Fundamentally, employers offer employee benefits to attract employees to work for them. Particularly in today’s tight labor market, with unemployment falling under 4%, employers struggle to differentiate themselves and attract (and keep) the best and the brightest workers. One way to stand out is to offer a stellar benefits package. But what are the benefits
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CoAdvantage – Many employers who have never used a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) worry that a PEO would hurt their relationship with their employees or somehow damage company culture. This is not at all true, but it’s understandable why this would be a concern. The PEO manages aspects of the employee experience that can affect
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1: Ignoring your brand as an employer. A “company brand” is its reputation and public image in the minds of its customers. A strong, positive brand can encourage customer loyalty and engagement as well as attract new customers. But many businesses, especially smaller ones, fail to think about their “employer brand,” or their reputation and
-> Continue reading Five Easy-to-Overlook HR Mistakes Made by Small Businesses
CoAdvantage – Not all employers assemble a formal employee handbook, but all employers should. A handbook is enormously helpful in the workplace. It creates an informational resource for employees (especially new hires) that can reduce the demands placed on HR to answer questions. It provides consistent guidelines and procedures for management to follow. And it
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CoAdvantage- As outsourcing HR becomes more popular and more cost-effective – according to the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations (NAPEO), HR administration costs PEO clients an average of 25.7% less when compared to all employers – more and more companies are seeking good partners to handle many of their HR tasks. A critical element
-> Continue reading How to Write an Effective Request for Proposal (RFP) to a PEO
Documentation is armor against labor law litigation. “No matter what type of employment litigation is at issue, the amount of documentation an employer has dramatically increases the odds of prevailing in litigation,” writes litigation attorney Anthony Zaller in a blog post. Surprisingly, however, many employers neglect creating and retaining documentation outside of records specifically mandated
-> Continue reading How to Document Employee Performance
CoAdvantage- Soft skills assessments are one of the most important trends that will define the future of recruiting. In fact, 44% of respondents to a survey by Adecco Staffing USA identified a lack of soft skills as the biggest proficiency gap in the U.S. workforce. Two-thirds of hiring managers would favor candidates with strong soft skills
-> Continue reading Does Your Recruiting Adequately Account for Soft Skills?
Newly formed businesses and startups may be tempted to bypass Human Resources in favor of other business units, like marketing, sales, finance, etc. After all, if they’re newly formed, they probably don’t have many employees yet anyways, so why worry about HR at that point? Well, here are three HR issues that every new business
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At heart, human resources (HR) means the same things for any organization that work with employees: managing the employee lifecycle from hiring through termination or resignation, handling “transactional” activities like payroll and benefits processing, and developing strategies for optimizing the workforce. From there, however, HR’s role and activities can vary widely between large and small
-> Continue reading 3 Ways HR is Different for Small Businesses than Enterprise Organizations
The Harvard Business Review reports that every year 10% to 15% of corporations must appoint a new CEO; yet research from Stanford University has found that only about half of boards have a specific successor in mind to prepare for such an event. It’s even worse at small businesses, where 58% of small business owners
-> Continue reading Tips for Successful Succession Planning at Small Businesses
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