CoAdvantage- Although an eight-hour workday and 40-hour workweek have become the de facto standard in the United States, few employees actually devote that much time to their work. According to one recent report, over half (53%) of people say they spend at least one hour of the workday browsing social media and 60% say they’ve
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CoAdvantage- Outsourcing HR offers numerous advantages for businesses both big and small. Some of the benefits are obvious: gaining time, saving money, and improving the organization’s overall competitive posture. But other advantages might surprise you. The bottom-line is that outsourcing frees the employer to get down to business rather than shouldering HR issues in addition to
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CoAdvantage- Employers are making major changes to their benefits programs and administration, according to a recent survery by MetLife. The pandemic has undoubtedly triggered or contributed to many of these changes, which are answering an increasing desire among employees for more support from their employers during times of duress. Here are the three biggest changes employers
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CoAdvantage- The new year brings not only new goals, but new challenges for HR. Following another year of the pandemic, businesses are reevaluating their approach on handling all-things HR. Here are the top 5 HR trends to lookout for in 2022. 1: Falling Unemployment Perhaps thanks to the so-called Great Resignation, labor issues have been
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CoAdvantage- Marchetti’s Constant, named for Italian physicist Cesare Marchetti, is a principle that says workers will average an hour of commute time daily (half an hour each way). According to this principle, if a worker takes a new job or the circumstances of an existing job change to extend the necessary commute, workers will generally
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CoAdvantage- Here’s a question too few companies ask: what is possible with HR? Most businesses think of human resources in limited ways. For them, HR has a clearly defined role within the organization, and that role focuses on the administrative and transactional tasks related to having employees – payroll, benefits, labor law compliance, etc. But
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CoAdvantage- How well can your workforce weather unexpected events and disruptions? That’s how resilient it is. Less resilient teams tend to suffer more harms as the result of disruptions. Research from industry advisory group Gartner found that the pandemic, for example, significantly increased burnout and reduced trust in colleagues and leaders. The more resilient your
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CoAdvantage- At most organizations HR reports directly to the chief executive officer (CEO), but that’s not universally true. At many companies, HR may instead report to the chief financial officer, chief operating officer, some other senior level director or manager, the general counsel, or someone else altogether. Where HR reports is an indicator of how the
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