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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

The uncertainty of the market, unstable cash flow, and the seemingly never-ending threat of recession may force companies to make tough decisions. According to goal-setting theory, difficult yet attainable goals provide motivation for workers to improve performance (Locke & Latham, 2019). Workplace Health & Safety.

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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

And —rather than selling physical products, they deal in less tangible resources like time, insights, and expertise – billed either by hour or by project. People (understandably) want, need, and expect different things than they did back in 2019 and firms will need to align with new expectations to win in this new market.

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A Refresher on Marketing ROI

Harvard Business

trillion in 2019, up from $1.6 “The MROI of social media activity often looks very high if you only count financial resources, but if you look at the human resources required to develop content and respond to consumers’ posts 24/7, the number goes down,” she says. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR. trillion in 2014.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

Although most governments are required to balance their budgets on a cash flow basis each fiscal year, a structural budget gap can arise when recurring expenditures are greater than recurring revenues. The judgment won’t be paid off until 2019 at the earliest; by then, the total cost will have grown to $53 million.

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Pros and Cons of Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) Why a “Virtual PEO” May be the Better Option

Emerson Consulting Group

Additionally, PEOs provide a “single source” for much of the administration of many aspects of Human Resources departments. A study in the Kaiser Family Foundation’s 2019 annual health benefits survey [3] confirms this. Providing onboarding, open enrollment, easy access to questions about benefits, etc.