This tech platform helps employers have tough workplace conversations
Bravely links employees, counselors to confront communication challenges that threaten worker and organizational success.
Employee retention
Benefits Think How to evaluate an applicant tracking system
When shopping for an ATS, it pays to slow down long enough to get the facts. Here are three important questions HR pros should ask before investing in the tech tool.
Bill Neese
Paycor
Building a better 401(k): How Optanix revamped its retirement plan
After listening to employee concerns over the company’s program, Benny Award winner Jodi Budnick made it her mission to upgrade the plan and help employees save more for their post-work years.
Top of their game: Inside Activision Blizzard’s innovative benefits strategy
Benny Award winner Milt Ezzard aims to keep employees of the entertainment and gaming developer healthy and happy with perks that include a high-tech crib that helps new parents get better sleep.
Paychex launches web-based employee training system
The new tool allows employers to test workers’ skills through pre-loaded online training modules.
High tech to high touch: Taking aim at Type 2 diabetes with virtual coaches
How Purdue University’s Candace Shaffer, EBN’s Benefits Leadership in Healthcare winner, tackled chronic diseases.
Building a better 401(k): How Optanix revamped its retirement plan
After listening to employee concerns over the company’s program, Benny Award winner Jodi Budnick made it her mission to upgrade the plan and help employees save more for their post-work years.
An app that takes the annual employee review mobile
Employers can connect with workers via Globant’s mobile tools to improve corporate culture and speed up performance evaluations.
Top degrees sought by employers
With a tight labor market, recent college graduates have a plethora of jobs to fill at their disposal. However, there are some degrees employers truly desire more than others, according to CareerCast.
Benefits Think The days of employers ignoring the opioid crisis are over
Management must realize that their workplace is not spared by the national epidemic of painkiller abuse. Here are steps to reduce their employees’ risk and loss of productivity.
Cory Panning
Findley
Benefits Think Give employees time back in an always-on working world
First offered by large Silicon Valley companies, time-saving benefits are now spreading to employers and industries of all kinds.
Jeff Oldham
Benefitfocus
Benefits Think Yes, mental health is affecting everyone in the workforce
Mental health is a growing concern that cuts across all generations in the U.S. workforce, which is increasingly impacting corporate healthcare plans, according to AP Benefit Advisors data.
Tom Rosenbaum
AP Benefit Advisors
Behavioral economics poised to educate benefits clients
IFEBP poll notes various applications to improve healthcare decisions and access to care, as well as encourage healthier living.
High tech to high touch: Taking aim at Type 2 diabetes with virtual coaches
How Purdue University’s Candace Shaffer, EBN’s Benefits Leadership in Healthcare winner, tackled chronic diseases.
An app that takes the annual employee review mobile
Employers can connect with workers via Globant’s mobile tools to improve corporate culture and speed up performance evaluations.
Benefits Think The days of employers ignoring the opioid crisis are over
Management must realize that their workplace is not spared by the national epidemic of painkiller abuse. Here are steps to reduce their employees’ risk and loss of productivity.
Cory Panning
Findley
Tesla’s HR head resigns
Gabrielle Toledano, the head of human resources who’s been on a leave of absence, says she won’t rejoin the company.
Carpooling apps ‘lyfting’ commuting burdens for employers
A surge of new transportation apps, such as Hytch, aim to address a modern workplace conundrum: long, expensive commutes.
Workplace financial education helps lower employee stress, Prudential says
Fewer employees reportedly experienced financial issues after the company implemented a series of financial wellness initiatives and tools.
Benefits Think Payment, benefits innovation play a role in reducing healthcare spending
Employers have turned to the alternative payment model for Medicare payments for a simple reason: It works.
Francois de Brantes
Remedy Partners