Tag Archive | "Employee Benefits"

Tweet This week’s 5 for Friday rounds up five stories about the latest trends in employee benefits.  Small Employers Weigh Impact of Providing Health Insurance. New York Times: Almost half of retail and hospitality employers do not offer coverage to all their full-time employees, according to a recent survey by Mercer, a benefits consultant. “They’re [...]

Tweet SmartBrief on Workforce is a daily e-newsletter for HR professionals, curating essential articles on finding the best talent, motivating top performers and increasing team productivity. Here are the top HR news stories as selected by SmartBrief on Workforce readers last week. Study: Lack of women in critical positions hurts pay equality (The Washington Post) Why [...]

Tweet SmartBrief on Workforce is a daily e-newsletter for HR professionals, curating essential articles on finding the best talent, motivating top performers and increasing team productivity. Here are the top HR news stories as selected by SmartBrief on Workforce readers last week. Hiring the smartest people may be a dumb move (Harvard Business Review online) Evernote [...]

Tweet This week’s 5 for Friday rounds up five stories about the latest trends in employee benefits and compensation. 5. More Fortune 100 Companies Offering 401(k) Plans to New Hires. Benefits Pro: “The ongoing shift from DB to DC plans due to cost and cost volatility is helping to create a next generation of retirement-age [...]

Tweet Workplace wellness is a hot topic, with employers big and small experimenting with ways to save money on health care costs. This week’s 5 for Friday rounds up five stories that describe some of top trends in workplace wellness. 5. Employers May Avoid Hiring Smokers as Health Care Reform Kicks In. Law.com: John Banzhaf, [...]

Tweet Benefits are a major part of the compensation for many employers — a average of 30 percent. This week’s 5 for Friday rounds up five stories that describe some of top trends in employee benefits. 5. Employee Benefits: Boost Insurance Perks for the Chosen Few. Business Management Daily: “One of the best fringe benefits [...]

Tweet Nearly half of U.S. workers are at least somewhat likely to look for a job this year, bucking common assumptions about the employment market, according to the 2012 Aflac WorkForces Report, a national study analyzing forces driving the trends, attitudes and use of employee benefits. The Aflac study found that those employees who are [...]

Tweet Nearly half of professionals said flexible schedules were the top employee perk they would like to have this summer, according to a new OfficeTeam survey. Leaving work early on Fridays came in second, at 28 percent. The study also found that employers were receptive to such employee perks: 75 percent of HR managers said [...]

Tweet SmartBrief on Workforce is a daily e-newsletter for HR professionals, curating essential articles on finding the best talent, motivating top performers and increasing team productivity. Here are the top HR news stories as selected by SmartBrief on Workforce readers last week. A test for calculating employee engagement (MonsterThinking.com) Wal-Mart agrees to settle overtime lawsuit for [...]