1. Workplace wellness: a casualty of the times?
There’s a new economic landscape forming before us. Where will workplace wellness programs fit in?
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2. The Top 10 global benefit challenges
Regardless of geography, culture, or language, all multinational employers face common HR challenges. The biggest being the changing concept of retirement and the continuing rise in the cost of healthcare.
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3. Employers offering increased benefits choices
The number of employers globally that offer employees choice in the benefits that they receive is growing, according to a new survey.
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4. Cutting healthcare can cut productivity
As the recession grinds on, employers are trying to contain costs while boosting productivity, both admirable and understandable goals. But these two goals can be at loggerheads when employee benefits are targeted, according to professionals at Morneau Sobeco’s Emerging Trends 2009 seminar.
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5. Getting the fundamentals right: HR best practices in tough economic times
While pundits, financial advisors and management consultants try to provide clarity amidst the current economic environment, the future remains stubbornly unclear.
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6. Measurement lacking in wellness programs
While more employers are offering workplace wellness initiatives, many miss the mark on gauging their impact, finds Buffett & Company’s 5th National Wellness Survey.
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7. The Future of HR
While pundits, financial advisors and management consultants try to provide clarity amidst the current economic environment, the future remains stubbornly unclear.
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8. HR best practices in tough economic times: part II
The current economic climate has created a “catch-22” of sorts, in which the constant barrage of bad news and layoffs has eroded workers’ morale and productivity at a time it is needed the most. However, adhering to fundamental HR strategies will not only see an organization through this recession, but help it to thrive in the meantime.
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9. Let’s get physical: top 30 pension & benefits plans
Budgets are tight, workforces are getting reduced and some employees are anxious that they may be the next to receive their walking papers.
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10. Using behavioural economics to improve health and lower costs
Imagine if employees made benefit choices that not only improved their health but saved their employer money. It seems like a winning proposition for both parties, but experience has shown time and again that people don’t always make the most rational decisions when faced with a range of options.
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