Just to recap, in my previous post I argued that as benefits advisers we need to change the conversation with our clients. I used the example of my client who asked me to present at a sales seminar on ...

The can was in US customary units, while the bottle was in metric units. Today, the American public remains mostly on the side of US customary units. Polling from 2016 found that only 32% of ...

The US lives in a metric gray area. It has a few laws requiring that consumer goods list both metric and US customary measures, but it still remains isolated in its US customary measures bubble.

Known as the “Mendenhall Order,” it re-defined U.S. customary units in terms of metric units. “For example, the inch is defined now as 25.4 mm exactly,” Hillger says.

THE necessity for these tables reminds us what an immense amount of time is wasted by the retention of the barbarous and cumbersome English system of measures. In two nations with more than 100 ...