What Strategic HR Can Do For Your Organization

Amid the ongoing upheaval of the past two years, as well as the blurred lines between work, school, and home, it has become clear that we are facing a national children’s mental health crisis. This crisis does not exist in a silo: As the lines between work and home have blurred, the added stress, anxiety, and burden on caregivers has a direct impact on their ability to thrive at work. Employers must play a larger role in comprehensively supporting their employees by implementing policies, benefits, and managerial strategies that encompass their families, too. Join this session to learn how employers can play a crucial role in helping caregivers and their families thrive.

Learn the ins and outs of the workers compensation system and how to handle any challenges that arise. The workers' compensation system can be an adventure given the many challenges attorneys and members of the claims management team face. This content will focus on the many challenges of the system and provide practical solutions to all interested stakeholders. We will cover the basic benefit structure of the worker's compensation system, how to prepare for the unexpected, how to avoid common pitfalls, and much more.

In the day-to-day busy-ness, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that employees are actually people. Losing the personal touch in HR, employees begin to feel like numbers on a spreadsheet rather than a valued individual human. While many want to maintain that human connection it’s no surprise it falls by the wayside. There is so much time is spent with tedious, repetitive, and administrative tasks. We simply have no time to build relationships with employees, let alone focus on a strategy to do so.

As factors like the Great Resignation, hybrid and remote work, and health care consumerism continue to take center stage, organizations must develop (or refresh) an infrastructure capable of supporting a virtual workforce. It also is essential for organizations to maintain a personal connection with employees as they navigate their way through another annual enrollment season. Employers can deliver a virtual yet personal benefits experience - both during annual enrollment and year-round - to their workforce with the right combination of innovative tools and technologies and engaging communication strategies. In this program, HR, employee benefits and communication expert Candace Jodice, Vice President of HR Benefits at CVS Health, and Tanya Mulqueen, Communication Practice Director at bswift, share their thoughts and recommendations for employers navigating the evolving work and benefits landscape.