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Workspan Daily
07/16/2025
Jumbo Claims Drive Up Stop-Loss Costs
Advances in medical technology and
treatment options , as well as the continued pervasiveness of costly conditions, are moving health costs and medical claims higher — which, in turn, is ramping up stop-loss premiums, a trend observed on multiple fronts:
;Employers saw a
29% increase in claims for $1 million or more per million covered employees in 2024 compared to the year before — and a
47% increase in claims totaling $3 million or more, according to financial services company Sun Life.;
;2025 stop-loss rate renewal increases through Voya Financial were
double the amount of 2024 increases, with the company citing a spike in the number of claims in the prior year.;
;There was a
9.4% increase in average stop-loss premiums in 2024 among health plans tracked by Segal, with that increase rising to 11.5% for employers maintaining comparable coverage to the prior year as opposed to adjusting their coverage to reduce premium costs.;
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Journal Article
09/21/2023
However, it's important to note that this trend has not been consistently upward, as there was a 3% decline in March 2020 compared to the previous year, followed by a substantial 24% decrease in March 2021 compared to 2020.
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Workspan Daily
04/28/2023
Eliminating 7,000 jobs from its workforce equates to about 3% of the roughly 220,000 people Disney employed as of Oct. 1, according to a securities filing, roughly 166,000 in the U.S. and about 54,000 internationally.
Workspan Daily
05/17/2023
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As workers demand greater pay equity and transparency from their employers, experts say that creating a job architecture can help achieve both goals.
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Workspan Daily
06/02/2023
One of the proposals would have had the companies adopt targets for reducing emissions including those from third-party consumption of their products, such as when drivers burn gasoline in their cars, also known as Scope 3 emissions.
Workspan Magazine
11/03/2023
Concept 3: Consider Incorporating ESG Metrics Issues such as the pandemic, social/racial injustice, pay inequity and a potential recession have caused companies to take a much closer look at their goals for sparking internal change.
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Workspan Daily
04/03/2025
For WorldatWork Members 3 Sales Compensation Challenges that AI Can Help Tackle , Workspan Magazine article;Sales Performance Management , research;Return on Sales Expense , research; For Everyone Sales Comp ’25 , conference;Sales Compensation Course Series , education;Monitor Your Sales Compensation Programs with Sentinel Charts , Workspan Daily article;Maximizing Business Growth Through Strategic Sales Compensation , Workspan Daily article;
It’s painful to hear an HR/compensation professional confess: “Well, I would like to help with the sales compensation program but the sales department (or the general manager, or the finance function, or the sales operations function) has ownership.
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Workspan Daily
06/08/2023
Payscale recently found that while pay transparency decreases employees’ intent to quit by 30% when analyzed in isolation, it surprisingly increases job-seeking behavior for Generation Z by 3%.
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Workspan Magazine
12/05/2024
Improving the ROI on their TR spend — using more sophisticated data and analytics to ensure that TR budgets are deployed in a manner that maximizes employee value, appreciation and productivity.
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