Tag Archive For "HR tips"
How do employee benefits reflect your company culture?
Recently, a New Zealand firm trialed a four-day working week and called it an ‘unmitigated success’, stirring up heated discussions and envy over the Internet. In face of the increasingly competitive talent market, it seems that other than the paycheck, employee benefits package is getting more important in recruiting and retaining employees. As such, the …
Renewing employee benefits: Why should you stay with your current provider?
Among all of the annual costs facing businesses these days, compensation and benefits packages remain among one of their largest expenses. Salaries take a significant chunk out of operating budgets and employee benefits will often not be far behind. With benefit plans being annual contracts, companies will be regularly faced with the option of renewing …
Employee benefits solutions engagement: Is your company reaping the rewards?
Offering employee benefits solutions isn’t just to support staff, it should also benefit your company. Having a global employee benefits strategy is simply lip service if you’re not reviewing how your benefits plan is performing. Engagement is one key measure that can tell you how healthy your package is. Are your staff aware of the …
Have you forgotten about Gen X? Revisiting management benefits for senior executives
There’s no denying that workplace demographics are changing. The Baby Boomer’s days as employees are coming to an end as many of the last of that generation reach retirement and a significant amount of focus has been put on the rising talent of the Millennials – but what about Gen X? Many of this generation …
Questions you should ask when weighing up healthcare for small businesses
Earlier this month, we examined employee benefits for small businesses, and why companies might want to offer such perks to their staff. Some do it for talent acquisition purposes; others to reward and support loyal, hardworking staff. Whatever the reasons, securing healthcare for small businesses can seem like a huge task. Asking these key questions …
Employee medical insurance: Why is health insurance important?
With so many flashy, new types of wellness benefits on the rise in the industry, it can be easy to forget about the more common perks like employee medical insurance. Employer provided health coverage has become the standard foundation benefit for the platform of many companies. It could even be true that younger generations won’t …
Creating a wellness program: key questions for all businesses
Wellness programs continue to be the focus of many HR and company benefit discussions these days, and for good reason! A growing number of surveys have indicated that there are a lot of benefits attributed to supporting the health and wellbeing of staff. Employer provided health insurance continues to be the most popular employee benefit …
Things companies should know about offering employee life insurance
Offering company life insurance for employees as part of your benefits package can be a great move. Regardless of career ambitions, many of your staff will be working to provide for their family; parents building a future for their children, or people looking to take care of their elderly parents. Employee life insurance provides people …
Part time employee benefits: three reasons to extend perks to staff with non-standard hours
One of the key areas in our industry that gets very little attention is that of part time employee benefits. Part time and casual workers have long been features of every developed labor market in the world, and their numbers have been growing in the past decade – often at the expense of full-time employment. …
Unifying international employee benefits: how using a broker makes better sense
A challenge facing many businesses with multiple global operations is managing the benefits of their staff. In an age where salaries alone are no longer sufficient to attract the high calibre talent companies look for to drive their success further, juggling international employee benefits can be a tough task. Still, the lure of emerging markets …
