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How the rise in urbanization and remote workers will change commuting

Benefit Resource Inc.

A rise in remote workers and denser city populations are also expected to impact how employers approach commuter programs. With the rise of remote workers, commuter benefits – specifically, on-demand services – will increase in value. In 2005, 6.2 working population, commuted on public transportation. of the U.S.

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How prepared are workers’ compensation systems for COVID-19?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Regardless of the workers’ compensation model (private insurance, competitive state fund, exclusive state fund), every insurer has to prepare for the unexpected. As noted in my last post, the COVID-19 event most certainly is a rare event and just as assuredly will result in accepted workers’ compensation claims.

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Rendering Aid to an Injured Worker: Potential Liability under the Dual Capacity/Dual Persona Theory

The Workcomp Writer

It is axiomatic that in every American jurisdiction, once a workers’ compensation act has become applicable—either through compulsion or election—it affords the exclusive remedy for the injury by the employee or the employee’s dependents against the employer [see Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , § 100.01, et seq. ]. 3d 5, 445 N.E.2d

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Is working from home going to be a permanent thing?

Business Management Daily

Supported by technological advances and the desire to better integrate professional and personal obligations, the number of people telecommuting in the United States increased 159% between 2005 and 2017. Management quickly developed productivity standards to measure performance and give workers a framework in an unfamiliar environment.

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FAANGs for the memories: how tech palaces lost their lustre

Workplace Insight

He and several colleagues lived together in what appears to be an overgrown frat house with free food and personal transportation around the island. Reuters reports how “The FTX headquarters is now unoccupied, with furniture pushed against some windows. Its signage has been removed. The plot of land, which cost $4.5 million, also lies empty.”