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The massive increase in NWSL Challenge Cup prize money 'changes people's lives,' players say
Insider | Ahead of this year's Challenge Cup final, the NWSL announced that it had struck up a deal to make payroll company UKG the tournament's first-ever title sponsor. The agreement, which is an extension of UKG's multi-million-dollar "Close the Gap" pay equity campaign, increased player payouts tenfold.
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Women’s Soccer Seeing 'Opening of the Floodgates’ with Sponsorships, NWSL Commissioner Says
Yahoo! Finance | The National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) has announced its first title sponsor for the Challenge Cup tournament, league sources tell Yahoo Finance. Starting in 2023, the tournament will be called the UKG Challenge Cup and boost the tournament’s prize pool to $1 million.
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NWSL’s Challenge Cup Achieves Pay Equity With Historic UKG Deal
Sports Illustrated | On Friday, UKG announced a multimillion-dollar three-year sponsorship of the NWSL Challenge Cup. This makes the 2023 Challenge Cup the first professional women’s soccer tournament to achieve pay equity.
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Fortune | The Workforce Institute at UKG’s new report gauges the “gap between employee voice and employer action” that can lead to low engagement and turnover, if left unresolved. A survey of more than 4,000 employees across 11 countries found that 86% of respondents said individuals at their organization are not heard equally or fairly by employers.
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Kickstarter is Moving to a 4-Day Workweek
Inc. | "Remote workers are now coming back, and they're used to some flexibility," says Chris Mullen, executive director at Boston-based think tank the Workforce Institute. Mullen advises most employers to try it, provided they first gauge employees' interest and engage in significant dialogue about how to do it effectively.
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New Survey Shows the Business Benefit of Feeling Heard – 5 Ways to Build Inclusive Teams
Forbes | These measurable business benefits were uncovered by “The Heard and the Heard-Nots”, a global study of over 4,000 employees, conducted by The Workforce Institute at UKG and Workplace Intelligence. Yet, despite the tangible benefits to financial performance, productivity and engagement, a high majority of employees (86%) feel that people at their workplace are not heard fairly or equally.