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The Changing Executive Benefits Landscape: An In-Depth Look

HR Daily Advisor

Rich Friedman, Vice President & COO of Ayco’s Benefits and Compensation Group, sums up recent activity: “There has been relative stability in most of the executive perks over the past decade, especially for perquisites that deliver shareholder value.”. In 2007, 27% received such memberships as part of their compensation package.

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Is Unstable Shift Scheduling Hurting Your Sales?

Zenefits

But business owners or managers charged with setting work hours might not know how irregular scheduling can also hurt sales and productivity. The economy is making a moderate, but steady comeback from the Great Recession of 2007. Boosts in sales and productivity. Stable scheduling boosted productivity by 5 percent.

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Walmart $1 Billion Investment Reaffirms Importance of Total Compensation

Compensation Today

By Tess Taylor, PayScale Senior Blogger and Mykkah Herner, PayScale Director of Compensation Everywhere you turn, there’s more news about big companies like Target, McDonald’s and TJ Maxx raising the minimum wage. But as any savvy professional knows, wages are only a piece of the total compensation puzzle. What do you think?

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Report Projects Stability for Employers with 2019 Healthcare Costs

ACA Times

in 2007 to stabilize around 5.5% National health spending has grown from an average of under 6% of gross domestic product (GDP) in the 1960s to a projected average of nearly 18% for the decade ending in 2020. The report notes that the annual medical costs trend has dropped significantly from 11.9% to 7% over the past five years.

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DEI & the Academy Awards: New Film Industry Guidelines Address Diversity & Inclusion

Trusaic

Nevertheless, a USC Wallis Annenberg Study showed that over a ten-year period: Over 70 percent of film characters are white ; 89% percent of directors are male, and 84% percent are white ; Just 43 out of 1,100 films between 2007 and 2017 were helmed by female directors; and .

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Opioid Crisis: Determining the Impact to Your Workplace

Visier

billion in 2007. Indeed, it can be productive to view the issue through a compassionate lens. If you know where you are affected, you can then make more accurate projections about potential lost productivity, and your hiring plans can take this into account. Evidently, this is not just a health crisis. Is overtime the answer?

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Cafe Classic: More Savvy Insights into HR Emails

Compensation Cafe

It wasn't the findings on productivity that got my attention so much. As you might imagine, Ames' & Flynn's 2007 research indicated that low assertiveness produced minimal returns. Here's the savvy topic that got my attention, "Can you get things done without making people hate you?"