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You’ll want to ascertain if a particular benefit is cost-effective to offer, the immediate effect of the benefit itself (such as improved health ), the auxiliary workplace effects (such as increased productivity or retention ), and how offering the benefit aligns you in the marketplace as a competitive employer, Boudreau said.

Whether your workforce prefers light and casual or professional and concise communications, these examples — geared toward a typical American workplace — can be modified for your use and inspire you to create your own.

“Budgets are stretched thin,” said Kimberly Landry, LIMRA’s associate director of workplace benefits research.

As I re-read it, I was struck by how little had changed in the workplace in nearly two decades!

From Adobe to McDonald’s , sabbaticals are becoming more common in other workplaces around the world.

These wins are being felt in nonunionized workplaces as well, with some employers choosing to increase employees’ hourly wages in an apparent effort to head off potential organizing efforts.

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The legislation has led to an increase in the share of private-sector employees who are saving in a workplace retirement plan.

Gamification can be “a powerful framework for increasing program engagement, learning itself and the transfer of what’s been learned to actually change people’s behavior in the workplace,” Landers said.

That said, he also cautioned employers to ensure that getting rehired is not the only way to progress in the workplace.