Benefits
HR Daily Advsior
Translated from Latin, "de minimis" means "too small to worry about," a concept long used by HR to exclude a benefit from an employee’s income and wages because their value is so small that it makes accounting for them unreasonable. However, there remains a lot of gray areas as to what qualifies de minimus.
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Employee Benefit News
The cost of buying health coverage at work has increased faster than wages and inflation for years, pressuring household budgets. According to an annual study from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Education Trust, rising health care costs are eating up the wage gains won by American workers, who are being asked by their employers to pick up more of the heftier tab.
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Harvard Business Review
In our a la carte culture, more and more organizations are providing customized work arrangements for employees. Research has shown that such deals are a good way to keep employees loyal to an organization, but they can also cause problems if they appear to challenge equality and fairness on teams.
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Corporate Wellness Magazine
All too often, both employees and and HR managers view benefits meetings as a necessary evil, rather than as an opportunity to have a real conversation. But, in fact, research shows that employees who have a positive benefits meeting experience are much more likely to enroll in valuable voluntary benefits like critical injury and long-term disability.
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Bloomberg
Now Sallie Krawcheck, has become known as one of the top women on Wall Street, and she's recently closed a new round of funding for her startup robo-adviser, Ellevest, which is based on the premise that women’s careers are different from men’s and their retirement planning should be, too.
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Bitcoinist
A new company called Bitcoin IRA allows investors to buy Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies using their IRA or 401(k) accounts, tapping into the growing interest among millennials.
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Culture of Health
Bloomberg
Studies have shown that expensive wellness programs don’t save companies as much money on health care as they cost — even when lots of employees participate, which they generally don’t do. Yet many employers still believe in the power of wellness programs and are trying to get more employees engaged.
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Corporate Wellness Magazine
It's no surprise that high levels of stress can compromise the quality of an employees’ work and can ultimately cost you as the owner, manager or team leader. Here are some ways to help employees with stress relief, without sacrificing on efficiency or consuming too much time.
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Employee Benefit News In order to help employees during a stressful time of new adjustments, American Express has established a new parent concierge program. The service is meant to ease the concerns of new parents by offering advice to the employees as well as helping managers and supervisors interact with new parents about the new challenges that may impact their workload.
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Workforce Magazine
With 18 to 21 percent of the workforce doubling as a caregiver and not getting paid for it, the financial strain is heavy, often causing people to take leave of absences from work or cut back their hours. More organizations are now viewing these caregiving needs as equally important to parental leave.
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Forbes
Earlier, this summer, a conversation between a CEO and his employee went viral when the CEO applauded his staff person for taking mental health days as sick days, bringing renewed attention to the issue of mental health days.
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Psych Central
Paid sick leave is starting to gain momentum as a social justice issue with important implications for health and wellness, with good reason, according to new research on how a lack of paid sick leave can negatively affect Americans’ mental health.
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