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16 Ways to Lead a Virtual Team in Remote and Hybrid Work Environments

Forbes | Get to know employees individually. Learn their partner’s and kids’ names, what’s going on in their lives and what they like to do outside of work. Set up regular one-on-one meetings and don’t cancel them. It’s your team’s time with you as a leader. Don’t ask, “How are you doing?” Ask, “What’s on your mind?”
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5 Employee Retention Strategies Employers Will Need in 2022

Employee Benefits News | In order to retain employees, employers need to create a company culture that puts the worker first, says Jarik Conrad, vice president of human insights and human capital management advisory at UKG. “We're in the middle of this great resignation, and people are hopping to new jobs or sometimes changing career paths altogether,” Conrad says.
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Glassdoor’s 2022 Work Forecast: Cloudy with a Chance of Déjà Vu

Protocol | Payroll company UKG announced this week that it would be making a large contribution to closing the pay gap. UKG will contribute 18 cents for each employee paid each year via its payroll system. The money will go to nonprofits dedicated to pay equity. 18 cents also represents the current gender wage gap in America.
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UKG Pay Equity Effort Aims to Drive Awareness, Action

HCM Tech Report | UKG announced an effort intended to drive awareness and encourage action that addresses pay disparities between men, women and underrepresented groups. The UKG Close the Gap Initiative will fund a number of programs, nonprofits, awareness-building efforts, education and research in support of pay equity.
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UKG is Launching a Multimillion-Dollar Pay Equity Initiative

Employee Benefit News | HR and workforce management solutions company UKG hopes its Close the Gap Initiative can do something to change that. The tech company will be contributing $0.18 for each of the 15 million people who are paid using a UKG system, for a total of $3 million, to nonprofits, research and educational resources that work to bring awareness and change to pay inequity in America.
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How Companies are Helping Parents and Caregivers with ‘Work-Life Integration’

Boston Globe | During the pandemic — when 69 percent of working parents reported that helping their kids with remote learning negatively impacted their work performance, according to the employment website Indeed — Mahesh Ganesan needed to help his then-high-school senior with college applications. Ganesan, director of mergers and acquisitions integration at UKG, a Lowell technology company, worried that his son wasn’t receiving enough support remotely from his English teacher during a critical period at school.
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