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We Asked, You Answered: How Does Your Company Promote Employee Wellness?

“How isn’t it?” Is more like it…Two weeks ago, we asked you to share with us if and how your organization promoted employee health and wellness.  Aside from giving you the chance to brag about how your organization could easily give Jillian Michaels a run for her money in the fitness coaching department, we also wanted to give you the chance to share with each other creative – and often cost-effective – ideas for promoting employee wellness.

As it turns out, many of you have not just one or two, but several initiatives in place to help employees focus on improving their health – an effort that is as much a benefit to your company as it is to your workers: If implemented correctly, company-sponsored wellness programs effectively reduce company healthcare costs, employee turnover and incidences of employee absenteeism, according to Dr. Steven Williams, Director of E-Media Innovations and Business Development at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), who recently presented on this topic during the Annual SHRM Conference in San Diego last month.

So what are you doing to promote employee wellness (and, in effect, cut costs)? Let’s take a look at the results… Continue Reading…

VH1 Takes Over the Office…And More News From This Week

While you were busy getting ready to own Steve Jobs, planning a single ladies’ night to the tune of $750 million or finally retiring those bright blue hot pants, here’s what was happening in employment news this week…

Maybe Next Month? Latest BLS Report Indicates Economic Setback

Anyone else looking at the latest Employment Situation report, released this morning by the BLS, and feeling like the die hard fan of a pro sports team that just can’t seem to get it together? (Cubs fans, you know what I’m talking about…Ditto for Saints fans pre-Super Bowl XLIV.)  

I’m referring to the news that U.S. payrolls declined in June – quite a setback after six months of job growth. And here, we thought we were doing so well! (Okay, well, maybe not so well, but at least the economy was gaining jobs…) But now here’s this huge blow, and it’s not only frustrating, but also a little scary to see the economy lose momentum like this. Am I right?  And yet, despite these setbacks, we continue to watch and to root for economic recovery because it’s simply what we’ve always done. And we’re not just hoping it will recover, but we believe it will - one of these days - because it has to. It just has to. (Sound familiar, sports fans?)

Sappy sports analogies aside, here are the, ahem, highlights of today’s unemployment situation report:

  • Employers cut 125,000 jobs in June, the most since October 2009. (The loss was driven by the end of 225,000 temporary census jobs.
  • Businesses added a net total of 83,000 workers, representing an improvement over May, but below March and April totals.
  • The unemployment rate fell to 9.5 percent – mainly because 642,000 people gave up on their job force, and thus are no longer counted as unemployed.
  •  The underemployment rate, however, is down to 16.5 percent (a modest improvement over the 16.6 percent in May Continue Reading…

Hot Off the Press: Download Your Free Mid-Year Job Forecast 2010 Here

In Q2 2010, we saw improvements in the nation’s hiring outlook, and we cautiously cheered a little. But this time around, we may want to grab the nearest vuvuzela and blow it in excitement. (Or, uh, not.) Because while hiring in the second half of 2010 is likely to mirror the first half of the year in many ways, CareerBuilder and USA Today’s mid-year nationwide survey of more than 2,500 hiring and HR managers and more than 4,400 workers also shows that  the economy is projected to trend upward in comparison to last year at this time — and is on par with last quarter’s positive changes.

How have things changed from one year ago?

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10 Predictions in 10 Years: How the 2020 Workplace Will Affect You

Remember in Back to the Future II, when Marty travels to 2015 and sees that future Marty has the technology to video-conference in to his office from his very own living room and it was completely awesome?  Funny how that technology is actually a reality now.  (I can only hope this means good things for the hover board…) Sadly, video-conferencing is as far as Robert Zemeckis got in predicting what the workplace of the future would look like…

Fortunately, however, workplace experts Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd pick up where the movie director left off with their book, The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today. While there’s no discussion of flying DeLoreans (tear), technology does play a major role in shaping what the workplace will look like 10 years from now – something the authors discussed in a recent MSN Careers article regarding how those changes will affect employees.

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