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...(Janina Conboye) Psychedelics are the latest employee health benefit In recent years microdosing psychedelics has become more mainstream, but drugs are still a workplace taboo....
...This has involved taking on a broad remit in areas from health and safety to the environment and aviation....
...“You could receive an urgent call at any time . . . and if there is a major incident, you would have to go back to the chip plant right away,” one employee said....
...They included AWS Healthlake, a tool that uses machine learning to ingest and standardise health data....
...While it aims to help refine employers’ risks in health insurance, a Bloomberg report quoted a Verily executive as saying the company also plans to work to identify specific employees who may be at risk...
...Other policies aim to empower workers: Universal Basic Income, ownership rights for personal data, employee representation....
...Barnett’s business is part of a growth industry that is pushing human resources teams to think about benefits in broader terms than pay cheques and health plans....
...At Merck, chief executive Stefan Oschmann enthuses about its new breed of digitally savvy employee, led by “forward-thinking” Mr Kugler....
...They will get more creative in 2018, including on non-cash benefits....
...As a full-time employee, Mr Mirchi enjoys medical benefits, along with a generous holiday and work-from-home policy, allowing him to keep up with medical appointments....
...I have never been an employee of the company and have no professional relationship with them today....
...Cycle racing’s panjandrums have lifted a ban on disc brakes being fitted to high-tech racing machines....
...Aldi plans to sell wine by the case online next year — a way of attracting more affluent wine drinkers....
...But in the fast-moving modern world, is it really a benefit to have this famous history and long-serving workforce?...
...So must anyone who plans one day on becoming old themselves....
...Staying switched on may be good for an employer but is it good for the employee?...
...David Brown of the UK’s official Health Protection Agency says government anti-bureaucracy principles scuppered plans for a single set of rules covering human, animal and genetically modified agents....
...Fogg is a researcher at Stanford University who studies how machines influence human behaviour....
...of GOP health care reform bill: The GOP plan will lower health care premiums for American families and small businesses, addressing America’s number-one priority for health reform....
...Sir Alastair Pilkington, the group’s first chairman, already had a plan to put on the table....
...FT: Talking of food, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo recently agreed to stop selling soft drinks in school vending machines....
...On this basis we will report regularly to Parliament on costs as well as benefits....
...In many cases, they must notify the authorities of the country they want to operate in every time an employee crosses the border....
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