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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). Launched in 2015, Generation works in five countries (India, Kenya, Mexico, Spain, and the United States). These metrics can be converted into an estimate of ROI for the employer. But it is possible to do better. and sixfold in India.

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Understanding the Costs and Causes of Employee Turnover

Tom Spencer

Fitz–Enz (2009) , who coined the term ‘ROI of Human Capital’, also included costs such as: Reduced productivity – the learning curve effect posits that average production costs fall in a predictable manner with total accumulated production. Oswald et al (2015) claims that happiness leads to a 12% increase in productivity.

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The Data-Driven Case for Vacation

Harvard Business

days of vacation in 2015. In 2015 the unemployment rate was 5.3% (it was 9.7% in 1982), and yet 2015 had one of the lowest averages of time off taken in the past 30 years: 16.2 (A 24-month moving average was used to eliminate short-term fluctuations in the data.) days) in 2000, but they took only 16.2 days of vacation.

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B2B Salespeople Need to Act More Like Travel Agents

Harvard Business

According to the travel and leisure marketing firm MMGY, the use of travel agents increased by 50% from 2014 to 2015. Consider what’s happened with travel: With the explosion of internet travel sites in the 2000s, consumers took charge of their own travel, and travel agencies hemorrhaged business. Fast forward to today.

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How to Get Your Team to Use Their Vacation Time

Harvard Business

So if vacation has such a good ROI, why are people taking less and less of it? A 2015 HBR article by Ron Friedman is a treasure trove of facts about the benefits to reaction time, creativity, and engagement. In one study, researchers found that employees fear that their manager will think less of them for taking vacation.

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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). °F).

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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.