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Why businesses should focus on eliminating poverty—and health disparities

HRExecutive

Sendhil Mullainathan , a behavioral economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, studies the impacts of poverty on mental bandwidth and productivity. This ensures a proactive stance, enabling businesses to contribute meaningfully to advocacy efforts and stay ahead of critical policy shifts. Spark Change.”

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Bringing your dog to work can promote wellbeing and productivity

HR Digest

allow employees to take their dogs to work, according to the Society of Human Resource Management – up from 4 percent in 2014. When done well, a dog-friendly workplace policy can increase employee retention. The post Bringing your dog to work can promote wellbeing and productivity appeared first on The HR Digest.

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Can Companies Truly Offer the Work Flexibility that Employees Crave?

The People Equation

Programs such as Flex-Time, Telecommuting, Paid time off for community service and Sabbaticals were all offered more frequently in 2015 than in 2014. 81% report higher worker satisfaction, and nearly 75% say that these programs boost productivity. Image courtesy of Spherion’s EWS Executive Summary. We’ll have to wait and see.

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3 Benefits Your Clients Need to Know About Seasonal Hiring and Staffing Agencies

Spark Hire

The report also states the length of the interview process is largely due to hiring policies of employers. companies increased their average talent acquisition costs 7 percent from 2013 to 2014, driven in part by an increase of nearly $4,000 per hire. A lengthy interview process increases expense.

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The Aging Workforce: Succession Planning and Retention

HR Daily Advisor

The report points to the need for employers to focus on retaining older workers and keeping them productive. Thirteen countries are expected to have ‘superaged’ populations—where more than one in five people is 65 or older—by 2020, up from just three in 2014.” The United States is among those countries.

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Time for HR’s 2014 Performance Appraisal

HR Daily Advisor

It’s a good time to reflect on your accomplishments of 2014. How close are you now to where you thought you’d be on January 1, 2014? As an example of what you will find, here are some policy recommendations concerning e-mail, excerpted from a sample policy on the website: Privacy. Happy New Year, readers!

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Considering an Office Pet Policy? Start Here.

Namely

Per the American Pet Products Association, it’s much more: 17 percent. But what the surveys all agree on is that the practice is on the rise, in part due to the widely publicized workplace policies of companies like Google and Amazon. Concerns with pet hygiene and the potential for biting often doom pet policies from the start.