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People share their experiences with depression on Twitter to show support for the mental health community. They join private Facebook groups to discuss similar health issues, without realizing that a [...]

The phrase 'drugs in the workplace' understandably elicits an alarmed reaction from employers. But the truth is the amount of substances that are considered drugs are many and varied, and [...]

Lawrence Livermore's Student Poster Symposium is more than just an internship exercise. It's an Optimas Award-winning workout in training future scientists. Each year during Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Student Poster [...]

The lack of diversity in leadership positions does not coincide with the pool of MBA graduates. What can organizations do to address this concerning representation gap? As the 21st century [...]

Benefits programs don't necessarily treat physical and mental health care equally. With more focus on workplace mental health, that may be slowly changing. It's been a decade since the Mental [...]

As a U.S.-based publication, logical for Workforce to dig deep into human resources issues that confront American companies, but there's quite literally a whole other world of HR challenges out [...]

As the organizations comprising the 2019 Workforce 100 reveal, outstanding human resources practices are worth celebrating. And great HR is not elusive for those that understand the importance of best [...]

Employers are doing everything they can to curb health care costs. Sure, and if you believe that you may also believe in unicorns, the Loch Ness monster and Bigfoot roaming [...]

The 2018 class of Workforce Game Changers knocked our socks off with their accomplishments in all areas of human resources, including recruiting, culture, training and benefits. What really stood out [...]

There's a finality to the concrete definition of retirement. It's the conclusion of one part of a person's life and the commencement of the next, the solid boundary separating work [...]

From email to Snapchat, bosses to baby-sitters, employees are bombarded by communications all day long. And when it comes to communicating benefits, it's a message employees need to see. On [...]

Whether employees love or detest the technology around them, there's no getting around its continued influence on workplace policies. Considering that employee benefits at many organizations remains a paper-based, pencil-pushing [...]

Lee Damiano felt ill one day in May 2015. The previous year when she signed up for her employer's new telemedicine benefit that would allow her to contact a doctor [...]

THIS YEAR'S COLLECTION OF WORKFORCE GAME CHANGERS IS A VARIED BUNCH. We're shining the spotlight on people in small companies and big corporations, in local governments and media companies, in [...]

As specialty drugs siphon employers' benefit spend, prices of more common drugs are also climbing. Can PBMs be part of the cost cure or another pain point? Specialty drug prices [...]

Late last year Arianna Huffington traded in her Huffington Post press card for a startup company in corporate wellness. In this Q&A she discusses what will define success for her [...]

Companies continue investing in workplace wellness. But can money buy your employees health? In terms of workplace initiatives, corporate wellness is a relatively new concept that didn't begin developing until [...]

Whether they're eliminating traditional performance reviews, improving employee engagement or putting more women in upper management, female HR leaders are making a difference. Meet some of the women influencing HR. [...]

Caption: Clockwise from top left: Pamela Harless, chief people and culture officer, Grant Thornton; Susan Stelter, chief people officer, West Monroe Partners; Maureen Hoersten, chief revenue officer, LaSalle Network; Stacey [...]

From high-tech VR to a low-tech poster program, HR ends the 'teens' with a series of noteworthy initiatives. Let's leave the 2010s with a bang. Now in its 29th year, [...]

Employers should consider a more inclusive definition of 'caregiver,' argues employee caregiving platform Torchlight, which released its annual report titled 'Modern Caregiving Challenges Facing U.S. Employees' in January. While caregiving [...]

The usual employee communication strategy goes out the door when a company faces a crisis. Special circumstances like natural disasters, workplace shootings and pandemics put employers in a challenging situation. [...]

Providing employees extended time off at the end of the year is one way to add a bit of holiday cheer. Office closures during the holidays --typically the days between [...]

The workplace has changed a lot since 1922. That year The Journal of Personnel Research debuted, rebranded later as Personnel Journal and finally Workforce. Now in our 97th year, we [...]

Most women find a clear connection between reproductive freedom and success in the workplace. Some 70 percent of people find that reproductive freedom--defined by the World Health Organization as the [...]

The workplace has changed a lot since 1922. That year The Journal of Personnel Research debuted, rebranded later as Personnel Journal and finally Workforce. Now in our 97th year, we [...]

Presenteeism is heralded as a big problem in business as it's something that can decrease an individual's productivity or affect that of their co-workers as well. Presenteeism, which is chiefly [...]

Long-distance trips may be something to boast about, with wanderlust-driven influencers posting perfectly filtered photos on their social media accounts. Work-sponsored road trips also may sound glamorous but workers should [...]

The workplace has changed a lot since 1922. That year The Journal of Personnel Research debuted, rebranded later as Personnel Journal and finally Workforce. Now in our 97th year, we [...]

The phrase 'dot-com company' is arguably dead in 2019. But in 2001, many companies were recovering from the dot-com crash of 2000. Dot-com companies at the time--with their lax policies, [...]

New year, new rules. At least for companies with workplace wellness programs.The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's incentive rule--which dictated that wellness programs are considered voluntary if the incentive or penalty [...]

We're ringing in the new year with an issue that summarized a decade with an abundance of pop culture references. Allan Halcrow, editor in chief at the time, channeled his [...]

It's impossible to ignore the benefits that technology plays in people's lives, but there are also underlying negative effects. Look no further than the workplace, where employees and leaders alike [...]

Cash isn't always king. Employees can feel the love when they receive non-cash rewards from their employer. The 2017 'Trends Study' from the Incentive Research Foundation found that 70 percent [...]

Employers were interested in monitoring their employees' health and diets well before the wellness kick of the 21st century. Industrial hygiene specialist Frederick B. Flinn explained the implications of several [...]

The Great Depression s effects on the working population were far-reaching but the lack of available work made some people unhireable even when jobs did return, wrote WH. Lange in [...]

With the opioid epidemic costing employers upward of $18 billion a year in medical expenses and lost productivity, one company is offering a remedy to get excess drugs out of [...]

Many people associate the gig economy with companies like Uber, but the truth is gigs have been around a long time, said Marion McGovern, author of 'Thriving in the Gig [...]

Ride-hailing service Lyft is expanding its pretax commuter benefits to Lyft Line users in 13 new cities and across much of New Jersey. The benefit lets employees use pretax commuter [...]

The workplace has changed a lot since 1922. That year The Journal of Personnel Research debuted, rebranded later as Personnel Journal and finally Workforce. Now in our 96th year, we [...]

The workplace has changed a lot since 1922. That year The Journal of Personnel Research debuted, rebranded later as Personnel Journal and finally Workforce. Now in our 96th year, we [...]

The Health Care Task Force may not be the most creative name for a super group of organizational planners, but it served a vital service for University of Minnesota in [...]

After co-founding Liazon, one of the industry's leading benefits exchanges for employers in 2007, benefits expert Alan Cohen extensively analyzed the current American health care landscape and the place of [...]

Drugs like caffeine and alcohol are legal, but employers may get into trouble if an employee's alcohol consumption leads them to cause problems during the employee get-together. Employees take them for "increased monitoring of employee health, stress levels, alertness and fitness", especially when these measures are used to judge an employees' ability to do their jobs. While employers may appreciate that their employees are being more productive, if employees must turn to drugs to reach those performance goals, then the employer should consider how the company culture or policy drove them there, Heudecker said. [Extracted from the article]

Companies should be certain that their parent-centric initiatives and benefits are clearly meant for all parents, not just moms. This will benefit both men and women. Fatherhood isn't just Brad [...]

Deb Dye wanted to make a major lifestyle change last year and lose some weight. A continuing lecturer at Purdue University, Dye had been prediabetic for several years. She had [...]

The changing makeup of the multigenerational workforce means that EAPs have to reconsider what kind of assistance they offer and how. Employee assistance programs offer valuable resources to employees going [...]

Jewelle Bickford was frustrated. Despite corporate efforts toward parity and promises to tackle gender inequality in leadership, women as a group weren't making progress. Bickford, partner at Evercore Wealth Management, [...]

Henry G. 'Hank' Jackson, president and CEO at the Society for Human Resource Management, will retire Dec. 31. Executive search firm Spencer Stuart has begun the recruitment process for the [...]

Workplace wellness initiatives continue making headway into employee perks with one important goal: influencing behavior change and improving employee health. A step competition may aim to motivate employees to adopt [...]