Ask an Adviser: How can we protect employee data in the era of remote work?
Employers need to instruct their employees in the basics of cyber hygiene, but also supply data privacy protection benefits.
Data and information management
HBCUs are working to drive more diverse talent to cybersecurity
Currently, only 9% of the cybersecurity workforce self-identifies as Black.
Cyber stress: This is why employees are more worried about their virtual security
Over half of remote workers use a personal device to access work data, leading to an uptick in cyber attacks.
The 5 best cybersecurity practices for a remote world
Most companies have unprotected data and poor cybersecurity practices in place, making them vulnerable to data loss.
The Great Resignation is driving data breaches and cybersecurity threats
Employees are making career changes — and over half of IT leaders agree that it’s causing security risks.
Benefits Think Addressing the cybersecurity impact of employee relocation
Relocation is often listed as the third most stressful life change an individual or family encounters.
Rob Shavell
Abine
Your flexible work policies are overlooking burned-out cybersecurity teams
Forty-two percent of chief information security officers have missed major holidays due to work demand.
How this startup hopes to strengthen HR teams
The tech startup, Sora, automates the administrative work that can keep HR leaders from properly supporting employees.
COVID isn’t the only virus employees could be bringing back into the office
As harmless as a computer may seem, companies should be putting in the same effort into protecting their network’s health as they are that of their workers.
PepsiCo embraces the future of work with hybrid schedule benefit
The soda maker will continue to offer hybrid and remote work policies even as the pandemic subsides.
Benefits Think How to protect your employees from online harassment
Online harassment is on the rise, and it may be preventing your most vulnerable employees from bringing their whole selves to work.
Rob Shavell
Abine
Benefits Think Using data to create a more effective benefits design
More than half of benefits leaders surveyed don’t trust the accuracy of the data they receive from health plans or vendors, while one in three struggle to connect the data they receive from various sources.
Neil S. Austin
Artemis Health
Women could give $20 trillion boost to economic growth by 2050
Policy changes that result in more women entering the workforce, like those that bolster female access to secondary education, child care, and flexible work arrangements, have the potential to “light a fire” under global growth.
Benefits Think How HR and IT teams can work together for smooth employee transitions
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.
Benefits Think 3 techniques for making sure implicit bias doesn’t impact your talent life-cycle
Individual success, opportunities and possibilities often hinge on decision-making power that sits with other people and sometimes those decisions are made not through the lens of talent and potential but instead through bias and preference.
Pamela Fuller
FranklinCovey
How to protect your organization from internal and external threats to cybersecurity
It’s time for a cybersecurity check up: focus on training, transparency and technology.
Dana Simms wins voluntary benefits Adviser of the Year for cutting-edge knowledge and experience
“The difference in our whole office, as far as how it looks at voluntary benefits, has totally taken a complete turn,” says Kathy Passantino, area senior vice president at Gallagher, of her colleague Dana Simms.
The first female recession threatens to wipe out decades of progress for U.S. women
As many as tens of millions of women may never return to the labor force, even after a vaccine is found. Altogether, global gross domestic product could be $1 trillion less in 2030 than it would be without a gender unemployment gap.
Alphabet’s Verily plans to use big data as health insurance tool
The company will sell stop-loss insurance, a type that helps cover unexpectedly large claims against employers who self-fund their health-benefit policies.
Remote workers facing greater scrutiny on the job
Some professionals have admitted to sleeping or drinking while working from home. Technology could help financial services firms ensure employee productivity doesn't slip.
