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WORKERS COMPENSATION

beqom and SEB | November 18, 2022

beqom—a provider of cloud-based total compensation and continuous performance management solutions today announced the successful deployment of its total compensation solution at Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (SEB), one of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious financial institutions. The bank selected beqom to replace their partly spreadsheet-based processes and manage total compensation for their 16,000 employees across 20 countries. They sought to align global rewa...

HR STRATEGY

Glassdoor | September 16, 2021

Glassdoor, the worldwide leader on insights about jobs and companies, today announced that through its parent company it has completed the acquisition of Fishbowl. Fishbowl is a fast-growing social network used by more than one million professionals1 engaging in candid conversations about anything career, industry and workplace-related. Financial terms are not being disclosed. With more than 55 million unique users each month, Glassdoor is on a mission to help people everywhere fi...

HR Dive | April 03, 2020

U.S. workers filed 6,648,000 unemployment claims the week ending March 28, an increase of 3,341,000 over the previous week’s revised level — "the highest level of seasonally adjusted initial claims in the history of the seasonally adjusted series," according to the U.S. Department of Labor. The unemployment claims are largely attributed to companies closing or furloughing workers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Combined with the previous week’s level, nearly 10 ...

HR Dive | January 24, 2020

Aligning talent with business objectives can substantially increase performance, retention and company competitiveness, according to The Predictive Index's State of Talent Optimization Report. The study of 600 executives, including 200 CEOs, found that the alignment between talent and performance yields a 90% "strategic success rate" for businesses. However, the index showed that while most organizations have a business strategy, only 36% of the respondents had a talent strategy, a...