November, 2023

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What is a catastrophic health insurance plan?

PeopleKeep

Healthcare costs continue to rise , making it increasingly difficult for people to find affordable coverage. In response to this, catastrophic health plans have emerged as an alternative option for those who are relatively healthy and primarily seeking coverage in case of major medical events.

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Adapting Benefits For A Multi-Generational Workforce

Wellable

With low job satisfaction rates across generations, tailored benefits emerge as a solution to appeal to a multi-generational workforce. The post Adapting Benefits For A Multi-Generational Workforce appeared first on Wellable.

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Do total reward statements still engage employees with their benefits packages?

Employee Benefits

Credit: Julia Sudnitskaya / Shuuterstock.com A total reward statement provides an overview of an employment package and its value. Offering choice regarding how a total reward statement is delivered to an employee is key to ensuring effective engagement. A personalised benefits package can help to engage employees with their benefits because it is specifically relevant to them.

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Pet insurance or life insurance? Help employees select the voluntary benefits they need

Employee Benefit News

By capturing employee attention with popular benefits, employers can piggyback communication about the most valuable enhancements for their workforce.

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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42% of employers plan to reduce flexibility for staff in 2024

Employee Benefits

Approximately two-fifths (42%) of employers plan to reduce flexibility or offer less of this to their employees in 2024, according to research by Barnett Waddingham. The independent consultancy, which surveyed 302 HR directors and C-suite professionals, found that this could see as many as 588,000 employers planning to offer reduced flexibility to working arrangements.

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Maximizing Your “Financial Gap Years”

Money Talk

When someone uses the phrase “gap year,” we often think immediately of young adults who plan experiential learning activities (e.g., traveling, volunteering, and working) between high school and post-secondary education or college graduation and graduate school. In other words, something that young adults do in their late teens and 20s. Think Malia Obama and Elon Musk.

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Artificial Intelligence: Is It Okay for Job Seekers to Get Help With Their Job Search

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes I’d like to think that most, if not all, of us would answer the question “Is it okay for job seekers to get help with their job search?” with the answer “yes”. We encourage job seekers to reach out to their networks when they’re looking for new opportunities. We encourage them to speak with mentors and coaches about how to share their strengths during interviews.

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Council Guest Post: Is it Time For Payroll to Make its Own Table?

3Sixty Insights

The following is the first in a series of micro-blogs, guest authored by Annemarie Verwaaijen, MSc, MBA, Vice President, Global Head of Pay Services for S&P Global, and a 3Sixty Insights Executive Council member. Is it Time For Payroll to Make its Own Table? I read a statement this morning: “I am not waiting to get a seat at the table; I am building my own table.

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Rosalynn Carter and 10 other notable mental health advocates

Employee Benefit News

As the need for mental health continues to grow, public figures have long fought to shake off stigma.

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We’re Here to Help! How to Navigate Your Top HR Priorities

Are you helping your people proactively plan for retirement? How are you prioritizing the mental health of your HR team? These are a few of the questions that HR professionals are seeking answers to today. Luckily, Gallagher’s consultants came together with four robust articles (and one infographic) that help address these pain points and provide you with proactive planning tips to help you simplify, personalize and create flexibility in your benefits offerings to help ensure your people thrive

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Tribunal rules stress can be disability without mental health diagnosis

Employee Benefits

An employment tribunal has ruled that stress can be considered disability without a formal mental health diagnosis from a doctor. At a preliminary hearing to discuss a case brought against Aneurin Bevan University Local Health Board, the tribunal panel in Cardiff found that claimant Mrs Phillips could be considered disabled under the Equality Act 2010.

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A Newtonian perspective on reason, productivity and creativity

Workplace Insight

On the doorstep of the British Library, you will find Edouardo Paolozzi’s imposing statue of Sir Isaac Newton. At first glance, this position seems to make perfect sense. Where better for a monument to the Enlightenment’s poster boy than raised on a plinth at the entrance to the world’s second largest library? And yet, there’s more going on here than is evident at first glance.

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How to Negotiate Lower Prices

Money Talk

Whether you shop in person at “brick and mortar” stores or prefer to shop online, price discrimination is a fact of life. In simple terms, price discrimination is the practice of charging different customers a different price for the same product or service. Think airline seats, hotel rooms, cars, auto insurance, credit card interest rates, cell phone plans, and items sold at garage sales.

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The Most Productive Ways to Spend the Last Two Weeks of the Year

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes I’ve mentioned a few times recently about projects that might be perfect for the end of the year and thought it would be good to expand on the idea. When I worked in a corporate office, I often worked during the final two weeks of the year. At first, because I had to. Everyone else had more seniority and vacation time.

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4-Week Roadmap for New Hires

Nearly one-quarter of employees (23%) admit they’ve cried within the first week! Give new hires a positive start with this four-week onboarding roadmap. This schedule outlines all the turns, detours, and speedbumps new hires can expect in their first month. We’ve included suggestions for each week to help you make your new employees’ highway to success an easy road.

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UKG Press Release – UKG One View Earns Industry Praise for Groundbreaking Multi-country Payroll Visibility, Simplicity

3Sixty Insights

The success of UKG One View is being celebrated this week at the UKG Aspire customer conference. The first-of-its kind technology-led experience extends the strength of the UKG Pro suite to help multinational organizations manage their entire workforce — from complex scheduling to payday — with the same consistent experience, regardless of where in the world their employees work.

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As the workforce ages, now is the time to normalize dementia care

Employee Benefit News

Employees caring for a loved one with dementia face stigma, making support harder to come by.

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69% of women had negative experience at work due to menstruation symptoms

Employee Benefits

More than two thirds (69%) of women have had a negative experience at work due to menstruation symptoms , according to research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). The professional body for HR and people development’s report Menstruation and support at work , which surveyed more than 2,000 women, found that the most common reported symptoms include abdominal cramps (60%), irritability (52%), fatigue (49%) and bloating (49%).

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Where are the iconic office furniture products of yesterday?

Workplace Insight

Over the past week or so, this image has gone viral on social media. It is of a group of Bauhaus design students from around 1927. They are called Martha Erps, Katt Both and Ruth Hellos. The full image (reproduced below) shows them with legendary office furniture designer Marcel Breuer, who Erps would later marry. The story of the photograph can be found here.

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

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Finding Meaning and Purpose in Later Life

Money Talk

The statistics are startling! According to a 2020 study , 28% of retirees suffer from depression. That’s almost 3 in 10 older adults! As blogger Fritz Gilbert wrote in his Retirement Manifesto blog , “that’s a shockingly high number and far too little is written about this problem.” He went on to note that “those forced into retirement (i.e., through downsizing or illness) are especially prone to experiencing the challenge of depression.

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Navigating the Complexities of Global Payroll, HR—Risks and Challenges

PayrollOrg

Partnering with a global HR and payroll provider like IRIS FMP can be a game-changer for managing a diverse and dispersed workforce across multiple countries, because it can help you achieve operational efficiency, ensure compliance, and ultimately focus on growing your business on a global scale.

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What Can We Make of Customer Reviews? Lessons from the Restaurant Industry

3Sixty Insights

Every time I have a negative interaction with a company, I immediately seek out their online reviews—and I’m not surprised when I find many that echo and substantiate my own experience. What I do find surprising are the choices many business owners make in responding to those reviews. Attempts to refute negative comments by painting unhappy customers as “bad,” alleging that competitors are trying to sink their brands, or accusing the platforms of extorting them with bad algorithms are shockingly

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Small businesses are outhiring large employers — but can they afford to retain them?

Employee Benefit News

Tina Wang, VP of HR at ADP, breaks down how small businesses can retain new talent despite their financial limitations.

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The Diversity Reckoning: Can HR Survive Without New Perspectives?

Speaker: Jeremy York

2024 has tested every organization, and 2025 promises no less - the warning signs are everywhere. If you’re relying on superficial approaches to diversity, you might find yourself scrambling to catch up. Thought diversity - the fuel for new ideas, fresh perspectives, and disruptive innovation - is more than a buzzword. It's a survival strategy. And if you’re not building it into your workplace culture right now , you’re heading for trouble.

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Government to legislate to retain rolled-up holiday pay

Employee Benefits

The government is to legislate to retain rolled-up holiday pay for irregular hours, zero hours and part-year workers and set out that it must be calculated based on total earnings in the pay period. Its announcement follows a consultation earlier this year that sought views on reforms to the Working Time Regulations, holiday pay, and the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment (Tupe)) Regulations.

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Inclusive office design is essential if we want offices to be worth the commute

Workplace Insight

Corporate culture has fundamentally changed since the pandemic and with it, so has the way employees interact with the office. This has put leaders under pressure to create experiences for employees that complement, and in some ways even compete with, the comforts of home. Organisations now understand the immense potential for sustainable, inclusive office design, and people-centric real estate strategies to drive positive change and fuel growth.

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Fraud Prevention Tips

Money Talk

It seems like everyday we hear stories about people who become victims of fraud. They are tricked into sending advance deposits for products or services they never receive or making wire-transfers to fraudulent accounts, or divulging sensitive information that can be used to wipe out bank accounts or commit identity theft. What to do? Nobody can completely reduce their risk of being defrauded because not all of our personal information is under our control.

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IRS Announces 2024 COLAs for Transportation Fringes, FSA Deferrals

PayrollOrg

The IRS released cost-of-living-adjustments (COLAs) for 2024 reflecting any increases in excludable transportation fringes and flexible spending arrangements (FSAs).

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Testing Innovations in Cancer: How to evaluate and use new technologies

Amidst rising cancer prevalence and soaring costs, new cancer technologies and innovations are emerging to support the early detection, treatment, and surveillance of cancer. Read this guide to understand how to evaluate these solutions for your employees and members – and to learn more about the current state of coverage, clinical and cost effectiveness, and impact on quality and outcomes.