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The problem with employee wellness programs
Employee wellness programs are morally questionable and misguided. Companies usually turn to them to reduce health costs, but th...
Are employee referral bonuses worth it?
Can an employee referral bonus make a difference in your employee referral program? It’d be great if employees were always happy...
7 employee motivation techniques and tools
These employee motivation techniques, tips and tools can help you build and sustain a better corporate culture that encourages l...
What does Massachusetts’ equal pay law mean for employers?
Will Massachusetts be the first state to close the gender pay gap? On August 1, the state passed the most robust equal pay law t...
Money for nothing: are we ready for universal basic income?
Several years ago I went to visit a radical experiment in the remote west of Kenya near the shores of Lake Victoria. A handful o...
How to get employees to actually take vacation
A vacation? What’s that? In 2015, more than half of American workers didn’t use all of their paid vacation days. In comparison, ...
How to create a retirement benefit plan
As your company grows, providing a comprehensive and competitive benefits package becomes more important. A retirement benefit p...
3 reasons to get a short-term disability policy
A quarter of all working Americans now in their 20s will suffer a period of short-term disability before they retire. A worrying...
5 reasons you need an official paternity leave policy
While the struggle for statutory maternity leave has been making visible progress in recent years, efforts to deliver laws on pa...
Drafting a maternity leave policy: 5 things you should know
Maternity leave policies in the United States have come a long way from the 1960s when working mothers were considered temporari...