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Saving for retirement is undermined when employees are also building up debt at the same time.

New and enhanced financial benefits can help answer the call for increased support.

Replacing an employee costs businesses an average of 21.4% of the lost employee’s salary. Businesses need to develop effective on-boarding processes that address this disconnect.

Fortunately, there’s a silver lining to this year’s unprecedented demand for mental healthcare: increased awareness and acceptance of mental health issues, even in the workplace. But, there’s more we can do.

Even as we overcome COVID-19, the rise of mental health conditions and non-communicable diseases is reshaping households, companies and countries.

During times of social change, there is the potential for people to be exposed to events that register in a person’s brain and body as trauma. The negative affects can accumulate and have an impact on a person's work and well-being.

It is critically important that leaders recognize and find creative ways to overcome the not-so-virtual burnout to engage effectively with colleagues and customers, while also remaining productive.

The pandemic has highlighted several key lessons employers need to consider when it comes to retirement.

Although it shows promise for reducing unnecessary healthcare spending and costs, and for improving decision making without adverse effects on clinical outcomes, shared decision making adoption has not been widespread.

While we all hope for an end to the pandemic, and a return to economic and social normalcy, in 2021, interest rates are likely to stay at their near-zero levels for the foreseeable future. Every dollar will count for retirement-savers.