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How Can HR Combat Workplace Bullying?

HR Daily Advisor

Though fear and intimidation are counter-productive, some bullies rely on both to get the job done, whether that job is managing a department or running the company. turnover, benefit costs, recruiting/retention success, productivity, workplace illness, and accidents) for signs of inappropriate behavior. Bully Types. Learn more!

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I was told to ask more questions, recommending high-priced products at work, and more

Ask a Manager

Is it tacky to recommend exorbitantly priced products at work? Several people, including our CEO, recommended a couple of products they liked. However, I was flabbergasted at the cost of some of the products our CEO mentioned: $800 eye serums, $200 face creams and $500 tools for “helping products settle into the skin better.”

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Maternity Leave Policies in Hong Kong & Macau

Global People Strategist

In 2003, they increased it to ten weeks. In 2017, the Hong Kong government made another update to the law, this time increasing paid maternity leave to fourteen weeks. The changes to the law are also intended to help businesses by reducing absenteeism and increasing productivity.

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Remote Teams Trust: From a Distance and Through Technology

Cloverleaf

Trust is an essential building block of group cohesion (Sarker, Valachich, & Sarker, 2003), and trust is required for team success (Handy, 1995). Without trust, your team’s productivity will decline. One thing we know about remote and distributed teams is that connection is the key to performance.

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Are You Singing the Right Tune? Lessons Learned From Exit Surveys

Newmeasures

Employees may decide to return someday, remain a consumer of your products, or support your brand as a result of their experiences with your company. This may be especially important for companies like Verizon or Xfinity where a large proportion of their workforces, which have relatively high turnover, are also customers (Johnson, 2017).

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Health savings accounts: Not your parents’ retirement plan

HR Morning

According to The State of Employee Benefits 2017 report , published by employee benefits firm BenefitFocus, the number of eligible millennials under age 26 enrolling in an HSA rose by 40 percent in 2017. The same study found that millennials increased their HSA contributions by an average of $200 in 2017.

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Curbing Employee Turnover Contagion in the Workplace

Visier

The deadly 2002-2003 SARS outbreak remained an epidemiological mystery for over a decade. Finally, in late 2017, a team of Chinese scientists traced the virus back to a population of bats in a remote cave. The source of the disease — which killed 774 people worldwide — was unknown, and there was no vaccine.