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Successfully Establish and Enforce Company Values
Corporate values are a set of beliefs and principles that guide what your organization stands for and the behavior you aim to drive in customers and employees. Values are essential to your business as they set the tone for your company culture and guide work toward your mission and vision. After developing and successfully implementing…
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How Do You Manage Employee Performance Remotely?
Even before COVID-19, employers were offering diverse work arrangements to attract and retain key talent. It was still relatively rare, however, to have companies with a 100% remote employee base. Clearly, that changed with stay-at-home orders. This forced companies to reevaluate how they manage employee performance and keep their team connected when remote. As social…
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Ideas to Make Your Job More Fulfilling Before Quitting
There’s no such thing as the perfect job. No matter how much you love what you do, every job has its ups and downs. You may wish to call it quits if you’ve been experiencing too many downs lately. Perhaps you’re bored or disappointed. Maybe you’ve had too many long hours, a lot of pressure…
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Why employers should be invested in employee mental health and wellbeing
The statistics on mental health are staggering. A study by The Lancet predicts that mental disorders will cost the global economy $16 trillion in lost productivity by 2030. The study also forecasts 12 billion working days lost due to mental illness every year. Depression alone costs U.S. employers $44 billion per year in lost productivity.…
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Upskilling and reskilling programs benefit organizations and their employees
According to a report by McKinsey & Co., 87% of executives said they were experiencing skills gaps or expect to experience them in the near future. Therefore, upskilling and reskilling your workforce has never been so important. It is essential for building a more agile organization that can quickly adapt to market changes. The terms…
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How a PEO Provides Growth Opportunities for Small Business
This one is for the small business owner. If you are not a small business owner yourself, pass this article along to one you know. They’ll thank you for it—I promise! Many small (or even mid-sized) business owners wear multiple hats. It’s simply the nature of the beast when starting up your own company. You…
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Why it’s advantageous to allow failure into your workplace
FAILURE–the word still strikes fear in many companies and employees—something to be avoided at all costs. Failure can use up valuable resources and causes short-term pain. But avoiding failure, fearing failure, is not a good thing. If you cut through the existing stigma surrounding failure, you’ll see that making mistakes has always been part and…
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Six Considerations When Evaluating Your Compensation Strategy
Employees are vital to your organization and a significant investment for most businesses, often averaging 70% of operating expenses. This essential business asset deserves a well-crafted strategy. While compensation is only one factor for recruiting and retaining talent, it is critical to your overall HR strategy. Whether initiating or updating your compensation strategy and philosophy,…
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Employee Burnout
Employee burnout. Two words you hear a lot together these days. While it’s been a growing problem in recent years, the pandemic put it even further under the spotlight. The extremely stressful public health emergency put stress on both professional and personal lives around the globe. It’s also led more people to work remotely. Remote…
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Email Best Practices for Effective Communication
Email is a large part of our working lives. According to Digital Marketing Ramblings (2019), the average office worker’s inbox receives 121 emails daily. This does not include the numerous messages and notifications we receive from social media or workplace project management platforms. That’s why it’s so essential to craft a well-written email that has…