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Commentary: Why are we ashamed or afraid to tell our clients or prospects what our cost of doing business is? Why are we afraid to be transparent?

At this week's Workplace Benefits Renaissance in Atlantic City, much buzz surrounded the changing industry landscape under the ACA, with most people agreeing benefit advisers looking to stake their claim on this new terrain need to focus less on brokering to confused employers and more on advising them.

HR professionals can benchmark their business travel expenses, such as airfare, hotel and meals, through the latest SpendSmart report by Certify, the leading cloud-based travel and expense management software provider, which highlights business spending trends from last year. Here are 2013’s most expensed vendors for employers’ reference to plan ahead and determine which vendors are the most popular and offer the best value and the best prices.

The top Republican tax-writer in Congress proposed restructuring the U.S. tax code to eliminate dozens of breaks to pay for reductions in the corporate and individual rates.

However employers’ decisions have been determined by the Affordable Care Act, the reasons to continue investing in employee health and productivity remain.

The University of Michigan has been fine-tuning its wellness champion network for over 20 years. Over that time, wellness champs have morphed in number and organizational role, but have always played “an important role for helping to develop our culture of health across the University," explains Karen Schmidt, associate director of wellness and health culture at the University of Michigan.

At Oracle’s first-ever HCM World conference, the technology company demonstrated its commitment to human resources customers, explaining its strategy for Modern HR in the Cloud, which is focused on meeting the needs of employees in a large, dispersed workforce.

A new report from The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finds that approximately 11 million Americans on small employer health insurance rolls will see increases in premiums as a result of the Affordable Care Act, a larger proportion than those actually seeing declines.

New research by global consulting giant Mercer has revealed an unexpectedly negative perception about way that employees view their benefits, especially as more and more health care costs are shifted onto their plate.

Earlier this year, the Surgeon General issued a new report on smoking and health, marking the 50th anniversary of the agency’s landmark study announcing scientifically proven links between smoking and lung cancer. As American Heart Month winds down, Peter Goldbach, chief medical officer with Health Dialog, shares how smoking affects employee health and what employers should look for in a smoking cessation program.