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Although there are many ways for an employee wellness program to veer off course or have no impact at all, guest blogger Linda K. Riddell offers three surefire signs that your wellness program is not hitting the mark.

The first day of summer presents a good opportunity to reflect on whether employees are taking enough vacation time and, as such, recharging their batteries to a point where they are on track for becoming healthier, happier and more productive. It’s also worth revisiting a familiar U.S. public-policy debate on the link between paid time off and worker engagement, productivity and performance relative to other nations, especially during austere times when stress is heightened.

According to a new survey from TD Ameritrade, 52% of working adults agree with the statement, “I am looking forward to retirement;” the other 48% were either neutral or disagreed.

In its annual report on how much it cost to raise a child from birth to age 17, the USDA calculates the grand total for kids born in 2011 is $234,900 (nearly $296,000 when accounting for inflation).

In the medical community, it’s often said that physicians and other health care providers have the most difficulty with patients who come into their offices having already diagnosed themselves. After reading a new poll from Principal Financial, I now fully understand why.

On a nearly daily basis for the last two to three weeks, we’ve gotten a hot tip on when the Supreme Court will issue its ruling on the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. While we’re waiting around, we figured we’d ask you when you thought the ruling would be handed down.

Survey results from OfficeTeam that show employees’ most coveted summer benefits — flexible schedules and leaving work early on Fridays — also are the ones that are most offered by employers.

As she departs EBN for a new job, outgoing Associate Editor Lisa Gillespie writes that she "quickly learned that benefits are fascinating and have real-world implications on the lives of people and how well a company functions."

Perhaps you get trees’ worth of reports from your insurer or wellness vendor, but the words they use are foreign and confusing. Although there isn’t enough time to deconstruct them all, here are three technical terms that often appear in these kinds of reports, and what they mean.

In a recent study, UK researchers concluded that there are two types of employee engagement — transactional and emotional — and that the type that’s most prevalent within your organization makes a difference.