Employees worldwide have one eye on the future—but they feel their employers aren’t helping them to get there.
Workplace stress is harming your staff’s mental health and your bottom line, says Towers Watson. Rising health costs, combined with increased employee absence, stress and disability, are creating a double-whammy for employers—in terms of both cost control and workforce productivity.
Employees want wellness programs that are easy to use, personalized and motivating and meaningful to them, according to a U.S.-based study by Aon Hewitt, The Futures Company and the National Business Group on Health.
Technology is a way to drive talent engagement in these days of disgruntled employees. That was the message from Buck Consultants at its “Click. Connect. Engage. The Future of HR Technology” presentation, held Nov. 17 in Toronto.
Providing total rewards statements to your employees can not only help to improve their awareness of the value of their benefits plans—it can also help to retain and engage them.
Your employees are not happy. That’s according to study by Aon Hewitt, which found employee satisfaction, or engagement, remains at its lowest level since 2008.
Santa Claus may not be coming to town after all, as office holiday parties have become a casualty in many Canadian organizations facing budget considerations in a tough economic climate.
For employers that are trying to help their employees prepare for retirement, the challenge has always been finding ways to craft a program that is efficient, affordable, sustainable, reliable and attractive to participants.
Helping employees go back to school isn’t just good for the worker—it’s good for the employer, too. According to the Tuition Assistance Value Study, conducted by EdLink, the ROI Institute and Capella University, the vast majority of employees who have advanced their education through tuition assistance programs report that their job satisfaction, efficiency, quality, and […]
(Note: The survey findings reported here are based on the responses of 248 companies based in the U.S. Findings based on the responses of Canadian companies will be issued later this month.) The number of companies using financial incentives and penalties to motivate participation in workplace health initiatives is rapidly on the rise, according to […]