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Winning Back Your Overworked Employees: 5 tips to help you make it happen : This year, it is time to make some resolutions for your management team to win back those burned-out, overworked employees for a more successful 2018.
New Year, New Insights : What employees really need from well-being programs - Over 2,000 full-time U.S. employees reveal what really matters when it comes to well-being, stress and healthy eating.
5 Key Benefits Trends For 2018: Focus on employee perks, products and Services with lasting value - There are trends in employee benefits, too, and they can have a more serious long-term impact than a mullet haircut or neon fanny pack.
Sleep Like You Mean It: 5 reasons leaders should sleep more : Leaders who make a commitment to deep, uninterrupted sleep for eight or more hours report more focus, more energy and more motivation than their counterparts.
New York Paid Family Leave May Impact You, Even If Your Company Isn’t In NY: 10 ways employers can prepare for the new law : If your company has employees working in NewYork, start getting the word out about NYPFL. January 1, 2018 isn’t far off.
Sitting Is The New Smoking: Experts:3 daily habits that will make your employees healthier and happier -Sitting has been tied to serious health problems, including cancer, diabetes, and heart condition.
Healthcare Benefits In The Digital Age: Why telemedicine is the new HR trend:Today, telemedicine is one of the most sought after healthcare platforms for offering cost-effective and convenient care.
Furry Friends At Work: How to manage office pets and their owners at work? - For many workers, having a pet-friendlyworkplace would be a definite perk.
Make No Mistake, Meditation Means More Brain Power: Unleash the power within you-Get past the stress of a fear-conditioned mind and your experience will change, changing your reality.
May Is Healthy Vision Month: 5 steps HR departments can take to promote eye health:May is Healthy Vision Month, according to the National Eye Institute. Employers who are committed to employees’ whole health
It’s Time To Bring Medicare And Medicaid Together : And, how would merging it help? - A 2015 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation indicated that 93% of primary care physicians accept Medicare as a form of payment
Are Employer Paid MSP Premiums A Cash Taxable Benefit?: The distinction between cash and non-taxableBenefits-The distinction between cash and non-taxable benefits hangs on what the “benefit” received by the employee actually is.
Financial And Emotional Cost Of Living Paycheck To Paycheck: Give employees access to what is rightfully theirs:When the financial markets imploded in 2008, I learned quickly that there was more to financial stress than I had once known on Wall Street.
4 Healthcare Enrollment Trends To Watch In 2017: How does it affect employee health coverage? - As a human resource professional, you probably see 2017 as a year of great change, especially when it comes to employee health coverage.
The Best Gift To Give Your Employees? Free Food!:Well-fed teams = well-oiled machine : With the holidays quickly approaching, finding the perfect gift to show your team you care is top of mind for employers.
Empowering Employees To Empower Themselves : How to bridge the gap between patient and provider- The power of healthcare information management for employees is greatly understated within both healthcare and human resources.
De Minimis Fringe Benefits:What’s taxable and what’s not? We’ve all heard of “De Minimis” fringe benefits. we tend to think they are not subject to taxes. But that is not the case. So, what is a de minimis fringe benefit after all?
Open Season : 4 questions employee should ask before choosing a plan - As open enrollment season approaches, question is—or should be—on the mind of every one of your employees: “Should I keep my current plan, or change to a different one?
Pet Insurance: An essential voluntary benefits offering?- While employers seek ways to attract and retain talent, benefit diversification is top-of-mind for employees
Vacation Benefits Package: Millions of Americans are under-utilizing vacation time – Offering paid time to workers is a crucial part of benefits that allow people to rest and recharge, even if that means taking a few days to relax and read a book.
Sweden’s Six-Hour Workday: What the US can learn?- Sweden’s introduction of a six-hour workday has been heralded as the pinnacle of work-life balance and efficiency.
Mental Health Awareness Month: Take the first step towards a mentally healthy workplace- When was the last time you thought about your employees’ mental health?
Parkinson’s Awareness Month: Tips on accommodating Parkinson’s disease in the workplace- Every nine minutes, someone is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, according to the Dallas Area Parkinsonism Society.
Health Costs Are You Losing Out?Small- medium funded employers are paying more. A company’s healthcare costs were rising at a 19.6%a year over the five years. The employer owned organization is paying more to employee on healthcare than a big organization
Confronting The Looming Retirement Crisis In America: Are American workers ready for it?-Studies show the current workforce is ill-prepared for retirement dates that are still 20 to 30 years away.
The Holiday Stress Frenzy: How to make holiday a holy day? -Often times, labels are used to associate a word with a specific experience, whether that be an experience with a person, place or thing, a label is used to describe it.
Health Tracking Is Trending: Why track health metrics?-A national survey conducted by Pew Internet Research indicated that seven in ten US adults tracked at least one health metric.
Smoker’s Wellness Initiative: Using Stealth Wellness as a strategic approach- Smoking or tobacco cessation is a very common core strategy in most worksite wellness programs today.
25 Of The Best Employee Perks You Need To Have: Tips to create over all well-being of an employee - Thanks to companies in Silicon Valley, employees have high expectations of the perks that your company offers.
Workplace Wellness: The indisputable, the debatable, & where we go from here- Every HR professional has a full plate of responsibilities – and workplace wellness has become a standard item on the menu.
Does Your Commute To Work Cause Stress?: The science behind happiness at work - Everyone wants to be happy. The interest in happiness courses, happiness tools, and tricks has skyrocketed in the last ten years.
Worksite Wellness: Does the concept matter today?- As wellness is being applied to worksites today, we have allowed the multi-dimensional approach of wellness to be reduced to just one, a sole focus on physical health.
Decoding Healthcare Options: 5 options that can benefit your small business - To help decode healthcare options for your small business, this article spells out five options you have and how they can benefit your small business..
Voluntary Critical Illness Insurance: As we head into February, many people are still working at their New Year’s resolutions for a healthier year. Matthew Owenby
The Affordable Care Act: Demand for frontline health care workers – This article presents estimates of frontline worker demand in key occupations, offering alternative projections to illustrate the possible range of workers needed.
Employee Benefit Trends: 7 most dangerous ones you should avoid – With rising costs of care and tough economic conditions, HR professionals are consistently faced with the challenge of..
Menu Reading: Restaurant tips and tricks – While traveling often involves a change in our usual eating and exercise routine, one of the greatest reasons why we put on “travel pounds”..
Depression in the Workplace: What can depressed workers and their bosses do? – In light of the recent Robin Williams suicide, a huge groundswell of emotion and awareness has been suddenly been focused on the subject of Depression.
Overfed and Undernourished: Are you watching your eating pattern? – With 24/7 access to nutritionally depleted, chemically treated ‘food’,many of us are taking in lots of calories that do little to sustain us, let alone nourish and encourage us to thrive.
Why the Worry?: 85 % of what we worry about never happens – The great French essayist Michel de Montaigne said, “My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.”
How to Calm the Overactive Brain: 4 essential steps for personal wellness – Anyone out there ever lay awake at night wondering how things are going to turn out or needing to know why things happen as they do?
Are You a Dental Selfie?: Fully funded & self-funded dental plans – Some of your clients may qualify for self-funded dental plan and have the opportunity to become better off financially.
Present, But Not Awake: Sleep deprivation and its work place consequences – According to the National Sleep Foundation, 38.5% of us go to work feeling exhausted every day.
5 Benefits & HR Trends to Watch in 2014: Stay ahead of the curve with key trends for the year ahead – This year benefits and HR issues are anything but status quo.
