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Understanding the Costs and Causes of Employee Turnover

Tom Spencer

Retention efforts are especially important after the two-year mark because it can take up to two years for a new employee to reach a similar level of productivity as an existing staff member. This indicates that the employee has gotten up to speed with tasks, built working relationships with teammates, and has become a productive contributor.

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To Better Train Workers, Figure Out Where They Struggle

Harvard Business

Almost half (49%) said that it was difficult to ensure a return on investment (ROI). This is a particularly acute issue at the entry level, where employers have come to accept that high levels of attrition and low levels of productivity and quality are normal. These metrics can be converted into an estimate of ROI for the employer.

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The Data-Driven Case for Vacation

Harvard Business

days of vacation in 2015. The question that needs to be asked is whether we are more productive and successful with fewer days, or whether work is getting in the way of our success. In 2015 the unemployment rate was 5.3% (it was 9.7% The finding was that Americans used to take almost three weeks of vacation a year (20.3

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What I Learned from Trying to Innovate at the New York Times

Harvard Business

By the end of my two years there, two of the three products the company had launched to drive new revenue had been repositioned as free offerings intended to drive engagement, and the third had been shut down entirely; there were no meaningful plans for new products underway. zbysiu rodak.

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C °C (3.8°F) °C (2.7°F). Embrace renewable energy.

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How to Get Your Team to Use Their Vacation Time

Harvard Business

Not only does taking vacation contribute to enhanced productivity but it also immunizes our teams against the toxic negative attitudes that can be contagious in the workplace. So if vacation has such a good ROI, why are people taking less and less of it? Evidence is piling up that vacations are good for business.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business

For example, in 2015 the Consortium arranged a global Zika Innovation Hack-a-thon in which 200 innovators developed 15 proposed solutions in 48 hours to help control the virus. This can result in favoring projects promising a quick ROI over riskier projects offering bigger impact in the long-term.