by Tatum Pugh | Oct 16, 2018 | Differentiation, Financial Wellbeing, Recruiting, Retaining Talent, Student Loan Repayment, Winning Together
The original version of this post was written by Kyleen Englestad and published on Marsh and McLennan Agency’s blog. You can read the original post here. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, only a third of employees who have access to a retirement program are...
by Tatum Pugh | Oct 16, 2018 | Decisions, Differentiation, Student Loan Repayment, Workplace diversity
Did you know, companies that are diverse boast 19 percent more revenue than those that are not? It’s true, according to a recent BCG study. This finding could be part of the reason one in three human resources leaders stated that improving diversity would be a...
by Tatum Pugh | Oct 16, 2018 | Differentiation, Recruiting, Retaining Talent, Student Loan Repayment, Winning Together
With 2019 right around the corner, your organization may be thinking you missed the boat on adding some new benefits to next year’s offering. While that may be the case for other benefits, it doesn’t have to be the case for Student Loan Assistance. Peanut...
by Tatum Pugh | Oct 15, 2018 | Press Room
The original version of this post was published on Technews Report and can be found here. Global accelerator program Plug and Play announced last week it has selected 158 startups to participate in its Winter 2018 batches. According to Plug and Play, the selected...
by Tatum Pugh | Sep 24, 2018 | Retaining Talent, Student Loan Repayment, Winning Together
The original version of this post was written by Melanie Curtin and published on Inc.com. You can see the original version here. It used to be that when you went to college, you were relatively certain you’d be able to repay your student loans within a...
by Jon Mollenhauer | Sep 21, 2018 | Differentiation, Financial Wellbeing, Insights, Student Loan Repayment, Winning Together
In August, the IRS issued a groundbreaking ruling that could affect the tax treatment of employers’ student loan repayment contributions. We can help you understand what the ruling means, how to explain it to your stakeholders and how companies can act on it to...
by Tatum Pugh | Sep 17, 2018 | Differentiation, Recruiting, Retaining Talent, Student Loan Repayment
Hiring is hard. While this has always been the case, it is ringing true now more than ever. As the unemployment rate nears its lowest point in 50 years, the number of people leaving their jobs continues to go up. Workers feel confident that if they leave their current...
by Tatum Pugh | Aug 15, 2018 | Student Loan Repayment
Limra, a worldwide research, consulting, and professional development organization that helps more than 600 insurance and financial services companies in 73 countries increase their marketing and distribution effectiveness, will be hosting its annual Group and...
by Tatum Pugh | Aug 15, 2018 | Decisions, Insights, Winning Together
An earlier version of this post was originally published on the Peanut Butter blog on May 9, 2017 by David Aronson. You can view the original post here. Making payments towards employees student loans via payroll deduction: is it a convenience or does it come with a...
by Tatum Pugh | Aug 15, 2018 | Differentiation, Recruiting, Retaining Talent, Student Loan Repayment
As we covered in our last post, Peanut Butter makes it extremely simple for employers to begin helping employees manage their student debt by offering Student Loan Resources. When companies provide access to Student Loan Resources, employees are able begin taking...
by Tatum Pugh | Jul 31, 2018 | Counseling, Financial Planning, Financial Wellbeing, Student Loan Debt
Did you know that 70 percent of people with student loans don’t know if they can pay less? Now they can. Peanut Butter has created a way to make offering Student Loan Assistance even easier, so that employers can begin making a difference for employees now. Our...
by Tatum Pugh | Jul 29, 2018 | Decisions, Student Loan Debt, Student Loan Repayment
With 44 million Americans holding student debt, it’s pretty easy to see that the effect of this is widespread. However, when considering whether to offer Student Loan Assistance, most employers’ first question is often, “How many of MY employees have...
by Tatum Pugh | Jul 27, 2018 | Financial Wellbeing, Student Loan Debt
In February, Members Development Company (MDC), a network of some of the nation’s largest credit unions working together on meaningful research and development projects, presented some key research around the student loan crisis during their Winter Owners...
by Tatum Pugh | Jul 27, 2018 | Insights, Student Loan Repayment
The original version of this post was published on the Members Development Company (MDC) blog by Sarah Lietz, Vice President of Owner Engagement at MDC. You can view the original post here. As more Americans flock to colleges and universities against a backdrop of...
by Tatum Pugh | Jul 26, 2018 | Differentiation, Recruiting, Retaining Talent
With Millennial workers now making up the vast majority of the workforce, and the post-millennial generation beginning to make an entrance, there’s no surprise that half of employees are unsatisfied with benefits provided to them by their employers. Companies...
by Tatum Pugh | Jun 28, 2018 | Press Room, Recruiting, Retaining Talent, Student Loan Repayment
Peanut Butter client, Rise Interactive, spoke recently with Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz of the Chicago Tribune about why they decided to launch a Student Loan Assistance program. Read what Nicole Skaluba, Rise’s Director of Employee Services, had to say in an excerpt...
by Tatum Pugh | Jun 28, 2018 | Insights, Recruiting
The original version of this post was published on Purposeful CEO by Andrew Limouris, CEO at Medix. You can view the original post here. School is ending for the class of 2018, and employers across the nation are getting ready to welcome them into the workforce. For...
by Tatum Pugh | Jun 28, 2018 | Retaining Talent, Student Loan Repayment, Winning Together
The following post was originally published on Calabrio’s blog by Debbie WIlliams, Calabrio’s Human Resources Director. You can view the original article here. As a contact center technology provider where Voice of the Employee (VoE) importance is ever...
by Carolyn Kick | Jun 26, 2018 | Financial Planning, Retaining Talent
The following is a guess post from Carolyn Kick, Marketing Manager at Launchways. In today’s changing workforce, employers are reconsidering how they approach employee benefits. In the efforts to attract and retain top talent, companies are aiming to...
by Tatum Pugh | May 30, 2018 | Press Room
As a “leading data aggregation and analytics platform powering dynamic, cloud-based innovation for digital financial services”, Yodlee, a division of Envestnet, has a pretty good handle on the FinTech space. So late last year when they invited Peanut...
