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Byline: Chris Lewis Cool companies are often the best companies. So, we renamed Cool Places to Work, Crain's Best Places to Work in Southeast Michigan. For this list, we categorize [...]

The third annual Automotive News list of the Best Dealerships To Work For was compiled from the ranks of U.S. and Canadian dealerships that applied for the honor. Managers at [...]

Dear Workforce: No matter how qualified and capable a disabled worker is, it is common to hear a hiring manager express concern about how other workers will adapt to the [...]

80% Strongly or somewhat agree that 'as Detroit goes, so goes the state of Michigan.' 61% Say Kevyn Orr is doing an excellent or pretty good job as Detroit's emergency [...]

Employees at the 100 Best Dealerships To Work For gave their employers high marks for pay and benefits. And they should. For example, 98 of those 100 dealerships offer some [...]

Byline: JERRY GEISEL Fifty-three percent of employees doubt they could buy health insurance the same or better than the coverage their employers provide, according to a National Business Group on [...]

Byline: Rob Kozlowski Americans have little confidence that they will be able to retire comfortably, driven in part by a lack of understanding of how much they need to save, [...]

Byline: LOUISE ESOLAEmployers that want their employees to better understand their benefits could borrow tactics used by advertisers and marketers: Know your audience and customize the message to meet their [...]

Byline: REGIS COCCIA A nationwide survey of business executives indicates most U.S. employers, at least for now, are unlikely to stop offering health care benefits in the wake of the [...]

Byline: JERRY GEISEL Amid signs of an economic recovery, many employers that suspended or reduced their 401(k) matching contributions are rethinking those moves. A survey released last week by Boston-based [...]

Here are more results from a survey of 300 businesspeople conducted in October on behalf of Crain's Detroit Business and Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn L.L.P. by Lansing-based Epic-MRA. For [...]

Automatic enrollment has hit the brakes at least for now. Among the 53% of corporate defined contribution plans that don't offer auto enrollment, just 1% plan to offer such a [...]

Defined contribution plan participants are cutting their contributions as day-to-day cash needs take center stage for more people. Plan executives and industry experts say employee deferral rates are showing signs [...]

Byline: NICK WHITFIELD Many employers have altered their health care plans to cope with rising costs, but the effect on vision plans has been less pronounced, due largely to their [...]

40% of NEPC's clients use automatic enrollment Automatic enrollment among defined contribution plans reached 40% as of June 30, compared with 36% in 2007, according to NEPC's 2008 Defined Contribution [...]

Byline: Andrew Coen Seven in 10 financial advisers prefer working for a nationally recognized company over an independent advisory firm, according to a yet-to-be-released survey. 'Financial representatives are looking for [...]

Whether four-day workweeks increase productivity isn't yet known. Managers at many companies say that productivity rose when they introduced the policy, but little research has been done. It is clear [...]

Byline: JERRY GEISEL Nearly three-quarters of corporate benefit executives say that taxing employees on the value of employer-provided health care benefit programs would have a negative effect on employees, according [...]

For the first time, Modern Healthcare-in partnership with the Leapfrog Group and the National Business Coalition on Health-is conducting a survey of major employers to determine how much they spend [...]

Progress by Southeast Michigan employers in their effort to control health care costs has slowed, a survey scheduled to be released today shows. The average cost for employer-provided group health [...]

Byline: JERRY GEISEL A significant percentage of 401(k) plan participants aren't contributing enough to obtain the full amount of their employers' matching contribution, according to a study. The study, conducted [...]

A survey of employee-benefit specialists indicates that the cost of healthcare benefits to active employees is by far their No. 1 priority, with 55% of respondents ranking it at the [...]

Only about 1% of employees opted for consumer-directed health plans in 2005, despite such benefits becoming increasingly popular among large employers. Twenty-two percent of businesses with 20,000 or more workers [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Canadian employers are concerned about the cost of health-related absences, but most have not taken active steps to address the issue, according to a new study. Rising [...]

Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK LAS VEGAS-Early research has shown that employers that have successfully implemented consumer-driven health plans all had several things in common, the foremost of which was extensive communication, [...]

Byline: RUPAL PAREKH In 2005, benefits managers' top priorities will revolve around containing the rising cost of employee health care, although the attraction and retention of talented employees will also [...]

CHICAGO-Aon Consulting, a global human resources consulting division of Aon Corp., and Westminster, Colo.-based Reed Group, a provider of employee leave administration services and disability duration guidelines, have teamed up [...]

The information on employee benefit funds contained in this special report was compiled in several steps. Questionnaires were sent to more than 1,100 fund sponsors in Pensions & Investments' database. [...]

Pensions & Investments is accepting overdue responses to its 2003 survey of the Top Pension/Employee Benefit Funds. The annual survey is sent to sponsors of U.S. defined benefit and defined [...]

Employees today - many of whom are caught between competing demands from both their young children and aging parents - require more than just a steady paycheck from their jobs. […]

Employees want more choices when selecting among health plans, and many favor a ``defined contribution'' payment system, according to study results presented recently at the American Assn. of Health Plans' [...]

Our nation's labor market is tight. We hear the common refrain: ``Anyone who wants a job has one, so it's tough to find qualified candidates.'' However, employers have within their [...]

Flexible benefit programs are becoming more attractive to , as companies increasingly compete for employees, a new survey suggests. Of 307 employer respondents to the survey, 49 have implemented flexible [...]

Employers say that health plans need to dramatically improve how they deliver information using the Internet and how they analyze health data, according to a new survey. Sixty-two percent of [...]

Employers have been increasing benefits spending at a higher rate than they have been increasing spending for wages. The most expensive benefit for employers in 1983 was for retirement-Social Security, but in 1988 it is health insurance. Many employers are requiring employees to bear more of the cost of medical insurance. Almost 99% of responding companies in a Personnel Journal survey provide a group health plan, 86% provide a dental plan, 31% offer a vision plan, 56% have a prescription drug plan, 51% provide an employee assistance program, approximately 84% offer death and disability benefits, and 99% have some form of retirement and pension plans.

Results of a Hewitt Assoc survey of 100 benefits directors from major US industrial companies are presented. Over half of the respondents foresee a rise in the average age of employees in the 1990s, resulting in higher benefits costs, while 50% expect the number of women employees and part-time employees to increase, causing a demand for different kinds of benefits with a resulting cost increase. Over half of the respondents expect the cost of benefits to increase from the current level of 36% of payroll. Medical care and retirement were singled out as two problem areas in the 1990s, with half the respondents anticipating higher costs for defined benefit plans and defined contribution plans. Indemnity medical plan enrollment is expected to drop significantly from its current 80% level as alternative delivery systems such as health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations prove to be more cost-effective.

Multiemployer plans slowly adopting managed features: Study Multiemployer health plans negotiated by labor unions continue to offer workers a degree of insulation from the managed care revolution, a survey says. [...]

A survey of 1,020 major employers by Hewitt Associates L.L.C. showed that more employers are offering adoption benefits in a trend marking increased work/life benefits for employees. Around 26% of surveyed companies established adoption reimbursement benefits in 1997, compared to 15% in 1992. Analysts point to low costs and employee morale boost as the primary reasons why more employers are offering such benefits., Help with expenses costs little, boosts loyalty: Survey The percent of employers offering adoption benefits continues to grow, a recent survey shows. The growth fits in with a larger trend [...]

A recent employee survey showed most consider work/life benefits important. However, only 50% took advantage of the work/life benefits offered by their employers due to concerns about the impact of utilization on their careers. Employees who believed that their supervisors encouraged the use of work/life benefits also had higher job satisfaction while married females with children were the biggest users of work/life benefits., Employees like work/life programs but many don't use them: Poll While employees say work/life benefits are as important as health care benefits, only about half of workers use them when [...]

1996 costs down 3.9%: Survey The days of stable health care costs and declining overall benefit expenses may be nearing an end. For the third consecutive year, employers' average total [...]