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GLP-1s are evolving — How benefit managers can prepare

Employee Benefit News

The president of Omada Health talks about why decision makers need to be thinking about holistic weight-management care as the demand for related medication grows.

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Discriminant Validity: Meaning, Formula & Examples in HR

HR Lineup

In the evolving world of HR analytics, ensuring the accuracy and effectiveness of psychometric tests , employee assessments, and performance evaluations is crucial. One essential concept that HR professionals must understand to validate their tools is discriminant validity. This concept ensures that the different constructs or traits measured by an assessment are truly distinct, helping avoid misleading results and poor hiring decisions.

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New technologies help advisers elevate financial wellness offerings

Employee Benefit News

Seamless integration helps advisers sell income-protection upsell and cross-sell products to better meet the financial needs of employees.

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Empathy at Scale: Why Customer Success Must Be the Heart of Your GTM Strategy

3Sixty Insights

Featuring insights from GTM Innovators guest Mike Lemire In todays fast-paced, tech-powered go-to-market landscape, its easy to forget that behind every KPI and automation flow is a real person trying to solve a real problem. But for Mike LemireCEO & Lead Coach at Harmonic Leadership and a seasoned customer success leader with a background as unique as it is powerfulempathy isnt just a nice to have.

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Beyond Basic Coverage: Unlocking the Hidden Value of Group Medicare Plans for Your Retiring Workforce

Speaker: Dr. Hassan M. Abdulhaqq

As the baby boomer generation continues to retire in unprecedented numbers, HR leaders face the critical challenge of ensuring seamless healthcare transitions for their valued employees. While most professionals understand the basics of Medicare, the strategic advantages and enhanced benefits offered by Group Medicare plans remain largely unexplored territory.

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5 ways adaptive intelligence is reimaging benefits

Employee Benefit News

AI subset is making the employee benefits experience easier and faster, without losing the human touch.

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What's changed — and what hasn't — 5 years after COVID

Employee Benefit News

Former chief HR officer at Aflac reflects on how much and little the workplace has changed in the last five years.

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How student loans debt collection reshapes American workplaces

HR Digest

The never-ending student loan crisis in America has now reached a critical juncture. There are now 42.8 million borrowers as of 2024 with a student loans debt of $.177 trillion. It would be an understatement to say that there will be ripple effects as the Department of Education gears up to resume debt collections on defaulted federal student loans starting May 5, 2025.

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What Employees Can Do If They Lose Healthcare Benefits

Pacific Prime

If employees lose their employer-sponsored healthcare benefits, they should reevaluate exactly which benefits remain, how much coverage they and their dependents require, if they need to purchase supplemental insurance, and more. Have you recently lost the health insurance your employer used to offer you? Do you know youll be losing your benefits soon and dont.

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Intel Layoffs in 2025: Around 21,000 Employees May Be On Their Way Out

HR Digest

The unfortunate setbacks for tech workers continueIntel is resorting to layoffs in 2025. Despite recent downsizing efforts, Intel is firing employees in large numbers once more, cutting off approximately 20% of its workforce. To focus energies back on an engineering-driven culture and streamline its operations, the company will scale down its numbers to advance its goals on efficiency.

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Protect Your Business and Stay On Top of Compliance

To keep your business running smoothly (and legally), HR needs to get compliance right every time. Our HR Compliance Checklist is your go-to guide to cover the basics and start your auditing processes, helping you identify and address any gaps in your HR functions. Remember, compliance rules can differ based on industry and location—you’ll still need to keep up with changing regulations, but our checklist can help you get started.

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Why FSA substantiation matters and what to look for

WEX Inc.

The IRS requires your flexible spending account (FSA) participants to submit documentation to prove their purchase was an eligible expense. The IRS emphasized these requirements and potential penalties for employers not meeting the requirements when releasing an Office of the Chief Counsel memorandum detailing medical expense claim substantiation for medical FSAs and dependent care FSAs.

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Why Recruitment Software is a Must for Modern HR Teams?

Qandle

In todays fast-paced business world, finding the right talent efficiently is crucial. Traditional recruitment methods can be time-consuming, inefficient, and prone to errors. This is where Recruitment Software steps in to streamline the hiring process and revolutionize the way HR professionals approach recruitment. Whether youre looking to fill one position or hundreds, Recruitment Software can help you save time, reduce costs, and improve the quality of your hires.

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Budgeting With Irregular Income: 4 Simple Ways to Support Educators

Best Money Moves

Only 71% of U.S. workers earn stable, full-time pay year-round according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This leaves nearly a quarter of the workforce with irregular income and the financial instability that comes with it. Financial instability and income irregularity apply to various professions, including seasonal and gig workers. However, the issue is especially pressing with educators.

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How to evaluate remote employees effectively

Higginbotham

The rise of remote work has led many companies to reexamine their performance evaluation processes to prioritize more consistent and meaningful feedback. Due to the lack of in-person interaction, assessing remote employees requires intentional strategies to keep teams engaged, aligned, and motivated. Fortunately, with the right tools and practices, managers can effectively navigate these challenges.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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Mastering the STAR Method: Feel Confident in Your Next Job Interview

Professionals Alternative

When preparing for a job interview, few techniques are as effectiveor as widely recommendedas the STAR method. One of the most powerful tools in any candidates toolkit is the STAR interview method, especially when answering behavioral interview questions. Preparation for these questions during the job search is crucial, because there is no predetermined time during several rounds of interviews that these questions might come up.

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Negative feelings about work continue to grow, especially for managers

Workplace Insight

The State of the Global Workplace: 2025 Report from Gallup frames a stark warning to business leaders and policymakers: people around the world are becoming increasingly disengaged from work at a time when technological change is demanding more from them than ever before. As artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates across industries, transforming everything from operations to communication, the human foundations of the workplaceemployee engagement and wellbeingare showing signs of deep strain.

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How President Trump's executive orders pose a threat to disabled workers

Employee Benefit News

Existing workplace equity and inclusion programs, grants and opportunities are under fire, and the disabled community is feeling the effects.

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AI ushers in the era of the ‘frontier firm’, Microsoft report claims

Workplace Insight

A new report from Microsoft claims that 2025 will mark a new point in the evolution of work, with organisations across the globe now entering what it calls the age of the ‘Frontier Firm’ The report defines this as a ‘future-facing business model in which a combination of artificial intelligence and human collaboration reshapes work processes and redefines the very structure of enterprises’ The 2025 Work Trend Index , published by Microsofts WorkLab, claims to draw on one

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New Data: How Pay Equity Gaps Impact Engagement, Retention and Risk

Perceptions of pay fairness influence engagement, trust, and turnover, making pay equity a strategic concern, not just a compliance issue. People at Work 2025: Pay Equity , a global research report from ADP Research, examines how workers in 34 markets view their compensation and why it matters. Based on responses from nearly 38,000 employees, the report highlights persistent gaps by gender, age, and job level, despite improving sentiment overall.

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What kind of change leader do you want to be?

Workplace Insight

Change is inevitable. Whether in business, communities, or our personal lives, change is a constantand in every instance, someone is leading it. Leadership during change is not limited to formal positions or job titles. Every day, in countless ways, individuals step into roles that influence, guide, and support others through transition. The question is: what kind of change leader do you want to be?