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Your one-stop guide for business resilience planning

Business Management Daily

If the COVID-19 crisis taught us one thing, it’s the need for businesses to be resilient during uncertain times. After all, disruptive events can happen at any time — and they don’t always take the form of a global pandemic. Cyber attacks, supply chain issues, and other disruptions may be on a smaller scale, but they can still tank your business operations if you aren’t adequately prepared.

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What Is Job Autonomy and Why Does It Matter?

HR Digest

Have you ever heard of job autonomy at work? It’s a concept that many people struggle to understand. But it’s important because it helps define what kind of work environment you want to be in — and what you can expect from your employer. Job autonomy is the extent to which employees can control their working conditions and how they do their jobs.

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Seventh Circuit Provides Hope for ERISA Plan Sponsors and Fiduciaries Defending Investment Fee & Performance Litigation

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

The Seventh Circuit recently provided a ray of sunshine in what has largely been a gloomy stretch for plan sponsors and fiduciaries defending ERISA breach of fiduciary duty claims based on allegedly excessive investment and administrative fees and investment underperformance. In this particular case, Oshkosh emerged victorious with the Seventh Circuit affirming the dismissal—at the motion to dismiss stage—of claims that it mismanaged its 401(k) plan by paying excessive recordkeeping fees, faile

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Responsible Financial Innovation Act: Proposed Tax and Reporting for Digital Assets

McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

On June 7, 2022, Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced the highly anticipated Responsible Financial Innovation Act (the bill), which sets out to create the first complete regulatory and bipartisan framework for digital assets. The bill is intended to establish some legal clarity for regulators and the industry and to protect consumers […].

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The Ultimate Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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How can businesses improve employee motivation and productivity?

LACE Partners

In this podcast we are joined by our HR Transformation Senior Manager Debbie Mitchell to talk about a book she wrote, called 50 Top Tools for Employee Engagement. The book discusses how you don’t need expensive interventions to achieve good employee experience. Chris speaks with Debbie as she explains some of the tools in the book. The post How can businesses improve employee motivation and productivity?

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9 Employee Experience Ideas to Engage Your People

Sodexo Engage

Summary: Why are businesses focusing more on employee experience? How do engaged employees add value? What is a good employee experience? 9 employee experience ideas to engage your workforce. 9 Employee Experience Ideas to Engage Your People. The most successful organisations are putting a lot of thought into their employee experience strategy, but is yours one of them?

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Why Feedback for Coworkers is So Important and 5 Ways to Give It

BetterUp

The workforce is a collaborative, team-oriented environment.

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United Kingdom Parental Bereavement Act

Global People Strategist

The Parental Bereavement Act was passed in the United Kingdom in 2014 and came into effect in March 2015. This law allows parents to take time off work to deal with the death of a child. Here are 5 things you need to know about the Parental Bereavement Act: What Is Covered by the Parental Bereavement Act? In the United Kingdom, the Parental Bereavement Act 2018 entitles employees to take two weeks’ leave due to the death of a child under 18.

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What is a medical expense reimbursement plan (MERP)?

PeopleKeep

Several new health benefits plans have become available to employers in recent years that allow organizations to offer healthcare to their employees without purchasing group health insurance. One of these plans is a medical expense reimbursement plan (MERP), also known as a medical reimbursement account (MRA) or MERP plan. With a MERP, organizations typically offer an allowance of tax-free money instead of a traditional benefit like group health insurance.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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These Executive Summary Examples Help You Bring Your A-Game

BetterUp

Attention spans are woefully short nowadays. There’s too much information competing for our attention, and it’s all cleverly designed to pull us away from whatever we were doing before. So how do you get an message across when you have — by some estimates — less than eight seconds to make an impression ?

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Is Petroleum Engineering a Valuable Career?

Professionals Alternative

Is Petroleum Engineering a Valuable Career? The median annual wage for petroleum engineers was $130,850 in May 2021. Petroleum engineering has been constantly ranked as one of the highest-paid jobs in the United States even during periods of declined oil prices. Candidates with a background in petroleum engineering, industrial engineering, or computer engineering are the best choices for petroleum engineering positions.

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European workers are lonely and have a 74% stronger intention to quit.

BetterUp

Jump to section. European employees don't feel connected. Interaction doesn't equal connection. How disconnected workers and teams are hurting your business. The impacts of connection on attracting and retaining talent. Get insights into how to improve connection.

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9 questions applicants are Googling about remote work right now

Employee Benefit News

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Music Relaxation for Stress: Listen Your Way to Calm

BetterUp

Jump to section. How can music help you with stress? How to meditate with music. What type of music should you listen to relax? Music and positive affirmations. How to use music to improve your well-being. What is the downside of using music as a mood booster? Level up: How to use music to relieve work stress.

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Benefit Resource Acquires North Coast Administrators and Signals Expansion in the Great Lakes Region

Benefit Resource Inc.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. —(Sept. 8, 2022) —Benefit Resource (BRI), a leading provider of innovative and dedicated administration of tax-free benefits programs, announced today the acquisition of North Coast Administrators (NCA), an Ohio-based administrator of consumer-directed benefits and benefit continuation services. “North Coast Administrators has a long history of providing its clients personalized and dedicated service, an ethos and focus that unites the two organizations.

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Monthly Aggregate Claim Liability Statement

Employer Connection

The current self-funded plan design Aggregate Claim Liability Statement(s) is available to view in the Document Center by logging in to the website. Groups will continue to receive a monthly email notifying them that an important document is available for them to view in the Document Center. The Aggregate Claim Liability Statement report tracks claims and compares actual claim activity to the aggregate claim liability.

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Cocoon manages paid leave policies so employers can focus on their people

Employee Benefit News

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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Productivity Tracking: Here's How to Improve Employee Performance Instead

BetterUp

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.".

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How advisers can help parents cash in on student loan relief

Employee Benefit News

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40 Unique Halloween Trivia Questions To Ask At the Workplace

Vantage Circle

Halloween is right at your doorstep with its eerie and mysterious vibes. It is now time to fend off evils not only from your mind but from the workplace too, with spooky decorations and themed costumes. Alongside traditional Halloween celebrations in the workplace , you can also add another unique way of celebrating. The idea of Halloween trivia questions at work can be your additional layer to the festivities.

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Free NFL tickets? It's the latest attempt to get workers back to the office

Employee Benefit News

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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How to retain employees and thrive during the Great Resignation

Insperity

What began in late 2020 as a spate of post-pandemic turnover has quickly accelerated into a much larger and widespread phenomenon: what everyone now commonly refers to as The Great Resignation. These conditions have persisted for a few years now, and affect all industries and job categories. So what is going on? And how do you best protect your business.

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'A silent protest': CPO at Headspace Health explains why workers are 'quiet quitting'

Employee Benefit News

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September is Awareness Month

Florida Workers' Comp

I am chagrinned to admit a variety of historical moments that I recall. Many things have occurred in my lifetime, and it bothers me more than a little that I am getting, as they say, a bit long in the tooth. The years come for all of us, and there is much to see along the way. I recall, for example, when there were great advertising campaigns for the novel idea of a single, easy, phone number to dial in case of emergency.