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Transitioning From Employee Well-being To Healthy Organization

HR Digest

It’s your duty as an employer or human resource manager to consider what factors could bring this goal to light. This, in turn, can lead to reduced absenteeism and improved productivity. In today’s competitive job market, employees are looking for more than just a paycheck.

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Must-have business services every start-up should consider

Strategy Driven

Digital marketing and SEO. As soon as you take on your first employee, you will need to ramp up your understanding of HR – that’s human resources. Digital marketing and SEO. The second and equally important part of any successful start-up journey is knowing when to invest in help. Funding and business planning.

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Are Investors Interested Enough In Human Capital?

The Horizons Tracker

This is surely an oversight, as I’ve previously covered research showing a clear link between employee engagement and profitability, whether due to higher productivity, lower turnover rates and absenteeism or various other factors that underpin company success.

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How a Flex-Time Program at MIT Improved Productivity, Resilience, and Trust

Harvard Business Review

In today’s increasingly competitive hiring market, organizations need to think differently about how to attract new employees and retain existing ones. Working directly with our human resources department, we launched a remote work pilot for our team of 35 employees. Laura Schneider for HBR. You and Your Team Series.

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In Defense of Corporate Wellness Programs

Harvard Business Review

Instead, they question the motives of a company for even offering a wellness program, which they slam as an “employee control tool” and “a marketing tool for health plans.” They attributed those losses both to absenteeism and to “presenteeism,” when employees come to work too unwell to do their jobs. Health Human resources'

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What is HR Analytics?

HR Digest

HR analytics, also known as people analytics or workforce analytics, is a data-driven approach that empowers Human Resources Management (HRM) by collecting, analyzing, and interpreting HR data. The term Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) emerged as organizations recognized the critical role HR plays in driving business success.

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The Big Trends Changing Community Development

Harvard Business Review

Take the example of child sponsorships, highly popular as a marketing tool for many NGOs. Improved community health has lowered absenteeism in the work force and increased productivity by a measurable amount higher than the cost of the program itself. That’s great for the community, but it’s also quite valuable for the company.

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