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“Organizations often experience short-term dips in productivity with a four-day workweek before finding long-term gains.”

The updated definition laid out in the Retirement Security Rule , which takes effect September 23, applies when financial services providers give compensated investment advice to retirement plan participants, individual retirement account owners and plan officials responsible for administering plans and managing their assets.

Companies need to factor proactive pay increases into both short-term and long-term budget forecasts.

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“This is important for HR and compensation teams as they plan budgets for next year.”

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“Offering a benefit like this, especially with annual education showing people the long-term benefit of retirement savings and maybe of extra student loan payments, can allay a lot of anxiety and prompt younger people to start saving for retirement.

The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) increased by 190,000 to 1.6 million, largely offsetting a decrease in the prior month.