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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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What's the Best Way to Measure the Effectiveness of your DEI Program?

Protocol | Many well-known and successful companies like Google, Apple and Facebook have shown DEI-related transparency through the release of Diversity & Inclusion reports that highlight progress against their respective diversity, belonging and equity “benchmarks.” While these reports are a good start, in my experience, only using demographic data for measuring the success of belonging, diversity and equity programs limits the potential for impact.
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IESNYC and Equity in Lighting Create a Thought Provoking Evening

Edison Report | The opening speaker and moderator was the brilliant Dr. Jarik Conrad, VP of Human Insights, UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group). Dr. Conrad opined that as humans we are wired for tribalism, wired to seek out those who share our interests, share our opinions, and look like us.
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Super Bowl 2022: Should the Monday after the Big Game be a National Holiday?

USA Today | Last year, an estimated 8 million or more said they would take a pre-planned day off on the Monday after the Super Bowl. Overall, a total of 16.1 million said they might punt on work that day – suggesting many would call in sick, according to a survey of more than 1,000 employed Americans, conducted by The Harris Poll for The Workforce Institute at UKG.
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