Before 2008, the HR world was consumed with the looming “war for talent.” War-for-talent this, war-for-talent that. Then the recession hit and the roar suddenly got very quiet. But you can’t keep a good war down, and recent surveys show that keeping talent is once again a dire concern to HR professionals. According to an …
Category Archive: Economy
Mar
04
Just What the Doctor Ordered: Overcoming the HealthCare Hiring Challenge
We’re still mourning a heartbreaker of a Super Bowl where our San Francisco 49ers lost to the Baltimore Ravens after staging a thrilling second-half comeback. (Just a few more yards on that last drive and we’d have pulled off the greatest upset in Super Bowl history! But we digress.) Still, it’s hard not to be …
Oct
24
The Squeeze is On
Over the summer we missed a gem of a study released by UK-based Employee Benefits Magazine and Cigna HealthCare Benefits UK. The 2012 HealthCare Survey Report is the magazine’s 14th annual healthcare research and examines attitudes on buying decisions, types of benefits offered, the role of EAPs, stress benefits, and much more. Several key findings …
May
22
What have you done for us lately? Plenty . . . We just haven’t told you.
It may seem that employers are constantly scaling back employee benefit plans – or worse, cutting them entirely — but that’s simply not the case. We were heartened to read a story in MSNBC that covered a report by the Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, which surveyed 58 of the 100 companies named to Principal …
Mar
23
Statistics: Promoting Total Compensation Value During Economic Uncertainty
Total compensation communication has been practiced in different forms for more than twenty years. The format used as the most effective to deliver this message has traditionally been personalized, total compensation statements Here are some eye opening statistics… 30% of an employee’s total compensation is non-cash related Employee benefits expenditures represent the 2nd largest variable …