5 Strategies to Help your Employees Have a Healthy Work-Life Balance

Finding a job that offers a quality work-life balance is becoming one of the highest priorities for job seekers in 2018. Studies show that applicants are more invested in finding jobs that work well with their home lives than they are with higher paying jobs or those that offer more PTO. Creating a workspace that provides a healthy work-life balance can not only assist you in your recruitment and retention needs but also has been proven to increase employee productivity. Does your company take strides to promote a healthy environment for employees to balance their home and work lives? Read on to get a few strategies your organization can implement to create happier and healthier employees and improve your overall company culture.

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How to Expand Your Employee Benefits Offering

One of the most common questions in the HR world is “How do I keep employees happy?”. Well, aside from having a great company culture, one of the major ways of retaining your employees and keeping them happy is by offering them a good benefits package. Many small business owners make the mistake of thinking they cannot afford to offer benefits, but the truth is that offering a robust benefits package to your employees will have a positive effect on your bottom line. After all, it’s your employees who keep the company running.

How to Better Manage Employee Time Off Requests

Holiday season is quickly approaching. Do you have an effective, organized way to manage your employees’ time off requests? Depending on the industry you are in, it might be inevitable to have staff work during holidays. Let’s face it, no one wants to skip Thanksgiving or Christmas because they have to be at work, so be prepared to receive many time off requests from your employees. Handling employee time off scheduling conflicts can be a nightmare, but some planning and clear policies can make it easier for you.

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4 Features Your Payroll Provider Should Offer

As you may already know, there are many different types of payroll processing: ranging from in-house to outsourcing, to even using a CPA. You’ve probably have heard of many different payroll service companies, but do you know exactly what they do and what they offer? Just like their name suggests, payroll companies ensure that employees are paid on time and that all of the employers stay compliant. Obviously, payroll is more than just writing checks, and a good payroll company will offer more than just that. Depending on the size of the company and the software’s capabilities, there are a variety of different things that payroll companies do for their customers.

How to Determine If Unlimited PTO is Right for Your Company

Now that Millennials are making their way into the workforce, companies are looking for new ways to beat the competition and attract the best talent. They offer great benefits such as health, vision, and dental insurance, 401K match, flexible schedules, volunteer time off, and paid time off. Paid time off (PTO) is one of the main benefits young people look for when applying looking to start their careers, and unlimited paid time off has become even more popular. But, despite its popularity, only approximately 1% of U.S. companies have established an unlimited PTO plan. Some of the companies included in that 1% are Netflix, GE, Duo Security, and LinkedIn. Offering unlimited PTO has its pros and its cons, and these can help you find out if implementing an unlimited PTO plan is the right move for your business.

Should Employers Allow Unpaid Time Off?

Thinking about allowing your employees to take time off without pay?

Unpaid Time Off can be kind of a tricky policy to navigate. For companies without a 9 to 5 type schedule, such as restaurants or hospitals, it isn’t so bad since employees can pick up and drop shifts with some amount of ease. However, office professions typically have most employees who do similar jobs working at the same time, so they have to rely on Paid Time Off (PTO) for vacations and sick days. But what happens when that PTO bank runs dry? Many factors can contribute to an employee running out of PTO. Perhaps they were a little frivolous early in the year and didn’t plan ahead, or else got ill and had to take more time off than expected. Either way, there usually comes a time when a supervisor or manager gets asked by an employee if they can take some unpaid time off.

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Happier Holidays with Time Off

It’s the holiday season again and your employees are taking time off. If you don’t have an employee self-service portal in place with a time off system, requesting and approving time off can be quite a messy experience for both employees and managers. Employees may have thought they communicated their vacation plans to management or could have miscalculated their personal time off hours. Managers or supervisors may have missed requests, or overlapped or left gaps in their scheduling, but with a solid time off system in place incidents like those will help eliminate human error by adding three fundamental benefits that will keep PTO requests and hours on track.

PayrollMarketing TeamDecember 24, 2015Scheduling, Time Off, PTOComment