Playbook for HR professionals from employee experience to flexible working, appropriate remuneration, incentive planning and how to manage health and benefit costs
If you’ve found yourself distracted, sad, angry, confused or just bewildered recently you’re not alone. Never before has work-life balance been so disrupted!
Even though we can’t stop your 7am virtual meetings, stop your dog from chewing your work, or take care of your kids as their school is cancelled, fortunately at Mercer we can help where it counts most.
No matter how hard things seem, we’re here to help support you and your employees, while making tough business decisions.
That’s why we’ve pulled together a selection of resources and created a blueprint to guide your organization towards a brighter future in 2021. Read these and feel confident that some things are under your control: even if your bed-head isn’t.
For insights on everything from employee experience to flexible working, appropriate remuneration, incentive planning and how to manage health and benefit costs effectively, with Mercer you’re going to get the career, health, and financial guidance your business and employee needs.
Mercer is with you every step of the way. We have a wide range of resources available to help your organization and your HR teams lead with empathy, balance costs and maintain successful working environments.
Focus on building a better employee experience
Did you know that companies who have employee well-being programs in place have four times the average profitability and twice the average revenue of companies that lag? How do you create experiences your employees value? Find out more from this whitepaper.
Balance costs and care to win with empathy
What are the upcoming talent trends of the future? What do people think about HR around the world? Find out from 7,300+ C-suite executives, HR leaders and employees in 34 countries. Download the Global Talent Trends report to see how organizations are transforming their workforce and workplace and this year’s top HR trends.
Consider different models – like TIM – that put employees first
When business is focused on creating and sustaining exceptional personal and digital employee interactions, everyone wins. But how do you transform HR to create an integrated people strategy that delivers outstanding experiences throughout the employee lifecycle?
Read this report on Transforming HR with a Target Interaction Model (TIM) to find out
Get the right, future-ready people on board
To create and promote behaviors that support a digital revolution, it’s important to truly understand your employees’ future-readiness potential, and upskill them. Read our blog post about how to use the latest technology to find and grow future-ready people.
Read our point of view article on Growing Future-Ready People
Listen to employees and shape the new reality
Effective employee listening can improve mental health, aid productivity, create compassion and even lead to greater empathy. Find out how Malaysian businesses are balancing economics with empathy.
Read this Mercer point of view article on Employee Listening
Hiring, rewarding and keeping our employees motivated in tough times is no simple matter. But with these helpful resources we share a few insights that can help leaders stay strong and remain forward-looking, even when things are hard.
Reinvent rewards and drive performance
With a future-oriented mindset, organizations are thinking about how to redesign employees’ experiences to inspire and engage people, while building resilience and flexibility. Find out why it’s important to recalibrate now to prepare for future-orientated agility, resilience and performance.
Read our blog post on Recalibrating Now to Prepare for the Future
Set the right goals for each performance level
Why is performance measurement and goal setting important for your business? In this short guide, we share insights on how Mercer can help you measure success, set goals and pay employees appropriately for each level of performance.
Take key steps towards effective cost management
When there just isn’t as much money to go around, cost management is essential. But there are ways to help employees understand and even buy-in to cost management initiatives. Download this paper now to learn the key steps for effective cost management in your organization.
Find out what you need to know about furlough planning
Furloughing employees is hard. Here is a helpful, comprehensive guide on furlough assessment, planning and implementation to make it just a little bit easier on those involved in managing the process. This guide covers everything from assessment to planning and implementation.
Download our Furloughs: Assessment, Planning and Implementation guide
Consider talent acquisition changes that impact the future
Remote working has changed hiring practices.. As we turn towards increasingly ways of recruiting people, what does this mean for talent acquisition as a whole, the HR teams who lead this, and the people we hire? Read this perspective to find out.
Understand remuneration around the world
How are salaries changing? Take a look at the Compensation Planning 2020 webpage and you’ll discover the HR professional’s guide to compensation planning, the world’s largest and most comprehensive remuneration resource and much more.
The future of work demands healthy, focused employees, and as the trend of medical costs continues to rise, now is the time to consider bold new measures to deliver maximum value and balance health care cost concerns with empathy and employee engagement.
Balance cost and empathy for employee benefits
How do you keep health and benefits plan costs under control, while ensuring your employees are still safe, cared for and remain healthy? Read our Point of View on balancing cost and empathy in employee benefits to find out.
Download the Balancing Cost and Empathy in Employee Benefits whitepaper
Be aware of medical inflation costs
Medical insurance costs is increasing around the world. Find out by how much by, and how health conditions, supplier factors and consumer habits are affecting these trends by downloading our research gathered from 239 insurers from around the world.
Manage employee health with best-in-class onsite clinics
Did you know that onsite clinics are two to three times more cost-effective than accessing off-site healthcare services? Read our perspective to find out why best-practice onsite clinics are coming to the fore during COVID-19.
Think about the future of health with digital health solutions
We’re doing everything digitally these days – including taking better care of our health. Have a look here for insights about how to connect health and tech in the workplace. It includes infographics, a global report, video and much more.
Get the latest digital health trends in the Health on Demand report
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