This week Andy Douse, founder/ director of Red Publications, a York-based internal communications agency, runs us through a week in his working life.
How do you communicate with business teams in a world of ever-shortening attention spans?
It’s no longer practical to hold meetings where the HR team goes through open enrollment options and takes questions from the group at large – meetings like that are costly and time consuming. But what are companies to do instead? As HR Dive summarizes the preparation plight, “Planning and designing communication plans [is] employers’ biggest stumbling block.”
With the goal of engaging workers, Australian mining company uses StaffConnect employee communications mobile app to keep workers informed and connected in the field.
Each member of a company is just as valuable as the next, offering their own set of skills, insight and personality. As team members, your employees can work both individually and together to reach a common goal.
Ben Steverman of Bloomberg reports that “Employers cut their contributions to workers' retirements by a quarter from 2001 to 2015…The biggest driver: the decline of traditional defined-benefit pensions, replaced by stingier, 401(k)-style, defined-contribution plans.”
SAN FRANCISCO — In an effort to tackle recommendations aimed at refurbishing its corporate image after a season of scandal, Uber is boosting the pay of its employees and guaranteeing pay equity between the sexes and across races.
Today is the fourth world emoji day. It was first celebrated on July 17, 2014 by Jeremy Burge, the founder of Emojipedia. Why July 17? Because that’s the date on your calendar emoji.
A judge has ordered Google to hand over employee records to federal investigators probing the alleged gender pay gap at the Internet giant.
Payroll budgets need to include direct wage and salary payments, commissions, bonuses, incentives, payroll taxes and insurance, along with any other directly related costs the business incurs in the payroll function.
Gaining buy-in from employees and motivating them to value safety is crucial to building a strong safety culture in an organization. Yet when safety professionals are asked to identify their top challenges on the job, employee engagement is always at the top of the list.
As a group, Millennials tend to do less preventative medical care than only population segments. Help your clients get them engaged with a vision plan, which offers screenings that can help with early detection of chronic disease as well as choices for options like fashion eyewear.
In today’s war for talent, the number on the paycheck is just one of many aspects prospective employees consider when deciding where to work. Millennials are largely driving this shift, as they look for work/life balance and a socially conscious corporate culture.
Identity theft protection's popularity with employees — and utility for employers — make it easier to convince clients that it’s a must-have in their voluntary benefits lineup.
Flexible, cloud-based platform provides new standard for communication and collaboration
Employer brand management has been pushed up the corporate agenda in recent years. Communicate magazine, in collaboration with Emperor, has carried out research into the employer brand.
Handling workers’ compensation claims can present a number of challenges, such as determining whether an injury is work-related and evaluating back-to-work accommodation requests
Technology is moving, millennial needs are moving, and internal communications tries to keep pace.
It doesn’t matter how emotionally invested people are in the companies they work for – if they feel burnt out, productivity goes down the drain.
Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) has said that evidence of compliance with the Employees Compensation Scheme (ECS) will now form part of requirements for bidding process for Federal Government contracts.
News reports have abounded for over a year that Twitter (TWTR, +0.22%) should be for sale, and that several bidders have been exploring a buy. As one of the iconic presences on the Internet, it would be sensible and more financially efficient if Twitter’s employees, executives, and several hundred million customers bought the company, an idea that was presented during Twitter’s shareholder meeting in May.
Organizations that successfully execute change management and communications programs are three-and-a-half times more likely to outperform their peers. Why is that?
Employers with benefit start dates in the first quarter of 2018 are spinning their wheels when it comes to their open enrollment preparations.
A new benchmark study by Employee Benefit Adviser (EBA) found that employers with open enrollment dates in 2018's first quarter are seriously underprepared.
It’s hard enough getting employees to save for their retirement. It’s even harder to get them to think about how much they need to save for medical expenses in retirement.
There is a new wave of companies that have found a new way to support employees and help them achieve financial responsibility without necessarily giving up their unicorn toast: an employee emergency fund.
Some firms also report handling certain rule preparations or implementation activities poorly in some ways and well in other ways.
Many dentists dream of opening their own practices. And while they may have spent years refining their clinical skills, they are often less familiar with the business side of dentistry. This is especially true when it comes to employment law, an area of frequent claims against dental practice owners.
Every employer knows how difficult it is to make the best of talent stick. In fact, new joiners are quite likely to quit their jobs within the first few months, says a research by Bamboo HR.
Washington has passed a bill to introduce a new paid family and medical leave benefit for employees based in the US state.