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Comparably: Small and midsize companies with great perks and benefits

October 14, 2020

Having a good benefits package is just as important as a high salary.
To figure out which companies offer the best benefits, career website Comparably released a new ranking of the small and midsize companies with the best perks and benefits.
To do this, the company analyzed 10 million employee ratings on the site at 60,000 US companies from over a 12-month period.
Accounting software company TaxJar made the top of the list, followed by the beverage company Zevia.
You can read the full list here.
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Employee benefits are an important part of any job.

One of the most common reasons why employees leave their role is because they’re unhappy with the perks, according to Gallup’s state of the workplace report. The benefits employees want the most are paid time off, health insurance, and sick leave, Gallup found. Workers also want flexible schedules

The Great Barrington Declaration: Capitalism’s global policy of herd immunity

October 14, 2020

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“Herd immunity is a concept used for vaccination, in which a population can be protected from a certain virus as a threshold of vaccination is reached. Herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not by exposing them to it. Never in the history of public health has herd immunity been used as a strategy for responding to an outbreak, let alone a pandemic. Allowing a dangerous virus that we don’t fully understand to run free is simply unethical. It’s not an option.” – Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organization press brief, October 12, 2020.

The director-general’s opening remarks come as a response to an announcement made last week of the Great Barrington Declaration, an international proposal written and signed at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on October 4.

The declaration advocates an approach to herd immunity called “focused protection,” where

Erie County Department of Health finds COVID-19 violations at The Great Pumpkin Farm

October 13, 2020

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Erie County DOH says they visited the farm on October 3 and discovered violations for the farm for too many people on the hayrides and no social distancing.

CLARENCE, N.Y. — The Erie County Department of Health says they found two COVID-related violations following an inspection earlier this month at The Great Pumpkin Farm in Clarence.

The Department of Health says they visited the farm on Saturday, October 3 and discovered the violations for the farm for too many people on the hayrides and no social distancing by people waiting in lines.

Kelly Schultz, owner of The Great Pumpkin Farm told 2 On Your Side “We didn’t know we were written up. When they told us about this we took care of what was supposedly an issue right away.”

The Erie County Department of Health says that under the NY Forward guidelines, fall activities, such as U-Pick farms, must be

The Pandemic Has Been Great for the Health Insurance Industry

October 10, 2020

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Much attention has rightly been paid to the millions of people whose loss of employment this year also meant a loss of health insurance, a terrible thing to happen at any time but especially during a pandemic. The flip side of the story is that health insurance is often terrible and expensive even for those who do have it. The Kaiser Family Foundation’s annual survey of employer-provided health insurance, published this week, found that premiums for family plans reached $21,342 this year, 4 percent higher than last year; workers pay an average of $5,588 toward that. Things are roughly as bad as they were last year, when they clearly needed to get much better, very fast. The situation is unsustainable—save for the fact that it is being sustained, by an enormous amount of pain.

But the pain is not being felt by health insurers. Even as the nation has been

‘Health is Wealth’ a proverb that carries great meaning

September 30, 2020

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a man wearing a suit and tie smiling at the camera: Al Adil: 'Health is Wealth' a proverb that carries great meaning

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Al Adil: ‘Health is Wealth’ a proverb that carries great meaning

I have faced a lot of challenging incidents in my life. I have escaped narrowly from the clutches of death four times. The fourth time I faced death was due to sheer negligence. In school days, we all memorise the proverb, “health is wealth”, but seldom remember those golden words in later life. I also made the same mistake of overlooking my health.

When my father retired from his business, he passed on the responsibility of managing Al Adil Trading Company and a couple of retail shops in Dubai to me. I was married then and had a happy family. I was enjoying life with a loving and caring wife and two adorable children. Somehow a grand ambition to expand my business captured my mind. In an

Associa Donates 100,000 Meals to North American Food Banks Through The Great Giveback Charitable Initiative

September 30, 2020

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Dallas, TX, Sept. 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Associa, the industry’s largest community management company, recently donated more than 100,000 meals to those in need through its Great Giveback—Give Food, Give Hope company-wide food drive.

Associa’s Great Giveback is a yearly endeavor that encourages and facilitates Associa employees in expanding the company’s commitment to building stronger communities and supporting neighbors. In previous years, Associa team members have dedicated their time to serving a variety of organizations and community projects, including the Humane Society, Habitat for Humanity, Meals-on-Wheels, and many more. For this year’s Great Giveback, team members across all Associa branch locations united to collect donations for a coordinated food-drive effort.

Associa knows that hunger and food insecurity pose challenges for communities across North America. According to data collected by Move for Hunger, 40 million Americans are food insecure and rely on 200 food banks that serve 63,000 affiliated pantries

Associa Donates 100,000 Meals to North American Food Banks Through The Great Giveback …

September 30, 2020

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Dallas, TX, Sept. 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Associa, the industry’s largest community management company, recently donated more than 100,000 meals to those in need through its Great Giveback—Give Food, Give Hope company-wide food drive.

Associa’s Great Giveback is a yearly endeavor that encourages and facilitates Associa employees in expanding the company’s commitment to building stronger communities and supporting neighbors. In previous years, Associa team members have dedicated their time to serving a variety of organizations and community projects, including the Humane Society, Habitat for Humanity, Meals-on-Wheels, and many more. For this year’s Great Giveback, team members across all Associa branch locations united to collect donations for a coordinated food-drive effort.

Associa knows that hunger and food insecurity pose challenges for communities across North America. According to data collected by Move for Hunger, 40 million Americans are food insecure and rely on 200 food banks that serve 63,000 affiliated

EHE Health Warns That Gap in Preventive Care During COVID-19 Is the Next Great Health Crisis

September 30, 2020

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NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sep 30, 2020–

EHE Health, a leading national preventive and primary healthcare organization, today warned that the sharp decline in preventive care visits and health screenings during COVID-19 will lead to a surge in cardiovascular disease, more advanced stages of cancer and other preventable health conditions unless there is a coordinated effort by employers to re-engage American employees in regular health maintenance and prevention activities. The near-term urgency is the ongoing spread of COVID-19 and increased vulnerability of people with two or more of these underlying health conditions.

“There still are a lot of unknowns about COVID-19, but what we know for sure based on evidence is that public health works, and it fell off the rails during this horrific pandemic,” said David Levy, MD, an epidemiologist and CEO of EHE Health. “The data we’re seeing across the healthcare spectrum tells us that the gap in care

CreekView Health Center Certified as a Great Place to Work

September 29, 2020

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PLEASANTON, Calif., Sept. 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Great Place to Work® Institute has certified CreekView Health Center in Pleasanton, California, as a Great Place to Work.

The Great Place to Work Institute is a global authority on high-performance workplace cultures. The institute provides the benchmarks, framework and expertise needed to recognize outstanding work environments and produces the annual “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for Fortune magazine.

The recent certification marks the third consecutive year CreekView has been recognized by the institute. The 2020 certification process included a survey of 143 employees from all departments and levels of experience. The survey was conducted in April during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and measured more than 60 elements of employees’ experience on the job.

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