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Prepare for ACA Reporting or Suffer Possible Fines

EVEN THOUGH there are clouds of uncertainty hanging over the Affordable Care Act, applicable large employers are still required to adhere to the IRS filing and reporting regulations or risk financial penalties. While most of the reporting deadlines will be the same for 2017, the deadlines for distributing forms to employees have changed. All employers

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Designers Play It Safe With Pharmaceutical Packaging

Melanie Streich “No compromising on product safety” is the overriding principle for companies of the pharmaceutical industry and for allied enterprises in the packaging sector. Because of their high responsibility for human health, they are strictly monitored and have to comply with numerous specifications and guidelines. Not a small challenge for the companies. From an

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Minding our elders

by  Chris Gretchko Brands have not actively marketed to seniors for decades. Read on to see how inclusive design could help marketers recapture the attention of this fast-growing demographic. Despite the marketing buzz about millennials and Generation X, neither group has the numbers nor the purchasing power of seniors, sometimes called the baby boomers and

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The Type Snob

And how to turn into one Pablo StanleyFollow Designer at Carbon Health. Writer at The Design Team. Mentor at Sketch Togethe Can you name the typefaces drawn on this gif? The wannabe Back in 2014, I was a graphic designer who had just moved to San Francisco to become a UX designer. Before that, I had worked

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Magazine Covers by Famous Artists: Dali, Picasso, Braque & More

by Steven Brower It’s hard to fathom that almost two decades into the 21st century that there could still be a chasm between the worlds of “fine art” and graphic design. Especially considering that in the early part of the twentieth century these lines were blurred, as evidenced previously with the design work of Henri Matisse

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6 Tips For Success In 2017

  1. Forget Resolutions – Make a Plan. Nobody accomplishes anything of significance by trying to do it all at once. Most people want to magically move from point A to point Z, but don’t have even an outline of a plan to get from point A to point B, and from point B to

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Pre-existing Conditions Weight Heavily on Workers’ Comp Claims

Your workers’ underlying health can greatly affect the amount of time they are off the job recovering from a workplace injury. A new study has found that workers with pre-existing health issues like hypertension, obesity and mental health spend 60% more time recovering from workplace injuries than healthy workers. And because those injured workers are

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Responsive typography: 9 top tips

By Creative Bloq Staff Responsive web design has changed the way we think about page structure. It also needs to change the way we think about type. It stands to reason that responsive web design requires responsive typography to suit. But what does that actually mean, and how do you implement it? Font size, spacing

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Human Resources: Transgender Employees Rights and Employer Obligations

by Cheryl Chong KEEP UP WITH THE RULES Recently, California’s DFEH (Department of Fair Employment and Housing) issued a new brochure titled “Transgender Rights in the Workplace.” A few key points for employers to be aware of, include the following: There are two kinds of gender transitions: physical and social. The former involves medical treatments. The other involves name

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