CoAdvantage – Creating a healthy workforce is more important than ever in today’s uncertain economic climate and in a world still facing flare-ups related to Covid-19, RSV, and other infectious illnesses. But what practical steps are organizations taking to support the health of their team members? Here are three current trends in workplace wellness. 1:
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CoAdvantage – Background checks can be fraught territory. They can be pivotal to avoiding major headaches and, in extreme situations, reputationally harmful scandals. But they are also a minefield of compliance requirements, with a wide array of federal, state, and local regulations affecting how and when background checks may be conducted. The Equal Employment Opportunity
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CoAdvantage – Should business owners pay themselves a salary? Apparently over a quarter (26%) of small business founders say no, according to CNBC. This can be a legitimately tough question. Especially in the early days of a business, owners may not have enough cash flow to set up a recurring salary. Even if cash flow
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CoAdvantage – Often the greatest limitation facing workforce productivity is not time; it’s energy. You can’t get maximum productivity out of your team (or yourself) if everyone is so exhausted after the workday that all they can manage is collapsing on the couch. What the research says One study reported in The Harvard Business Review
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CoAdvantage -In our first article in this series, we discussed how HR is unique within organizations because of its need to master a whole host of skills to execute its functions successfully. To that end, HR teams can learn a lot from other departments. Today, we’re going to look at two other departments: IT and
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CoAdvantage – Human Resources must wear many different hats. Its work is broad ranging and requires many different skillsets and tools, more than most other departments than focus exclusively on a single domain. HR leaders and staff must be like business chameleons, able to adopt the mindset, skillset, and toolset of a host of different
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CoAdvantage – There’s an uncomfortable tension at the heart of many employees’ jobs: studies show that repetition fuels productivity but erodes morale and retention, while variety leads to loyalty but can incur a productivity cost. In other words, employee productivity increases as employees repeat the same work over and over, becoming highly specialized at their
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CoAdvantage – Change fatigue has become a pressing concern for employers, nearly half (45%) of whom say their employees are fatigued from all the change they’ve had to endure over the past few years, according to Gartner. Additionally, there are also signs that employees are becoming more resistant to change. Another Gartner study found that
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CoAdvantage – Far too many small business owners try to do too much themselves, only to end up overwhelmed by their workload. A 2022 survey from Capital One Business found that nearly half (42%) of small business owners report feeling burned out and more than half (52%) had taken no vacation in the past 12
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CoAdvantage -Maintaining healthy workplace boundaries is key to productivity. They serve as safeguards against threats that would encroach on a person’s time, energy, and willpower and prevent or slow them from successfully completing their work. In turn, healthy boundaries can ensure that employees stay energized and have the capacity to focus and get work done
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