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Job flexibility is one enduring change that came out of the pandemic. Besides its impact on employee recruitment and retention, it also may affect health-care access and use.

"Our findings provide robust evidence that job flexibility can affect health-care access and use, with informal aspects of job flexibility mattering even for workers with paid sick leave as an employee benefit," according to a study reported in Health Affairs.

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