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• 5 ways to make sure your e-mails get read

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  With the hundreds or even thousands of messages that land in people’s in-boxes every week, many e-mails get passed over. Writing a messgae that actually gets read can be a challenge. The best way to get e-mails skipped over: Bury the important info. Key points should go where recipients are most likely to see ...
  3 days ago

• The worst holiday gifts ever

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  In lieu of holiday bonuses, some companies give employees small gifts. Hopefully, not one of these. We’ve scored the Web for examples of the Hall of Shame for holiday gift giving. See if anything you’ve ever received tops this: a single packet of cherry Kool-Aid 1 out of a five pack of VHS tapes ...
  3 days ago

• Study: Most employers not complying with ERISA regs

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  The majority of U.S. employers with 100 or more employees do not comply with ERISA — leaving them wide open to a potential slew of federal fines, found a recent study. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) imposes strict requirements on employers sponsoring 401(k), group life, medical, dental and ...
  4 days ago

• COBRA extension passes — with a few changes

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  Don’t ditch the paperwork for the federally mandated COBRA subsidy program just yet. The subsidy’s just been extended, and it has a new wrinkle. The extension, passed by both houses of Congress as an add-on to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2010 , was signed by President Obama Dec. 21. The ...
  4 days ago

• Feds try to buy back their own equipment

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  Here’s an example of a benefits program that was maybe a little too generous. When the federal Bureau of Engraving and Printing (the group that designs our currency, among other things) needed to cut costs, it decided to consolidate some of its office printers. To ensure sensitive information doesn’t fall into ...
  4 days ago

• Presenting benefits info to 3 common groups

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  How you present benefits info to employees is just as important as the material that’s being presented — and the most successful benefits pros know how to tailor their message to fit the needs of diverse groups of employees. Here are some common species: Bottom-liners These no-nonsense employees don’t ...
  4 days ago

• Don’t let manager e-mail trip up your company in court

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  E-mails are more often being viewed by judges as evidence in employment law cases. Managers should change their e-mailing habits accordingly. In addition to the official performance review, a court may look at e-mails related to a fired employee’s performance. That could be both good and bad for companies. If ...
  5 days ago

• Benefits communication: How to set your company apart

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  One way to improve employees’ understanding of the benefits you provide them with: Plan to meet with them one-on-one a few more times than usual this year. Nearly 90% of company execs think one-on-one meetings between a benefits counselor and each employee would significantly improve workers’ understanding of ...
  5 days ago

• Facebook colonizes the world

  
  FinanceTechNews.com — Authority: 128
  Want to see how it looks when a social network takes over the world? A very cool map created by Italian blogger Vincenzo Cosenza will show you. This is Cosenza’s second map of global social networking that he bases on the most recent traffic data (December 2009) from Alexa & Google Trends for Web sites. ...
  5 days ago

• Who’s listening to your employees’ cell phone calls?

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  Does your company provide employees with cell phones or smartphones to use for business calls? If so, you may need to watch out for a big security concern. A recent UK survey of companies and institutions revealed that 79% of employees conduct confidential conversations by cell phone, and 51% do so on a daily ...
  6 days ago

• Large & small companies’ benefits plans looking more alike

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  The differences between the employee retirement benefits offered by large companies and those offered by small and mid-size companies are shrinking rapidly. A recent Watson Wyatt study found 55% of companies in the Fortune 100 only offer their employees defined contribution (DC) plans — 401(k), etc. — as ...
  1 week ago

• Real Estate Technology Update

  
  Tallahassee Real Estate Blog — Authority: 124
  I’ve had several people send me emails asking to subscribe to the Tallahassee Real Estate Newsletter because they weren’t receiving it even though they had filled out the subscription form. I then had to explain to them how the whole system works, and why we’ve implemented a third-party solution to distribute ...
  1 week ago

• HR’s new year tech plan: Do more with less

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  What are your peers’ plans for adding new technologies next year? Due to decreased or flat budgets, most companies plan to make their HR tech operations more efficient in 2010, rather than making new purchases, according to a recent survey by the International Association for Human Resource Information ...
  1 week ago

• My best HR management idea: Getting more responses to HR’s surveys

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  When HR manager Theresa Lane wanted to find out what employees liked and didn’t like about HR’s policies, she decided to do a survey. Problem: People weren’t responding — until she figured out an irresistible, and inexpensive, hook. Her story: Whenever we made changes in benefits and HR policies, we ...
  1 week ago

• Top 10 Benefits-approved healthy & satisfying office snacks

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  If your company doesn’t have the funds to provide nutrition counseling as a benefit, it can be done informally — for far less. How? With signs, handouts and — the best way — healthier options in vending machines. To help employees cure the mid-day munchies — and stay healthy — the American Dietetic ...
  1 week ago

• One key to an effective Web use policy

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  While many companies are reluctant to completely ban social networking sites in the workplace, there are some steps employers can take to minimize legal risks. The primary dangers of employees using the sites include: legal issues, such as defamation and harassment the leaking of confidential information, and ...
  1 week ago

• Fantasy football: Workplace distraction, but worth firing over?

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  Managers in your company may have had problems with employees focused on fantasy football leagues during time they should’ve spent working. But have any been fired just for belonging to a fantasy league? That’s what happened to four Fidelity Investments employees recently. Management intercepted an e-mail ...
  1 week ago

• Cut dependent care costs instantly: Here’s how

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  Has your company taken this necessary step to ensure it’s not paying a penny more than it needs to for health care? If not, you could be wasting some serious cash. The move all companies will want to make: conducting a dependent eligibility audit. It’ll ensure everyone you’re paying for is still eligible for ...
  1 week ago

• Firm paid for text messages; can it read them?

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  If employees send text messages on the company’s dime, the company should be able to monitor them, right? Maybe not, according to recent court decisions. An employer gave cell phones to a group of employees so they could communicate via text messages. The contract with the wireless provider said the company would ...
  1 week ago

• Updating my List and Checking it Twice

  
  Advertising, Marketing and Design — Authority: 147
  Last week, I think on Friday, I began to panic about a few things I needed to get done. ‘Tis the season. So, I made a list, which I just found hiding underneath a rather comical drawing of my family from my almost 5-year old. I took a glance at the list and noticed that all but one thing was completed! What ...
  1 week ago

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