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Your employees are well-skilled in the areas that help them do well on the job. But, unless they work in HR or the benefits department, they aren’t benefits experts. Benefits are there to support the needs of employees and their families. So, why don’t employees understand and value them more? Because they don’t understand them! …

When your company goes through perilous times it is natural for individuals to feel powerless, but there are ways to stay engaged and improve how you feel about the daily grind, says Harvard Business Review.

Be they young or be they old, people across America are worried about their financial prospects in retirement and the economic direction of the nation, a survey of Gen X, Gen Y and baby boomers by The Guardian Life Insurance found.

The good news: Most employers are reinstating 401(k) matches, after suspending or reducing them following the economic collapse in late 2008. The bad news: Not all employers have reinstated yet, and some that have are doing so at a lower percentage, Towers Watson announced yesterday.

The Internal Revenue Service has released a detailed list of pension plan and other retirement-related contribution limitations for the Tax Year 2012 that were triggered by an increase in the cost-of-living index.

Women face many challenges in the U.S. private sector workforce—breaking glass ceilings is just one of them. Though women make up 47% of the American workforce, this number dwindles the higher they move up in the ranks. Many women are pushed out because of lack of leadership opportunities or pulled out due to family responsibilities. Here are some ways companies can retain them longer and help them ascend to their fullest potential through benefit changes and in-house initiatives.

Ten years ago, talk of the cloud was confined to weather reports, or when you played that game where you point at clouds and name what objects they look like. Now, cloud technology is helping us with everything from increased data security to managing and delivering benefits.

Financial advisers are constantly on the lookout for new and more engaging and effective ways to market their services to prospective clients.

Graduate students at the country’s leading business schools prefer opportunity for advancement within an organization over financial incentives when evaluating career destinations, according to a Deloitte survey conducted at the fifth annual National MBA Human Capital Case Competition.