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The complaint also stated UnitedHealth allegedly kept its decision-making secret and threw out key findings that the plan’s own investment committee had made, while abandoning the plan’s written criteria for screening investments, in order to justify keeping the poorly performing suite of funds.

These include workplace retirement plans that offer auto-enrollment and auto-escalation features, and the never-before-seen ubiquity of easily accessible financial information and investing tools.

Currently, 41% of organizations apply pay differentials as a premium/discount to either structure or individual pay, and 33% create separate base pay structures for each/different geographic location.

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.; ;43% expect new technology to make work feel harder to accomplish in the near term.; “Employees are excited about AI’s potential, but silence from leadership on how it will transform work can create uncertainty,” said Lauren Mason, Mercer’s U.S. workforce solutions leader.

Seventy-eight percent of surveyed employees in a recent study said saving and planning tools would be valuable to them.

Workspan Daily article; Financial services company Goldman Sachs Ayco recently analyzed the benefits and compensation offerings at more than 400 client companies and found those respondents are increasingly allowing employees to convert paid time off (PTO) into an equitable cash value directly applied toward: ;Student loan payments; ;401(k) accounts; ;Health savings accounts (HSAs); ;Charitable contributions, including donating time to other employees; ;529 plan contributions; ;Monetary payouts; In addition, the Goldman Sachs Ayco report showed more than 25% of these companies have a PTO purchase program, which allows employees to buy and sell their vacation days.

Access a bonus Workspan Daily Plus+ article on this subject: ;Skills-Based Mentoring: An Efficient Way to Build Skills ; The 2025 Employee Health & Benefits Trends report by Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA) found supporting a multigenerational workforce is a high priority for employers, as Gen Z workers (those born between 1997 and 2012) outnumber Baby Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) but more Boomers are delaying retirement or returning to work.

Specifically, the change applies to California-based workers at fast-food companies that have at least 60 locations nationwide.