Morgan Stanley Offers Junior Bankers Higher Pay and Faster Promotion
The investment bank Morgan Stanley recently announced a set of new policies for its junior associates, offering higher base pay and a faster track to promotion, while also underscoring its work-life...
View ArticleQualtrics’ Experience Benefit Illustrates the Power of Innovative Rewards
Qualtrics, a customer and employee experience management company based in Provo, Utah, introduced a new bonus scheme in January that focuses on its own employees’ experiences. The new perk, which...
View ArticleHow Can We Design Flexibility to Meet Different Employees’ Work-Life Balance...
In a meta-analysis of recent studies on flexible work policies, professors Ellen Ernst Kossek and Brenda A. Lautsch looked at whether these programs had consistent benefits for all types of workers:...
View ArticleSurvey: Most UK Workers Aren’t Using Their Full Leave Benefit
A recent survey by Glassdoor finds that very few employees in the UK are using all of their paid leave entitlement, while 40 percent of them are using less than half of it, Personnel Today’s Adam...
View ArticleHow ‘Flexibility Bias’ Can Hinder the Pursuit of Work-Life Balance
As HR leaders know all too well, it’s one thing to give employees a benefit, and quite another to actually get them to use it. This problem often arises around paid leave and flexibility: An...
View ArticleIndia’s Agile Talent Market Grows as More Professionals Seek Project-Based Work
Short-term assignments are becoming more popular among skilled professionals in India, the Economic Times reported this week, with an emerging “white-collar gig economy” in IT implementation,...
View ArticleNearly Half of North American Organizations Offering ‘Summer Fridays’ This Year
Significantly more North American employers are offering “Summer Fridays” to their employees this year, the latest data from Gartner’s Global Talent Monitor shows. A poll conducted in the second...
View ArticleStudy: Working Women Underestimate the Hidden Costs of Having Children
The high monetary costs of having children are well known to working parents and the employers looking to support them. According to US Census data, child care costs skyrocketed by more than 50 percent...
View ArticleSurvey: Most UK Workers Aren’t Working 9-to-5, and Most Don’t Want to
A new poll from YouGov has found that just 6 percent of employees in the UK are working traditional 9-to-5 hours, while only 14 percent said they would prefer to work those hours, Personnel Today...
View ArticleStates, Companies Continue to Expand Paid Leave Benefits Throughout US
Though the United States is one of just a handful of countries around the world that does not require organizations to grant their employees paid parental leave by law, recent years have seen more US...
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