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It can be difficult to manage the increasing pace of change in the business world, but companies need to remember employee engagement, according to Mark Royal, senior consultant at Hay [...]

Lately, there's been plenty to keep an HR manager up at night. The recession may have officially ended in June 2009, but companies are still feeling the pinch. It's undeniable [...]

With the stock market on the rise and the outlook for an economic recovery now more tangible, employers are breathing a slight sigh of relief. But the future is still [...]

Cost cutting is often an inevitable reaction to a recession by employers. And benefits may have been--or may be--on the chopping block for many organizations. But it seems that during [...]

With the number of layoffs reaching record highs, having a remaining workforce that is present and productive is paramount. in an effort to control absenteeism and other time away from [...]

Employers are hearing time and time again that their workers prefer a steady stream of income in retirement to a one- time lump-sum payout. The problem: not many workers know [...]

Tight or nonexistent financing in the credit markets has the power to curtail spending by customers that are, or that work for, large companies. As a result, CEOs have asked [...]

In today's competitive marketplace, the benefits employees receive can be as important--if not more so--than their base pay. PMR polled payroll professionals nationwide to determine which benefits they currently enjoy. [...]

Shared services involve centralizing certain payroll and human resources functions within an organization. The goal: To deliver internal support services with greater efficiency and effectiveness. The findings of IOMA's 2007 [...]

Companies are cautious in their compensation spending as the economy continues its unsteady recovery. That prudence is resulting in merit pay increase forecasts that average 3.5% in 2006, continuing an [...]

The majority of employers continued to embrace the "quick fix" solution of increasing cost sharing with employees in order to control rising health-care costs and deflect their impact on the [...]

Many companies expanded cautiously in 2004, determined to keep their employment costs stable as they offered line-extensions and low-risk new products to their customers. Now, CR readers at these companies [...]

The new same-sex marriage law in Massachusetts is just one of a number of changes that could affect how your company handles benefits eligibility. A recent study by Aon Consulting [...]

A majority of large employers surveyed by the National Business Group on Health (NBGH) said they were moving ahead with modest changes in their health care benefits for 2011 without [...]

Private-sector workers age 55 and older are remaining in the workforce longer to build up assets in their defined contribution plans and to continue receiving employer-provided health insurance, a recent [...]

According to MetLife's 8th Annual Study of Employee Benefits Trends, controlling benefits costs is now the top objective of most employers, overtaking employee retention, which has been the top objective [...]

Many CR readers said their instincts were confirmed when a recent study from Mercer Human Resources Consulting showed a significant increase in the percentage of businesses matching 100% of their [...]

The 2001 Benefits Survey produced by the Society for Human Resource Management is discussed. This survey reveals a change over the last five years in the most attractive benefits with employees preferring benefits for their partner.

Data from the latest survey from the Society for Human Resource Management shows which benefits are being cut back and which continue to flourish.

Public employers are modifying their employee health care benefits to include more cost-saving measures, according to Health Care Plans: Impact of the Financial Crisis, a recent survey conducted by the [...]

Thirty-eight percent of employers said the current economy will force them to make cuts sometime this year in benefits and office perks, according to a recent survey by CareerBuilder.com of [...]

SHRM's 2007 Benefits Survey finds that employee benefits have remained fairly stable between 2006 and 2007. However, there was a slight decrease in the percentage of organizations that offer some [...]

Sharing information about compensation with employees, including letting them know how total compensation is calculated and what triggers increases, is now a business strategy, according to speakers at WorldatWork's 2007 [...]

Although many workers say their employers are generally flexible when they need to take time off, 56% polled in a recent survey said they do not take advantage of all [...]

Most (92%) employers offer some type of Section 125 flexible benefits plan, according to the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans' recent survey, Flexible Benefit Plans and FSAs (www.ifebp.org). Of [...]

Even though about three-quarters of employers still don't measure the financial effectiveness of wellness or disease management programs, there is payback available to organizations that offer those programs, according to [...]

Users of consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) are less satisfied than those with comprehensive health insurance. They are also less likely to recommend the new plans to a friend or colleague, [...]

Seventy-five percent of respondents to a recent survey on vacation and time-off benefits offer vacation benefits in a separate plan, and 25% offer a paid time-off bank that combines vacation, [...]

Many companies rely more on perception than measurement to determine the success of HR and benefits education programs, according to a recent survey by The Segal Co. (New York City; [...]

As the economy recovers and workers feel that first flutter of interest in other job opportunities, management should have a corresponding interest in retention programs. Research shows consistently, that while [...]

A recent survey by IOMA asked more than 400 HR and compensation professionals to describe how their organizations plan to respond to future growth in terms of compensation and rewards. [...]

Although the recent mutual fund scandals have driven more than two-thirds of plan sponsors to learn about the problems and monitor them, employees who have invested in 401(k) plans that [...]

* Work/life programs are on the rise. The Mellon Financial Corp. (www.mellon.com) issued its Work/ Life--A Delicate Balance: 2003 Survey recently, and contrary to what you might have expected in [...]

Back in the roaring 1990s, work/life programs were in vogue, and the HR world was full of references to flexibility, balance, job sharing, the family workplace, and so on. The [...]

About one in four households in the United States is involved in the care of an older relative or friend, an AARP/National Alliance for Care-giving study estimates, but only six [...]

* Is there a standard on the horizon for security and employee travel? Last month we reported that a recent survey of senior executives found that 52% expect new federal [...]

* Eldercare may well be the benefit of the early 21st century. Only one fourth of companies now offer eldercare benefits such as referral services, long-term care insurance and eldercare-related [...]

Yes, security staff salaries are rising and high turnover is still a headache ... but the news is not all glum, according to SDR's exclusive 2003/2004 Security Management & Salary [...]

* Executive perks less popular. Fewer companies are offering their executives perks such as country club memberships and cars, according to a survey from Robert Half Management Resources (www.roberthalfmr.com). Stock [...]

(Source: Kaiser Family Foundation, Employer Health Benefits 2003 Annual Survey) In general, CR readers think that cost-sharing can help their companies contain rising health benefit costs. At the same time, [...]

* Is your company fostering a level pay playing field or a 'negotiation problem'? According to research in October's Harvard Business Review, just 7% of female MBAs negotiated with employers [...]

Stabilize Compensation Budget with New Merit Increase Policy Challenge: Keep the lid on the comp budget without de-motivating employees. Solution: We widened the range of merit increases to better reflect [...]

* What percentage of medical premiums do employers cover? Regardless of the type of coverage, the median percentage of premiums most employers cover is either 75% or 80%, the Warehousing [...]

Midsize and large companies have increased their offerings of long-term care (LTC) insurance policies. In the past two years, 137 insurance companies sold more than 1.4 million LTC insurance policies, [...]

Between 2001 and 2002, employers reduced the benefits coverage they provided to part-time workers, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Employee Benefits Study. In 2001, 57% of part-timers received [...]

Without question, employers are looking to their employees to help them ward off the profit squeeze that 14% to 15% health care cost hikes, on average, are placing on their [...]

Controllers counsel top managers to make competitive but affordable contributions to employee 401(k) plans. But how to determine what's best? Often, CR readers use industry-based reference points, such as 'company [...]

* Health, wellness programs have retention power, survey says. Employer-provided health and wellness programs are a viable incentive to stay with a current employer, according to a new survey by [...]

Many companies are on the verge of making fundamental changes in their health benefits. That is the contention of a new survey from Mercer Human Resources Consulting, which found that [...]

* Mercer study raises red flags for employer pay and benefit plans. The 2002 People at Work Survey, released in March 2003, asked 2,600 U.S. employees how they felt about [...]