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Driving Employee Retention: Tackling Commute Challenges in Manufacturing

Understanding the factors influencing frontline employees’ job choices is essential for manufacturers to develop effective recruitment and retention strategies.
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Why Leaders Should Embrace Year-Around Employee Recognition

By moving beyond the confines of the performance review and embracing continuous recognition, we can create a more motivated, engaged, and loyal workforce.
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Workplace Autonomy Isn’t for Everyone, or is it?

Dive into what workplace autonomy really is and why you should strive to support it.
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Best Practices for Creating a Supportive Culture for Frontline Workers

Your frontline workers are the face of your company, interacting directly with customers and representing your company brand. Making them feel valued and supported is critical to your business’s growth and success. Here are some best practices for building that valuable supportive culture to help drive business success. 
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The Power of Employee Perks: Enhancing the Employee Experience

In today’s job market, attracting and retaining the best talent requires more than just being paid well — offering unique perks and benefits is essential for creating an appealing hiring package and a desirable work environment that meets the high standards of modern employees. 
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Empowering Latino Frontline Employees: Strategies for Leadership Support and Success

The Latino workforce is emerging as a pivotal demographic in the U.S., portraying the fastest growing representation in the labor force, and one of the largest segments of the frontline workforce.
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Bring Back a Rumble (or Two) to Support Culture-Based Leadership

Rumbling can help navigate conversations that require open and honest discussion, which may take employees to messy and uncomfortable places and potentially cause friction. 
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How to Support Mental Health at Work Through Communication

From team meetings to one-on-one interactions, navigate the importance of mental health at work and reveal the profound impact that clear, empathetic communication has on our wellbeing.
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KPIs Reinvented: 5 Ways to Keep People Inspired

The secret to success isn’t to track key performance indicators—it’s to keep people inspired.
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Rethinking Your Workplace Mental Health Strategy

With one in four adults experiencing mental health conditions, organizations have a responsibility to care for their teams. Learn how to create a workplace mental health strategy that proactively reduces stressors, provides manager training, and leverages data to create a healthier work environment.
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Eating Healthy at Work: A Recipe for Boosting Employee Wellbeing and Productivity

One of the most important, simple, and effective ways to ensure you can show up as your best self at work is to make sure you are fueling your mind and body. 
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Five Ways to Recognize and Celebrate International Nurses Week

It is critical that we pause at least once a year to reflect upon and recognize the enormous contributions of nurses in improving the health of individual patients, communities, and the world.  
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The Power of Strategic Partnerships and How to Nurture Them

Looking to grow your organization faster, expand your offerings, or gain access to new customer markets? See how strategic partnerships can benefit both partners and customers.
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Leading with Empathy: 3 Ways People Data Can Help

Business strategy and people processes don't have to be at odds for modern executives. See how HR technology can help you strike a balance.
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3 Ingredients for Successful Employee Retention Strategies

Looking beyond the traditional enticements of large salaries and extensive perks, the real magnet for top talent today involves cultivating a company atmosphere enriched with purpose, pride, and fun.
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Three AI Functionalities that Help Build Workplace Trust, Retention, and Satisfaction

With proper privacy and security, AI can positively impact workforce productivity and employee experience.
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8 Strategies for Navigating Office Politics and Putting Your Best Foot Forward

Explore what office politics entail, why they matter, and learn practical strategies for navigating them with finesse.
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From Exhausted to Fired Up: How to Prevent Employee Burnout

Follow these four steps to retain top talent, prevent employee burnout, and create an engaged and passionate workforce.
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What Does it Take to Create an Engaging and Empowering Work Environment?

Learn how to contribute to a supportive environment using modern communication tools while at the same time closing the gap between virtual and in-person work environments.
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Changing the World, One Workplace at a Time

UKG is all in on a clear mission: Inspire every organization to become a great place to work through technology built for all.

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