There are several ways to provide employees with opportunities to balance their personal and professional lives without compromising your organization's productivity. In fact, helping employees find a work/life balance can increase productivity.

Employees want more information about their benefits. Providing tools and resources to help employees make more informed and personalized decisions about their benefits during open enrollment will create a more satisfied workforce.

Organizations that utilize blogs, wikis and social networking tools achieved an average year-over-year improvement in employee engagement of 18%, compared to just 1% for the organizations that did not.

By implementing best practices for performance management, you can increase the likelihood that employees will be doing their best work possible while reducing the ineffectiveness of a fragmented performance management policy.

Using the right tools to conduct your candidate search simplifies the process. Organizations should use technology during every step of recruitment, including: . Creating requisitions . Attracting top candidates . Sorting applications . Conducting interviews . Hiring the top candidate

Don't be caught unaware when the economy improves and your employees start to leave. Instead, prepare now for the economic recovery so employees know they will have a bright future should they choose to stay.

Great perks are often handed out freely to the sales team, but what about the IT staff that support this function? If employers are going to grow their business, they need to keep their best IT staff happy.

Now more than ever, companies need to establish a solid foundation for their compensation and people programs. Learn how to mitigate your risk to employee lawsuits, keep your employees engaged and make the right decisions about your reward programs during these tough economic times.