Culture

By Gene Park
Surprise your coworkers with a little something special!... Who couldn’t use a little R-E-C-O-G-N-I-T-I-O-N? You may know them as, your right arm, or the go-to-person, maybe even the resident rock star. Why not celebrate them and all they do? The following ideas would work well to express appreciation to any coworker. It's more glamorous when their travel details are being handled by the one person who never gets to go anywhere. Why not bring a little something back or send a package from your destination, just for them?

By Gene Park
Today’s top talent doesn’t fit into a mold, they are as diverse as the world around us. Follow these three lessons to ensure that your company rewards, recognizes and inspires diversity among all employees.

By Gene Park
Business cannot live by metrics alone. Balance sheets, production capacities and earnings reports are certainly attractive to Wall Street analysts, but customers and employees seek a deeper attachment to the companies they buy from and work for. What nurtures that attachment? Consumers and employees bond, in part, with a brand— the intersection between what customers and employees know about a company (the intellectual component) and what they feel about that company (the emotional component). Why do millions of consumers exhibit a religious-like devotion to Apple products? Why does the J.M. Smucker Company so often rank near the top of the Great Place to Work Institutes’ list of the “100 Best Companies to Work for in America?”

By Allen Holman
Whether at home, at work or on the go, 21st century technology allows us to be “connected” to the web at all times. Answering emails, checking social media and browsing the internet on an hourly basis have become common in today’s world, and the span of technology only continues to increase. However, with this high-tech era comes phishing: a new and common gateway for criminals and hackers to steal private information. Phishing is a way that criminals attempt to obtain access or sensitive data such as usernames, passwords and credit card details through a disguised email acting as an invoice, bank statement or password reset notification. Phishing can occur through almost any communication medium, including automated phone calls, social media and email, and can happen anywhere you can be enticed to click on a link, open a document or disclose sensitive information.

The Inspirus vision statement, “Bring joy to work, one experience at a time,” not only applies to the companies we work with across the globe, but includes our very own employees too.

By Charlla Feller-Davis
Company safety incentive programs are critical to the health and safety of your organization. I learned this early on as a professional.

By Charlla Feller-Davis
For years we’ve been hearing the same beleaguered declaration: The cost of healthcare is going up. It’s an understatement that doesn’t come close to reflecting the magnitude of how much costs are climbing. Experts report costs have increased 274 times since 1950. No other sector of U.S. goods or services has experienced such an unbridled uptick. Today, healthcare costs are growing at a much faster rate than inflation, the economy and wages.

By Charlla Feller-Davis
For decades, we’ve heard a lot about work-life balance. Employers eager to retain valuable talent were schooled about the many reasons why employees didn’t want to engage in daily rounds of “last soldier standing” to prove their commitment or value. Companies implemented a range of ideas—everything from flex schedules and lunchtime yoga to job sharing and bring your dog to work—in an effort to help employees de-stress and reclaim valuable time for themselves and their families. While these ideas are great, the benchmark has evolved.