By: Ginger Christ • Published Oct. 10, 2023 As more employers turn to robust total rewards strategies to attract and retain workers, deciding which benefits to offer can be a struggle. From child care assistance to tuition reimbursement to fertility ...
If it feels like people in the U.S. are having fewer kids, it’s not just you. In fact, data from the National Center for Health Statistics shows that in 2018, the average woman had just one child, compared to more ...
Dive Brief: Walgreens will close most locations Thanksgiving Day for the first time in its history, the company announced Thursday, joining the recent trend of other large U.S. retailers closing for the federal holiday. Tracey D. Brown, executive VP of ...
People often fear the unknown or face trepidation when engaging with people who are different. But business leaders at the Society for Human Resource Management’s 2023 Inclusion conference sent a different message on Oct. 30: Hiring refugees doesn’t have to ...
The Lowe’s Foundation will provide $3 million in apprenticeship grants to three national groups that provide skilled trades training in local communities, according to a Nov. 1 announcement. The grants will support programs that prepare workers for their careers, including ...
As 2024 approaches, employers need to emphasize skills investment and train up their workers to anticipate the growth of generative artificial intelligence, according to Udemy’s 2024 Global Learning & Skills Trends Report, released Nov. 1. Without investment, employers may be ...
Dive Brief: Nearly half of workers (46%) don’t think higher education prepared them for their current jobs, according to a survey released Nov. 8 by online learning platform Go1. Sixty-one percent of the 3,000 full-time office workers surveyed in Australia, ...
By: Caroline Colvin • Published March 28, 2023 Giving women a seat at the (kitchen) table was an explicit factor in Kelley Berlin’s decision to launch a returnship program. In 2021 and 2022, Grubhub has welcomed caregivers — mostly women ...
Nearly 128 million U.S. workers — about 70% of the entire US workforce — could stand to benefit from apprenticeships and on-the-job learning opportunities, opening up a key cohort of trained workers for employers, according to a Nov. 13 report ...
Most organizations in North America are struggling to measure the return on investment (ROI) of employee training programs, according to a Nov. 7 report from D2L, a global learning technology company. In a survey of hundreds of high-level leaders across ...