Our society is becoming so inundated with tasks and work-related duties that unhappiness at the office is encroaching on employee health. We all know that having happy workers limits turn-over and the higher the job satisfaction, the more likely employees are to put forth their best effort. By creating a fun and home-like working atmosphere, you’ll make work fun, enjoyable, and ease stress at the same time!

Google was voted the number one company to work for in 2007. It’s no surprise considering life at the search engine giant is very relaxed and stress free; employee benefits abound. While some companies stress time lines and attire, Google emphasizes recreating the home experience at work. Employees can do laundry, work out at the gym, receive a massage and learn a new language. Feeling a little under the weather? Visit Google’s on-site doctor. Buying a hybrid? Google will give you $5,000 towards the purchase price. Expecting a child? They’ll reimburse you up to $500 in take-out food. If you ask any employee what they do at Google they’ll typically respond a personal embodiment of the company’s mission statement- “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” This kind of motivation by employees is rarely seen, but envied by most.

Google’s goal, as often recited by employees, is ambitious (to say the least). Thankfully, Google just happened to find the right people to take it on. By creating a comfortable work environment, employees are not burdened with stress. Instead, employees are motivated to collectively achieve a similar goal; indexing information and making it useful. Google wouldn’t be the tech giant it is today without its bevy of happy employees. The appeal of a work environment that mimics their homes stimulates productivity and increases employee moral, making Google one of the most sought-after employers in the world.

Even if you don’t have the resources of a Silicon Valley titan, you can easily follow Google’s ideology, making your employees happy too. The first step may just be rethinking how you see your company. Simply making the mission statement more accessible and personal will help employees insert more of themselves in to their work and ease stress levels. Extend the home experience to work and rethink the office; would you want to live in it? If you wouldn’t mind spending an evening or weekend at the office because it’s hospitable and welcoming, you’re on the right track. Make the office a place your employees love to be, rather than the place they dread to go.

Employees need to come first in a company, as they are the heart and soul of your business. Creating a comfortable work environment that mimics a home eases stress, raises morale and increases productivity. Even simple changes can greatly affect employee health and happiness in a positive way, which will certainly lead to long-term growth for your business.

Today, Human Resource Outsourcing is catching up to software outsourcing as a growing practice among small, mid-size and large companies. The burden of managing human resources has become too much for some businesses that are looking to reduce costs during such tough economic times.

For this reason many companies are not only taking advantage of HR outsourcing but it is becoming more common for businesses to actually utilize comprehensive human resource outsourcing.

Comprehensive HR outsourcing involves a company not only relying on HR outsourcing for special projects or particular department functions but also for the major functions of the company like payroll services, recruitment services, employee benefits and more.

Comprehensive HR outsourcing not only reduces costs and taps into more experienced skill sets but will also help a company to cut HR costs and improve management-employee relations.

Comprehensive HR outsourcing has also proven to be beneficial in shortening employee turnover while raising employee satisfaction and increasing productivity.

Companies choosing Comprehensive HR outsourcing for HR functions, benefits, health and payroll as a viable business strategy have found they are controlling costs, improving employee productivity and reducing their assumed risk with full time employees.

Here Are Some Of The Reasons Businesses Are Choosing Comprehensive HR Outsourcing:

• Increases efficiency, productivity, cost effectiveness and expertise
• Reduces the risks with government compliance, safety and worker’s compensation, pension administration, HR audits and other legal issues.
• Improves employee/labor relations.
• Raises the return on investment (ROI) for human resources.
• Lowers costs of health benefits and other expensive benefits packages.

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• Employee Relations and Talent Acquisition
• Benefit and Payroll Management
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Employee Relations can be a tricky business, particularly in California. We’ve got over 50 years of experience dealing with “difficult” cases, and can handle even the most sensitive challenges, including responding to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Department of Fair Employment Housing (DFEH) claims, as well as:

• Representation at Unemployment Insurance hearings
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• Corrective Action Assistance
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• Dispute Resolution policies and procedures
• Separation and Arbitration agreements
• Union Negotiations and Contract Administration
• Union Avoidance

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