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By  Jessica Hagen 11:11 am February 17, 2023
Collective Health, a health benefits management platform, has laid off 54 employees as it arranges its workforce to better align with customer needs.  The company's CEO, Ali Diab, announced the layoffs on LinkedIn, saying the employees were being let go due to a "workforce reduction," while urging companies that may encounter those employees during the hiring process to provide them with "strong...
By  Jonah Comstock 02:28 pm May 9, 2017
Artemis Health, a Salt Lake City, Utah-based maker of data analytics tools for employee benefit managers, has raised $8.3 million in a new round of funding led by Maverick Ventures. Existing investors also contributed. The round was completed at the end of 2016 but was just announced.  “Data is at the heart of business decision making, but employers struggle to access actionable, up-to-date data...
By  Jonah Comstock 09:05 am March 26, 2015
A new survey of 121 employers from Fidelity Investments and the National Business Group on Health shows that employer spending on incentive-based wellness programs is up an average of $100 per head over last year. Respondents said they planned to spend an average of $693 per employee on wellness incentives in 2015, up from $594 in 2014. It was $430 five years ago. While 79 percent of companies...