Housing maintenance employees who work for repair and maintenance organisation Mears in Manchester are to receive a 20% pay increase as a result of strike action over an equal pay dispute.
Technology has been shown to play an important role in creating more inclusive workplaces, acting as a unifier and source of information about inclusion efforts, while also providing much-needed transparency across the workforce
While apps like Slack allow quick exchange of ideas, the messages shared must be held to the same standards as any business communication, experts say.
Physical science is a continuum of breakthroughs that create new paradigms and possibilities. These advances enable new technologies, which enable new business models, which disrupt the status quo.
Here’s the bad news. There is no magic pill. Here’s the good news. There is magic everywhere if you know where to look.
In today’s working environment, agencies depend on unified communications to keep employees connected wherever their work takes them. Whether located at a remote client site in Nebraska or a Starbucks down the street, government employees almost never work at a single location, or on a single device.
Diversity and inclusion has dominated the headlines in recent years, with questions over the likes of Uber and Google’s commitment. Chris Martin, CTO of Powwownow, looks at how technology can help.
One might think that laying out a company directive in black and white would be the clearest and most straightforward means of communicating. Yet video has taken off as a means of communication for the very reason that it conveys the subtleties of messaging so well.
The Trump administration has said it will seek several changes in basic federal employee benefits policies, although in stating that intent in its budget proposal it left many questions unanswered.
Implementing new clinical technologies can be a difficult endeavor. Getting your employees to accept and use the new technology can be an even greater challenge. Aversion to change and the reluctance to give up trusted methods and habits can doom any new technology installation.
Learning is crucial to the development and survival of the human race. All the inventions we have today, from the wheel of prehistoric times to the latest amazing advances in artificial intelligence (AI)...
Compensation report reveals only one-third of organizations have confidence in managers’ ability to explain pay decisions and employers intend to offer bonuses rather than significantly increase base pay in 2018
THE Internet offers access to a vast amount of information and is an efficient means of communication, research, marketing and collaboration. It has allowed people virtually unrestricted access to millions of websites from their computer. In the workplace, the use of electronic communication tools such as e-mail is the norm today and, in many cases, is vital for the survival of businesses.
But for an employee, the base pay/salary is what attracts him/her to the new job.
New accounting standards aren’t the only change agent for finance executives this year. Controllers at most companies are also ready to swap out their green visors in favor of donning more strategic, accounting technologist hats according to new data published today from the Deloitte Center for Controllership.
There are a number of new technologies such as AI software, instant messaging, webinars and Cloud PBX solutions that are significantly contributing towards breaking down the historical barriers to inclusivity that still exist in global enterprise today.
ImageFIRST, a healthcare laundry and linen services provider serving Phoenix, AZ, and other areas, shares observations that change management is the new normal in healthcare based on news stories in the media over the course of the past year.
Are your most highly engaged workers also your most stressed? Also: Ban these buzzwords from your next internal meeting.
The Clark County School District is introducing mandatory training on appropriate student-teacher relationships during a school year when there have been five sex-related arrests of CCSD employees.
Mobile banking startup Varo Money recently debuted “Money Diaries,” a series of videos that looks at the lives and financial issues of its core customers—ambitious, professional millennials.
The Hartford has enhanced ICON, its online quoting system for agents and brokers, to include access to quote employee benefits as well as excess and surplus (E&S) coverage for their small business customers.
I once heard an author describe the “crisis” of disengagement among employees in our workforce as “a disease affecting the central nervous system of our economy.” And he’s right. There are many different measures of employee engagement out there, but pretty much every report I have read presents some pretty depressing numbers.
If the finance minister's announcement of standard deduction of Rs 40,000 brought cheer to the salaried sections, it also spread joy to payment companies like Zeta and NiYO Solutions involved in digitising employee benefits and reimbursements.
EXCLUSIVE: Delegates at Employee Benefits Connect 2018 will be able to learn how to construct a social media-focused recognition strategy.
Advisers have discovered a surprising new audience for benefits that payoff student loans: Older workers with children still in college.
We asked global payroll professionals about their current struggles in managing multi-country payroll – here's what they told us.
Communication is the key to success in any relationship, including workplace relationships. There must be open and effective communication between you and your employees.
Workers advised to 'think critically about their future with the company, and make realistic decisions'
Offlimit Communications introduces an all-new Brand Ambassador division
David Litteken, Vice President-Asia Pacific Region for BI WORLDWIDE talks to BW Businessworld around enagagement solutions, importance of feedback and challenges for HR leaders. Edited excerpts: