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Offer Plan Members Many Different On Ramps to Access Care Different health plan members have different needs and preferences.

Key tactics employers are using to attract frontline workers are sign-on bonuses for candidates and other short-term incentives.

Broad-based job structures, work that allows interaction with diverse employees and involvement in multi-disciplinary teams can all contribute to innovation.

Technical talent allows for faster processing of big data, such as incentive/bonus plan calculations, pay equity reviews where many variables are considered and even process automation.

The challenge comes in weighing cost-effective measures against retention agreements that offer enough incentives, both financial and nonfinancial, to motivate key employees to remain, and to remain productive, as long as their services are required.

Only 23% of the 1,000 surveyed full-time workers aged 42 or younger (and only 18% of workers 30 or younger) expressed a strong interest in remaining with their employer long term.

Wall Street Bonuses to Drop Amid Market Uncertainty After a strong 2024, year-end bonuses for financial services industry workers are on track to fall in 2025 amid rocky markets, deal-making slowdowns, a drop in exits and persistent equity outflows, according to a new report from Johnson Associates, Inc., a New York-based compensation consulting firm.

A long court battle in California ended in minimal damages for a Grubhub driver, but the ruling determined the driver was an employee of the food-delivery platform and not an independent contractor.

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For example, for a business with an intentionally transient workforce, long-term incentives or retirement benefits designed to encourage long tenure may not be fit for purpose.