For Your Benefit Construction Industry Nailing Down Opioid Addiction Woes One company’s holistic approach addresses workplace safety and addiction education. January 5, 2018 , Opioid abuse can take employers by surprise, in part because addiction can be hard to spot and its impact on health care…

Benefits Beat Benefits Offerings Shouldn’t Be a Puzzle to Assemble Before you move forward and make any significant changes to your benefits ecosystem, consider how they will fit into your current environment. January 3, 2018 , Many of our clients are waiting for the release of a technology solution…

President Donald Trump ended 2017 much the same way he spent it — on Twitter, needling his foes, as he wished a happy new year to his “enemies,” his “haters” and even the “Fake News Media.” As our Country rapidly grows stronger and smarter, I want to wish all of my friends, supporters, enemies,…

The sessions at Small Giants are Interactive, and will include an assortment of “Long Story Shorts”—20 minute TED-style segments to present leadership stories and pivotal moments. The Small Giants program emphasizes the practical side of business with best practice recommendations, nuggets of…

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FAANG stocks — Facebook, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Netflix Inc. and Google parent Alphabet Inc., which have all generated a lot of buzz this year — can take a seat in coach class because the biggest gainer on the Dow Jones Industrial Average this year has outperformed the lot, even though it’s…

Joe Heller Joe Heller/Cartoon of the Day The New York Times and Politico report the existence of the Pentagon's secret Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, begun at the instigation of then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. This makes sense: Nevada is where Area 51 is, after all. "My…

Technology Companies Eagerly Tapping Into Self-taught Tech Talent The best programmers don’t always have college degrees, they argue, and real-world problem-solving is their specialty. December 28, 2017 , In the war for talent, programmers and software engineers are often seen as the ultimate prize.…

Netflix Inc. NFLX, +3.47% said Thursday that it plans to increase the annual salary for a number of its top executives in 2018. Most notably, Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos will earn a $12 million base salary in 2018, after bringing in a salary of just $1 million in the last three years,…

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If you make your living in the tax world, you know David Kirk, even if you don’t think you know David Kirk. If you’ve ever applied for a late S corporation election, you know David Kirk. If you’ve ever computed a client’s liability for the net investment income tax, you know David Kirk. And if…

Benefits How to Help With Your Employees’ Family Caregiving Responsibilities It makes good business sense that companies truly devoted to work-life balance should provide employees with the tools to help ease their caregiving responsibilities. December 27, 2017 , Several months ago, my world was…

Dear Moneyist, I have a situation that keeps me awake at night. I am an only child and have no family left except some cousins I barely know. Also, the cousins that I barely know are older than me, so I’m assuming I might out-last them. I’m 65 and concerned about being victimized as I get older. I…

HR Administration Helping HR Care for the Business Traveler Employee safety and duty of care must remain a top business priority. December 26, 2017 , Imagine it’s late evening and an unexpected incident has occurred somewhere in the world. Does your company know where its traveling employees are?…

It’s been quite a year for the fintech industry. Even jaded investors probably raised their eyebrows once or twice. The 2017 milestones for fintech — that’s short for financial technology — have ranged from the launch of bitcoin futures XBTH8, -7.82% to robo adviser Betterment exceeding $10 billion…

Continued from page 1 Popular, Inc. prepared for the storm by off-loading non-performing loans and provisioning for the possibility of future bad loans. The chart below tells that story. There is nothing better than a strong balance sheet to bring Christmas cheer, even in hurricane-ravaged Puerto…

Dear Moneyist, I love my sister. She is a great person and has always been supportive of me in my life. But I am not looking forward to spending our family’s annual Christmas dinner together. We were very close growing up and often socialized together. She got married in her early 30s and had three…

Dear Moneyist, My sisters have for years been giving me hostile, trivial, meaningless gifts for the holidays. I would say that the gifts are less meaningful than what parents would pick out to give their children’s teachers. ‘This year, it was a $2 ornament signifying a $2 donation to a charity and…

The world’s largest record company licensed its music to Facebook Inc. in a deal that paves the way for a new revenue stream for an industry in the early stages of recovery from years of online piracy and other woes. Vivendi SA’s VIV, +1.10% Universal Music Group is the first major music company to…

Working Well Here’s to 2018 — Wellness, Harassment and Tax Reform’s Effect on Drug Prices Will the EEOC’s wellness guidance get sorted out? Will harassment finally get its day in court? And then there’s soaring drug prices. December 21, 2017 , The author and her great aunt stand atop a peak in…