Benefit by Helping Employees Achieve Work-Life Balance: Human Resources and Outsourcing

Many businesses are laser-focused on maximizing profits, which often means that employees are forced to work long hours and make other personal sacrifices.  Some employers view the concept of work-life balance with skepticism and believe that it will lead to a culture that will cause workers to become unmotivated. However, providing employees with work-life balance …

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Human Resources and Outsourcing: Employee Training

With the volatility in today’s stock market, companies tend to use defensive strategies to remain in the black.  Subsequently, the workforce responds by going on the move.  This movement is sometimes voluntary, but more often than not, it is involuntarily.  Never made that correlation?  You see, long gone are the days when most people spent …

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How Human Resources and Outsourcing Can Be Beneficial to Businesses

Outsourcing is an effective and smart solution to help manage your business costs, become more flexible and efficient.  When a business outsources its employees, it allows the business to take advantage of new opportunities. Both small and large companies outsource human resources because it helps reduce the cost of hiring and training new employees, but …

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How to Profit When Losing an Employee: Exit Interviews

Every business hopes to inspire the kind of loyalty and motivation that leads to a lifelong employee-employer relationship like those enjoyed by generations past.  Today’s changing marketplace has the Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting that the average worker only stays with one company an average of 5 years.  With that kind of turnover rate, your …

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Employee Benefits: Wellness Programs Continue to Be Important in 2016

You may have made — and possibly already given up — your New Year’s resolutions, but many companies are hoping that you’ll make your health a priority in 2016.  That’s because eating healthy and exercising regularly can make you a much more productive employee, according to researchers.  Here’s how: Saving Company Dollars Healthy eaters are …

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When Human Resources and Outsourcing Come Together

We’ve seen even the best HR professionals driven to a point of exasperation as the growth of their company has outpaced their team’s ability to keep up with their growing responsibilities. The beauty of outsourcing is that isn’t necessarily all-inclusive. A company can partner with an HR organization to ensure they remain current on all the latest federal …

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Human Resources and Outsourcing: Understanding Intermittent FMLA

Two workers sit in the company break room, discussing a recent crisis one is experiencing. “Kate” was recently diagnosed with migraines, and has gotten to the point that she doesn’t have any more time off. “Allie” comforts her but doesn’t know what to say. Kate mentions that her boss offered her FMLA, but she doesn’t …

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Cadillac Tax Delay

On December 18, 2015, President Obama signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 (Act) delaying the effective date of the “Cadillac Tax” until 2020 and making the tax deductible.  Leading opponents of the tax have said they would continue to press for it to be rescinded altogether. The House voted 316-113 Friday to approve the omnibus …

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