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Bruce Shutan is an Employee Benefit News contributing writer based in Portland, Oregon.
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The U.S. fell three spots to 24th in a global retirement ranking, highlighting growing pressure on employers to help workers save and plan for rising costs.
Flexible benefits and a caring culture that recognize the double squeeze of child care and eldercare responsibilities on a culture will help retain sandwich-generation talent.
Reducing healthcare benefits can provide immediate savings, but it could also stunt retention and recruiting efforts.
Organizations are seeing more demand for mental health and substance use services. New approaches aim to make care easier to access before employees reach a crisis.
By solving for the drivers of stress and overload, as well as supporting workers’ in daily areas like nutrition, employers can encourage a reversal of this damaging trend.
