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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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Gain in Hours Worked Gauge May Signal Upside in U.S. Jobs Report
Bloomberg | Ultimate Kronos Group’s workforce activity, an index of hours worked and shift data from 3.8 million employees at 35,000 U.S. businesses, rose 1.4% month over month in November after gaining 0.1% in October. During this year’s economic recovery, increases in the UKG indicator in March, June and July have coincided with national job numbers that exceeded economists’ predictions for the corresponding month.