Get ready for the jockeying over health care insurance plans to begin. A new study from consulting giant Mercer asked the question, “How likely is it … Read more
How to Communicate With All Your Non-Wired, Hard-to-Reach Employees
I’m a member of the Council of Communication Management (CCM), a professional community of roughly 350 senior communication professionals. One of the ways … Read more
Survey: 90% Feel Their Benefits are Important, But 36% Fear Losing Their Job
If there’s one good thing that’s come from all the turmoil and stress caused during the last few years of economic downturn, it’s this – people are much … Read more
What HR Executives Earn: Will This End the “Seat at the Table” Argument?
Here’s some interesting information to think about the next time you get into one of those arguments about whether or not HR has a seat at the table: … Read more
Four Signs To Help Encourage Employee Wellness
There’s no doubt that we have a lot of unhealthy people in the U.S. workforce — and more set to enter it at some point. Disease management, acute risk and … Read more
Health Savings Accounts: Not Just for Health, But for Wealth, too
Can the Health Savings Account double as a retirement account? In some ways it can and no one is talking about it. Why? We tend to look at things from our … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Bad Bosses, Dissing Federal Workers, and 85,000 Applicants
Anytime you get into a listing of the “best of” or “the worst of,” you know that the list is going to be highly subjective, frequently shortsighted, and … Read more
Beyond Use it or Lose it: Why FSAs Save Money and Make Good Sense
For years employers have been pushing the word “consumerism” into benefits strategy and trying to educate people about what it is. Unfortunately, too much … Read more
What’s The True Cost of Health Care Reform?
I was able to catch part of the recent webinar put on by the Corporate Executive Board’s Corporate Leadership Council on Benefits (that’s a … Read more
Survey: Pay Freezes Slowly Thawing, but 2011 Raises are Going to be Modest
Here’s a bit of good news (emphasis on “bit”) that workplace trends are slowly (emphasis on “slowly”) starting to stabilize. According to a new survey by … Read more