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5 Ways To Avoid Well-Being Washing And Provide Authentic Support To Employees

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Examples of out-of-touch well-being washing actions include encouraging employees to take well-being walks but giving them no time for it, facilitating support services that refuse to talk about work-related issues, and providing holiday discounts amid a cost of living crisis. This is already a reality for some, like in the U.K.,

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10 Changes Your Organization Must Make To Succeed This Year

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Businesses are now determining the most effective ways to maintain productivity, collaboration, and employee engagement within hybrid work environments. Organizations must set a value agenda that clearly lays out which business units generate the most value for the organization, and which generate the least.

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Is The ‘Remote Work Window’ About To Close?

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Our team at HireVue works 100% remote, which has opened the door for collaboration between coworkers across different time zones. As a reminder, in Sweden, social security costs 30% of the employee’s salary and is paid by the company. Dr. Lisa Severy, Career Advisor at University of Phoenix: . In France, it’s 42%. .

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Want people to spend more time in the office? Give them a little piece of home

Workplace Insight

The current cost of living means many employees are not blessed with generous amounts of personal space or to setup dedicated home offices. Offices should no longer be viewed as staff ‘containers’ but, rather, comfortable and inviting working spaces that promote social interaction, collaboration and productivity.

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Focus should shift to reducing energy demand, WEF report suggests

Workplace Insight

These are the findings of the World Economic Forum’s Transforming Energy Demand initiative – and a new report – launched in collaboration with PwC and supported by over 120 global CEOs who are members of the International Business Council (IBC), a group representing 3 percent of global energy use.

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Memos, Not Meetings: Why Asynchronous Work and Communication Are Best

Virtual Moxie

Management set up a daily, hour-long, 9a meeting for his team via their internal collaboration platform. It can be via email, in collaborative workspace environment like Slack, etc. Because there’s no set time taken from the day for the meeting, asynchronous communication is also more cost effective. Sounds good, right?

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Human resources professionals should focus on boardroom partnerships

Workplace Insight

In many organisations, people costs will reach over 50 percent of the overall cost base so it is clear there is an importance for HR leaders to be working in tandem with other departments such as Finance so they can better understand how employees are impacting the bottom line. Joining forces.

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