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While I hadn’t come across the Invisible Backpack as a term until after I wrote The Whole-Person Workplace: Building Better Workplaces Through Work-Life, Wellness, and Employee Support , I now realize that the research for my book elicited numerous examples of employers who took on the responsibility for helping their employees with their invisible backpacks, supporting employees as whole people and building winning workplace cultures in the process.

Based on Syndio’s new analysis of gender-based pay equity analyses conducted over the past year from 48 organizations, jobs at the lower end of the pay spectrum — such as retail, manufacturing and other frontline jobs — continue to pay more for time on the job compared to new workers.

While there are certainly benefits to offering remote work — namely the flexibility it affords employees — employers that operate in a fully or hybrid remote environment should be mindful of social health and create opportunities for employees to develop, cultivate and maintain social relationships, said Erin Terkoski Young, senior director, health, equity & wellbeing at WTW.

This approach also has the benefit of advancing the organization’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, Leeds noted.

., boiled down his remarkably readable 180-page, 48,000-word doctoral dissertation into the 5,000-word “Perceived Pay Equity Matters and Predicts Employer-Valued Outcomes” paper, which leads off this issue.

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Gavin Newsom recently signed into law a bill that makes California the seventh state in the U.S. that will not allow employers to discriminate against workers who smoke weed “off the job and away from the workplace.”

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