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UKG: An Estimated 16.1 Million U.S. Employees to Miss Work Super Bowl Monday, Millions More Plan to Show Up Late

LOWELL, Mass., and WESTON, Fla. | Bring in the backups! An estimated 16.1 million U.S. employees plan to miss work the Monday after Super Bowl LVIII, including over 6 million U.S. employees who will risk a workplace penalty for faking sick or “ghosting” work altogether and not showing up. That’s according to new research conducted online by The Harris Poll on behalf of the UKG Workforce Institute, which has tracked absenteeism surrounding the big game for nearly two decades.
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UKG: January Workforce Activity Slows — But There’s More to the Story

LOWELL, Mass., and WESTON, Fla. | Workforce activity declined 2.4% in January, turning the broader labor market trend toward neutral, after several months of relatively consistent stagnation — but there’s more to the story on what’s driving the slowdown in shift work, according to the January 2024 Workforce Activity Report published by UKG.
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UKG Named a Leader in Global Payroll

LOWELL, Mass., and WESTON, Fla. | UKG today announced it has received three top payroll industry honors from Ventana Research after being named a Leader in its 2023 Buyers Guides for Global Payroll, Domestic Payroll, and Payroll Management.
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UKG Helps Two-Thirds of NRF Top 100 Retailers Create Great Workplaces

LOWELL, Mass., and WESTON, Fla. | The AI-powered UKG HCM suite is built with the world’s largest collection of people, work, and culture data to transform the employee experience for frontline associates and managers in the retail industry.
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Why Leaders Need to Reevaluate How They Manage Their Workforce Today

Forbes | In “The Heard and the Heard-Nots,” a global study conducted by The Workforce Institute at UKG, researchers highlighted that 92% of “highly engaged employees” say they feel heard at work, whereas only 30% of “highly disengaged employees” feel heard.
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2022 Annual Workplace Predictions from The Workforce Institute at UKG

LOWELL, Mass., and WESTON, Fla. | The Workforce Institute at UKG today released its annual predictions of the top trends that will impact the global workforce in 2022.
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