Employers looking to attract and retain the best gen Y talent can start by learning to speak their language—and this doesn’t have to mean signing off emails with “g2g-ttyl.”
Workers continue to feel trapped in their jobs and want to find new employment elsewhere, according to a survey by Right Management.
Communicating your benefits plan to employees in a way they understand and will act upon can be challenging. And if employees feel their employers don’t understand or appreciate their needs, that disengagement can be costly.
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.