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Mortgage Rates Dip, Hover Near Six Percent
Mortgage rates eased slightly today, but remain close to 6%, signaling a modest shift for homebuyers and homeowners tracking borrowing costs. The move
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Want to Hire Millennials? Better Help Repay Student Debt
(Bloomberg) -- Like millions of her peers, Nicole Read graduated with thousands of dollars of debt. Unlike most of them, she’s getting direct help from her employer to pay it back. The 26-year-old’s job at event organizer Live Nation Entertainment in Beverly Hills, California, comes with a benefit that may be starting
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Why volunteering is essential to employee engagement
To some employees, benefits aren’t just about receiving healthcare and perks — they’re also the opportunity to give back. Fingerpaint — a health and wellness marketing firm in Saratoga Springs, New York — considers volunteering to be so essential to their engagement strategy that they hired an HR professional whose ent
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Will Mortgage Rates Finally Fall This Year?
Prospective buyers waiting for mortgage rates to drop could have cause to be optimistic. But anyone expecting the ultra-cheap rates seen during the pandemic shouldn’t hold their breath.
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Getting Real About Interest Rates
Getting Real About Interest Rates Photo Credit: Shutterstock With the Fed’s rate hike announcement, naturally there’s been a lot of discussion about
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How AI Is Transforming Work And Enhancing Labor Sustainability Reporting
As AI reshapes the landscape of work, it also presents an opportunity to revolutionize sustainability reporting on how we report and improve labor conditions globally.
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Understanding AI’s customer service opportunities
Artificial intelligence is swiftly becoming an action item for executives, especially as the technology continues to see rapid advancement. In a
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What employers can do to combat rising health care costs in the new year
In the 2020 coverage year, Affordable Care Act marketplace premiums for private health insurance will be reduced by an average of four percent. In contrast, according to a survey conducted by the National Business Group, health care benefit costs are expected to rise by five percent in the new year. This cost increase
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Winning Customers (And Winning Them Back)
Billions of dollars and untold hours are spent luring new customers into an organization so that they can spend their hard-earned dollars for goods and services. That transaction is at the heart of capitalism and without it, economies begin to sink precipitously, and eventually fail altogether. Entire creative organiza
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3 reasons for inflation that have nothing to do with higher wages
Stronger pay growth has contributed to higher inflation, but other factors have played much larger roles. Shipping costs, focus on profitability, and shortages have fueled price hikes throughout 2021. Here are three factors driving inflation higher that have no link to higher wages. See more stories on Insider's busine