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"Employees aren't disengaged because they don't care; instead it's because benefits are too hard to navigate," said Jonathan Porter, CEO of Castlight Health.

Sectors like finance, health care, and tech have higher confidence levels.

"The reclassification of errors raises the stakes of inspections in an already aggressive enforcement environment," wrote attorneys from employment law firm Littler on the update.

The uninsured population grew for the first time since 2019, rising 11.1% from 2023.

A third (34%) of those laid off first heard the news through workplace gossip, more than those told directly by their manager or HR (27%).

Of the 600 HR professionals whose organizations laid employees off over the last year to make way for the influence of AI, about two-thirds had already rehired some of those employees.