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Pet Insurance as a Benefit – Why Your Company Should Consider It

TalentCulture

Fortune Magazine has called pet insurance the “hottest employee benefit” and one survey forecasts that nearly 60% of companies will offer pet insurance by 2018 (Willis Towers Watson 2016). The number of companies offering our pet insurance as a voluntary benefit in 2017 has increased over 134% since 2013.

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Competing for Tricky STEM Talent and What Performance Management Has to do With It

Achievers

It seems like nearly every company I’ve worked with is struggling to attract and retain strong technical resources, whether their organization competes in the technology space or not. A strong technical competency/capability model will do this. It will also help to have the technical career path agenda mentioned above.

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The Affordable Care Act, and Why You Can’t Afford to Ignore It [UPDATE]

ACA Times

I wrote a five-part series about the ACA for “Construction Business Owners Magazine” in 2015. During the war, with millions of men in military service, employers had to compete for scarce workers. As of November 2017, employers started being penalized by the IRS for failing to comply with the ACA’s Employer Mandate.

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HR Needs to Design Work For the Technology Age

HR Bartender

They need to demonstrate emotional intelligence and competence in speaking the numbers. Whether it’s blogs, magazines, or webinars, find sources for good information. It’s coming up – October 10 through 13, 2017 – in Vegas Baby! I know we put a lot on the plates of human resources. It’s a tall order. That’s how we learn.

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How to Create an Employee Benefits Communication Strategy for Short Attention Spans

Tango Health

And then comes an article from The Next Web that argues longer-form content is relevant, noting… “Sharing of magazine articles, which tend to be longer than 1,000 words, is up 11.3 percent since December (2017).” From work responsibilities to soccer games, there are plenty of activities that compete with your benefits communications.

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Competing for Tricky STEM Talent and What Performance Management Has to do With It

Achievers

It seems like nearly every company I’ve worked with is struggling to attract and retain strong technical resources, whether their organization competes in the technology space or not. A strong technical competency/capability model will do this. It will also help to have the technical career path agenda mentioned above.

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Upskilling and reskilling the workforce for an uncertain future

cipHR

digital competence and understanding. Another survey, by compliance training company DeltaNet, found a 70% increase in searches related to career switching between 2021 and 2017 as workers reconsidered their career priorities during the pandemic. He says: “You have to look over the fence and see what the next set of skills might be.