Allwork

AUGUST 30, 2024

Economists predict the job market growth will slow dramatically over the next decade. According to the latest projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the workforce is on a path to expand at an annual rate of just 0.4% through 2033. The annual growth rate for the previous 10 years was 1.3%. Bloomberg reports that this anticipated slowdown is largely attributed to technological advancements spread across the workforce — specifically, the rise of e-commerce platforms and artifici

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Success

AUGUST 30, 2024

We saved up all year for a vacation on a Delta Skymiles card, charging almost every expenditure to the card to earn enough points. Our plan was to embark on an airplane trip for the first time as a family of seven, and luckily, it was for “free” with said points. Somehow, it sounded easier than a 16-hour drive from Cincinnati to Florida with babies and toddlers—until it wasn’t.

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Allwork

AUGUST 30, 2024

Allstate sold a 10-story office building located in Chicago’s Loop at millions of dollars below what they had originally purchased the property for, in a loss reflecting the prevailing difficulties in the commercial office market. CoStar reports that the sale at 29 N. Wacker Drive was for just over $11 million, a sizeable loss compared to the $29.7 million the insurance company purchased it for in 2022.

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Workplace Insight

AUGUST 30, 2024

The NHS is set to launch a comprehensive initiative aimed at preventing heart attacks and strokes by conducting health checks in workplaces across the UK. Over the next six months, more than 130,000 middle-aged employees will be offered free workplace health checks in their places of work. This national drive, known as Health MoTs, is designed to identify individuals at risk of type 2 diabetes or heart disease through a 20-minute evaluation that includes weighing staff and measuring their blood

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

Payroll

Allwork

AUGUST 30, 2024

The U.K. has been one of the nations at the forefront of the four-day workweek movement —consistently engaged in studies and debate exploring its viability — and now the government is positioned to enable workers to request a four-day “compressed” workweek. The Independent reports that a proposed piece of legislation , driven by Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and supported by trade unions, would allow employees to squeeze their regular working hours into four days, instead of five.

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BMT Office Administration

AUGUST 30, 2024

The cafeteria-plan rules require employees to designate their pretax deductions before the start of the plan year. For calendar-year plans, employees will be making changes very soon for the 2025 plan year. But stuff happens, and this stuff doesn’t account for another cafeteria-plan rule that requires employees’ designations to be locked in for the entire plan year.

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Workplace Insight

AUGUST 30, 2024

A new poll makes the perhaps obvious point that a significant majority of workers on zero-hours contracts prefer stable, regular working hours. Commissioned by the TUC , the survey found that 84 percent of zero-hours contract workers would prefer consistent work schedules, while only 14 percent are content with their current arrangements. The poll also highlighted the financial difficulties faced by these workers due to underemployment.

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