Benefits

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan designs should evolve beyond their current focus on helping employees accumulate an adequate amount of retirement savings to a focus on encouraging...

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Las Vegas casino company and one of Utah's largest employers are the latest to cut 401(k) employer match contributions in an effort...

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey suggests most states intend to keep financing retiree health care on a pay-as-you-go basis over the next five years, with...

December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new global study has found that employees laid off in the United States earn the least amount of severance pay worldwide-no matter...

December 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The workplace makes for some interesting stories. As we exit 2008, let's look back at some of the oddest workplace stories during the...

December 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three-fourths of financial advisers polled in a new JPMorgan Funds-sponsored survey said that when evaluating target-date fund options, plan sponsors lack clear and...

November 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Asked to rank the criteria used in selecting their DC plan provider, plan sponsors have reliably opted to put "others" first.

November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to The Harris Poll, rising prices are a major "hassle" in Americans' daily lives - but some are feeling that stress more...

November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement benefits remain employers' single largest sector of benefits spending, but health benefit costs are catching up, according to a new Employee Benefit...

November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly one-third (29%) of workers surveyed by CareerBuilder.com say they plan to holiday shop online while at work this year.

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American International Group, Inc. (AIG), the beneficiary of a government bailout package, imposed its own executive compensation restrictions that include a $1 salary...

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey, not surprisingly, has found that corporate employers are most likely to offer a defined contribution (DC) plan while Taft-Hartley or...

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bad bosses can be bad for your health.

November 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Having solved all the world's problems, researchers have now determined the length - and content - of the "perfect" phone call.

If I were to sum up the results of our 13th annual Defined Contribution Survey in a sentence, it would be "not as much as you might think."

November 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Teachers in Newport News, Virginia, similar to those in an upstate New York school district, are pushing back against their administration's efforts to...

November 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Hewitt Associates analysis shows that even while 401(k) participants are feeling the effects of a down market, they are continuing to invest...

November 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Asia have undertaken far more extensive and fundamental pension reforms than those tried in Western industrialized countries.

November 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study published in an academic journal asserted that the strongest predictors of employee health risk assessment completion are "the monetary value...

November 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The country's largest trade publisher, Random House Inc., has frozen the pensions of its current employees and eliminated them for future hires, the...