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To drive employee participation in your employee health and wellness strategy, it’s important to select the right branding approach. Discover the merits and best practices of three branding approaches for your wellness benefits – using your existing corporate brand, creating a sub-brand for your programs, or taking advantage of a third party’s brand. Download now. |
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- 20 recruiting trends to watch next year
The growth of mobile technology as a recruiting platform, the increasing use of predictive analytics and companies' growing desire to hire innovators are some of the trends that recruiters will need to pay attention to next year, John Sullivan writes. ERE.net
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- Social connections can boost recruitment, referrals
Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market uses social media to promote career opportunities, but also as a way to post interviews with employees and worker videos, such as one called "Why We Love Working at Fresh & Easy." Using social media to spur employee referrals is among the most effective and inexpensive ways to generate better hires, experts say. Workforce online
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- PBGC pension policy is criticized by benefits group
A policy from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. requires some companies to set aside funds to guarantee the short-term security of their pension liabilities in the event that they shut down. Lynn Dudley of the American Benefits Council says the policy oversteps the bounds of the ERISA statute. AdvisorOne
(11/5)
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- Mich. voters to decide on collective-bargaining rights
A ballot initiative in Michigan seeks to guarantee collective-bargaining rights for public- and private-sector workers through a constitutional amendment. If the measure passes, similar ones are likely in other states, observers say. Business groups reportedly are spending millions of dollars to defeat the measure. The Hill
(11/4)
- Why bosses need workers who'll answer back
Nobody likes back talk, but bosses should actively encourage employees to talk back to them, says John Baldoni. It's more important to hear uncomfortable truths than to have workers try to protect your feelings, Baldoni explains. "The man or woman at the top of the pyramid must work hard to enable people to speak truth to power," he says. SmartBrief/SmartBlog on Leadership
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- Toothpick art too big and clunky? Try toothpick-splinter art
You've probably seen sculptures made from matchsticks or toothpicks, but artist Steven J. Backman takes the concept to a new level. His work involves shredding a single toothpick, and using the splinters to create tiny but highly detailed architectural models of structures such as the Eiffel Tower. MentalFloss.com
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 | It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information."
--William Gibson,
American-Canadian author
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