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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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Two Big Workplace-Software Providers to Merge
The Wall Street Journal | Ultimate Software and Kronos Inc. are merging in a deal creating a big new player in workplace-software products. The all-stock deal will create a company worth roughly $22 billion including debt, the companies said Thursday, confirming an earlier Wall Street Journal report.
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Job Stability and Work-Life Balance: New UKG Survey Shares Top COVID-19 Concerns for the Future Workplace
Toolbox/HR Technologist | A global survey across 11 nations by The Workforce Institute at UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) has revealed what employees and business leaders expect from the organization going forward. 43% of the employees have said that their organization’s ability to balance workloads to prevent fatigue and burnout is their top priority. It also highlights generation-agnostic concerns about job security: Gen Z and younger Millennials (35%), older Millennials (37%), Gen Xers (36%), and Boomers (34%).
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Anti-Racism Conversations Should Not Be Easy
TLNT | Well-intentioned conversations about racism are happening at companies across the country, but if not handled correctly, they can leave Black employees more alienated and burdened than before. While in the past, many leaders have avoided necessary conversations on race, calling them “divisive,” we in the business of equity and belonging have always explained that company culture is created, recreated, and upheld in all interpersonal interactions within an organization. It’s therefore pivotal that you encourage your leaders to be human.