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Mon 2 Jun 2008

Free Workplace Financial Education Resources For Employers

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According to the Personal Finance Employee Education Foundation, the personal finance problems of workers have a seriously negative effect on employers.

The foundation developed a Return on Investment Model (ROI) to show employers how much they can benefit from improving the financial lteracy of their employees. Some of the benefits they include are:

$ Less stress and personal finance/work conflict
$ Greater Participation in Employer’s Benefits
$ Increasesinjobengagementandproductivity
$ Improved Employee Work Performance

If you’re an employer who is looking to cash in on these benefits that come with a more financially literate workforce, ValueYour Money.org has plenty of free resources to help you get started including Articles for Employee Newsletters/Intranets, Table Tents for Break Rooms, Flyers for Bulletin Boards, and Paycheck Inserts.

Just download it, print, it, and distribute it. The only thing you have to lose is some ink and paper but you stand to gain a happier and more stable workforce.

 

Sat 9 Feb 2008

Are The Workers In Your City Gruntled?

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CareerBuilder has published a National Gruntledness Index (NGI) as a tongue-in-cheek measure of job satisfaction across the nation.

Supposedly, it uses a formula that “takes into account job postings, resume postings, job searches, and PGI (Personal Gruntledness Index) test results”.

The whole thing comes wrapped up in a cool little heat map that let’s you mouse over a city to see if it’s NGI is up or down for the day.

All-in-all a clever little marketing toy and way more fun than those creepy heart ads they ran during the Super Bowl.

 

Tue 29 Jan 2008

Are You Working For One Of The Best Companies?

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Fortune magazine’s 2008 100 Best Companies to Work For has all the details on America’s top 100 employers.

Here’s a sample:

 

Best Compensation

1. Bingham McCutchen, Average annual pay $211,017
2. Arnold & Porter, Average annual pay $194,575
3. Alston & Bird, Average annual pay $190,135
4. Shared Technologies, Average annual pay $187,137
5. Nixon Peabody, Average annual pay $178,016

 

Best Health Care Benefits

* Qualcomm
* Boston Consulting Group
* Nugget Markets
* Umpqua Banks
* Whole Foods Market

 

Best Work-Life Balance

1. Edward Jones
2. Recreational Equipment
3. Shared Technologies
4. Johnson Financial Group
5. David Weekley Homes

 

Make sure you check out the unusual perks some companies are offering employees!