Employer Strategies

Implemented in early April the benefit is available to all of Microsoft's global employees, including hourly and salaried workers.

Business will have to make virtual engagement central to their strategy. The firms that get a head start with video now are the ones who will thrive tomorrow.

There is wide variety in how aggressively the rules are issued and applied during the coronavirus pandemic, and businesses often don’t know which way to turn.

One possible solution is for employers to add a new temporary dependent care benefit, whereby employers can cover dependent care expenses with an expanded set of expense coverage.

The medical community isn’t sure when the COVID-19 pandemic will end, but a labor attorney says employers need to have office policies in place well beforehand.

Once case numbers become more manageable, the U.S. will move away from self-isolation, and toward containing individual cases. The U.S. will need 100,000 to 300,000 contact tracers to contain the coronavirus.

For starters, they can use the windfall to pay off debt, shore up their HSAs and build a cash reserve.

Employers in three metropolitan areas will have access to the cost-saving health plan.

Public health specialists said a range of tools, high-tech strategies and old-school public health interventions could help tamp down the spread of COVID-19.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is making his case for what a supplemental rescue package should include ― guaranteed paid sick leave.