Money matters to your employees — it should matter to you, too

Financial stress is keeping your employees up at night — and they’ve never needed (or expected) your support more. EBN takes a deep dive into the ways our relationship with money is changing, and explores the benefits that will make workers’ lives easier, and boost business, too. Check out the full package with all of these stories in our New and Noteworthy feature.

Read: Money Matters?

From ESG-focused retirement plans, to student loan repayment benefits, employees are demanding more than just a paycheck when it comes to managing their finances at work. And making sure those paychecks are equal is a growing initiative for state and city legislators. Pay transparency laws are giving employees more power and knowledge when it comes to salary negotiations, and can also bridge the persistent gender pay gap.

Read: Salary transparency laws strive to fix damaging pay gaps — but what are they missing?

Would you get paid in Bitcoin? The volatile cryptocurrency doesn’t seem like a sure-fire way to feel confident in your compensation, yet for some employees, it’s a worthwhile gamble. Here’s how it works, and why this employee swapped her entire paycheck for Bitcoin instead.

Read: ‘I’m all in on crypto’: Why employees are ditching their traditional paychecks?

As employers continue to grapple with the effects of the Great Resignation, IBM’s senior vice president of transformation and culture is advising organizations to revamp their recruiting policies from the ground up. From reviewing job postings to assessing skill and qualification requirements that may be limiting your talent pool, here’s what IBM did to combat their own labor shortage.?

Read: How IBM solved their talent shortage by revamping their recruiting process