Employer Strategies

Cost and lack of understanding are the top reasons employers don’t provide perks to their workers.

The insurer says it will continue updating its supplemental health employee benefit suite in 2018.

The Recognize, Assist, Include, Support and Engage Family Caregivers Act aims to create a strategy for employers and employees who support loved ones.

Plan sponsors worry record keepers will follow suit, limiting the investment options employers are able to offer employees through their workplace 401(k) plans.

Procter & Gamble’s Rich Postler discusses how technology helps its HR department find and manage freelance employees.

The allegations of sexual assault at Uber, Vice and the Weinstein Company shine a light not only on workplace misconduct, but also on the failure of human resources to properly handle these cases.

Retirees living overseas can still claim Social Security benefits, but they must see if their country of residence requires them to have a local bank account.

Collective Investment Trusts can have cost-saving advantages, are increasingly accessible and provide a long-term investment perspective.

Brokers must move away from typical carrier negotiations and bring real cost-saving strategies to clients.

More companies will stretch matching contributions, include HSA information in education sessions and incorporate behavioral economics/finance elements in plan design.