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“To realize their cost savings and clinical impact, employers can provide member education, promote cross-stakeholder alignment and create plan design opportunities as more biosimilars continue to enter the market.”

This once again reinforces that fathers who have extended periods of time at home with their children in their early days will continue to be more engaged caregivers in the long term. 

“The focus moves from identifying ‘natural leaders’ to systematically developing communication, change management and strategic thinking skills across the workforce — mitigating risk and cost, and strengthening an organization’s long-term leadership capability.”

Fully 80% believe generative AI (GenAI) — algorithms that can produce text and imagery based on “learned” data in response to prompts — will improve productivity.

Laine Thomas Conway, Alight Solutions’ vice president and communication strategy thought leader, said encouraging better communication is a good start to address the challenge of lowering stress levels; Alight, a cloud-based human capital and technology services provider, found that less than half (40%) of employees report that their employer has actively communicated more about stress and mental health in the past year.

The NLRB, through its investigations and case decisions/resolutions, had served as an exceptionally strong ally to workers and unions over the past four years under the Democratic-leaning leadership of: ;Lauren McFerran, who served two separate NLRB stints and chaired the board from Jan. 20, 2021, until her term expired on Dec. 16, 2024;; ;Wilcox, a board member since August 2021 who assumed the acting chair role on Dec. 17, 2024; and; ;Abruzzo, a longtime NLRB attorney who was appointed to a four-year term as general counsel on July 22, 2021.; With Wilcox’s firing and the term expirations of McFerran and Republican John Ring (vacated in December 2022), the typically five-person board now has just two seated members: the Republican Kaplan and Democrat David Prouty.

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Compensation Planning Survey of more than 1,000 U.S. employers found annual merit increase budgets increased by 3.3%, on average, while total salary increase budgets went up by 3.6%.

In fact, when separating the study by individual plan types, such as high-deductible health plans (HDHPs), preferred provider organizations (PPOs) or health maintenance organizations (HMOs), EBRI found that the share of out-of-pocket expenditures for patients in those plans have either decreased or remained stable, according to Spiegel.