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For U.S. Employers, Health Care Reform Is a Watching and Waiting Game

Harvard Business Review

This provision would have required most companies with the equivalent of 50 or more full-time workers to offer health benefits on January 1, 2014, or pay a fine of at least $2,000 per employee. The administration also needs time to work on the reporting requirements that will be part and parcel of making the system work.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in. Many companies have figured out how to parcel out small amounts of money to employees cultivating something new.