors to stay informed and prepared. While much of what lies ahead is speculative,...
Potential Shifts in Employee Benefits: A Guide for Employers Under Trump
by Suzanne G. Odom & Melissa Ostrower, Jackson Lewis attorneys at law As we prepare for another change in Administration in the White House, it is crucial for employers and plan sponsors to stay informed and prepared. While much of what lies ahead is speculative,...
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The Most Common Business Structures for Small Businesses
The business structure your company uses will determine how you pay taxes and your day-to-day operations. It can also impact liability, ownership, and distribution payments. By learning more about different types of business structures, you can make sure that your...
What Is Workplace Ghosting?
“Ghosting” is an online dating practice that has become widespread among Millennials and Generation Z. In this cruel behavior, a person ceases communications with a suitor rather than saying they are no longer interested in a relationship. Phone calls and emails go...
Tips for a Successful Employee Referral Program
Employees hired through employee referral programs tend to be better qualified and more well-suited to the employer’s company culture. Internal referrals result in faster hires than other recruiting channels and often come with a lower cost-to-hire. For this and other...
5 Things to Consider When Creating an Employee Attendance Policy
The employment attendance policy is one of the most important components of the employee handbook. Companies that get attendance right can offer employees better work-life balance and flexibility without sacrificing business objectives. Those that get it wrong often...
How to Recognize Employee Disengagement
Workforce productivity is strongest when employees are actively engaged. Engaged employees tend to stay longer with their employers, lowering the recruitment and training costs associated with employee turnover. Unfortunately, disengagement is common in the modern...
What to Consider When Creating a Pet Friendly Office Policy
By some estimates, Millennials will comprise 50% of the workforce by next year. Their priorities when choosing employers and their preferences for office culture and workspace design will dominate the next 20 years in recruitment strategies. Surveys have shown that...
How Facilities Management Became Part of HR
Traditionally, facilities management was thought of primarily as a blend of asset management and cost containment. Facilities managers focused on buildings and equipment in order to maximize the use of those items to the benefit of an organization. Research continues...
5 Things the Modern Worker Looks For In a Job
In today’s dynamic workplace, modern talent expects their employer to prioritize learning and career development. LinkedIn’s 2018 Workforce Learning Report found that 93% of employees would stay with a company longer if it invested in talent development. In the same...
End Multistate Payroll Tax Insomnia
Lost sleep has a cost in American workplace productivity estimated at more than $63 billion, according to one study, with between 50 and 70 million Americans experiencing sleep difficulties that leave them with lingering effects on the job.The problem is not limited...
5 Ways to Improve Employee Performance in 2019
Improving Employee Performance in 2019 With 2019 just weeks away, HR organizations are evaluating the past year’s employee performance and what turning their attention to identifying what will be the most impactful employee training needs in the year ahead. The most...
How to Build Your HR Budget for 2019
Can you demonstrate a return on HR programs? It’s the last quarter of the calendar year—a busy time for most HR departments. The odds are good that you are in the middle of open enrollment and trying to complete an HR departmental budget for 2019.In this digital age,...
How to Encourage Employee Retention
Employee engagement levels in the U.S. are on the rise. In 2018, Gallup reported that the percentage of workers who are enthusiastic about work was 34%, tying its highest level since 2000. Since engagement is tied to positive business outcomes, this progress is great...
Hiring Mistakes to Avoid for Small Businesses
If a small business has poorly defined recruitment and hiring processes, it becomes difficult to attract and hire top talent in this competitive labor market. Making a bad hire can be disruptive and costly—particularly for small businesses where tight-knit teams work...
What to Consider When Creating Tuition Reimbursement Programs
Employee compensation and benefits planning can be a tricky challenge with four generations currently in the workforce. The ability to pursue continuing education and develop as professionals is popular at most career stages, and surveys show that Millennials strongly...
How to Design for Privacy in the Office
Office spaces with open floor plans were originally designed to inspire collaboration and drive innovation. However, recent research suggests that this strategy actually creates stress for employees and lack of privacy in the workplace is a serious issue. Too much...
Pros and Cons of BYOD
In today’s global economy, enterprise mobility plays an important role in driving business agility and success. Mobile devices, especially the use of employees’ personal devices, empower the workforce to be more productive, accessible, and accountable. To make the...
Celebrating Mother’s Day at Work
Women make up about half of the US workforce. According to Pew Research, seven in 10 mothers with children younger than 18 years of age are in the US labor force. Yet working mothers face significant challenges when juggling a career and family. In fact, working...
Employee Benefit Trends for 2019
Today, four generations occupy the workplace at the same time. They all need adequate compensation and basic benefits like healthcare, but beyond that, no two employees are exactly the same. Employee trends vary dramatically by generation, so most HR departments face...
A Pain-Free Approach to Adding Payrol
From CPAs to bookkeepers, benefits brokers, insurance companies, HR consultants and timekeeping businesses, a growing number of accounting and financial services businesses are discovering many good reasons to consider adding payroll to their array of service...
Paid Family & Medical Leave Update
Washington Paid Family & Medical Leave (1/1/19) All Washington employers must provide paid family and medical leave under a bill signed by Gov. Jay Inslee on July 5, 2017. The new law creates an insurance fund that employers and employees both pay into, with a 0.4...
Pros and Cons of a Pet-Friendly Workspace
In today’s competitive labor market, employers are definitely looking for perks, especially inexpensive ones, that will appeal to younger generations of workers. In the US and Canada, pet ownership has been on the rise over the past decade. Nearly 75% of Millennials...
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