Walmart rolls out new employee scheduling app
The retailer has added a new tool that allows workers to change shifts without manager intervention and maintain a set schedule for 13 weeks at a time.
Practice and client management
Benefits Think Make sure your broker is offering these 3 things — or reconsider your partnership
Employers need to ensure their adviser is providing the most value. If not, it may be time to reevaluate.
Alex Tolbert
BerniePortal
Tempted to expense that strip club as a business dinner? AI is watching
AppZen has signed up several big companies, including Amazon, IBM, Salesforce and Comcast, and claims to have saved its clients $40 million in fraudulent expenses.
New office necessity in smoky Silicon Valley: gas masks
Wildfires are sending an unprecedented amount of smoke where many of the largest tech companies employ tens of thousands of workers.
Top 10 employers for millennials
Finding and keeping the best talent can be difficult with the younger generations, but these companies have cracked a code at attracting young workers.
Benefits Think Brokers: Are you providing enough value?
If you want to be the best partner for your employer clients, make sure you are offering these three things.
Alex Tolbert
BerniePortal
Buck releases new AI-enabled benefits platform
The consulting firm is now offering a customized system that brings together benefits offerings from multiple vendors.
Employers modernizing total rewards programs
In an effort to recruit and retain employees, more companies are upgrading benefits packages to include career coaching, flexible work schedules and other personalized perks.
Benefit pros on the move: TIAA, Namely, ArmadaHealth, Innovu
A number of employee benefit adviser veterans found new roles inside brokerages, insurance firms and private companies.
The robocallers that are killing benefit advisers’ reputations
Some benefit brokers say the use of robocalls could create an inaccurate picture of what a legitimate adviser can do for workers.
AI is making its way into recruiting. But are employees on board?
While new technologies are helping HR bring on talent, job applicants say they’re wary about the tech’s capabilities.
Traditional keys are out. New app gives workers office access via smartphone
Openpath, which enables employees to enter the office via Bluetooth, allows employers to easily add and remove workers who may either be new to the company or leaving for a new job.
Benefits Think New York City Council OKs new lactation room bills
The nation's biggest city passed two bills that will require employers to provide lactation rooms, as well as develop a lactation policy for employees.
Jessica Joseph
Foley & Lardner
Google ends forced arbitration after protest over sex misconduct
The company is making arbitration optional for individual sexual harassment and sexual assault claims.
Benefit pros on the move: TIAA, Namely, ArmadaHealth, Innovu
A number of employee benefit adviser veterans found new roles inside brokerages, insurance firms and private companies.
How to integrate tech-savvy Generation Z workers into your team
The first generation to grow up with the internet at their fingertips is joining the workforce. A Rutgers professor shares strategies for incorporating Generation Z into your company.
Amazon’s gender-biased algorithm is not alone
The internet giant ran into a problem that eloquently illustrates the pitfalls of big data impacting the hiring process.
Traditional keys are out. New app gives workers office access via smartphone
Openpath, which enables employees to enter the office via Bluetooth, allows employers to easily add and remove workers who may either be new to the company or leaving for a new job.
Crooning about coverage: Consultant explains healthcare in Sinatra parodies
Chris Yarn, as his alter ego Frank MicDroppa, sings about health insurance as a way to educate brokers and employers.
H&M employees get chatty with new instant messaging app
The company is using the new social collaboration tool to connect its 15,000 U.S. retail employees, many of whom do not have corporate email accounts.
