Employee Retention
Great Resignation or Great Retention? How HR can win
What will it be for you – the Great Resignation or Great Retention? As an HR pro, you likely have the power to win in the increasingly difficult talent war. Instead of watching good employees walk out for the supposed next, best opportunity, you can stay ahead of resignations with solid retention strategies. Almost 4…
Health insurance costs at record highs, coverage erodes
Employer-provided health insurance coverage for the average American family now costs as much as a small car – $20,000 – every year. That’s the finding of a just released study by the Kaiser Family Foundation nonprofit health research group. The foundation’s annual survey of employer-provided health insurance plans found that employees, on average, pay about…
How brand values can help you attract top young talent
Perhaps no generation is more outspoken than Gen Z when it comes to brand values and social issues. And as Gen Z makes up more and more of the workforce – which is projected to be over a quarter (27%) by 2025 – the new generation is changing the way we do work. While older…
How to calculate your employee retention rate
If you’re searching for a simple and quick explanation of how to calculate your employee retention rate, you’ve come to the right spot. For every HR pro who wants to make their organization a better place to work, here’s the answer you’ve been searching for: Employee retention rate formula The basic formula for calculating retention…
How to Crank Up Human Sustainability | 2-Minute Video
Do you take care of employees in the best possible ways, setting them up to succeed and help your organization flourish? You probably try. And there’s a name for the effort: Human Sustainability. It’s important these days because people are important — your employees, contractors, customers and the wider community. How the company connects with…
How to cultivate workforce resilience in a time when it’s needed most
It’s no secret that employee and leadership well-being has taken a dip since the pandemic. With economic turbulence fueling layoff fears, inflation and a historically tight labor market, there’s no shortage of stressors that are impacting your employees and taking a toll on employee satisfaction. As existing talent worries about layoffs and financial health, business…
How to retain Gen Z employees with wellness initiatives
Attracting and retaining talent starts with understanding what employees want. For Gen Z, which will make up over 30% of the workforce by 2030, priorities are vastly different than generations before them. This generation – thrust into the workforce at the height of the pandemic – has put the focus on mental health and wellness….
HR managers face 2 crises at once: Here’s the way out
HR managers are facing two big problems at this stage of the pandemic. One is that they’re having trouble hiring and retaining people. The labor shortage is real, and what was an issue before the pandemic has now bloomed into a full-blown crisis. Due to the Great Resignation, people are also leaving their jobs in…
Hybrid work may be HR’s key to retention
While leaders like Elon Musk and Tim Cook are pushing employees to return to office either full- or part-time, employees are happy with the time and autonomy they get from remote work. Luckily, throughout the pandemic, many companies have adopted a happy medium in hybrid work. To get the most out of in-office and remote…
Improve employee retention with these 5 leadership ‘soft skills’
Employee retention strategies are cropping up everywhere. But even the “best of the best” strategies won’t help if managers don’t have the skills to positively engage their people one-on-one.
In case you needed more reasons to let workers telecommute, look at this …
Most HR pros understand the benefits of letting workers telecommute. The C-suite, however, has traditionally been harder to convince. Well, if more convincing is what’s needed, show your execs this …
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