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Six ways to support employees with money worries

Employee Benefits

The current and growing cost of living crisis that’s now impacting so many people across the UK could prove to be even more of a disruptor to employees than the pandemic was. According to our recent survey , over 9 in 10 workers say the cost of living crisis is as worrying or more worrying than the COVID pandemic was. This means businesses who value their people will be wanting to find ways to provide support for workers with financial worries.

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How to choose a benefits administrator

PeopleKeep

If your organization is offering employee benefits , it’s essential that you use a benefits administration tool that helps you stay on top of compliance obligations. Benefits administrators can make it easy for employees to enroll in their perks, and they give your organization the training and resources it needs to keep its benefits running smoothly.

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3 ways to boost teamwork at your organization

Achievers

Teamwork and collaboration are the foundation of every great company culture, whether your workforce is fully in person, remote, or a combination of the two. There are few feelings like knowing you can rely on your teammates, and there are few things as satisfying as building genuine, lasting connections with them. A team-centered culture where everyone feels like they belong boosts alignment with your company vision and values, keeping everyone in sync as they work together towards a common goa

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22 HR and benefit lessons we learned in 2022

Employee Benefit News

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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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6 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Choosing a Health Plan

CorpStrat

Health insurance may be one of the most critical annual purchases since it impacts your physical, mental, and financial wellness. Unfortunately, selecting a health insurance plan can feel overwhelming. With so many options, it can also be easy to make a mistake when selecting coverage. This article explores six common missteps related to selecting a health insurance plan.

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What Is Filing Status, and How Does It Affect Payroll?

Patriot Software

Withholding federal income tax from employee wages is a necessary (but tricky) part of running payroll. There is no standard amount you withhold from employee wages for federal income taxes. Instead, tax amounts are determined by factors like pay, Form W-4 withholding information, and filing status. But, what is filing status? You need to have […] READ MORE.

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3 integrated benefits options: Which is best for your employees?

Employee Benefit News

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Investment Insights for Uncertain Times

Money Talk

The year 2022 has been a time of great uncertainty for investors with periods of extreme volatility (i.e., sharp price movements of securities, both up and down). Times like these are a good time to revisit what we know to be tried and true about investing from decades of investment performance data. This knowledge can help calm frayed nerves and keep investors focused on their long-term goals.

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Affordable Care Act: Good Data Practices Can Lead to Better Compliance

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes. (Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at ADP , a comprehensive global provider of cloud-based human capital management solutions. Industry analyst firm Nelson Hall recently identified ADP as a leader in both the small and medium business as well as mid to large market segments. Congrats to them!

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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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How To Not Let Job Interview Feel Like An Interrogation

HR Digest

I had a job interview one time where the interviewer was nothing like I had expected. She was welcoming and nice, and she had a great smile on her face. It felt so unreal having such an interview and coming across such a great personality. I was amazed, to say the very least. Unfortunately, many of us have had to attend interviews that made us so uncomfortable and it looked like we were in on something other than the job.

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3 ways to care for your team’s mental wellbeing this holiday season (and yours too!)

Employee Benefits

Author: Jennifer Gendron – Global Chief Commercial Officer at Koa Health – Employee Mental Health and Wellbeing Solutions. The holidays can feel unduly stressful, as if all of us are rushing so that we can relax. With end-of-year deadlines and other time-sensitive priorities, everyone is trying to push one more deliverable over the finish line to spend quality time with their families.

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S.D.N.Y. Voids ERISA Plan’s Arbitration Provision

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

A district court in New York recently refused to enforce an arbitration provision in an ERISA fiduciary breach lawsuit challenging the valuation of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”). The ruling in Lloyd v. Argent , No. 22-cv-4129, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 219964 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 6, 2022), exposes the continued uncertainty as to the enforceability of arbitration provisions when applied to ERISA fiduciary breach claims.

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5+ Ways to Establish Taking Ownership as a Core Value at Work

BetterUp

In the business world, many things are out of our control. The economy, the stock market, interest rates, natural disasters, and world events can all impact our organizations in ways we can't change or predict.

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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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30 Recession-proof Jobs and Careers

HR Digest

The economy’s in the dumps , and it’s not looking like it’s going to get any better soon. So you’re probably wondering: how can I make sure I’ll have a job when this is all over? Well, we’ve got good news for you. There are some recession-proof jobs—meaning they’ll always be in demand regardless of what happens with the economy. .

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Charles Cotton: 2023 will bring a focus on low-cost wellbeing support

Employee Benefits

In today’s volatile, uncertain and complex world, making predictions for the coming month is difficult enough, let alone making them for 2023. The cost-of-living crisis has had, and continues to have, a significant and widespread impact on the world of work. Next year, it is likely the UK will be in recession, though the downturn’s duration and depth is uncertain.

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23 Pensive And Unique Christmas Wishes For Boss

Vantage Circle

Greeting our bosses on Christmas is something we all wish to do. Undoubtedly, you too may wish to pen down your heartfelt thoughts for the person who has an enormous impact on your life. But there may be times when you don't know how to convey your appreciation or wishes. You either fall short of words or run out of ideas. After all, appreciating and conveying Christmas greetings to your boss can be trickier than it seems.

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Never mind the workplace predictions, here’s some bollocks

Workplace Insight

Time of the year for looking backwards and forwards. For workplace predictions and retrospectives. The Economist announces that the word / term of the year is hybrid work. This is interesting because, although The Economist is using it as an interchangeable term for flexible working as many do, a great deal of energy is still expounded on defining exactly what it means.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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40 Time Trackers For You to Manage Your Teams in 2023

HR Digest

You might be wondering why you should use a time tracker to manage your team in 2023. After all, if you’re the type of person who’s always been a little bit bad at managing your time and keeping track of how long things take, then using an app or other tool just seems like it would make things worse. . But that’s not the case. In fact, using a time tracker can actually help you become better at managing your team because it gives you the right tools to do so.

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PAID VOLUNTEERING AND THE EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE

Employee Benefits

When business leaders and HR managers sit down to think about how to boost their employee value proposition, conversations turn to the three pillars of well-being – financial, physical, and mental – and the employee benefits available. Whilst these form the basis of a robust well-being and retention strategy, other things matter to your employees that may not immediately spring to mind.

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Announcing a new & simplified BRIWEB registration process

Benefit Resource Inc.

December 14, 2022 – As a result of participant feedback and our efforts toward continuous improvement, we have revised the BRIWEB registration process for participants to make it easier for them to get on the web and manage their benefits. What’s changed? Modification of the values required for identity verification. In order to verify their identity, participants must enter their company code, first and last name, date of birth, and home zip code.

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People want their offices to perform more like hotels

Workplace Insight

Employees today want more ‘hotel-style’ amenities such as areas for socialising, state-of-the-art infrastructure, outdoor spaces, onsite cafes, air conditioning, and flexible work facilities to entice them back to offices, according to a new poll from MRI Software. The firm’s Workplace Report [registration] claims almost two-thirds (64 percent) of respondents say such hotel-style features impact their decision on whether to work for an organisation, including more than one in ten who see f

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Transform Employee Wellbeing and Control Costs Through Data-Driven Strategies

In today's dynamic business environment, HR leaders face immense pressure to optimize costs while maintaining a competitive edge to attract, retain and engage their workforce. Gallagher can help you meet that challenge head-on. Our proprietary data and people analytics platform, Gallagher Drive ® , provides the elevated insights you need to make impactful program decisions that are aligned with your organizational goals and set your strategy up for long-term success.

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Conversations on Healthcare Governance

McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

In this three-part podcast series focusing on healthcare governance, McDermott Partner Michael Peregrine joins the American Health Law Association to discuss a range of governance issues, including the following: The nature and scope of the fiduciary responsibilities facing board members within nonprofit health systems; Standards of conduct, expectations and the line between governance and management; […].

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Why financial wellbeing should be on an equal footing with mental and physical health

Employee Benefits

The Oxford Dictionary defines health as ‘the state of being free from illness or injury’. What’s important to note is that the explanation doesn’t refer to any particular division of health, whether that’s physical, mental or even financial. Rather, health relates to being in a fault-free condition. By this definition, health is made up of a multitude of areas, not just the usual presumed category of physical.

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Dependent Eligibility Audits – What Are They and Why Should You Consider Conducting One?

International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

Anyone who works with health care benefit plans knows that costs keep going up. They also know they have a responsibility to make sure the plan is sustainable. Add into. Read more > The post Dependent Eligibility Audits – What Are They and Why Should You Consider Conducting One? appeared first on Word on Benefits.

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Bisley introduces Outline to epitomise the modern way of working

Workplace Insight

Bisley has introduced its Outline frame collection designed with flexibility and modern working in mind. Inspired by the need for versatile and open space environments, Outline works not only as a zone divider but also as a display and storage unit – ideal for establishing distinctive areas to work, collaborate and relax. Crafted from hand-welded steel for a seamless finish, Outline by Bisley offers a robust yet elegant frame that allows natural light through – while creating zones without bui

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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.