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Blueboard, the Employee Rewards and Recognition Platform Shuts Down

Empuls

Blueboard's innovative platform offered personalized experiences and rewards, allowing employers to tailor incentives to individual preferences and interests. Its impact extended beyond mere rewards, fostering employees' sense of belonging and appreciation and contributing to enhanced productivity and retention rates. 

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Cafe Classic: Excessively Successful Incentives

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: In this Classic cautionary tale, Jim Brennan (using the 2016 Wells Fargo incentive disaster as his beginning "case in point") reminds us of how easily even reward plans designed with the best intentions can misfire. The only thing worse than an incentive that doesn’t work is one that works all too well.

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Employee Salary Revision, Arrear Processing & Bonus Payments – Detailed run through

Keka HR Blog

Bonus not processed: It happens when there is an incentive, bonus, or monetary addition to the salary for the month because a festival or because a team or employee did an exceptional performance. As per statutory laws, the Government of India mandates organisations to pay yearly bonuses to their employees.

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7 Ways to Keep Call Center Employees Engaged

Achievers

As a result, recognition keeps your employees motivated and engaged, which elevates productivity. From a revenue standpoint, this distraction can cost employers $7,000 per employee, per year or about 20 hours of lost productivity each month, per employee. Listen to Your Team. The current job market is the employee’s market.

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Signing Bonuses: A Useful Talent Acquisition Tool in Today’s Labor Market?

Astron Solutions

A 2016 WorldatWork survey found that 76% of employers were using signing bonuses to attract key employees. Signing bonuses are described as “a lump sum of money that an employer provides to a prospective employee. It is the employer’s hope that the extra money will be an incentive for the prospect to accept the job offer.

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7 Ways to Keep Call Center Employees Engaged

Achievers

As a result, recognition keeps your employees motivated and engaged, which elevates productivity. From a revenue standpoint, this distraction can cost employers $7,000 per employee, per year or about 20 hours of lost productivity each month, per employee. Wells also spoke at the 2015 Exceptional Women In Publishing conference.

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FLSA: The song (no longer) remains the same…

i4cp

Proposed regulations were released in June 2015, accepting comments until September of that year. Compliance is not an option—it is required if a company has at least two employees and annual sales of $500,000, to include workers who are "engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce" as well as various other industries (e.g.,