CoAdvantage – How do you know if your outsourced HR partner is performing optimally? According to one study, “organizations should realize that the success of HR outsourcing is very much dependent on their relationship with the service providers, which take into account the significant factors such as trust, business understanding, commitment, communication, and top management
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CoAdvantage -Employers have long had a vested interest in monitoring employee activity to ensure that workers are fulfilling their job requirements, behaving in a professional capacity while representing their employer, and adhering to company policies. The need to verify employee conduct has become particularly acute as more and more people have begun working remotely at
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CoAdvantage -Effective crisis management is vital to long-term business viability. Every company is eventually going to face some kind of emergency, disaster, or crisis. It could be a pandemic like COVID-19, a financial crisis, a product recall, a public relations problem, a natural disaster like a hurricane, or any one of numerous unexpected events. When
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CoAdvantage-Providing feedback is a necessary, unavoidable, and often thankless part of managing people. It’s easy when all you need to say is “good job”! But what about delivering criticism after mistakes or poor work? How do you deliver constructive criticism in ways that won’t upset more sensitive workers? Good, helpful communication is just as vital
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CoAdvantage- Employee engagement in the workplace is – and has been – in a state of crisis. According to Gallup, only about a third (34%) of employees are actively engaged, and that number seems to be dropping. Gallup attributes low engagement scores to a few different causes. One is bad management. They’ve previously found that
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CoAdvantage-The so-called Great Resignation isn’t quite as unusual as it seems – high quit rates are actually common during periods of rapid job creation – but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been a serious headache for employers. With so many workers switching jobs, and some sectors (hospitality and healthcare in particular) seeing outright labor shortages,
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CoAdvantage-Sometimes the employer can do everything right … and still, come up short. One example: employers can follow every best practice in communicating effectively with employees but still end up with employees failing to consume or understand those communications. This lapse in understanding can have meaningful consequences. For example, if employees don’t understand why or
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CoAdvantage- The Family and Medical leave Act (FMLA) is a vital piece of legislation with which most businesses must comply. Specifically, the law provides certain employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year while protecting their job and some of their benefits. However, the legislation around leave can be complex. For instance,
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