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Employee Experience Strategy: 9 Steps to Create a Productive Workplace
Crafting a strategy to keep your employees happy and engaged can feel overwhelming. Because in this fast-paced work environment, it's not enough to have any old strategy. It has to be the right one. Maybe you've noticed some hiccups in your current setup or...
What Are Inclusive Benefits: 7 Ideas to Elevate Your Benefits Package
In today's work world, there's one critical aspect that often gets overlooked: inclusive employment. You see, the workplace isn't what it used to be. It's no longer just a physical space where employees clock in and out. Instead, it's a dynamic ecosystem where...
What Are Lifestyle Benefits? 9 Powerful Options for 2024
Do you need to fix your employee experience but aren't sure how? Is the office buzz not as electrifying as before? Are you noticing your team's motivation taking a dip? In a world where competition for top talent is fierce, it's vital to keep your employees...
Employee Exit Process: 9 Best Steps to Get It Right
The employee exit process is a big deal for your company’s reputation. A messy exit can tarnish your company's reputation and can cause discontent among your remaining team. And here’s the deal: You know it, and you want to nail the offboarding process. You...
What Are Voluntary Benefits? A Beginner’s Guide for 2024
Choosing employee perks is like a jigsaw puzzle. Get it right, and your employees are happy. Get it wrong, and you slowly start hearing dissatisfied rumblings—as well as a potential decrease in productivity, happiness, and retention. As an employer, you want...
The 10 Best Employee Benefits That Employees Actually Want
In business, this truth remains: Employees’ happiness and well-being can drastically impact their productivity and motivation. And that can make or break your company. Which is why most forward-thinking companies are wondering: What benefits do...
9 Amazing Employee Discount Programs You Need in 2023
According to CNBC, workers are unhappier than they’ve been in 3 years. If you've noticed some restlessness or unease among your team members, you're not alone. Keeping your employees content, engaged, and feeling truly valued is a common challenge for employers...
What Is a Tangible Reward? 14 New Ways to Motivate Your Employees in 2023 (And Beyond)
If you're a great employer, you always think of new ways to keep your team engaged and in top condition. We all want our employees to wake up eager to come to work, do their tasks with enthusiasm, and contribute to the success of the company. But achieving this...
Employee Offboarding: 9 Expert Insights to Get It Right
If you're here, you’re probably facing a challenge: You need to create or improve your employee offboarding process, and you need help figuring out where to start. You’re worried that your employees may leave with a bad impression of your company. Or worse, that...
The Full Guide to an HR Strategy for the Modern Workplace
Does it sometimes feel like your company's HR strategy is missing the mark? In today's fast-paced work environment, it can be hard to maintain an HR strategy that follows cutting-edge trends, proper ethics, and relevant structures. But a lousy HR strategy can...
How Long Does Onboarding Take? The Complete Guide for Employers
How much is necessary…and how much is too much? That’s the big question, isn’t it? When you’re trying to figure out how to improve your company's onboarding process, the big question is, "How long should onboarding last?" Let’s face it, a long and...
Compensation Planning: 10 Easy Steps for Your Company
Compensation is a driving force behind your employees well-being, motivation, and productivity. It’s also crucial to your ability to compete for top talent in the marketplace. Without great compensation, you’ll have trouble hiring. But this doesn’t always mean...
How to Pick the Right HR Metrics for Your Team
Tracking progress is a crucial step if you want to succeed—especially in HR. That’s what HR metrics are for. But which HR metrics should you be looking at? It’s important to not just track metrics to track something, but to track the right metrics. You need to know...
Employee Perks vs. Benefits: Why the Difference Is Critical to Compensation Packages
In today's competitive job market, there's an abundance of ways to attract and retain employees—from health insurance to concert tickets. But finding the perfect balance between benefits and unique perks is crucial. Overemphasizing the wrong one can make your package...
How to Determine the Average Benefit Cost Per Employee in 2023
Understanding where your business finances go is pivotal for long-term success. No one wants to squander money, especially on employee benefits. So, how much should you allocate per employee for benefits? While the thought of costs might be daunting, remember that the...
Employee Perks: The Ultimate Guide to Investing in Your Team (with 15 Ideas)
Losing a top employee is gut-wrenching, and it often feels like you need multiple hires to fill their void. The secret to retention? Offering the RIGHT perks. Many companies mistakenly believe that standard benefits are enough. But with even perks like Twitter's free...
An Employer’s Guide to a Successful Digital Employee Experience
You've got the vision to enhance your team's digital employee experience. The challenge? Making it actually work well. An unsuccessful employee experience risks losing talented employees, and ultimately, your business. Don’t worry—we have a proven guide to help...
How to Make a Performance Improvement Plan That Actually Drives Results in 2023
Are you tired of repeating the same things to your employees over and over, only to see little to no improvement in their performance? When an employee needs an extra push and you put them on a performance improvement plan, how often does their performance...
How to Develop a Powerful Recruitment Funnel: Everything You Need to Know
You’ve heard of recruitment funnels, but you’re not sure how they work… …or if you even need one for your hiring process. I mean, the standard way of hiring has worked for ages, right? But here’s the thing. Companies that are incredible at hiring already...
How to Attract Top Talent & Keep It: 9 Keys to Hire and Retain Great Employees in 2023
When you’re trying to scale, every day counts. Every day you don’t have A-players on your team is a day you could be failing to make progress—which means your competition could catch up to you. Do you ever feel like you're racing against time, trying to entice top...
Full Cycle Recruiting: Does Your Hiring Process Need It?
You've likely heard the term "full cycle recruiting" while searching for talent acquisition strategies. But here's the million-dollar question: Is it worth all the talk, or is it just another buzzword? In HR, trends come and go, especially with the rise of...
The Future of HR: How Will Technology Change the Human Resources Profession?
Curious about what lies ahead for the future of HR? Many professionals are eager to get a glimpse, but the technology shaping HR’s future is full of uncertainty and ambiguity: What does it really mean? In this article, we’ll explore the possibilities and...
How to Choose the Right HR Initiatives for Your Company in 2023
So, you want to supercharge your HR efforts in 2023. You understand the importance of focusing on problem areas to drive your company's success, but it’s always a challenge to determine where those areas are. After all, the HR world is constantly evolving with...
How to Organize a Talent Development Program That Unlocks Your Employees’ Potential
Finding the right talent is a must for companies to succeed. Many forward-thinking businesses understand the significance of talent development programs to cultivate that in their workforce, but the question is… …how can businesses systemize these programs...
What Is Employee Attrition? 5 Solutions for an Unbalanced Employee Flow
You've probably heard the term "employee attrition" thrown around, but you might not be sure if it applies to your company—or even how to tackle it. Employee attrition refers to the gradual reduction in the size of your workforce due to voluntary or involuntary...
5 Employee Benefit Trends You Can’t Afford to Miss in 2023 (And Beyond)
Looking for the latest employee benefits trends so you can stay ahead of the curve? You’ve come to the right place. Here at Abenity, we work with hundreds of employers looking to stay on the cutting edge of employee benefits. This unique industry positioning has given...
How to Measure Employee Engagement: 8 Methods to Find and Solve Your Engagement Issues
You've started to see less work getting done, more arguments, fewer people joining in team activities, and overall, people just don't seem as happy as they used to be. It's obvious that your workers aren't as involved as they used to be...but the big question is, why?...
How to Develop an Employee Engagement Strategy: 8 Engagement Techniques to Motivate Your Employees
Keeping your workers happy and interested is key to making any company do well. Workers who don't care can make work harder, lower spirits, and make people want to quit. But with everything in business moving so quickly these days, it can be tough to keep your workers...
The 6 Stages of the Employee Life Cycle (And How to Master Them)
Almost nothing is more important to a company doing well than having a smooth-running worker life cycle. But most companies aren't at their best in every area. They might do great in three or four parts, but not in all six stages of the cycle. And the areas where they...
20 Employee Appreciation Gifts to Boost Your Team’s Morale
Let's be honest, employees are the real heroes behind any successful business. They put in their best every day to help you reach your business goals. But too often, their hard work is overlooked and not given the thanks it deserves. This can lower their spirits and...
Employee Benefit Plan Audits: What You Need to Know in 2023
You've just wrapped up your employee benefit plan for your business. Now you're wondering... ...what do I do next? Do you need to check your EBP? If you do, how will you find a good checker? And most importantly: do we really need to check employee benefit plans?...
Creating a Robust Employee Engagement Action Plan: A 7-Step Guide
One of the best ways to get ahead is to have workers who are really interested in their work. Why? Because it's super rare. Workers who are fully interested give you their best work. They want to get better and solve problems, and your whole company gets the good...
Why Are Employee Benefits Important? How to Attract and Keep Quality Employees
At a time when it's not just hard to find good workers but even tougher to keep them, it's a bit shocking that companies everywhere are asking, "Do we really need to give workers benefits?" Yes, you do need to. Here's why. A recent study by Gallup, called "State of...
18 Time-Tested Employee Engagement Ideas You Can Use to Keep Your Team Invested
Keeping your workers interested has become a big task these days. There are more changes happening in workplaces today than ever. Quiet quitting. Rage applying. Bare Minimum Monday. The list keeps growing. Younger workers, like Millennials and Gen Zers, are starting...
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