Are employee engagement and retention of concern for you and your organization? If so, are you equally concerned about how you’re conveying the importance … Read more

What Motivates Employees to Stay? It’s Mostly About the Pay
Sometimes, the simplest and most logical answer that makes the most sense. So it is with CareerBuilder‘s latest survey that digs deep into just what … Read more

Pew Study Shows That Employees Are Turning Into Health Care Consumers
Employees have heard you loud and clear, Ms. and Mr. Employer. They got the message that it’s time to become a savvy health care consumer. They’re out … Read more

Why Traditional Salary Ranges May Not be Relevant in Today’s Economy
Our salary ranges are not serving us as well as they once may have. We know it. Unhappily, most employees know it, too. My Compensation Cafe colleague … Read more

Coping With Flu Season: 3 Tips to Encourage Sick Workers to Stay Home
Flu season has hit early and hard this year. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the current outbreak could be the worst in a decade. Things are … Read more

Aon Hewitt Study: Stress Keeps Your Workers from Being Healthy
We have such good intentions, particularly at this time of year. We intend to eat better, get more sleep, head to the gym more often, budget better. Then … Read more

3 Reasons Why 2013 Will Be THE Year for Benefits Communications
Benefits communication rarely gets the credit — or attention, or budget, or planning — it deserves. Despite well-documented empirical evidence of its … Read more

13 Easy and (Mostly) Low-Cost Employee Wellness Changes for 2013
Right about now, your employees are wondering whether they’ll keep their new resolutions or dust off the old ones and give them one more go. Even your … Read more

Big Surprise? Not Really – Pay Equity Now a Top Priority for EEOC
After reviewing the EEOC’s newly-approved Strategic Enforcement Plan, there are no surprises for employers when it comes to identifying where to … Read more

Play or Pay With Obamacare? 7 Reasons Why “Pay” Is Not the Easy Answer
With every day that goes by, the nation’s employers move a step closer to having to make a decision: Do I play or pay? Employers now have just a little … Read more