Mentor moms, nanny allowances and milk delivery are just a few ways that these top companies have found to make life easier for parents returning to work after the arrival of a child. In an era when it’s becoming the norm…
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‘Immigration Adjacent’ Perks Are Important For Foreign Workers
Every year, we survey U.S. employers about the status of their employment-based immigration programs. This year, the Immigration Trends report revealed that more than half of employers plan to increase their foreign national headcount and that 7% consider international recruitment…
An Insurance Primer For Small Businesses That Want to Stay Competitive
For many small businesses, the struggle to compete with larger companies for talent is an uphill battle — particularly when it comes to benefit offerings. While you know recruiting and retention is important, you may not be sure if the…
Egg Freezing: Who Benefits Most?
A few years ago Apple and Facebook introduced an employee benefit that made headlines — egg freezing. Just so everyone understands what it is — the scientific name is Oocyte Cryopreservation. It allows women to freeze and store their eggs until…
3 Ways HR Can Help Employees With Their Financial Smarts
The stock market broke records and then recently plummeted; unemployment is low, wage growth is sluggish, and the cost of living is increasing. It’s no wonder Americans are stressed about their finances. According to the Federal Reserve, 44% of American…
9 Reasons to Invest in Benefits You’re Not Offering Now
So you’ve survived open enrollment. Now that you’re finished fielding 10,000 questions about health care plans, you can start looking ahead to 2018. New Year. New Benefits … amirite?! The stretch between open enrollment and the holidays is a fine…
Trend Is to Provide Support for Adoptions
November is National Adoption Month in the U.S. The choice to become a parent is one of the biggest decisions most people will ever face. Beyond the fact that you’re committing to a lifetime of loving, caring for and teaching…
5 Tips to Help Your Employees Get Through The Holidays With Less Stress
It’s that time of year again. Time to start preparing (and indulging in) lavish meals, fighting over the last Black Friday deal, holiday parties and after holiday party, and making jolly when out of town guests arrive It’s the holiday…
4 Steps Before Employees Can Bring Their Pet to Work
Without a doubt, pets have become true members of the family. No longer just “man’s best friend”, but “fur babies” that we love, care for and protect. A Fortune-Morning Consult Poll reported that 76% of pet owners consider their animals…
Are You Treating Open Enrollment as a Step-Child?
Benefits may not be the glamorous part of human resources, but for employees, benefits rank right up there with pay in importance. A mediocre benefits package can lose you a great candidate. Eight out of 10 employees would choose new…
Company Chaplains: Help In a Crisis
My first experience in workplace crisis, non-combat related, officially occurred in the spring of 2012. I had scheduled a mid-week meeting with a safety officer, who I will call Mike. It was a 9:30 a.m. meeting, yet by 9:40 Mike…
The Case For Scrapping Your Long Term Incentives
If you’re like most companies, you provide stock options, restricted stock grants, and other long-term-incentives to your senior executives. But do you know why you provide those incentive packages? Are those packages working? Conventional thinking (and economic theory) tells us that…
4 Factors That Can Make Or Break Employee Assistance Programs
There is a growing body of evidence of the impact Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) have on workplace outcomes: lowered absenteeism, presenteeism and workplace distress, improved work engagement and life satisfaction. Chestnut Global Partners (CGP) and the Employee Assistance Professionals Association…
Even Small Companies Can Offer Perks That Build Engagement and Attract Talent
While many things in talent acquisition are changing, we’re seeing changes to core HR and talent management as well. One of the areas where this is most apparent is in the area of benefits or perks. Read about unique perks…
Is It Balance or Work/Life Integration?
Unlimited vacation. Free gym memberships. Nap pods. Such “perks” are increasingly commonplace — viewed as a smart engagement tool and a key strategy in driving workplace culture. But when it comes to improving work-life balance and helping employees feel rested…
Two Ways You Can Attract and Retain Millennials
The world is millennial crazy. If you read this blog you know I think about 99% of the millennial stuff is pure B.S. — (We were all young once, it’s mostly great, but sometimes sucks, buy a helmet!) — but…
Best of TLNT 2017: Flexibility Is More Important to Employees Than Almost Anything
Editor’s Note: It’s an annual tradition for TLNT to count down the most popular posts of the previous 12 months. We’re reposting each of the top 30 articles through January 2nd. This is No. 17 of 2017. You can find…
Don’t Hand Over the Keys Until You Set the Rules
One way to attract and retain talent is by including a company car in your employment offer. Even if used primarily for business purposes, personal use may be permitted (albeit with some restrictions in place), so it’s an enticing option…
How HR Should Manage an Employee Going Through a Divorce
Approximately 90% of people in western cultures get married by the time they turn 50. In the U.S., nearly half of the couples end up getting a divorce. Yikes! If your company has a hundred employees, there’s a very good…
How a Small Employer Gets Big Results From Its Employee Satisfaction Program
When I began working in human resources, my job was to make sure the company was in compliance. My tasks included payroll processing, recruiting and benefit administration, but in the past few years employee satisfaction has become one of our…