Coca-Cola European Partners is building a cloud-based system that lets 25,000 employees in 13 countries choose benefits for their salary package. The goal is to improve worker happiness and engagement.

A coding platform created by CodeFights engages programmer applicants in games to test their talent anonymously, which could reduce bias in hiring.

PwC's Employee Financial Wellness Survey for 2016 shows 52% of employees say they are stressed about finances. Reasons for increased stress included having more financial responsibility for family members, lack of emergency savings, high credit card balances and high student debt.

Paid sick leave helps employers stop the spread of illness from 1.5 million people who go to work sick every week, health economist Austin Frakt writes. Also, people forced to work sick because of low income are more likely to delay preventive medical care, injure themselves on the job and harm productivity, increasing turnover.

The Productivity Capture and Analysis mobile app is designed to help calculate individual or worksite productivity by measuring how much time is put into a project. It helps construction supervisors understand wasted efforts at a job.

Ignoring feedback can be a costly mistake, writes Elisse Lockhart, who shares a story about an aircraft maintenance company that lost a lucrative contract because of a dismissive executive.