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Employee benefits for Caregivers in workplaces

HR Digest

The responsibility can range from just shopping for essentials to arranging doctor’s appointments, providing transportation, taking care of finances and medicines or even a full-fledged role of assisting in their daily tasks. There are very few people who have at some point in their lives not taken up a caregiver’s role. In the U.S.

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Research: Your Firm Probably Isn't an Equal Opportunity Employer

Harvard Business Review

Anyone who has hiring responsibilities in 2013 would like to think that the U.S. The reality is that while your company may manage diversity, it probably doesn''t hold anyone accountable for whether your applicants and employees are treated fairly and without regard to gender, race, and ethnicity in hiring and promotion decisions.

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How Geisinger Treats Diabetes by Giving Away Free, Healthy Food

Harvard Business Review

In 2013 spending on care for people with the disease in the United States topped $100 billion. However, providing nutritious meals is not nearly enough; achieving sustainable health and lifestyle improvements requires educating patients about healthy eating habits, goal setting, exercise, mindfulness, and diabetes management.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.