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SHRM has released its annual Employee Benefits Survey results for 2024. Built on a comprehensive survey of more than 4,500 organizations, the results illustrate the spectrum and prevalence of the [...]

It can be hard to feel sorry for corporate executives with their fancy offices, corporate jets and fat bonuses. But sympathy--and a loud corporate wake-up call--comes easier when they die. [...]

It's no secret to HR that employees' attitudes about their jobs, their benefits and their employers can range from exuberant to sour. What's less well known and harder to find [...]

Employers' balancing act on paid leave for their workers has become trickier than ever. As they cope with rising global competitiveness and constant pressures to increase productivity, employers throughout the [...]

During the past decade, the employee benefits landscape has Li been transformed by the escalating costs of benefits coupled with legislative changes and new benefits options. Benefits budgets have experienced [...]

The gap is significant in many cases between how much employees value benefits and how satisfied they are with the ones they have. Very important Very satisfied Health care 63% [...]

When labor markets tighten, life often gets harder for HR. But the outlook brightens for those on the other end of the employment relationship--workers. While salaries have been slow to [...]

Many employers may not view training and development opportunities as job perks, but a recent survey by techies.com Inc., an online resource network for technology professionals, found that many employees [...]

Equal pay, paid family leave, health care, retirement and affirmative action are the top priorities of working women, and, when they go to the polls in November, these priorities will [...]

The percentage of companies that perceive a return on investment for the following employer offerings: Paid time off 56% Employee benefits 52% Employee rewards programs 42% Office environment 41% Team [...]

The future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will be hotly debated this election season. But a majority of employers--78 percent--are on the same page about wanting to keep at [...]

Companies are spending money to educate workers about benefits, but the message isn't getting through. Nearly 40 percent of North American organizations have a budget specifically devoted to benefits communication, [...]

Many Will Drop Domestic Partner Benefits Why offer the benefits? * To retain or attract quality employees * To recognize all types of families * It's the right thing to [...]

CareerArc recently surveyed over 1,000 professionals, both employed and unemployed, as well as over 100 HR leaders to understand their views on workplace flexibility and benefits. The results have been [...]

Employers need to provide better benefits education, say more than 80 percent of employees, according to a new MetLife Employee Benefits Trend Survey. Yet most employers do not see such [...]

Though the cost of employer-sponsored health care rose significantly this year, employers have not passed on all of the cost increases to employees, according to results of a survey released [...]

Despite a sputtering economy, organizations in 2004 continued to provide a variety of benefits, the most common being health care insurance and prescription drug programs. However, the rising cost of [...]

As more services become available for employees to consult with doctors online or over the phone, employers need to decide whether to offer these options as a benefit. Here are [...]

U.S. employers continue to provide a substantial amount of benefits to their workers, despite big increases in employer health care outlays and other growing benefit-related expenses, according to a new [...]

Employer costs for employee benefits: $9.97 per hour worked Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. VALUE PROPOSITION of those likely to look for new jobs in the next year say [...]

Percentage of employees who rated these benefits 'very important' to their job satisfaction: WHAT MATTERS MOST HEALTH CARE & MEDICAL BENEFITS 62% PAID TIME OFF 58% OVERALL BENEFITS PACKAGE 53% [...]

Percentage of U.S. employers offering benefits options by type in 2014: WHAT'S OFFERED? Major Medical insurance 80% Dental Insurance 74% Life Insurance 67% Vision Insurance 62% Disability Insurance 61% Voluntary [...]

The impact of the recession and tepid recovery is causing lingering hardships for organizations as well as employees, according to a Society for Human Resource Management survey report, Financial Wellne.ss [...]

Health insurance coverage of prescription contraceptives for women is significantly higher today than it was just a year ago, according to a new survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and [...]

A recent survey of employers showed that most expect the costs of employee health care benefits to rise by 7.5%. The increase is attributed to the aging population, advances in medical technology and new pharmaceuticals. However, over 77% of employers offer employees more than one plan option despite this increase. Another study also showed that the health insurance premiums of health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations will rise by 7.5% and 10.6%, respectively., For the second year in a row, employers are estimating that the cost of health care benefits will increase by 7.5 percent, according to the Fourth Annual Survey on Purchasing [...]

Most U.S. workers say they are satisfied with their current health benefits and express little interest in changing the mix of benefits and wages their employer offers, according to the [...]

Despite competing priorities, one-third of HR professionals in the U.S. (32 percent) have increased the time they spend educating employees about workplace benefits over the past two years, according to [...]

During the vast 10 years, the employee benefits landscape ins been transformed by the escalating costs of benefits, legislative changes and new benefits options. HR benefits budgets have experienced substantial [...]

For the fourth year in a row, employees ranked job security and benefits as the top two 'very important' contributors to job satisfaction over other factors such as career development, [...]

A recent survey of 5,000 U.S. workers by The Conference Board found job satisfaction to be the lowest in two decades, but that conclusion differs significantly from the results of [...]

No matter how health reform efforts in Congress and the Obama administration ultimately turn out, employers will still be closely involved in providing and paying for employee health care, giving [...]

U.S. employers are increasingly offering voluntary benefit options as the way to meet the needs of a diverse workforce, according to Top Trends in Voluntary Benefits, a report on a [...]

Seventy-five percent of the workers responding to a recent survey said they would prefer to receive information through an electronic format such as electronic quarterly account statements or through their [...]

It's not surprising that 60 percent of organizations report that their benefits offerings have been affected by the challenges to the U.S. and global economies. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Among the health [...]

Sponsors of defined benefit (DB) pension plans and defined contribution (DC) 401 (k)-type plans are altering their retirement coverage and plan designs, saying the economic situation is significantly bleaker now [...]

Just 58 percent of 401(k) plan sponsors maintain minutes of retirement plan meetings, only 27 percent say they use an independent party to analyze plan fees, and just 29 percent [...]

A late 2008 survey conducted by the not-for-profit International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans found that 26 percent of U.S. employers now conduct eligibility audits for their health care plans. [...]

Anarrow majority of the largest U.S. corporations (the Fortune 100) continue to offer their newly hired salaried workers a defined benefit pension, according to an analysis by consultancy Watson Wyatt [...]

Almost 40 percent of a typical U.S. employer's payroll now reflects the cost of employee benefits, reveals the Society for Human Resource Management's (SHRM) 2007 Benefits Survey Report. A key [...]

High-school seniors' expectations for career success are rising, but their economic achievements over time are not, and the resulting gap could fuel discontent that HR professionals will confront in the [...]

Most workers prefer a shorter workweek to a shorter commute, a bigger paycheck to more vacation time and a lunch hour to Internet access, according to survey findings from [...]

An overwhelming majority of employers expect the competition for talent to increase or remain at current levels over the next year, and they are relying more on the benefits they [...]

Advances in technology make it more practical than ever to work at different times and places than the traditional 9-to-5 at the office. It's no longer necessary--and, often impractical--for employees [...]

Employees' and employers' differing opinions of how a company shows its employees that it values them could explain low morale, found a survey of nearly 3,000 U.S. adults. Better explanation [...]

Ninety-one percent of employers that provide coverage for fertility treatment, including in vitro fertilization, have not seen an increase in their medical costs, according to a survey of more than [...]

At the top of the list of issues that HR professionals in the United States expect will have a significant impact on the workplace in the years ahead is the [...]

The lunch hour seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird and traditional pension plans, according to a May 2006 survey that found more than 50 percent of [...]

Health savings accounts (HSAs) made a strong debut, some wellness initiatives gained momentum, and more employers are providing retirement and financial planning services, according to the Society for Human Resource [...]

The use of telecommuting has not gained ground for the past three years, but recent rapid increases in fuel costs may cause employers to rethink their policies on letting employees [...]

While Social Security's future continues to stir debate and make headlines, a separate issue of retirement financing is drawing employers' attention behind the scenes. It's the practice of automatically enrolling [...]