Active Workstations May Improve Cognitive Performance: Study
A recent Mayo Clinic study suggests that active workstations incorporating a walking pad, bike, stepper and/or standing desk are successful strategies for reducing ...
Talent Management
That Insurance Talent Crisis? It’s a Global Knowledge Opportunity
Over the next 15 years, 50 percent of the current insurance workforce will retire. It's a jarring number. This leaves more than 400,000 open positions unfilled, according to the U.S. Chamber of ...
How Apprenticeship Programs May Be the Best Solution to Today’s Talent Crisis
Four-year degree required. It's been a standard part of job descriptions in the insurance industry for the better part of the past two decades. Now, it's time for an overhaul. The college degree ...
Gen Z’s Financial Goals Align With Traditional Benefits
New research from The Standard has revealed Gen Z's goals and values generally align with many of the benefits typically offered by employers. In its latest study, the perception of HR leaders' ...
Job Shadowing Key to Employee Retention, Advancement
As companies look for ways to improve talent acquisition and retention in a challenging labor market, global HR research and advisory firm McLean & Company suggests job shadowing as a method to ...
Why Insurance Professionals Will Change Jobs in 2024
February was Insurance Careers Month, a time often used to attract the attention of college graduates and professionals from other industries to the benefits of working in the insurance industry. ...
Could U.S. Workers and Companies Benefit From a 32-Hour Workweek?
The 40-hour workweek has been standard in the U.S. for more than eight decades. Now some members of Congress want to give hourly workers an extra day off.
The studies frequently touted as proof of concept for a shortened workCould U.S. Workers and Companies Benefit From a 32-Hour Workweek?week are riddled with statistical ... The furor over corporate diversity, equity and inclusion programs has turned so explosive that it's never been busier for specialists on the topic.
Don’t Believe the Hype About Shorter Workweek Benefits: Expert
Business Is Booming for DEI Lawyers as Corporate America Asks: ‘What’s Legal?’
Lloyd’s of London Hits 35% Female Leadership Target
Lloyd's of London has hit a short-term target of filling 35 percent of leadership roles with women, although less than half of firms in the commercial insurance market had hit the mark, it said on ...