Content from Sharon Emek
Sharon Emek, Ph.D., CIC, is President and CEO of Work At Home Vintage Experts, an innovative contract staffing talent solution. WAHVE matches retiring insurance professionals leaving the regular workforce to insurance firms to meet their full- or part-time staffing needs. Emek may be reached at sharon.emek@wahve.com.
The Smart Workforce Pivot: Insurance’s Backdoor to Talent Acquisition
The dilemma in today's labor market is real. In 2023, the U.S. labor market had 9.5 million unfilled jobs. Yet there were just 6.5 million unemployed workers, according to the U.S. Chamber of ...
Gain Productivity With a Skills-Based Work Model
The traditional job as we know it is slowly being replaced by skills-based work models. Could the shift help you recapture productivity? When it rains, it pours. The labor market was already strained ...
Today’s Culture, Tomorrow’s Success
Every month since the onset of the pandemic, American workers started quitting their jobs. In November 2021, the number of people who quit their current positions just that month topped 4.5 million, ...
How to Fix Your Remote Onboarding Process
For many organizations, it's been a year of operating remotely. As employees and managers have worked to overcome the challenges that come with remote work, some are now facing a challenge they ...
Reinventing the Workforce
More workers are seeking—and gaining—remote work. In fact, the level to which today's employees are working remotely has grown exponentially. Global Workplace Analytics data reveals that the ...
The Remote Workforce Culture: Welcome to the Disruption
Talent, talent and talent—that's the key to a great company. Yet finding the right talent has become more challenging, particularly if your search is limited to a local candidate pool. With baby ...
Talent Gap Fix: Why Remote Workers Can Be Your Best Business Advantage
With a serious shortage in talent happening within the insurance industry, carriers are straining under the weight of too much work and too few employees, a problem that will only deepen as more ...
Going Virtual in the Digital Age: What Estonia’s Story Means for Insurers
American working culture is no stranger to the debate over the merits of a virtual workforce. Even those who focus on the pitfalls of remote working have to recognize the reality that technology is ...