Regulations for health reimbursement arrangements exhort employers to give employees cash to purchase health care coverage, plus provide access to health insurance brokers and private insurance exchanges. The regulations, scheduled for publication on June 20, are expected to go into effect in 2020.

Companies can recruit and attract millennial talent by finding motivated people and teaching them, says Jonathan Quinn of NOVA Chemicals. Mentorships "can introduce a new employee to an organization, but it should be someone close to their age and not someone who's going to retire in three weeks," he says.

The city of Chicago tentatively plans to turn management of its workers' compensation program over to the public sector claims firm Gallagher Bassett, says Mayor Lori Lightfoot. An audit by Grant Thornton found "significant control deficiencies and weaknesses that would create an environment where (fraud, waste and abuse) could be present."

A Prudential survey in 2009 showed 34% of its employees were financially stressed, so the company added budget coaching; changed health, retirement and disability benefits; expanded child care reimbursement; and paid parental and caregiving leave. By 2016, the number of employees reporting financial stress had dropped to 16%.

The Tyrannosaurus rex likely had a sense of smell that matched its massive size, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The researchers, who correlated models of living creatures with information about dinosaurs, say the gene counts of T. rex were probably not much smaller than modern house cats and chickens.