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  • Voluntary benefits make rewards-priority list

    March 15, 2010

    A willingness on the part of 51% of employee to pay for more of their benefits and manage their own “rewards budget” came in at No. 4 in the 16th annual “Top Five Total Priority Rewards Priorities” online survey of 292 employers jointly sponsored by Deloitte Consulting LLP and the International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists.

  • Women underrepresented in workplace leadership roles

    March 9, 2010

    Despite gains women have made in the workplace, they are still underrepresented in strategic and leadership roles, according to recent research.

  • Love lost: employees losing enthusiasm for jobs

    March 4, 2010

    Employers will need to rev up their retention and recruiting engines when the market begins to refuel, as most employees, according to new research, are less than satisfied with their current job.

  • Bending, not breaking

    March 1, 2010

    When tough times require budget cuts, employee training usually is one of the first line items in CFOs' crosshairs.

  • International benefits roundup includes news from Japan, Spain

    March 1, 2010

    Effective in April, expatriates working in Japan will need to furnish proof that they are covered under the statutory health insurance plan in Japan in order to renew their visa.

  • Coloring outside the lines on talent management

    February 22, 2010

    Corporations must learn to adopt a holistic strategy to human capital, which means tossing aside a piecemeal approach to talent management, according to research by the Aberdeen Group.

  • Linking HR outsourcing to business goals

    February 18, 2010

    The recession put most employers on the ropes financially, a position in which the HR outsourcing market hopes to take advantage of, suggests a new white paper by an HRO company.

  • Could comprehensive disaster prep keep you out of court?

    January 28, 2010

    I got a note this week about a trial currently underway in New Orleans that you may want to keep your eye one if your company is based in an area prone to being affected by natural disasters.

  • State, local employers cut health benefits

    January 27, 2010

    HR/benefits professionals in the public sector acknowledge that big deficits in state and local budgets have led to scaling back on health care benefits, reports the Center for State and Local Government Excellence.

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    January 13, 2010

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  • Towers Watson makes it official

    January 5, 2010

    Six months after announcing their intent to merge, global consulting giants Towers Perrin and Watson Wyatt have completed the union.

  • A modest salary boost for 2010

    January 4, 2010

    As the economy slowly gains steam, more employers plan to implement salary increases, but the raises will be fairly small, according to Mercer’s 2009/2010 U.S. Compensation Planning Survey.

  • Former employees concern IT pros

    December 3, 2009

    Reprisals from former employees and a lack of adequate security budgets rank among the top concerns of senior IT professionals, according to a global survey.

  • The right path

    December 2, 2009

    Most benefit professionals are not changing direction on their benefit plans in 2010, but a significant number are making course corrections in order to stay on firm economic ground.

  • The new replacement for post-retirement group life

    December 2, 2009

    In the 1970s, a typical corporate basic group life benefit provided a preretirement group life benefit of two times salary with a post-retirement death benefit of the same two times salary. In the 1980s and 1990s, the post-retirement benefit dropped to one times salary, and in the 2000s it was all but gone at almost all of the Fortune 1000 companies.

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