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From shortened workweeks, massages, unlimited sushi, to ball pits, spaceships, and dinosaurs – companies are looking to innovative ways to attract and retain top talent.

Met Life’s 2010 study of Employee Benefits Trends reveals for companies of all sizes, one in three employees may become a flight risk largely due to the fact that employers are emphasizing their focus on cost control and cost shifting – and placing less importance on increasing employee job satisfaction. There is also reduced emphasis on benefits that help employees achieve a better work-life balance.

Companies like Google, who have created...

As technology transforms the workplace, companies look for ways to compete in a global work environment, and new generations of employees put a higher value on having control over when and where they do their work, flexible work arrangements have become an increasingly important offering.   

To educate human resource professionals, and their organizations, about the importance of effective and flexible workplaces, the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) has formed a multiyear partnership with the Families and Work Institute (FWI)  to helps employer create effective and flexible workplaces that fit the 21^st century workforce and keep organizations...

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and—SNAP—the job’s a game! —Mary Poppins

We live in an amazing time of demographic and societal changes, incredible communication and information developments, economic landscape alterations, globalization, and the continuing rise of the knowledge worker — all of which have contributed to the creation of a new world of work.

The Microsoft Office Lync Client Test team has about 85 people representing a wide variety of technical, educational, generational, and cultural backgrounds. The goal of 42projects is to design a...

A new survey we released today at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) 63rd Annual Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas shows that 77 percent of human resource professionals said the poor economy has negatively impacted employee benefits. But this survey of 600 HR professionals that examines nearly 300 benefits – SHRM’s 2011 Employee Benefits Research Report – also found that organizations have found creative ways to compensate for the loss of those benefits.

Among those is an increase in workplace flexibility benefits, with more than half of companies (53 percent) providing flextime, up from...