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04/17/2023

Webinar Preview: Reining in Runaway Pharmacy Spending | Alera Group

To assist employers in navigating the costly and complex landscape for prescription drugs, Alera Group will host a one-hour webinar on Thursday, April 20.

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02/06/2023

What You’ll Learn in Our Webinar on Inflation-Proofing Employee Benefits | Alera Group

Employers may not be able to totally negate inflation’s effects, but they can blunt them. Our Feb. 16 webinar is a start.

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11/14/2022

Helping Heroes

Axios asked veterans, academics and community organizers how we can best help those veterans who are with us — and help remember those who are gone.

About 15 in every 100 veterans are living with PTSD.

10/13/2022

Why Science Says Employee Recognition Is Vital

Remember Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? It's important for workplaces too.

Remember Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? It's important for workplaces too.

09/29/2022

Stop by and see us on the 29th!

Despite the pandemic's devastating impact on the office market, downtowns and nearby walkable neighborhoods are looking forward to two decades of growth driven by demographic and economic change.

07/13/2022

According to the authors, managers need help with three things. First, they need help shifting the focus of career conversations from promotion to progression and developing in different directions. Second, they need help creating a culture and structure that supports career experiments. Finally, managers need to be rewarded not for retaining people on their teams but retaining people (and their potential) across the entire organization.

According to Gartner, the pace of employee turnover is forecast to be 50–75% higher than companies have experienced previously, and the issue is compounded by it taking 18% longer to fill roles than pre-pandemic. Increasingly squeezed managers are spending time they don’t have searching for new ...

06/17/2022

"We’ve spent so much time over the past two years analyzing the way companies and offices have been disrupted by COVID-19 that we’ve lost sight of the fact that, for the first time in history, five generations are together in the workforce ... Employers must understand that each generation represented in today’s workforce has different expectations that affect their job satisfaction and retention rates."

Benefits tied to education, such as upskilling and loan repayments, can reach all workers.

06/15/2022

“If we can find ways to ask people, ‘How do you see yourself?’ and then make efforts to meet them where they are, that’s the goal,” Bailey says.

Accenture's Beck Bailey offers insights for deepening and sustaining a commitment to LGBTQ inclusion in the workplace.

06/14/2022

Revamped mental health benefits. A joint caregiving platform. Awareness of microagressions that hurt LGBTQ employees. Anti-racist business practices. These are some of the ways employers are trying to create a better work environment for their employees.

Employees want to feel empowered to be their best. Here’s how these top companies are updating their culture and benefits to support them.

06/13/2022

Organizations who neglect the "retain" part of "attract and retain talent" risk finding themselves in a perpetual state of recruitment.

Employers are feeling the pressure to give job seekers what they want in order to fill open positions.

06/06/2022

"As chaotic as work has felt since the start of the pandemic, it would be even more so without the often unseen work of HR teams. Over the past two years, they’ve been asked to do a ton of heavy lifting in the background to stabilize work environments and provide a sanctuary from the whirlwind of global uncertainty."

An HR leader's firsthand account of what the past two years have been like for the field.

06/02/2022

"Employees need to be more involved with their benefits, beyond open enrollment. Employers need to redefine what benefits are. If someone asks an employee why they stay at a company, their answer probably won’t be because of the life insurance or long-term disability; it’s for some other reason."

Here are three areas of work and employee benefits that HR professionals should be focused on.