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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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Analysis: Omicron Begins to Leave Mark on U.S. Economy, but Unlikely to Derail It

Reuters | The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits held below pre-pandemic levels last week. And while workplace activity declined slightly last week after rising earlier in December, it was in line with the drop seen heading into the holidays in 2019 and stronger when compared to the same time last year, said Dave Gilbertson, vice president of the payroll management firm UKG.
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‘That’s Just How We Work’: How UKG Has Supported Working Parents During COVID

Employee Benefits News | For working parents, the pandemic has felt like one very, very long marathon. David Almeda knows this to be true. As the father of two children and the chief people officer at UKG, a HR technology company with 13,500 employees stretched around the globe, he’s had a front-row seat to the stress placed on families since the COVID-19 crisis began.
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Beyond the Great Resignation: 3 Trends Shaping the Next Decade

HR Executive | “A lot of traditional blue-collar work has been so deeply impacted by rapid digitalization that their jobs have changed significantly. [Even] the simple factory work has now changed that—these same employees are now managing robotics and AI,” Karina Monesson, senior manager of human insights for UKG, said during a panel session at the recent UKG Connections conference in Las Vegas
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