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Will the Fourth Industrial Revolution take away your jobs? How skilled are you to meet the future requirements? Are you aware of the skills that will be most desired by employers by 2020 and beyond? With all these questions, employees are always looking out for ways to future proof their careers.
According to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Future of Jobs Report 2018, many businesses are opting for an augmentation strategy, where machines perform the repetitive tasks and allow professionals to use their distinctively human talents to solve more complex issues.
How engaged are these people you rarely see? How can you ensure your employees are the happy, efficient, stress-free respondents in all those studies about remote workers? In short: how can you keep remote employees engaged, and how can you know whether what you’re doing is working or not?
Despite the growing prevalence of women in the workforce, the median earnings of women over the age of 25 was $32,679 in 2017, with men’s median earnings for that same age group at $46,152, per U.S. Census Bureau data, who estimated that women only earn nearly 71% of their male counterparts.
Flexible working hours, extended maternity leave, breastfeeding rooms, free education and free healthcare are just a few of the ways that some countries build the best working environments for mothers. Laws in some European countries allow women to take dozens of weeks of paid leave.
When an employee does an outstanding job, managers want to reward their performance. The chance to do this is with the annual pay raise. The trouble is that managers also have to give everyone else a raise at the same time, and tight budgets leave little room to maneuver.
According to research by personal finance blog OverdraftApps.com and The HRC (Human Rights Campaign Foundation), companies within the banking and personal finance sector have topped the list as the best places to work for the LGBTQ community.
Advances in workplace technology have been an incredible boon to organizations with increasingly dispersed workforces. The numbers of employees who work remotely or telecommute are on the rise. This technology is evolving with the ever-shifting needs of organizations and their employees.
In an era of low unemployment, retaining the talent you have is crucial, especially because replacing skilled employees is more challenging than ever. Survey data from Allegis Group’s Global Workforce Trends Report shows 80 percent of employers are experiencing talent challenges due to changing markets.