Practice and client management

With remote work and virtual recruiting the new norm, workplace experts weigh in on how employers need to be adapting as they look to rebuild their workplace in 2021.

Biden’s comments during the election campaign suggest he will push for more pay transparency and a tougher line on diversity among federal contractors.

Strategists from Deutsche Bank propose a 5% levy for those who work from home on a regular basis and not because of a government lockdown mandates. Such a measure could raise $48 billion a year in the U.S.

A string of recent acquisitions are meant to help the insurance broker boost and strengthen its employee benefit, wealth management and retirement services.

The percentage of workers asking for compensation for work-from-home expenses with their employers hasn’t gone up significantly since the outbreak of COVID-19.

With the presidential election now decided, managers can model empathy and boundary setting to get employees back on track and refocused at work.

The housing market, a bright spot in the U.S. economy, has surged as more Americans seek homes in smaller and cheaper locations.

Many parents trying to work from home may be interacting less with their children, not more.

When the pandemic hit, Benny award winner Bryan Aycock expanded his firm’s benefits programs and ramped up new initiatives to support Zynga employees.

In order to discern which health plans offer the best bang for member bucks, benefit advisers need to understand the economics of healthcare today.

Despite the ongoing pandemic, advisers continue to transition to new roles in the benefits space.

COVID-19 has forced changes in work behavior as employees adjust to a new reality. Here’s how the Advisers of the Year did it during a year of massive disruption.

“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.

“I’m on track in saving for retirement because from a young age I learned these things,” says Adviser of the Year winner Julie Yusko. “I hope my experience can help others be in the best position so that we have fewer people who are approaching retirement age and wondering how they're ever going to retire.”

Temperature checks and plexiglass barriers between desks can't prevent one of the most dangerous workplace behaviors for the spread of COVID-19 — the irresistible desire to mingle.

One out of four women said they may downshift their careers or leave the workforce entirely, threatening decades of career progress for female employees.

Hotels are launching work-from-hotel programs, through which operators not only offer workspace in hotel rooms, but also provide wifi, business support, refreshments and use of other facilities.

Nearly one-third of respondents said they would be uncomfortable getting back to offices, shops and factories, while half said their greatest concern was contracting the disease at work.

“If we need to cut some profit to be able to make sure that people can relax and take a deep breath and be there for their kids and get through this pandemic together, then that’s what we’re going to do," says Melissa Wirt, founder of Latched Mama.

COVID-19 has many professional women reevaluating their priorities.