Expense violations have skyrocketed during COVID
The pandemic has made it more difficult for employers to track appropriate business expenses, leading many employees to take advantage.
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Benefits Think 3 ways wellness technologies will dominate HR this year
Providing an easy-to-follow path to wellness through telehealth will become the baseline of employee-sponsored plans.
Jesse Kessler
Heuro Health
Best of the week: Employees are turning their backs on employers
Employees are looking for new jobs and leaving the workforce in record numbers. How can you get them to stay?
Amazon to offer telehealth services to other companies
Amazon has various healthcare initiatives under way.
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.
3 tech tools making work easier this year
Companies are realizing that the key to the survival and growth of their company is to invest in its people.
Estee Lauder creates new division to oversee diversity promises
The goal is to ensure the company meets commitments, which include increasing Black employment to population parity at all levels of the business.
Best of the week: How to hire during a pandemic
Managers and HR professionals are adopting new tools and benefits to help them recruit and retain top talent.
Indeed tackles virtual recruiting with new hiring platform
More than 200,000 candidates have already been connected with employers.
Intuit adds e-signature capabilities to QBO Advanced
In a remote world, e-signature capabilities have become a must — not just for saving time, but for getting documents signed at all.
These 10 HR and recruiting firms are hiring in 2021
More than a third of the U.S. workforce are freelance and contract workers.
Employers have hit a wall with remote communication and engagement
Almost all employers plan to make changes to their company culture and workflow one year into the pandemic.
People with disabilities struggle to save. Purple says it has a solution.
The fintech will help these consumers set aside money in a tax-advantaged savings account that won’t jeopardize federal benefits tied to income.
New TriNet features address gender equality
The HR platform rolled out compensation benchmarks and a pronoun section to promote an inclusive workplace.
Benefits Think How connected devices help employers and members save on dental insurance
This is an opportunity for insurers and employers alike to engage with employees in a more meaningful way.
Alex Frommeyer
Beam Dental
As job automation becomes the norm, upskilling sees big demand
Professional development benefits will help employees sharpen their skills as the job market improves.
HP sales beat estimates on work-at-home PC demand
HP has enjoyed a surge in demand for laptops needed for study and work at home during the COVID pandemic.
BetterUp employee wellness startup valued at $1.73 billion
During the coronavirus pandemic, reducing stress and anxiety has been a focus.
ADP rolls out new app to help employers manage payroll
Employers will be able to use voice commands to run their payroll.
6 ways technology can boost employee well-being
Several companies have offered employees better tech-enabled benefits to help combat the stressors of the pandemic.
