Don’t let your clients get spooked by retirement spending
Advise them to review and adjust their budget and consider getting a side hustle, a study suggests.
Practice and client management
Men still blind to glass ceiling: survey
Men in the financial and entertainment industries are still unaware of issues impacting women in the workplace.
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.
Should your client downsize their home in retirement?
Moving could eliminate their mortgage, reduce housing expenses and lower cost of living.
Benefits Think 5 biggest productivity challenges (and how to overcome them)
Creating a culture of engagement and scaling back on time-wasting meetings is paramount to boosting employee productivity.
Steffen Maier
impraise
Men still blind to glass ceiling: survey
Men in the financial and entertainment industries are still unaware of issues impacting women in the workplace.
Benefits Think 5 biggest productivity challenges (and how to overcome them)
Creating a culture of engagement and scaling back on time-wasting meetings is paramount to boosting employee productivity.
Steffen Maier
impraise
The best way to prevent sexual harassment at work? Train employees
One year after #MeToo, the acting chair of the EEOC says HR departments need to focus on educating and training all workers, particularly supervisors.
Has #MeToo changed anything? Bosses say yes, workers disagree
Ask employers how they’re doing on sexual harassment in the workplace and most will say pretty well. Employees have a different take.
Tech’s sexual harassment issues start at the top
In the past two years, Google has fired 48 people, including 13 senior managers or above, for misconduct.
The best way to prevent sexual harassment at work? Train employees
One year after #MeToo, the acting chair of the EEOC says HR departments need to focus on educating and training all workers, particularly supervisors.
EBA’s Advisers of the Year lead the way
This year’s employee benefit finalists aim to transform wellness, technology, retirement, voluntary benefits in a changing business landscape.
Benefits Think Are independent contractor classifications becoming safer?
Employers should approach any considerations with extreme caution and seek support of experienced counsel before making any decisions.
Christopher Ward
Foley and Lardner
Benefits Think Holiday shopping: How advisers might approach selling a business
Brokers considering relinquishing their companies might find the holidays the perfect time to partner with advisers and get input from friends and family.
Jack Kwicien
Daymark Advisors
EBA’s Top Women in Benefit Advising
To mark International Women’s Day, a look at female industry leaders who are transforming the benefits advising field.
Benefits Think Why won’t prospective clients hire you? (Hint: You’re talking too much.)
Even when your audience knows nothing about your product or service, talking for extended periods of time is not a good idea. That’s a lecture, not a conversation.
Wendy Keneipp
Q4intelligence
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.
Benefits Think What employers can do to combat risks of workplace opioid abuse
Providing short-term accommodations for employees taking prescribed painkillers is one way companies can mitigate onsite accidents and other risks.
Daniel N. Jolivet
The Standard
One year since #MeToo: How workplaces have changed
One-third of execs say they’ve changed behavior, SHRM reports. But cases are still prevalent, and employees say HR’s ability to investigate allegations and changing workplace culture are key to curbing incidents.
2018 Top Women in Benefit Advising
Industry leaders whose unique client management strategies, innovative data manipulation and other industry-leading skills are transforming the field.