Walmart is increasing wages for truckers to recruit more drivers. The company is also offering predictable scheduling, reducing time between application and the work start date and awarding a referral bonus.

Pet-friendly offices, on-site health services and sabbaticals are among perks companies use to support employee retention, SchoolSafe co-founder Tiffany Delmore writes. Delmore suggests additional tactics to help keep workers engaged, including paying employees to volunteer and creating a pathway for advancement.

The cost of health care is unsustainable for businesses and hinders their ability to grow and to compete with foreign companies, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says. Dimon is co-leading an initiative to tackle cost and to deliver better care to workers.

Trojan attacks targeting businesses increased substantially last year, in part because they are less noticeable than ransomware and can slowly steal bank information and other data. One particularly troublesome Trojan making the rounds is Emotet, which not only steals data, but also drops other malicious Trojans throughout the infected system.

Contribution plans are agreements that outline what's expected of an employee in terms of outcomes and behaviors, with the onus on the leader to coach throughout the year, says S. Chris Edmonds in this blog post and video. He tells the story of a president's work with her executive team in creating contribution plans -- as well as the realization that she hadn't given her senior staff enough guidance.