Mari Kemp, senior vice president of Human Resources at Ease, recognizes her employees as people, not numbers.

Ben Conner, CEO of Conner Insurance, knows that benefits is a relationship-based business.

Kimberly Jones is a people leader at PwC and an inaugural winner of the first ever Employee Benefit News Excellence in Benefits Award.

For international business Gerdau, changing company culture is a journey, not a project.

In an environment where workers want to have their rights and freedoms protected, is there room for civility?

In the current system, employees may be paying twice as much and getting something twice as bad.

From more mental health support to career building opportunities, employees are speaking up about what matters most.

“We need to challenge the idea that everyone should or does drink alcohol,” said Alexandria Walker, co-founder of Bee Sober, at the Society of Human Resources 2021 annual conference.

Currently, only 23% of the company’s leaders are female.

Continued dissatisfaction at work may contribute to the labor shortage.

Companies need to carefully design their incentives and penalties to ensure they don’t disproportionately affect lower-paid workers.

Training programs show employees the organization cares enough about them to invest in their future.

Employers need to rethink their hiring strategies if they want to be competitive and attract new hires.

Black and Latinx directors each hold about only 1% of board seats, with women at about 10%.

New employees are missing out on networking and career building opportunities while joining new teams remotely.

Don’t just assume your strategies are satisfying female employees — ask them.

Previously diversity and inclusion and mental health initiatives would live in separate corporate domains, but employers increasingly understand the inextricable link between these two issues.

“Sometimes you have to put employees before profits,” says Tom Moran, CEO of Addison Group.

Workhuman’s latest employee survey spotlights dissatisfaction in the workplace, and where employers are falling short.

The health and safety of your workforce must be top priority as COVID concerns continue.