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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. Santa Fe Transport and Regents of the University of California v. Indeed, many human resource managers who had hung their professional hats on affirmative action in the 1960s and 1970s rebranded their focus as "Diversity Management."

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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, many of these patients have transportation, housing, and family-care challenges that make full engagement hard. Lee Hodges/Getty Images. >. Diabetes has long been one of the most expensive medical conditions.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

” Jennifer Waldo , Head of Global Human Resources, GE Software Center, was at the epicenter of GE’s recruiting challenge. ” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules. We grew faster than we thought we would.