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HRAs Celebrate Their 10th Anniversary This Month
HUNT VALLEY, Md., July 12, 2012 – Health reimbursement arrangements (HRA), which are an integral component of many organizations’ consumer-directed healthcare plans (CDHP), celebrate their 10th anniversary on July 15. This employer-based plan allows consumers to use accounts funded by their employers for qualified medical services. HRAs offer a number of advantages: employers’ HRA contributions…
Read MoreMost U.S. Workers Not Fully Engaged, Struggling to Cope with Tough Workplace Situations, Towers Watson's Global Workforce Study Finds
Employers face heightened performance risk — from lower productivity to higher inefficiency NEW YORK, July 11, 2012 — As doubts reemerge about the strength of economic recovery in the U.S., a new Global Workforce Study by global professional services company Towers Watson (NYSE, NASDAQ: TW) reveals that almost two-thirds (63%) of U.S. workers are not…
Read MoreConnectYourCare Founder and President among Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 finalists
Jamie Spriggs, of ConnectYourCare is honored to be selected as a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® Maryland 2012 award. HUNT VALLEY, Md., July 9, 2012 – ConnectYourCare’s founder and president, Jamie Spriggs, was honored recently by Ernst & Young for entrepreneurial excellence. Spriggs was among the finalists named for the…
Read MoreSetting Fair and Accurate Sales Quotas Ranks as Top Sales Compensation Challenge Among Managers
July 17, 2012 — Scottsdale, Ariz. — WorldatWork research on sales compensation practices consistently finds that a majority of organizations struggle with setting fair and accurate sales quotas to effectively incent their salesforces. Accurate quota setting was a major incentive compensation issue cited in the “2012 Sales Compensation Practices Survey for the High-Tech Industry,” conducted…
Read MoreReviewsnap Has Strong Presence at SHRM 2012 Annual Conference & Exhibition
Reviewsnap, the leading cloud-based performance management software solution, is pleased to announced that its appearance at the SHRM 2012 Annual Conference & Exhibition resulted in unprecedented interest in its Web-based performance management software solutions. The conference, which took place in Atlanta, Ga., during the last week in June, drew just over 13,000 human resource practitioners…
Read MoreUpMo Launches its Freemium Enterprise Talent Network for Employees
Employees can now showcase their skills and ambitions, find career opportunities and build connections, making it easier for them to succeed and for their companies to retain great talent Mountain View, CA — July 17, 2012 –UpMo, the first-ever enterprise talent network, today announced the launch of its exclusive internal network, available to all employees.…
Read MoreExamining OFCCP Audit Trends: Specificity and Inconsistency
COLUMBIA, MD—July 17, 2012, the audit behavior of Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has changed dramatically in the last year. Gone are the days where OFCCP took a quick look at basic affirmative action data, and if nothing raised a red flag, they were gone and the audit closed. As an agency of…
Read MoreSelect International Participating in 2012 Disability Mentoring Day
Select International, a global employee assessment and hiring solutions provider, will join other Pittsburgh employers by participating in Disability Mentoring Day (DMD) on October 17, 2012. The program, which began in 1999 as National Disability Mentoring Day, gives students with disabilities the opportunity to visit with an employer for a day. Held on the third…
Read MoreNew SkillSurvey Webinar Reveals Strategic Value of Web 2.0 Solutions for Reference-Checking
WAYNE, Penn. — July 17, 2012 — SkillSurvey®, Inc., a provider of reference assessment solutions, will discuss new possibilities in online reference-checking in their July 25 webinar, “The Evolution of Reference-Checking into a Strategic Hiring Solution” from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. EST. Research from SHRM shows that 96 percent of human resources professionals check references,…
Read MoreGreenJobInterview Releases New Survey on Video Interview Use
COSTA MESA, Calif., July 17, 2012 — GreenJobInterview today released a survey to determine current practices among recruiters and hiring managers in the use of live video use for the recruiting process. The brief survey, available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GreenJobInterview2012, asks those involved in the recruiting and hiring process questions such as: – What types of video…
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