Are Uber’s drivers ‘employees’?
The past year was a rollercoaster ride for Uber. They were marred by sexual harassment lawsuits, driver classification and their use of the controversial “Greyball” tool. Regulators and traditional rivals such as cab drivers and taxi firms have given the ride-hailing app much grief across the world by their non-stop protests. Indeed, Transport For London, […]
Dental Benefits At Work
Good oral health benefits both employees and employers as it correlates to greater productivity. JS Benefits Group offers individual, group or voluntary Dental and Vision Plans. Read the infographic to know more about it.
Life Insurance As An Employee Benefit
Offering life insurance to your employees is a way of saying “You matter”. If this optional benefit is one you are thinking of offering, JS Benefits Can Help You! Check out this infographic to know more about it!
How Health Reimbursement Arrangements Work for Employers
How Health Reimbursement Arrangements Work for Employers A Health Reimbursement Arrangement, or HRA, is an employer-funded benefit that reimburses employees for eligible healthcare expenses. Employers use HRAs to help manage benefit costs, offer more flexibility, and support employees without relying only on a traditional group health insurance plan. For small and mid-sized businesses, an HRA […]
How to Help New Employees Understand, Select and Enroll in Your Company’s Benefits
When you bring new employees on board, the first thing you want them to understand is what you are giving to them for their efforts.
Distrust of employees towards HR
When it comes to trusting HR, employees generally buy into various stereotypes popularized by the mainstream media and project their worst fears onto them. At other times their skepticism about the Human Resources department is grounded on solid reasons such as bad experiences. Mostly however, these fears are unfounded and seem to portray a general […]
What employees need from the workplace
The common misconception floating around most employers’ minds is that all their employees just swarm around higher appraisals and salaries like bees to a honeypot. But that is a farfetched ideal which doesn’t really resonate with most workers. Today the office space has been transformed entirely from the ground up, and these transformations have also […]
The disconnect between leaders and staff
According to a study conducted by CIPD – an authoritative body on HR and people management – a rising trend of disconnect between senior managers and employees at the workplace has been observed. An alarming 1 in 3 employees have reported that they do not trust their senior managers very much, and instead relay all […]
OCB at the workplace
The world is becoming increasingly competitive which has made it extremely important for employees to go the extra mile and overexert themselves to meet the client’s epectations. Managers and employers ask their employees to take on some extra responsibility and time, and out of the sheer desire to not let their boss down, employees begin […]
Managing negative employees at the workplace
Not all employees will be happy with office policies and not everyone will enjoy the assignment they’ve been given to complete. This negativity will eventually seep into the rest of your workplace and create a toxic environment. At times employees realize that it’s them who contributes towards the problem, and usually back down. At other […]
