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Employers are utilizing artificial intelligence and virtual tech tools to navigate the conversation about diversity and inclusion.

About 2.7 million Americans age 55 or older are contemplating retirement years earlier than they’d imagined because of the pandemic.

The pandemic has pushed out older employees and is deepening inequality as lower income workers feel the brunt of the crisis.

With the tax-free status, employers do not have to pay payroll taxes on the contribution and employees do not have to pay income taxes on the benefit.

James Katz is the founder and CEO of Humankind Investments. He is an experienced quantitative equity analyst and data scientist, having worked as an analyst at Vanguard prior to founding Humankind, and holds a PhD from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.

For more than 20 years, Kenneth Saldanha has served the world’s leading P&C, life and reinsurance companies as a trusted advisor and strategy expert. He has helped clients improve their core operations, grow revenue and adopt innovative strategies, even in the most challenging market and economic conditions.

Kenneth now leads Accenture’s global insurance practice, guiding integration of digital, analytics, experience design and workforce solutions, and driving large-scale transformations that help clients reduce structural costs and grow revenue. With his deep understanding of insurance industry economics and market dynamics, he is uniquely positioned to help insurers navigate the challenges of both disruption and convergence with adjacent industries, such as travel, health and freight & logistics.

Kenneth previously led Accenture’s strategy practice in North America. He joined Accenture in 2013 from McKinsey, where he headed the global and North America practices for insurance claims and operations.

Kenneth earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1998. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and the youngest of their three children.

Adolescents and young adults may be getting sick at lower rates, but they’re still deeply affected by the impact of current events.

Rick Agajanian is vice president of product management for WorkWave.

Our top stories from the week address how employers can appease the needs of their employees.