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5 Reasons 15-Minute Cities Could Be The Key To Work-Life Balance

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Overall happiness and health can be improved when people reclaim their work lives, cut commuting, take on more active forms of travel, and interact within their local community. Fewer cars on the roads reduce congestion, traffic, and noise pollution, making areas become much safer and more pleasant for forms of active travel to get around.

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Who’s Stuck With The Bill?

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Then there are other more peripheral costs associated with working remotely that also need to be considered; you may need to take out your own medical insurance cover for remote workers if you’re not on your employers’ plan. Some employers also adjust staff salaries, depending where in the world they live and the costs of living there.

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4 important payroll issues to keep an eye on in 2023

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General consensus: Proposed regs, if they ever are released, will raise the minimum salary employees must earn to remain exempt from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Axed business travel budgets. Business travel was just getting back to a post-pandemic normal when inflation started going haywire. This is prescient.

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Everything You Need to Know About Emergency Funds

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An emergency fund can help you get out of an immediate financial situation, like an unexpected car repair or medical bill, or can help you cover your day-to-day expenses if you’re laid off, ill, or injured and unable to work. Otherwise concert tickets, electronics and spontaneous travel may drain away your hard-earned progress.

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7 Tips to Help You Plan for Retirement

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Where you live, the kind of car you drive, health care costs and travel plans, among other things, will drastically affect what you spend during retirement and, therefore, how much you’ll need to save. Aim to save around 15% of your gross salary across all your retirement accounts.

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Most UK workers now expect to retire at 62 years old

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In terms of company benefits in the next 1-10 years, the most important were flexible working hours (26 percent), dental insurance (23 percent), fertility treatment (22 percent), counselling (21 percent) and financial support and/or time off for medical issues (21 percent).

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The Right Conversation About Sustainable Living

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I had intended to ask him about how he started Bonton Farms , an urban farm he founded in a South Dallas food desert more than a decade ago after abandoning a cozy corporate job and six-figure salary. A food desert is an urban community whose residents need to travel a mile or more to get to a grocery store. So, we had the right one.

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