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Innovative Health Offerings: 24 Considerations for Your Plan

Justin Held, CEBS

09 Apr 201919 Aug 2019

Workforce trends such as the tight labor market, the growth of the “gig economy” and a need to meet the requirements of multiple generations in the workplace have spurred organizations to move beyond traditional health benefits to offer supplementary and innovative health […]

Helping Your Participants Understand Target-Date Funds

Kathy Bergstrom, CEBS

04 Apr 201903 Apr 2019

Target-date funds (TDFs) have become an increasingly popular investment option for defined contribution (DC) plan participants. But do participants really understand how they work, and are they using them correctly? Those are among the questions that Deb Rosenberg, CEBS, suggests DC plan […]

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National Employee Benefits Day: Ten Ways to Celebrate!

Robbie Hartman, CEBS

02 Apr 201910 Mar 2020

Happy National Employee Benefits Day! There’s no wrong way to celebrate every benefits professional’s favorite holiday. With all you do to improve the lives of your plan participants and beneficiaries, you deserve to let loose and have some fun. Let this lighthearted […]

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Substance Abuse in the Workforce

Anne Patterson

28 Mar 201928 Mar 2019

Each month on Talking Benefits, I join Julie Stich, Kelli Kolsrud and Justin Held, International Foundation benefits nerdthusiasts, to discuss a trending employee benefits topic we think our listeners want to know more about. This month, the team concludes our three-part series on […]

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At-Work CBT Leads to Healthier Thinking

Teri Dougherty, CEBS

27 Mar 201926 Aug 2019

A wide range of mental health disorders faces today’s workforce including addiction, anxiety, depression and insomnia. Yet, according to Andrew Miki, Ph.D., chief executive officer, Starling Minds, Inc., and the presenter of the International Foundation webcast The Impact of Online CBT: A […]

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It’s Baaack . . . A Revamped Overtime Rule

Amanda Wilke, CEBS

26 Mar 201917 Sep 2020

After a long wait, the Department of Labor (DOL) recently released a proposed rule to cancel the 2016 overtime final rule and update the salary threshold for overtime exemptions. The Trump administration estimates about 1.1 million more workers would be overtime-eligible under […]

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Suits to Sneaks: Change in Workplace Dress Codes

Anne Patterson

21 Mar 201917 Dec 2019

While not everyone is swapping out pumps for Pumas, more and more organizations have recently made the shift to a more relaxed dress code, including Goldman Sachs, Virgin Atlantic and Target (no more khakis, what?!). According to the International Foundation 2018 Employee […]

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7 Tips to Build Your Resilience

Staff

20 Mar 201913 Mar 2019

Resilience is the process of successfully bouncing back from stress—and it can be learned and developed in anyone. This National Employee Benefits Day we want to encourage you to build your resilience, and we’ve got seven quick tips to get you started! […]

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17 Ways Employers Are Combating Prescription Drug Costs

Justin Held, CEBS

19 Mar 201922 Jul 2019

Benefits practitioners have grown accustomed to headlines addressing the escalating costs of prescription drugs. A recently released congressional report stated that the prices of commonly prescribed brand-name drugs have risen at a rate nearly ten times the annual rate of inflation over […]

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6 Ways to Encourage Resilience in Your Workers

Staff

14 Mar 201914 Mar 2019

When life knocks you down, how quickly do you pop back up? Resilience is the quality that allows you to keep on going—and the good news is that the behaviors, thoughts and actions needed to be resilient can be learned and developed […]