- Benefits Think Overheard: To survive the recession, you need patience, persistence and perspective
Those alliterative pearls of wisdom come from Melissa Hubler, group leader of payroll & benefits at Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc., and EBNs 2009 VSP GetFit Benny Award winner. I recently sat down with Hubler and her four fellow Benny honorees to hear the valuable life lessons the recession has taught them personally and professionally and what items they would recommend for stocking a recession survival kit.
September 11
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To be fair, no one really said that – but I just couldn’t resist. It’s not every day you get to write a headline like that. Anyway, “You Have an Ugly Baby” actually is a book by Daniel Rickard that takes a new look at the health care quandary by focusing on prevention and wellness.
September 10 -
Okay, so, there’s good news and bad news. The bad news is that, according to the latest data from Mercer, if employers make no changes to health benefits in 2010, they’ll see cost rise by nearly 9%. The good news is that most of you have no intention of doing nothing, and in fact plan to hold cost increases to about 5.9% next year.
September 10 -
I’ll admit that if given the option, I prefer to release my stress on the treadmill rather than tree pose. But there’s no doubt that yoga is great for mind and body health, and much kinder on the knees. So, I’m happy to give a shout out to the Health and Human Services Department for designating September as National Yoga Month.
September 9 -
When it comes to President Obama’s message on health care reform, I’d say things are a bit worse than “off track a little bit,” but I definitely credit Adam Bruckman, president and CEO of Digital Insurance, for his tact. Bruckman is one of the pros that EBA’s Elizabeth Galentine cornered for their input on what the president needs to tell the nation tonight in his televised address to Congress to get health care reform outta the
September 9 -
If you were out enjoying the Labor Day weekend, you may have missed President Obama’s weekly radio address (now also a video address) on Sunday. If you weren’t tuned in, you didn’t hear that the president – clearly unafraid of reworking our nation’s largest benefits systems – is setting his sights on retirement accounts.
September 8 -
You bet they do, perhaps me first among them! And this is the week to celebrate it. ADP – provider of many things HR, payroll and benefits-related – leads the nation in National Payroll Week (Sept. 7-11), which aims to educate American workers about paychecks, the payroll withholding system and other payroll-driven benefits by offering tips to help maximize payday.
September 8 -
It's Labor Day weekend, and I intend to spend it giving myself a hearty pat on the back for the tough but triumphant labor I've put in this year. I hope each of you pros will do the same. It's been a difficult year, to say the least, and it's still not over. But before you dive headlong into the fall, open enrollment and the chaos of the holiday season, take some time to take
September 4 -
As Labor Day approaches, new survey results from Adecco show that working is not really a labor of love these days, as many are expressing dissatisfaction with several aspects of their jobs, including their salary, relationships with bosses and coworkers and their company's retention efforts. Adecco finds that that two-thirds (66%) of American workers are unsatisfied with their compensation as a result of pay cuts, lack of bonuses or stagnant salaries. A significant number of
September 3 -
I’m always looking out for you, DD readers, so I’ll pass along some intel from my moles in the data services sphere. With pay cuts and freezes having practically the whole nation on ice, new survey results on HR compensation show some salary warmth in the labor relations function and HR pay overall is up in the health care sector.
September 3