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Workspan Daily
10/16/2024
To lower costs, the WTW survey found :
;73% of employers plan to carve out pharmacy benefits over the next few years ;
;51% expect to adopt plan design or network strategies that steer employees to lower-cost or higher-quality providers, sites of care ;
;34% of employers plan to shift costs to employees through premium contributions ;
;2 7% would consider a smaller PBM (pharmacy benefit manager) that offers alternate pricing models. ;
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Ihrke also offered these strategies to help employers respond to rising overall healthcare costs :
;Modernize plan offerings to optimize high-performing healthcare delivery strategies, coupled with options that meet individual needs from affordability to savings. ;
;Evaluate vendor partnerships by conducting analytic performance reviews, audits and marketing to identify the best financial optimal partners to meet objectives . ;
;Prioritize micro-strategies for the key cost drives balancing attraction and retention.
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Workspan Daily
01/02/2025
A typical minimum wage increase may be 2% and 3%, she said, while a typical employer salary budget may be between 3% and 4%.
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Workspan Daily
02/14/2025
Federal Trade Commission ; and,;
;The odds of the FTC pulling back its appeal of that decision grew significantly following Trump’s recast of the commission on
Jan. 20 (Republican Andrew Ferguson was named chair and Mark Meador was positioned as the successor to Democratic commissioner Lina Khan, setting up a 3-2 Republican majority on the five-member committee).;
The next domino to fall may indeed be the FTC dropping that appeal in the
Ryan case.
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Workspan Daily
09/17/2025
Just 2% said the current environment would have no impact and 16% were unsure how things would shake out.
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Workspan Daily
10/15/2025
Although the unretirement trend appears to be stabilizing, it stands well above the pandemic levels of 2% to 3%.
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Journal Article
09/21/2023
Academy of Management Journal 64 (2): 1–27.
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Journal Article
01/01/2022
.; Investing in mental health improves employee health, productivity and loyalty For every $1 put into treatment for common mental health disorders, there is a return of $2-$4 in improved health and productivity, according to World Health Organization (2021) estimates.;89% of workers at companies that support well-being initiatives are more likely to recommend their employer to others (Beheshti 2019).;80% of employees treated for mental illness report improved levels of work effectiveness and satisfaction.
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Journal Article
03/15/2023
The resulting differential of 14 percentage points is significantly larger than in 2020, when the difference (2 percentage points) was well within the margin of error.
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Journal Article
12/16/2021
Figure 2 shows that 5% of employers answered “yes,” while another 7% said “yes,” but explained that this is without a budget.
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Journal Article
11/14/2024
Curry, at 6-foot-2 and 185 pounds, is slightly built for an NBA player.
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