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Creating a Desirable Employee Value Proposition (EVP)

HR Digest

A survey from the National Federation of Independent Businesses found that 52 percent of businesses were unable to fill jobs. According to LinkedIn 2017 Global Recruiting Trends report, the deciding factors for candidates remain to be career advancement opportunities (both financially and intellectually) and challenging work.

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Give Your Organization a Work-Life Vision

Harvard Business Review

The Families and Work Institute’s 2014 National Study of Employers finds that, compared to six years ago when it conducted the same survey, several numbers have moved in the right direction: Employers have continued to increase their provision of options that allow at least some employees to better manage the times and places in which they work.

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Getting Japanese Women Back on Track

Harvard Business Review

Among the 438 Japanese college-educated women in the CWLP survey, 63% say that they quit because their career was not satisfying and nearly half left because they felt stalled in their careers. Fully 77% of off-ramped women surveyed want to rejoin the workforce. Flextime and programmatic help would help ease the burden.