And yet, studies have shown time and time again that vacations are crucial for employee health, happiness, and productivity, and that employees return from vacation more motivated and energized than when they left. But if a change is going to happen such that both employees and employers are able to reap the benefits of vacation time, that change needs to start with company culture. Working vacations are, understandably, not a fit for every company or every employee. MORE

59 Awesome Employee Engagement Ideas & Activities for 2018 (Plus 10 New Bonus Ideas). The Top Employee Engagement Ideas: Align your company with a purpose. Find out what your team members are passionate about. HR managers can agree that employee engagement and retention are at the top of their priority list. Many employees in today’s job market quickly feel uninspired by their work, get bored after 2 years and start job hunting for something new. Team walks. MORE

Each week, with the help of HRmarketer Insight software , our researchers compile a sampling of mergers & acquisition, funding and partnership announcements from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace. Cargill Partners with UFCW and Marathon Health to Provide Employees and Their Families with Health and Wellness Services. AspireHR Labs to Offer Demos of Cloud Benefits at SAP SuccessFactors’ SuccessConnect 2016 – Success is Simply Human. MORE

Now, the type of enrichment activities that will work best for your staff are certainly specific to the type of business you have, your employee’s interests, and even whether your employees are actually on-site! The benefits are two-fold: they learn new skills or ways to do their job better, and you reap the benefits of a more talented, efficient workforce. Ask your employees what they’d like to learn more about and then tailor your activities accordingly. MORE

Organizational culture is the collection of values, expectations, and practices that guide and inform the actions of all team members. You can watch company culture in action when you see how a CEO responds to a crisis, how a team adapts to new customer demands, or how a manager corrects an employee who makes a mistake. Organizational culture affects all aspects of your business, from punctuality and tone to contract terms and employee benefits. MORE

21st Century HR Host: Lars Schmidt About: 21st Century HR is a podcast exploring how to build better businesses through modern people practices and approaches. The aim of the show is to illuminate what it takes to build people-centric companies. Everything from employment branding, to new technologies, to culture and unconscious bias in hiring, global team management, smart sourcing, the talent market, assessment tools, to RPO decisions, and more! MORE

As we begin our journey into 2019, many employees across the U.S. By following these ideas, you can help improve employee engagement, communication and more. Give employees a “catch up day” Simply, there is no worse feeling than the dread you get on the last day of your long vacation, knowing that you have to go back to reality and work the next day. Spice up the way you celebrate employee accomplishments. Provide ongoing training to employees. MORE

It’s not a secret that the most valuable asset of any company is its employees. Simply put, when team members are satisfied, you can expect an excellent performance that manifests in various ways: more clients, additional projects, and operations branching out to different locations, among others. Improve employee morale and job satisfaction. 4 Factors That Influence Employee Morale and Job Satisfaction. This vote of confidence helps improve employee satisfaction. MORE

On February 6 th and 7 th , Benify will participate in the HR Directors Summit, Birmingham with our Executive Vice President of Global Enterprise, Chris Wakely speaking about creating a consumer grade experience for employees as the best way to increase employee engagement. He will share findings from Benify’s Benefit Gap and Compensation Gap studies and will discuss why presenting impactful information digitally optimizes the employee experience. MORE

recruiting, talent management, benefits, etc.). Finally, we analyzed RSS feeds for about 2,000 HR blogs and other media properties in the HR, recruiting and benefits space. In the HR space, there are some topics that have been popular for years: employee engagement, big data, healthcare. Notice how “employee appreciation” is trending because March 4th was employee appreciation day in the U.S. Employee Engagement. Employee Benefits. MORE

One of the hottest topics in the internal communications space is employee engagement. Whether looking at past or present data, there are a lot of employee engagement trends to take stock of, especially as we move towards an increasingly digital world and workplace. . Even though employee engagement is something that companies deal with internally, the effects of lower levels transcend the office walls. What is Employee Engagement? . General employee engagement trends. MORE

Increasingly employees do not go into the office to get their work done – they are able to work quite effectively from a remote site. They go in order to meet with others to talk together about the planning and coordination issues their team or department is facing. Distributed organizations bring with them enormous benefits. And both note, that if they required employees to relocate they would lose critical talent. “It MORE