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Musings of an HR professional who specializes in employee benefits

Laurie Price

Who me, a disrupter?

On Wednesday, August 2, 2023, I got disruptive. Yes, me. The guru of “the compliance voice” made some noise. I was one of 15 speakers at...

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The Six Cents

My maternal grandfather was literally the father of and wrote the textbook on Contact Dermatitis. Not only was he the leading expert in...

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The Benefits of Being Valued

Alt title: " Happiness is..." I’m three weeks into my new job. After day four, Brian, my significant other, commented “I haven’t seen you...

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Job Title Roulette

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?”-Satchel Paige In my last blog, I wrote about how over the course of my recent...

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Semantics Part II: Two Sides of Euphemisms

How to identify your priorities make sense of your internal dialogue I googled the word euphemism. Ironically, the first example provided...

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Semantics, Sensibilities, and Sensitivities

What it means (to me) to be an individual contributor Note: This post includes a late in the game alliterative addition of "serendipity"...

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Don't Make Me Use My Compliance Voice

When I was thinking through “compliance” as the focus for this blog entry, two ideas unrelated to benefits popped into my head. The...

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On Becoming a Benefits Geek....

Early in 2021, I had an idea for a blog. I wrote outlines/drafts for two posts, but never finished them. A few weeks ago, I unexpectedly...

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Why I love working in employee benefits.....

If I had a nickel for every time an HR colleague said, “No one ever plans to work in HR”, I would have enough money to buy a pack of...