HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Beyond a good salary and cool office perks, today’s job seekers look for a company where employee happiness is just as important as the bottom line. Creating a strong company culture takes time and effort, but it’s worth the effort when your employees feel heard and valued. What are the five elements of employee satisfaction?

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HR Digest

MARCH 2, 2024

You might be confident that your employees will stick around for the long run but realistically you might just want to hear our take on the top 5 ways to stop a valued employee from quitting when you’re not ready to let them go.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In recent employee-centric conversations and movements, discussions of burnout have forced employers to consider how they can help employees separate their work from their personal lives. This leaves us full of work-life balance ideas, chasing a packed schedule with no actual net gain. million annually.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

Amazon, Costco and Walmart, have bumped paychecks, Glassdoor’s Employment Confidence Survey found that 4 in 5 employees would choose additional benefits over a pay raise. Such benefits can be an excellent way to retain top talent, and attract the cream of the crop. With the unemployment rate dropping to 3.6

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 21, 2011

The Conference Board released research in January that concluded employee satisfaction and engagement in America were at the lowest point since it began surveying more than 20 years ago. The bottom line is that 90 percent of American employees are either not engaged or aligned with strategy. The data suggest otherwise.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 18, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Has Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code of Corporate Culture? The bottom line is that 90 percent of American employees are either not engaged or aligned with strategy. The data suggest otherwise. magazine’s 25 th anniversary issue.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

The cost of child care in the United States is high. The 2016 Care Index released by the New America Foundation and Care.com shared an increasingly troubling cost profile of child care right now. The national average for at-home care is $28,354 per year, while in-center care is $8,589 per year.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2018

Employers are increasingly finding ways to meet the needs of working fathers, offering them family leave, flexible scheduling, and affordable child care options. Our analysis estimates that about 78% of Scottish fathers take some leave after the birth of a child, but only 18% take more than a couple of weeks.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

Fortunately for professional parents, and for any leader looking to assist working-parent employees in a cost-effective way, there is advice that works: simple, universally applicable, no-fail recommendations that motivate and improve performance — fast. ” “Think hard about part-time. ” “Hire more help!”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Turnover can cost up to 200% of an employee’s annual salary , depending on the role. Meanwhile, employee disengagement results in higher absenteeism, more accidents, lower business profitability, worse customer service, and a lower share price. That’s expensive for business.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

There’s an unexpected source of insight, solutions, and resolve for all working parents grappling with the dual failure-is-not-an-option challenges of managing career and kids — and for every organization struggling to find meaningful, practical ways to support its working-parent employees. That source is the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

Recent studies show that women physicians may provide better clinical care and health care system savings in comparison with their male counterparts, and women may also generally be more collaborative in both research and education pursuits. Yet overall women make up only 34% of physicians in the U.S., What’s Holding Women Back.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. All of what I describe here applies to building remarkable teams as well as building a remarkable culture in your organization. The 5 building blocks of collaboration. 1) Create a Learning Environment -.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In times of demographic change and skilled labor shortage, organizations depend on the skills and the labor that employees who are parents can bring to the table. But how can we strengthen employees’ ties to the organization? Do you have an in-house daycare center – or do you support employees in finding a suitable day care?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

It’s working for us: ghSMART has seen more than 97% client satisfaction in the past decade, 93% team retention, and greater than 20% annual growth. By spending up to 42 hours researching and interviewing a given candidate, we take great care to ensure that we find and hire the right people. Focus on outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

FMLA entitles employees 12 weeks of unpaid leave with an equivalent position available on return.). Such insurance only works economically for companies with an employee base so large that many people might be out at the same time. Although the U.S. We are the only developed country without any required paid parental leave.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

What if C-suite executives valued caring for co-workers as much as clients? Just last week one of us was struck by the generosity of a New York bank that picked up the tab for the post-memorial service dinner of an employee who was grieving the loss of his father. This advice holds true at work as well.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

Regardless of how well the employee has planned for their return, the reality of it is startling. One stumbling block is that company policies and benefits aren’t clear — either to employees or their managers. Any new parent who is returning to work is coping with a challenging professional and personal transition.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

But what if your organization can’t offer glossy, cutting-edge benefits? One professional services firm I’ve worked with examined its new-parent retention rates. The result: Better relationships between employees and managers, and a significant reduction in turnover. They’re low-intervention and low-drama.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

The implicit promise of work-life flexibility is that it can address workers’ needs to reconcile work demands with personal and family needs, all while benefiting firms in the form of a greater ability to attract and retain employees and in potential performance gains. For the most part, they weren’t.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

You’ve sent out the blast announcement and secured a small budget. The kickoff cocktail party drew a crowd of parents eager for advice — and curious about this new resource. You’ve done everything needed to get this thing up and running. 2) There’s no template for it. 2) There’s no template for it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

As a leader, you have an opportunity to model behavior in a meaningful way and facilitate appropriate boundary setting for your team members and your organizations’ employees. She was a single parent who needed to pick up her child at daycare. I understand the challenge. It was just the industry and firm norm. to work.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2014

And even if mom hangs in there, she faces the real threat of overload or becoming maxed out by the second shift of housework and child care, and the third shift of tending to family emotional needs and her own mental task of holding everything together. But what happens when paternity leave ends?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Tech companies are competing for recruits and retention: same old, same old. Companies have heard the message: today’s top talent cares about work-life balance. Companies have heard the message: today’s top talent cares about work-life balance. No employee is guaranteed a job one second past a stock drop.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

In this article, we’ll explain how the assignments gap arises, what managers can do about it, and how fixing the gap can improve the engagement and retention of talented employees. Organizing lower level employees. Organizations have been trying to improve diversity in the workplace for decades — with little success.

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