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Recognizing employee accomplishments is one of the best ways to motivate and maintain a loyal employee base. A recent 10-year global study shows just barely half (51%) of the more than 2.5 million employees surveyed feel appreciated. Further, a Forbes Magazine report indicates 87% of employee recognition programs are based solely on tenure instead of on performance. Rhett Power, co-founder of Wild Creations, one of South Carolina’s fastest growing companies, says even on a budget there are a number of ways to make people happier and feel more connected to their work.

Constantly improving upon well-being is vital to a population’s overall health and economy. For employers, well-being can also be a predictor of business outcomes, essentially affecting a company’s economic potential. Recent data from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index analyzes all 50 states, and based on five elements of well-being — purpose, social, financial, community and physical — have ranked states from best to worst for overall well-being.

As private exchanges continue to grow, employees often have many questions during open enrollment. Towers Watson compiled the top 10 questions asked by full-time active employees who enrolled though their OneExchange. Are you ready to answer these employees questions?

While American businesses have become better able to increase productivity and improve margins, statistics show a decrease in employee engagement and rising unhappiness. In an effort to better understand how to build the right kind of office culture, where employees are happy, healthy and productive, Chris Reimer, communications strategist and author of Happywork, shares eight ways organizations create horrible office cultures.

As Valentine’s Day approaches, employees may have lost that loving feeling they once had for their employers. Sixty-seven percent of employees say they love their company (or at least have no major complaints), a 10% dip from 2014, according to Virgin Pulse’s latest survey of more than 1,000 full-time employees in the U.S. and Canada.

While mobile developers and physical therapists made it onto the top 25 list of best jobs, these 10 score the highest. Glassdoor has put together the list using scores based on three factors: Earning potential based on average annual base salary, career opportunities rating and number of job openings.

Ready for a career change? Glassdoor has put together the 25 best jobs in America, with scores based on three factors: Earning potential based on average annual base salary, career opportunities rating and number of job openings.

Employee benefit firms owe a lot of their success to teamwork, which can be challenged by absentee or tardy employees. Traffic is the most common cause of tardiness among employees (50%), followed by lack of sleep (30%) and bad weather (26%). But those are just the tip of the iceberg, according to CareerBuilder. Here are some of the most bizarre reasons employees actually said they were late to work.

In addition to employees often calling in sick after a late night cheering on the Seattle Seahawks or New England Patriots during the season, an estimated 1.5 million employees will call in sick the Monday after the big game and 4.4 million employees will arrive late, according to the Workforce Institute at Kronos. Here are some ideas on how to deal with the disruption.

Disingenuous gestures between management and staff can drive a wedge in efforts to increase engagement and productivity, but here are some tips to encourage employers to more sincerely let employees feel appreciated.