Benefits

February 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey has found U.S. employees spend an average 36 minutes each work day doing personal tasks ranging from surfing the Internet to...

February 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SureWest Communications announced that it will freeze its defined benefit plan, but has promised to enhance educational reimbursement options, employee recognition programs and...

February 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hewlett-Packard announced this week it would freeze contributions to current employees' defined benefit plans to shave costs, but will bump up its matching...

February 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A tentative agreement with the largest union for New Jersey state workers calls for employees to pay 1.5% of salary toward their health...

February 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Thirty-nine percent of executives say they would get a business degree to better prepare for career success, down from 49% who said the...

February 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employee benefits reached 44% of payroll in 2005, with medical-related expenses constituting the greatest benefit cost at $5,924 per employee, according to a...

February 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The issue of whether West Virginia's two teacher retirement programs will merge apparently will stay unresolved at least until spring when pension officials...

February 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Human resources professionals may consider employee retention as a top priority, but many are way off the mark when it comes to accurately...

February 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. said that the assets in the Roth 401(k) plans it administers have jumped from $3 million to $18.5 million...

February 21, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Preliminary findings from a forthcoming study on health-care costs show employers are implementing solutions that focus on improving employee health and access to...

February 21, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent survey from the Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America (PSCA) shows a majority of sponsors either plan to implement a Roth 401(k)...

February 21, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly three-quarters of managers say they look inside the company ranks before doing an outside search for job candidates, with most managers considering...

February 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -SunTrust Banks has announced a variety of changes to its pension and benefits programs including starting a cash balance plan and dropping a retiree...

February 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participant contributions to defined contribution (DC) plans should double between 2007 and 2011 because of auto enrollment and auto deferral increase programs.

February 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A significant amount of Generation X investors who don't put money into an individual retirement account (IRA) would do so if they only...

February 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than one in five adults has not taken any steps toward planning for their retirement and only 10% have worked with an...

February 16, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

February 16, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly 60% of employees say their bosses make time to review their job concerns and 45% say their managers help them develop new...

February 15, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In another sign of its continuing popularity, Fidelity Investments said Thursday that the number of workplace savings plans it recordkeeps featuring auto enrollment...

February 15, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Women typically keep their offices more tidy than men, but women have three to four times the number of bacteria in, on and...