7 Innovative Benefits Companies Are Offering to Attract and Retain Employees

If you’ve been in the workforce for long, you know many companies offer traditional benefits like health care and retirement accounts to their employees. Recently, innovative companies like Google have looked beyond tradition to increase the well-being of their workers and attract a superior workforce. From yoga classes to a chance to obtain a new degree, here are seven innovative benefits you can find in the workplace today.

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Bad employees? Most managers admit making bad hires — Forever 39 Podcast

Let’s face it, we’ve all worked with someone that just wasn’t a good fit for the position they were hired for. And the plague of bad hires is a pretty big problem in the U.S. In a Robert Half survey released in March, 81 percent of small and midsize managers business owners said they’d made a bad hiring decision. And once the bad hire is made, it takes companies nearly 17 weeks to fix the mistake.

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