Benefits

June 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The decrease may be slight, but the nation's finance chiefs predict health-care cost increases will fall below the double-digit mark in the next...

June 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Using vacation time is becoming somewhat easier for workers, according to a poll by ComPsych Corporation, an EAP provider.

June 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - August 23 looms large on the radar screen of plan sponsors rushing to be compliant with amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act...

June 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Offshoring as a trend is hot - red hot - these days, according to a new survey.

June 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Better office ergonomics can help improve worker productivity.

June 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an apparent sign of a technology recovery, at least some in the IT consultant and reseller space are walking away with healthy...

June 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirees need to have even more money stashed away to provide for a comfortable retirement, but participants are faced with increased costs and...

June 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sixty-six percent of business owners plan to get away this summer, even if they do not plan to get away from it all.

June 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Continued cost increases in health-care over the past few years have forced 75% of companies to make changes in their health-care plan design.

June 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The rising cost of health-care is the number one issue affecting trends in the workplace in the coming year.

June 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than three out of 10 (34%) employers say the percentage of salary reflecting costs of voluntary benefits is higher in 2004 than...

June 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly half of part and full-time workers are looking, or plan to look, for new employment in the next year.

June 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers are increasingly using funds they might have dedicated to payroll to cover their soaring health-care benefits costs.

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As retirement planning experts continue to bemoan the need for Americans to save more, almost half of women in a recent survey said...

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-Executives acknowledge they make mistakes, and most commonly (20% of the time), the mistakes result from a lack of communication, according to a recent Accountemps...

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - What makes an HR unit a shining star and a standout from its peers is that it can do much more with much...

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nobody likes pointless meetings these days, but conduct a gathering that can't seem to stay on topic and you will really drive your...

June 24, 2004-Half (51%) of human resources managers have not reviewed their benefit plans in order to determine whether or not the term spouse, as defined in their...

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. workers aren't exactly scrambling over each other for the chance to put money into a Lifetime Savings Account (LSA), a survey found.

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-Women and men have equal aspirations to reach the corner office, and women with children living with them are just as likely to aspire to...