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Workspan Daily
09/12/2024
According to Mercer’s 2024 Absence and Disability Management survey , employers offered flexible/unlimited PTO to:
;10% of executives (compared to 8% in 2021);11% of executive and exempt employees (compared to 8% in 2021);11% of all employees (compared to 4% in 2021);
Rich Fuerstenberg, a senior partner in Mercer’s health and benefits practice, said, as those numbers show, the biggest change has been shifting the benefit’s recipient base beyond simply executives.
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Workspan Daily
09/30/2024
Since 2021, this usage has decreased by 4%, and by nearly 10% from pre-pandemic levels.
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Workspan Daily
08/15/2025
.; and,;
;Professor Nicholas Broom at Stanford University, which highlighted that hybrid work boosted productivity by 3% to 4%.;
The 11% productivity boost is driven by lower commutes, with employees benefiting from increased focus time and fewer distractions, ultimately spending up to 40% of time saved from traveling on additional work.
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Workspan Daily
09/22/2025
Additional data from Mental Health America is even more eye-opening —98% of midsize to large American companies offer EAPs but only about 4% of employees use them each year.
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Workspan Daily
11/03/2025
Access additional Workspan Daily articles from this series: Planning for Healthcare in Retirement: Why Employers Must Step Up ;Take 3 Actions to Help Workers Turn Savings into Retirement Income ;4 Steps to Help Pre-Retirees Consider, Plan for Retirement Income ;Financial Planning Tips Can Help Older Workers Budget for Retirement ; Phased Retirement and Bridge Employment: A Strategic Middle Ground Many employers and employees are rethinking the concept of a “hard stop” retirement.
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Workspan Daily
01/15/2026
Access a bonus Workspan Daily Plus+ article on this subject: Two TR Leaders Provide a Personal Take on Their 2026 Priorities;
WorldatWork’s 2026 findings are based on the survey responses (from Oct. 27 through Nov. 21) of 290 TR leaders, including:
;Directors or senior directors (37%);
;Managers or senior managers (27%);
;Vice presidents (senior or assistant) (15%);
;Consultants/analysts/specialists (11%);
;Chiefs or heads (6%);
;Other titles (3%);
Respondents represented a diversity of:
;Organization sizes
;500 to 2,499 employees (29%);
;2,500 to 9,999 (27%);
;20 to 499 (18%);
;20,000 or more (16%);
;10,000 to 19,999 (8%);
;Less than 20 (3%);;
;And, geographic regions;;United States (41%);
;Canada (14%);
;Europe (excluding the United Kingdom) (8%);
;U.K. (8%);
;India (8%);
;Asia (excluding India) (7%);
;Latin America and the Caribbean (6%);
;Middle East (4%);
;Africa (2%);
;Oceania (2%);;
“TR leaders recognize that rewards programs must directly support organizational
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Workspan Daily
05/24/2024
I allow those I’ve hired to be leaders to be leaders.” 4) Understand the true meaning of success.
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Journal Article
03/15/2023
Figures 4 and 5 show individual answers represented by blue dots.
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Journal Article
12/05/2022
Our calculation of which classification is beneficial from a multilateral tax perspective depends on a number of factors: family status, as illustrated by the differences across columns in Table 4; the benefits offered by the employer, as illustrated by the change between Table 3 and Table 4; and the magnitude of business expenses — as those expenses increase (as in the case of Uber drivers), the ability of a contractor to deduct those expenses, which an employee cannot do, increases the tax benefit of contractor status.
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Workspan Magazine
08/15/2022
In December 2021, the Society of Human Resource Management projected that labor shortages would continue through 2022, with wage growth topping 4%.
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