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As the pre-season heats up, so do the fantasy football rosters of millions of Americans. A new survey says it creates a distraction in the workplace, possibly costing U.S. employers a collective $6.5 billion dollars in lost productivity. But, they ...

Your pharmacy benefit program has the potential to play an important role in maximizing “human capital” — the capabilities, knowledge, experience, wellness and full potential of your workforce. When used wisely, prescription drugs can substitute for a more expensive medical ...

HR professionals are spending more time on strategic initiatives and less on transactional processes. But business managers still rely on HR to assist them with practical, daily issues like establishing summer dress policies that work for both employees and the ...

I’ve been working to help a client streamline multiple policy documents into one handbook. The task is enormous. For years no one was responsible for monitoring information, ensuring it was fresh and relevant, or removing outdated items. Instead, once a ...

Your employees are talking about you. Whether they say good or bad things, they’re not just saying them to their friends. They often broadcast their thoughts, experiences and feelings through Twitter, Facebook or social media sites designed to tell the ...

Adding young people to your employment mix in the summer can add a lot of energy and new ideas to your workforce. But it’s also important to remember that young employees also come with unique wage and hour rules and ...

I recently finished reading about young Wall Street workers in Kevin Roose’s new book, Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street’s Post-Crash Recruits. Roose is a millennial himself who, while working at the New York Times, started interviewing ...

In the average organization, meetings cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a year when you calculate the hourly rate of each individual sitting around the table. Meetings also contribute to poor morale when they’re not run well. If one meeting ...

May 29 is 529 Day in Idaho and a great time for employers to considering offering this low-maintenance benefit to their employees. The benefit is a 529 plan, which is the Internal Revenue code for a tax-advantaged college savings plan. ...

According to the Project on Student Loan Debt, 71 percent of U.S. college seniors who graduated in 2012 (the most recently posted statics) had an average of $29,400 in student loan debt. Idaho graduates in 2012 came in slightly under ...