Amazon offers $1,000 bonus in push to hire 75K workers | Working mothers still need support to be their best | Low-cost mental health apps can support staff wellness
Amazon plans to add 75,000 workers in the US and Canada in a hiring spree that could ultimately bring its total US workforce to over 1 million people. The retailer said the new positions will pay an average of $17 per hour and announced it would offer $1,000 signing bonuses, with an extra $100 going to new hires who are fully vaccinated.
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The workplace has improved over time for working mothers, but they still need support overcoming stereotypes and the twin demands of work and parenting, says reporter and author Joann Lublin in this interview with John Baldoni. "And we need to talk about these issues before we have kids, after we have kids and while the kids are growing up, because our needs, their needs, our careers are all going to be in a constant state of flux," Lublin says.
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According to the Willis Towers Watson Emerging Trends in Health Care Survey, 94% of employers say voluntary benefits are an important part of their offerings in 2021, compared with 36% three years ago. The fastest-growing types of voluntary benefits include hospital indemnity, identity theft, pet insurance, critical illness and group legal.
Mandatory time off is the answer to burnout, writes Motive's Elyssa Seidman, who cites an experiment conducted by SimpliFlying that made employees take set leave and resulted in increased productivity, happiness and creativity. "It's the post-pandemic perk both employees and employers need to make work work," Seidman writes.
We know everything in our 20s, right? (My mother would probably say I knew -- or thought I knew -- everything in my teens.) I’ve often thought about what I’d say to my 23-year-old self, if I could go back. Today’s Recruitment & Retention story gave me opportunity to finally pen that note.
Dear early-20s Kanoe,
You’re about to graduate from college. You’re already a wife and a mother. You’re excited to enter the workforce but haven’t really counted the costs of that on your marriage or motherhood.
Be smart. Get on the same page as your husband. Talk to older women who have careers and find out what they did to balance their marriages, child rearing and work. Choose ones you can trust whose marriages are solid and whose children act like they got some sense.
And keep those conversations going, especially with your husband. It will make the difference in your parenting, marriage, work product and character.
All the best, 50-year-old Kanoe
What would you say to your younger self about balancing work, family and personal growth? Let me know! And send this link to others who can benefit from this brief.
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