This won’t be a surprise to most of you given all the bad stuff that happened during the recession and ongoing economic downturn, but it still bears … Read more
Six Things You Should Consider When Making A Counter-Offer
Earlier this month, we heard about some of the extraordinary counter-offers that Google was making to its departing employees (specifically engineers). In … Read more
The Latest You Should Know About Managing Health Care Reform
Little by little we’re learning more about the complex piece of legislation called the PPACA (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). Over the … Read more
10 Ways You Can Really Motivate Employees – Without Using Money
Just because people work for you (and therefore are supposed to do what you tell them) doesn’t mean it’s not better to motivate them to actually want to do … Read more
No Surprise Here: Double-Digit Health Care Increases Expected Next Year
* See updates below. It’s not exactly a news flash that health care is expensive, so it won’t come as a big surprise to most that, despite all the noise … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Top Job Creators, a Deadly Employee, and “The Office” Goes to India
I know the calendar may not agree, but it’s easy see that the Fall season is finally here. Yes, it’s not officially Fall until September 21, but here in … Read more
Coping With Benefits: How to Help Employees Make Wise Choices
For many employers, the message is clear: health care reform is going to cost money. Removing lifetime limits, adding more dependents to your plan, … Read more
Mercer Survey: Employers Pushing to Keep 2011 Benefits Increase Under 6%
How much of an increase in benefit costs are employers willing to absorb next year? Would you believe it’s now up to 5.9 percent? A new survey … Read more
Survey: Family Health Premiums up 3%, but Workers’ Share Jumps 14%
The annual Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Benefits Survey is out, and to absolutely no one’s surprise, it shows that health care costs and coverage … Read more
When Wellness Sucks, We All Lose
As a crazy cynic (yet grudgingly a realist at times), there is a certain disdain I have for wellness programs. Could it be that “Big Brother” … Read more