Benefits

December 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new Hartford Financial Services Group survey finds a striking sense of pessimism about the quality of respondents' retirement, with a hunger for...

December 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey from Aon Hewitt reveals that compensation budgets are likely to remain intact for 2011 and few companies anticipate having to...

December 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The median length of time that full-time workers stay in their jobs ticked up slightly in 2010, continuing a slow increase in job...

December 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – While a comparison of retirement savings behaviors of for-profit and not-for-profit employees found more similarities than differences, some key differences existed between not-for-profit...

December 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A snapshot survey of 403(b) plan sponsors by the Profit Sharing/401k Council of America (PSCA) finds employers and employees are staying the course...

December 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A newly released study by the Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America found less than half of 403(b) plan sponsors have an investment committee...

December 13, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two-in-three companies (67%) responding to a recent CareerBuilder survey reported that a bad hire has adversely affected their business in the last year.

December 10, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The ranks of people enrolled in either a consumer-driven health plan (CDHP) or a high-deductible health plan (HDHP) reached 22 million in 2010,...

December 10, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new analysis by Aon Hewitt reveals that Generation Y workers (ages 18 to 30) may be most at risk for not having...

December 9, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Showing the holiday spirit on the office is supposed to be the name of the game this time of year, but does giving...

December 9, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new CareerBuilder survey indicates fewer employers are playing Scrooge this year as more plan to offer holiday perks, including bonuses, parties, and gifts.

December 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement benefits - especially defined benefit (DB) programs - are giving U.S. employers an added advantage when it comes to attracting and retaining...

December 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Fifty-six percent of those surveyed would love a chance to go back in time before the recession so they could change their financial...

December 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Contributions to 401(k) plans increased in the last year, according to the latest Principal Financial Well-Being Index, as many investors' spirits seem to...

December 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The First Command Financial Behaviors Index reveals that 23% of middle-class Americans who own a traditional IRA have yet to decide if they...

December 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Fewer than one-third of employers surveyed by Mercer say they will offer the in-plan Roth conversion feature before 2012, and 45% say they...

December 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Eighty-four percent of those in a recent Ernst & Young poll said managing the changes resulting from health-care reform is a very important or...

December 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – State and local government employers spent an average of $26.25 per hour worked for employee wages and salaries in September 2010, the U.S....

December 8, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The bad news from a recent Wells Fargo & Company survey was that many respondents do not have a realistic clue about how...

December 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sued a North Carolina restaurant for subjecting male employees to a sexually hostile work environment...