The education committees of the Michigan Senate and House on Wednesday approved identical revised pension reform bills that would create a new defined contribution plan and a new hybrid pension plan for public school employees.
Every business wants to avoid finding itself inundated with lawsuits due to a preventable failure of compliance. Unfortunately, ignorance is not a defense that will hold up in court. Whether a business breaks compliance with a law intentionally or accidentally, they will still be held accountable for their actions. The best way to avoid ending up on the wrong side of a subpoena is education, and following proper procedures for example workers compensation laws.
When VoIP technology first hit the market, it was immediately clear that it would be a game changer. The extent of this, though, has surpassed any predictions that might have been made. Apps such as Skype have not only revolutionised communications for individuals. They have made business communications easier, more affordable and accessible to a mobile workforce.
Keeping employees engaged in their day-to-day duties is difficult. Keeping employees engaged in the brand, betterment and big-picture goals of a company is an even larger challenge.
A comprehensive management of change process is critical to ensuring efficient and effective facility upgrades, expansions or process improvements.
Gaming has solidified itself in the modern world as a part of our everyday lives and has encompassed our culture. According to a study done by Essential Facts, in 2016 more than 60% of households in America had someone who plays video games regularly. The constant rewards from mastering objectives and being pushed forward to master more and more make games addictive.
More than one-third (36%) of employee respondents cite increased productivity as a benefit of using wearable technology in the workplace, according to research by office search engine organisation Office Genie.
The big buzz in HR today is employee engagement. I view employee engagement through the lens of the overall effectiveness of a benefits program, not just at open enrollment, but year-round.
When you are deciding which benefits to offer, keep in mind that as a company scales, the cost of benefits will increase too. Covering the cost of gym memberships for 10 employees becomes a drastically different cost when your team grows to 100. Looking for some benefit inspiration? These tech companies go above and beyond.
Internal communications, for years was relegated to a tiny part of the marketing department (and budget) and seen as a couple emails a year. However, as the workforce has changed, so has the way they want to be communicated to.
Financial wellness programs are further cementing their place in workplace benefit plans, but challenges remain for employers in precisely defining what financial well-being means.
Employers can invest in technology to improve employees' benefits information
Employee engagement is emerging as a critical element that can help differentiate organizations that offer world class service and those that don’t. Here’s why.
For some organizations, employee turnover and employee engagement go hand-in-hand with the financial security each employee is feeling. Many employees feel disengaged with their organization, especially at low-wage positions.
Employers such as Aon, BlackRock, Formstack and Fujifilm are deploying innovative strategies, often based on the latest technology trends, such as gamification, to break down these employee communication barriers. What follows is a look at the novel approaches these organizations are using to connect with their staffs.
A Social mindset means everyone can see and feel his or her individual value, making for more engagement.
Check out an example of excellent Internal Communications materials developed for Dr. Martens by the brand consultancy Music
How valuable is it for a company to invest in helping employees find their own personal passions, not just business passions?
Is the millennial generation taking over your workplace? Are you an HR professional trying to manage employee communications with a major generation gap within your staff? There is no over-the-counter prescription for this but that is why I am here, as a millennial, to fill in the gap and make sense of this unique group of individuals.
A new survey reveals that many millennials are spurning employment opportunities that fail to offer competitive employee benefits packages.
Carolyn Gordon, 46, has leveraged gaming strategies to help her 5,000 employees learn what’s in their employee benefits package. Fujifilm’s director of benefits says she’s seen the company transform over the last two decades, which brought in a younger workforce and new challenges. Gordon — who was named a 2017 recipient of an EBN Benefits Technology Innovator Award — spoke to Employee Benefit News about how the film company has utilized different technologies to keep her employees up-to-date on the latest benefit offerings. This interview has been edited and condensed.
Internal communications has always taken a backseat when it comes to business priorities. Diving into the world of digital internal comms can seem overwhelming, but there are actually a few simple ways to kick-start your digital journey:
It's time to make employee recognition part of the fabric of all organizations that rely on them. According to a 2016 Gallup survey, only one in three U.S. workers strongly agree that they received recognition or praise for doing good work in the previous seven days.
Internal communication may be easily taken for granted, but before marketers can put their creative thinking caps on, they need to organize workflows and knit the group together through tools and processes. Pam Didner is a marketing consultant, speaker, author, and a recognized thought leader on the subject of global content marketing. As she writes in her recently published guide How To Develop a World-Class Internal Communications Plan, such preparations are “extremely important for the long-term success of a business.”
Employee communication is obviously a high priority for all managers and leaders of companies. Getting the right motivations and messages across to your employees is difficult enough when they are in the same office with, but what happens when they work remotely?
Technology has brought a revolution to human resource management and corporate culture. It has changed recruitment, training, the use of data and the performance management process. But the technology revolution is only just beginning.
Nearly three-fourths of communications departments claim to have problems keeping employees “on brand and on message” when sharing company news and information, according to a recent survey of communications professionals conducted by San Bruno, CA-based employee communications platform Dynamic Signal..
Tom Ohanian, VitecEV’s VP of product development & product marketing, describes the closing gap between corporate video and quality broadcast.
An interview with Miranda Nicholson, new HR Director of Formstack, a global data management company that has greatly improved its employee benefits communications since Nicholson has been in the HR department. Read on to find out more about Nicholson's successful strategy.
Sodexho's team effort and dedication offer strong lessons as the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season approaches and offers a good example of how employees can help build a reputation for an entire organization.