The Affordable Care Act shared-responsibility affordability percentage threshold has been lowered from 2019's rate of 9.86% of an employee's household income to 9.78% for 2020. The affordability standard represents a cap on how much an employee can be required to pay for insurance premiums and meet ACA's minimum coverage requirements.

Connecting with social networks, using employee referral systems, moving the recruitment system to mobile devices and assessing resumes via keywords are all ways technology is shaping the recruitment process. Conducting virtual interviews and company tours also help businesses screen and inform potential employees.

Providing employee child care pays for itself quickly by cutting absenteeism and turnover and attracting new workers, writes Charles Bonello, Vivvi CEO. He calls employer-sponsored care "the gold standard" solution but notes that backup care and flexible work also help.

The majority of overachievers never stop chasing fulfillment, so rather than envy them, find joy not only in working hard but in caring about the more basic aspects of life, writes Jessica Stillman. "Perhaps success might - after all - be nothing more than a quiet afternoon with the children, at home, in a modest street," she writes, quoting an article from The School of Life website.