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Best Workplaces for Working Dads 2019

January 21, 2019

While the unique role of dads in the lives of their children is well acknowledged, more companies make little or no effort to support their male employees to effortlessly assume this role. This is an ugly situa...

Employees in These Countries Get the Most Paid Days Off

Anna Verasai

January 5, 2019

Employee Benefits, Featured, Trends

Malta, a sun-soaked archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea that’s a popular summer holiday destination, has some of the most generous paid leave entitlements in the world. With 25 statutory days and 14 public hol...

Signs You Are Wrongly Dealing With Holiday Stress

Anna Verasai

December 20, 2018

Employee Benefits, Featured, Trends

We often see holidays as the season to relax and stay away from stress, but that’s totally not the case. Holidays can be exciting, fun-filled and loaded with lots of celebrations and holiday parties. On the oth...

Do union-represented moms earn paid maternity leave easier?

Priyansha Mistry

November 6, 2018

Employee Benefits, Featured, Trends

Working mothers represented by unions are 17% more likely to use paid maternity leave than mothers not represented by unions. All workers expecting a new baby have the same worry: can she take maternity leave? ...

5 Scenarios That Prove Wrongful Termination

Priyansha Mistry

October 31, 2018

Employee Benefits, Featured, Trends

It’s a very bitter experience to have that dream job terminated by your employer. Not just for all the efforts in securing it. A wrongful dismissal makes it hurt the most. While some employers may want to be be...

Amazon’s $15 minimum wage to benefit its 350,000 warehouse workers

Anna Verasai

October 3, 2018

Employee Benefits, Featured, News

October 2, 2018 will be marked as a milestone day in the history of the American retail industry. The trillion-dollar company, Amazon raised its minimum wage to $15 per hour for all categories of workers across...

How To Handle An Employee With Drinking Problem

Anna Verasai

September 28, 2018

Employee Benefits, Featured

It's sad to accept that alcoholic employees are more prevalent than many of us would acknowledge. And the effect, which is not limited to the employee with the drinking problem, escalates to hurt productivity, ...

Do Office Chairs Stifle Creativity?

Priyansha Mistry

September 16, 2018

Employee Benefits, Featured, Trends

Imagine an office without chairs? Impossible! Chairs are an integral part of any workplace. And it has been shown that the average worker spends about eight hours in their chair every working day. This has g...

Careers Best Suited for a Four-Day Workweek Job

Anna Verasai

September 14, 2018

Employee Benefits, Featured, Trends

A four-day workweek job sounds like a Utopian nightmare, but if workplaces automate a greater array of tasks then it would help workers reap the benefits of technological change. The economist John Maynard Key...

A Sneak Peek at Paternity Leave in Countries around the World

Jane Harper

September 6, 2018

Employee Benefits, Featured, Trends

Childcare used to be seen as a responsibility of the mothers, but things are beginning to change. Some countries are offering paternity leave to allow new fathers experience early child-father bonding, while ot...

Why Most Employee Performance Appraisals Are Wrong

Anna Verasai

August 8, 2018

Employee Benefits, Featured

Appraising employee performance is essential towards building productivity level but it’s always coming with shortfalls difficult to lay hands on. Most of these shortfalls emanate from the overall employee appr...

The Reasons Why You Should Support Employee Development

Anna Verasai

August 7, 2018

Employee Benefits, Featured, Leadership

Most times, employers try to avoid extra business cost by totally avoiding employee development and education activities. But in the long run, that helps the employers to be on the losing side. The pros by far ...

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Richard Branson: “Clients do not come first. Employees come first.”

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Best Workplaces for Working Dads 2019

Employees in These Countries Get the Most Paid Days Off

Signs You Are Wrongly Dealing With Holiday Stress

Do union-represented moms earn paid maternity leave easier?

5 Scenarios That Prove Wrongful Termination

Amazon’s $15 minimum wage to benefit its 350,000 warehouse workers

How To Handle An Employee With Drinking Problem

Do Office Chairs Stifle Creativity?

Careers Best Suited for a Four-Day Workweek Job

A Sneak Peek at Paternity Leave in Countries around the World

Why Most Employee Performance Appraisals Are Wrong

The Reasons Why You Should Support Employee Development