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Employee engagement is on the rise according to the Tempkin Employee Engagement Index. Employee engagement can have many positive effects on an organization. Here are a few examples of the variety of benefits an engaged workforce can have on your organization as a whole.

Undercover cooking talent and reality restaurant shows are on the top of Food Network, lifestyle networks and even major networks these days, and our client Boston Market is taking this opportunity to capture their service and operations issues in order to remain – THE BEST, while growing their brand.

Many employers look to employee loyalty as an expectation, rather than an organizational goal. However, for employees, loyalty is viewed as quite the opposite; something that an organization should earn through mutually beneficial working conditions and effort committed. Here a 5 keys to earning employee loyalty and retaining a more productive and sustainable workforce.

The Affordable Care Act is enabling employers to offer more health and wellness program options for their employees, while helping employers control their health care costs. Along with updated guidelines for how employee health and wellness programs need to be executed, the Affordable Care Act is increasing the maximum reward for employees to  20 to-30 percent of their total health care costs. These rewards increase to as much as 50 percent of health care costs for employees participating in any kind of tobacco cessation program. These types of changes make it easier for employers to get involved in health and wellness programs, knowing that they will be easing both the financial burden of health care on their employees, as well as improving the health and well being of their workforce. Below are 3 of the new proposed rules the Affordable Care Act introduces with regard to employee health and wellness programs. Take a look, and see how you could be helping your employees get healthy, stay healthy, and save money for both themselves and the organization. The rules below are being enacted to ensure health and wellness programs are run in a way fair to all willing employees.

The infographic below reflects a recent survey from Mercer of 2,400 people that represent a microcosm of the American workforce. Since almost one in three people are looking to leave their jobs, it is important to know who is most likely to be looking to move on, and why. An employee’s retention and  satisfaction leads to their loyalty, so pinpointing and fixing those issues will be financially efficient and better for themorale at your organization. Loyalty and retention rates can be boosted by implementing an employee loyalty program, offering small incentives, such as small denomination gift cards to employees as loyalty rewards, or as a carrot reward for employee retention. Check out this infographic as a start to figuring out your organizations weaknesses and turn them into strengths. Providing employees support, career development, recognition and rewards can minimize turnover and increase loyalty. Knowing which populations are most likely to be looking to leave is a good way to start working to maximize employee loyalty.