Necessities & Health Care – Where U.S. Consumers Spend Their MoneyConsumers spend most of their money on necessities, especially housing and health care. The brick-and-mortar retail industry is in crisis. For many old-line retailers, sales and market share are...

How the Feds Are Using Data to Right-Size a Massive Real Estate Portfolio Big Government Equals Big Real Estate According to the 2016 summary of findings from the Federal Real Property Profile dataset, the U.S. government has 267,000 buildings in its domestic real...

Employers Should Comply Now with ACA Reporting Requirements The ACA May Be Here to Stay Congress made several attempts, but ultimately failed to garner the votes needed to repeal and replace, or even amend the Affordable Care Act. Although President Trump continues to...

TelePayroll 401 Retirement Plan SeriesRetirement Planning – Getting Through the MazeStarting a retirement savings plan can be easier than most business owners think. What’s more, there are a number of retirement programs that provide tax advantages to both employers...

How HR Leaders Can Take Small Steps to Begin Utilizing HR Analytics When Drinking from a Fire Hose, Take Small Sips Today, there’s no shortage of talk about Big Data and how to use it to improve all kinds of aspects of a business. Because employee costs are one of the...

An Analysis of The Physician Perspective On Single-Payer Health Care SystemSingle-payer health care is a controversial idea in the U.S., but a majority of physicians now support it, new survey finds.Fifty-six percent of doctors registered either strong support or were...

ACA Federal Pay Cost-Sharing AnalysisRecent debate over federal payments to insurers under the (ACA) related to cost-sharing reductions for low-income enrollees in the ACA’s marketplaces is alive and well.- The ACA requires insurers to offer plans with reduced patient...

Health Experts Seek 2-Party Insurance Market FixPolicy-adviser group offers plan to stabilize insurance markets, as lawmakers consider bipartisan overhaulA bipartisan group of health policy experts offered a proposal on 8-9-17 to stabilize the ACA’s fragile insurance...

Insurers Seek ACA Premium Bumps of 30%+There is uncertainty in the health-insurance marketplaces as insurers around the U.S. try to make decisions about rates and participation for next year amid open questions about changes that could come from the administration and...

Why Employees and Managers Have Different Perspectives on Top Sources of Workplace Stress You’re stressing me out! It’s a near certainty that managers and employees will experience workplace stress from time to time. But what causes stress in managers versus their...

Why Automation Is Not as Scary as We Thought The Robots Are Coming—Run for Your Jobs! Through automation, the world is changing at a pace that is causing major disruptions in the workforce. Every day another article warns that robots are replacing humans. Artificial...

Healthcare Provisions Explore Options for VoteBelow are the latest elements senators could vote on, either as part of the underlying bill or as amendments.ACA RepealSome senators favor a proposal to largely repeal the Affordable Care Act, with a two-year expiration...

Optimizing a Modern Workforce Requires Analysis Today’s HR executives need more than great people and management skills. They are also increasingly expected to have sophisticated data analysis and data technology skills.The modern workforce is a whole new creation—a...

Revised Health Care Bill Sent to SenateIn an effort to win over GOP holdouts Senate Republican leaders released a revised health-care plan Thursday providing an added $70B to stabilize insurance exchanges over a decade. This is in addition to $112B provided for the...

How the Politics Might Impact Employee Benefit Plans One of President Trump’s major campaign promises was to repeal and replace The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Since January, Republicans in Congress have been trying to come up with a plan that...

Rewriting the Rules for the Digital HRM AgeHuman Resource Management (HRM) has a big opportunity to help lead the transformation to a digital enterprise.In the next several years, HR teams that embrace digital platforms will be required to incorporate the dual...