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Workers’ compensation for remote employees: a guide

Insperity

Do you need to worry about workers’ compensation for remote employees? When your organization adopts or expands a work-from-home policy, it’s a good idea to take a fresh look at your workers’ compensation coverage and processes. It’s important to understand that employee injuries at home may be covered by workers’ compensation.

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Professional Employer Organization (PEO): Right for Your Business?

Business Management Daily

Professional employer organizations (PEOs) offer a cost-effective solution to this problem. Besides the cost savings, working with a PEO can yield many benefits to employers. NAPEO (National Association of Professional Employer Organizations) economists Laurie Bassi and Dan McMurrer conducted research into PEOs.

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What is a benefits broker and how can they simplify employee benefits?

Higginbotham

Navigating employee benefits can be complex for employers, especially when balancing cost control with providing comprehensive offerings to workers. Acting as an intermediary between employers and insurance providers, benefit brokers help design, implement and manage employee benefits programs.

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Gig economy explained: Pros, cons, future outlook

Business Management Daily

Everybody knows at least one gig worker—people who drive for Uber or Lyft, deliver food for DoorDash, freelance on Upwork, rent out rooms on Airbnb, or work a combination of jobs to piece an income together. Their employment isn’t exactly stable, but the freedom they have to manage their schedule has some serious appeal.

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3 Proven Ways to Reduce Your Workers’ Compensation Costs

Insperity

If you’re looking for ways to save on workers’ compensation insurance, you’re well aware of the direct costs that you pay in premiums. But what you may not have considered is the indirect costs of on-the-job accidents and injuries, which go beyond what you pay for workers’ compensation insurance.

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How to reduce workers’ compensation costs: 3 proven strategies

Insperity

Are you struggling with how to reduce workers’ compensation costs for your business? If not, do you understand the sizeable risk that workers’ compensation claims pose to your business, and do you have a plan in place for when these claims arise? That’s why controlling workers’ compensations costs is so important to your bottom line.

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Ask an Expert: Is There a 30-Day Grace Period to Make Changes to Elections in Cafeteria Plans?

InterWest Insurance Services

Employers: Don’t make this common cafeteria plan mistake! ” Employees cannot change their minds and make changes to pre-tax cafeteria elections during the plan year, once benefits become effective — unless a special enrollment period as defined under IRC Section 125 applies , or the employer is correcting an administrative error.