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4 ways business owners can make “the leadership connection”

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May 7, 2025

To get the most from any team, its leader must establish a productive rapport with each member. Of course, that’s easier said than done if you own a company with scores or hundreds of workers. Still, it’s critical for business owners to make “the leadership connection” with their employees. Simply put, the leadership connection is […]

#EmployeeTrust, #LeadershipConnection, #TeamEngagement

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EBHRAs: A flexible health benefits choice for businesses

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April 25, 2025

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Today’s companies have several kinds of tax-advantaged accounts or arrangements they can sponsor to help employees pay eligible medical expenses. One of them is a Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA). Under an HRA, your business sets up and wholly funds a plan that reimburses participants for qualified medical expenses of your choosing. (To be clear, employees can’t […]

#EmployeeBenefits, #HealthBenefits, #HRAExplained

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Weighing the pluses and minuses of HDHPs + HSAs for businesses

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March 21, 2025

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Will your company be ready to add a health insurance plan for next year, or change its current one? If so, now might be a good time to consider your options. These things take time. A popular benefits model for many small to midsize businesses is sponsoring a high-deductible health plan (HDHP) accompanied by employee Health […]

#EmployeeBenefits, #HDHP, #HealthInsurance, Hsa

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5 steps to creating a pay transparency strategy

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February 28, 2025

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Today’s job seekers and employees have grown accustomed to having an incredible amount of information at their fingertips. As a result, many businesses find that failing to adequately disclose certain things negatively impacts their relationships with these parties. Take pay transparency, for example. This is the practice, or lack thereof, of a company openly sharing […]

#CompensationStrategy, #FairPay, #PayTransparency, #WorkplaceEquity

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Are “workationers” a danger to your business?

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January 31, 2025

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Every company presumably wants a workforce full of engaged employees. However, is it possible for workers to be too engaged? Apparently so. A 2024 survey of 3,000 workers by employee engagement consultants Perceptyx found that 72% of respondents work to some degree throughout their vacations. As a business owner, your initial response to this might be, “Wow, […]

#EmployeeEngagement, #EmployeeWellBeing, #HumanResources, #WorkLifeBalance

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Supreme Court: Overtime rules still apply to highly compensated employees

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March 2, 2023

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If you were told someone earns more than $200,000 annually, you might assume the person is a salaried employee who’s ineligible for overtime pay. However, as demonstrated in the recent U.S. Supreme Court case of Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt, this isn’t always a safe assumption. The FLSA rules Under the Fair Labor […]

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Unused PTO a problem? Consider a contribution arrangement

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January 4, 2023

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A new year has arrived. For many businesses, this means employees’ paid time off (PTO) arrangements have reset. And at companies with “use it or lose it” policies, workers have likely left a few or perhaps many unused hours on the table. It’s a growing problem. A July 2022 survey conducted by Sorbet, a provider of […]

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