Kerry Hannon

Jenkins explores the principles behind elite athletes’ success in her new book, “The Right Call: What Sports Teach Us About Work and Life.”

A Gallup poll found that expectations for a comfortable retirement are the most pessimistic they have been in over a decade.

Just 64% of workers are confident they’ll have enough money to live comfortably in retirement, down from 73% in 2022.

More than a third (36%) of 1,300 HR professionals said pay disclosure laws caused more current employees to ask about receiving a pay raise.

The FDIC’s standard insurance covers up to $250,000 per depositor, per bank, for every account ownership category.

New investors relied less on “other personal research” — down nearly 10 percentage points versus 2020 — and more on financial professionals — up 9.3 percentage points versus 2020.

Inflation-protected Treasury I bonds are one of the safest investments around.

Over a quarter of firms surveyed said that leadership is unconvinced of the merits of pay transparency.

According to a new survey by the Senior Citizens League, 54% of older Americans think the 8.7% increase in the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) this year won’t keep up with inflation.

This week, Payscale released the results of its bellwether survey, the 2023 Compensation Best Practices Report. It’s not wonderful news for employees: fewer employers are offering pay raises and those that will aren’t exactly being generous. As for folks who love the idea of more flexibility in their working lives? The survey reveals there’s a growing kibosh on remote work arrangements. Senator Bernie Sanders’ four-day work week? Forget about it.

This week, Payscale released the results of its bellwether survey, the 2023 Compensation Best Practices Report. It’s not wonderful news for employees: fewer employers are offering pay raises and those that will aren’t exactly being generous. As for folks who love the idea of more flexibility in their working lives? The survey reveals there’s a growing kibosh on remote work arrangements. Senator Bernie Sanders’ four-day work week? Forget about it.

This week, Payscale released the results of its bellwether survey, the 2023 Compensation Best Practices Report. It’s not wonderful news for employees: fewer employers are offering pay raises and those that will aren’t exactly being generous. As for folks who love the idea of more flexibility in their working lives? The survey reveals there’s a growing kibosh on remote work arrangements. Senator Bernie Sanders’ four-day work week? Forget about it.

Employers who use chat bots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to screen job seekers should prepare for new laws geared to prevent bias in the hiring process.mIn April, a New York City law that regulates how companies use AI in hiring is expected to kick in. The Biden Administration and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) also recently published initiatives to make employers responsible for monitoring the tools and any discriminatory practices they might trigger.

Seniors who opted for private Medicare insurance plans should not be shy about pushing back on denials for pre-authorizations.

The only other instances that half or more felt this way was in 2008 and 2009.

While a new law increases the age you must withdraw from certain retirement accounts, there are two ways to delay that requirement even longer.

Almost 2 in 3 Americans prefer to have their money sit in cash on the sidelines rather than endure market swings.

Savings rates have jumped from just about zero to more than 4% in the past 12 months on these short-term securities.

Candidates who tapped into AI to fix spelling and grammar errors on their resumes had an 8% increase in the probability of getting hired.

The new law ramps up the age you must start withdrawing required minimum distributions, or RMDs, from individual retirement accounts.