Master Employee Appreciation With These 35 Inexpensive Ideas

Justworks

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We all work long, hard hours. And that hard work can sometimes go without much recognition or appreciation. But it’s important to reward your employees for a job well done. Some surveys have shown that employee recognition has a direct correlation to employee satisfaction, and satisfied employees do better work and are less inclined to leave. Business Tips

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10 Recruiting Mistakes To Avoid In The Hiring Process

Justworks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Leilani Lucero helps Justworks find and hire exceptional people as our head of recruiting. She brings a wealth of experience in recruiting in the tech and startup industries. Here, Leilani shares tips and tricks from her experience to help your small businesses grow. If you have any hiring questions for her or us, tweet us at @JustworksHR. HR Recruiting

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Industry Recruitment 61

Isaac Oates: Announcing Our Partnership With Aetna

Justworks

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

At Justworks, we consistently hear from our customers that they want to provide their teams with great healthcare. We listened. So we’re thrilled to announce a partnership with Aetna, one of the largest health insurance carriers in the US with a massive national network. Aetna shares our vision for providing a next-generation HR platform to the next generation of companies and their teams. And we.

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Company 55

3 Surefire Ways to Make Your Remote Employees Loathe You

Justworks

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Working from home or working remotely is becoming increasingly common these days. Companies are hiring employees from anywhere in the world without needing them to come into the office. (By the way, hiring remote workers does require a different recruiting approach. Check out our rules for hiring remote employees here.). HR Management

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Training and learning organizations today play an active role in contributing to the bottom line of any organization by aligning their objectives to the immediate business objectives. This provides a solid ground for cost justification and encourages businesses to place training groups right where they should be, at the heart of a growing, thriving, learning culture.

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Expenses 101: Are Expense Reimbursements Taxable Income?

Justworks

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

We've built a guide detailing valid business expenses and showing you how to build an expenses plan. Download it for free here. Every business incurs costs and expenses that reduce the business's taxable income. Sometimes, these expenses may be incurred by employees during the course of business. Compliance

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Understand the Difference Between a Non-exempt and Exempt Employee

Justworks

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Exempt and non-exempt are two words that most employers have heard of at least once. And the reason is because all employees are either exempt or non-exempt. There is no middle ground between the two terms, which makes understanding the differences between the two a little easier. We outline each term below

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Providing Business Meals to Employees: What Are the Costs?

Justworks

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Many of the expenses incurred by employees, and perks provided for employees, involve food. Employees eat while traveling, while working, while taking breaks, and while entertaining. When employers provide or pay for these food costs, what are the real costs for both the employer and the employee? Want more info on how business meals work? Download our guide here for free. Business Tips Managemen

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[Infographic] Use Our New Hire Checklist To Create A Warm Welcome

Justworks

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Bringing a new employee into the office is an exciting and also somewhat intimidating day for both parties. At Justworks, we have welcome swag packages waiting for our new hires. We also send out a company-wide e-mail introducing the new addition to our team, with a photo. Whatever your team decides to do, just make sure to implement a clear strategy for welcoming new hires. Doing so will make the process more comfortable for everyone. To help you get started, we've created the below infographic. We hope this new hire checklist helps you make your new hire's first day the best it can be.

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Is your company ready to move beyond the annual performance review? Where do you start? What are the keys to success? In this guide, you’ll gain an understanding of: the forces driving change, three foundations of success and take a deep dive into the skills gap many managers have that will sink your efforts before they start and how to address them.

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Keeping Small Teams Efficient: 11 Pillars of Employee Productivity

Justworks

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Some studies have shown that small teams are more efficient than large teams. Well, it’s easier for smaller teams to communicate and get things done. But smaller teams can also have a more relaxed atmosphere, which might hurt employee productivity. Alternatively, bandwidth can become an issue. How do you create optimal team effectiveness? Business Tips

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Know Your ABCs: Health Insurance Terms

Justworks

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Coinsurance? Deductible? HMO or PPO? Navigating the world of health insurance can be frustrating for anyone. We’re betting a lot of people can’t tell you what those words mean without a little help from Google or some other source. It turns out we’re right. Benefits

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Dos & Don’ts of Taking Time Off When You Work for a Small Team

Justworks

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Our work lives are busy, busy, busy. With long hours and packed schedules, it’s easy to get burnt out. Taking time off from work is crucial to preventing burn out and helping us recharge. This is somewhat obvious, right? Well, it’s proven. Studies show that vacation and time off has positive effects on your health. And if you have been missing out on your vacations, you are twice as likely to have problems balancing your work and personal life. Don’t we all come back from vacations rejuvenated and ready to work? And it’s possible. Fun Vacation Policy

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Know The Basics: IRS Form 941

Justworks

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

W-2, 1099, W-9. The sheer number of tax forms for employers and employees can get complicated. For companies, corporate taxes can be cripplingly complex. We want to take that complication off your plate, starting with the IRS Form 941 for employers. Payroll Taxes

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Employees at the front lines often have better ideas for innovation than others within the business, but when they walk out the door, they take those ideas with them. Want to innovate better and faster than the competition? You need to hold onto your best employees and the ideas they have. In this session we will explore how various pieces of the talent life cycle are related to retention and examine more than 20 strategies and ideas for improving retention outcomes for your business.

5 Online Recruiting Tips For Finding Candidates Quickly & Successfully

Justworks

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Recruiting candidates for your company has traditionally involved making classified ads, attending career fairs, and networking. While these are all solid recruiting methods, the advent of the Internet has explosively expanded candidates' and employers' options. But with LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, Monster and more comes a lot more noise. Trying to find employees online could be overwhelming. Recruiting now has a sort of paradox of choice; there are so many candidates, how to you find the top-notch employees ? And which do you reach out to? Download it for free here.).

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Your Employee Definition For Full-Time & Part-Time Workers

Justworks

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Simply put, an employee is someone who works for your business. However, the true definition of employee can go deeper than that. Correctly classifying your employees help your business run more smoothly, and can save you from serious financial consequences. HR Compliance

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Compliance 5

ClearCompany HRM

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Screening candidates will never go out of style, but doing it via the phone or in-person… will. With video interviewing, a series of predetermined questions can be asked of each applicant to help make better decisions of who to invite to the next round. If you’ve already adopted video interviewing into your candidate screening process, congrats!

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PeopleStrategy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

HR is under a lot of pressure these days. That is a lot, especially when your job requirements also include making sure day-to-day employee management tasks (i.e. onboarding, payroll, benefits administration, time and attendance, performance) are completed accurately and on time. Ditch the bad rap and arm yourself with technology to make you dangerous. That’s because she loves her HR solution.

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Can you hear the collective groan when you launch that new compliance course? Do you get complaints both public and private from trainees about the uselessness of the training courses you've launched? Is there anything that can be done about it?

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nettime solutions

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Managers have a lot to manage. On the front end, they make sure employees deliver high quality products and service. On the back end, they evaluate labor within the parameters of operation, but many small items often get overlooked. cloud based time and attendance software has the functionality to customize Alerts , which work as an automated HR assistant in workforce management.

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Kanjoya

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

As someone who works on a product to increase diversity in the workforce, it has been exciting to witness the media attention around diversity issues this year. Articles abound, dominated by reports of diversity statistics and pledges at leading tech firms, discussions of measures, like the Rooney Rule, to increase the number of diverse candidates in the pipeline, and coverage of diversity lawsuits. While I am encouraged by the discourse and the positive changes it can foster, I have become increasingly aware of what is largely left out of the conversation. Kanjoya Can Help.

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ClearCompany HRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Every company wants high performers. They’re more productive, highly driven, can save you money on hiring and, if you can keep them around long enough, they have the potential to do great things for your organization. But when it comes to attracting them, it seems companies are still stuck with their outdated ideas of talent acquisition. What’s the key to recruiting high performers ? Compassion.

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TriNet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) reports that it receives nearly 25,000 wage and hour complaints per year and the number of FLSA (Fair Labor Standards Act) cases filed in the federal court is more. Visit site for full story. Best Practices Compliance Legal Wage-and-Hour Employment best practices SMB payroll TriNet

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Is your organization thinking about moving towards a performance development culture? What are the elements to succeeding and keeping managers and employees engaged? Download “A Road Map for Change” to find out and gain insight into making the transition as smooth as possible on your journey into this brave new world.

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ClearCompany HRM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Good leaders are assertive. They take charge, cut through the clutter, and make key business decisions with authority. While there may be conflict from employees about what the best path forward might be, the only thing worse than making a bad decision is not making one at all, which can happen when you’re too intent on hearing all sides before making a decision. talent manager

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Talent Management 83

TriNet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

As an entrepreneur, you founded your business because you are passionate about the product or service you provide the world. However, on the road to success, you probably found that your time spent. Visit site for full story. HR best practices HR Outsourcing HR Solutions Benefits Choosing an HR company co-employment

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ej4 HR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

When a new manager is promoted, a more senior manger is generally tasked with their training. But even an experienced manager might not know how to prepare a new manager for their role. Managing or training employees is one thing… but when showing a new manager the ropes, there are still common training pitfalls. To [.]. The post 3 Ways Good Companies Get Stuck When Training Managers appeared first on. Management Training Training & Education

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Edcor

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Congratulations to the class of 2015. After years of grit and perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, these graduates have education and talents to bring to the marketplace. In addition, they have student loan debt. On average 71 percent of this year’s bachelor’s degree graduates have loans. The average debt is $35,000. Job openings in the US reached a record high in July of 5.8 million in June.

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Today’s workplace is characterized by chaotic forces—low employee engagement and productivity levels, and declining employee well being. HR Leaders have a critical role in defining the vision and strategy to transform and create a more productive and happy workplace.

ClearCompany HRM

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Job hoppers are common nowadays. They may stay at a job for 6 months or 4 years but more often than not, many of your employees won’t be the career type. The question is, do you really want to attract or hire these candidate types? While they seem jumpy, fly-by-night workers, there is a rhyme for their reasons to bounce from job to job. Tips Business Trends

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nettime solutions

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

As all of the #INBOUND15 attendees are gearing up to get ready for the big event, I personally have been glued to their amazing scheduling app. Having bounced around to many of 'THE' conferences throughout my marketing career, the one thing I have noticed they all had in common was that they were inconsistent in how they communicated their conference agendas.

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nettime solutions

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

We eat, breathe and live time. Whether there isn’t enough time or you’re counting the hours until a specific time, there is a constant reminder of how important it is in order to stick to a schedule. Schedule being the key word here –– which is how an organization much like yours maintains its production levels in order to sell, distribute, support and process the product or service it offers.

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RecognizeThis!

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Employees are telling us what would engage them more in their work. We simply need to listen. Want to know how to engage employees? Perhaps the best (and obvious) answer is to ask the employees. Oracle did just that. Results of their survey were recently published in Personnel Today. Here are the key excerpts. 21% say line managers. 7% say unit managers. 3% say HR.

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Training and development professionals often bemoan the lack of apparent initiative in their trainees. Learning professionals spend huge sums of money creating or acquiring skill aligned libraries of learning content, only to watch almost helplessly as learners refuse to engage with any training available that isn’t mandatory.

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Kanjoya

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

A constant challenge for managers is balancing immediate concerns with employee development and growth. Too often, in the rush to meet deadlines, prepare deliverables, and focus on direct revenue producers, we don’t find the time to discuss our reports’ career goals and development. Instead, we put these conversations on the back burner, and relegate them to the periods, once or twice a year, when performance reviews take place. Despite good intentions, we all do it, and it’s a constant struggle. But research shows that professional development does impact the bottom line, in measurable ways.

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RecognizeThis!

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! – Too many good employees leave out of boredom. Identifying areas of interest for new career paths can keep top employees engaged and on board. Last night marked the start of a new era in late night television in the US with Steven Colbert’s debut as the host of “Late Show” on CBS, long the home of David Letterman. Think about it. Yet he was growing bored.

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ATD Human Capital

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

When is the last time you did a good deed for someone in your office? How did it make you feel? How did it make them feel? Dan Schwartz explains how kindness can be a catalyst for organizational transformation. Click here to read full version

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RecognizeThis!

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – We all know the power of social recognition to engage and retain employees, but when employees have multiple channels to share recognition, the benefits grow exponentially. The IBM Smarter Workforce Institute (SWI) recently released a report showing the importance of using multiple channels for recognition. This thanks leads to higher engagement and retention.

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Needed: A shift from traditional performance management systems (organized as an annual review process) to newer performance development systems (organized around real-time dynamics). Download part one in a series to gain insight into why this shift must happen and why it needs to happening now

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