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Employee benefit adviser Mark Gaunya says the best way to turn lemons into lemonade — and challenges into opportunities — is to live life gratefully and let helping others keep things in perspective for you.

A new survey suggests workers under the age of 25 are significantly more confident than others that they are on track for a comfortable retirement. Is it youthful arrogance, or has the younger generation absorbed some of the financial lessons we need them to learn?

Three separate studies conclude that being bored and gossiping at work are good, but meetings are bad. If that's the case, EBN Editor Kelley M. Butler questions whether going to work even worth it.

Some employers assert that the play-or-pay mandate will raise their costs and force them to make workforce cutbacks. As a result, a number are considering eliminating their health care coverage altogether and instead paying the penalty on their full-time employees. While the “pay” option might be worth considering, there are strong reasons why employers should look carefully at all of their options and do their best to calculate the actual outcomes of each.

A report in the Journal of Consumer Research finds that a five-minute visit to Facebook lowers users’ self-control in decisionmaking, including decisions about what to eat.

If one of your resolutions for the new year is to increase the attention and/or investment in a tuition assistance program, guest blogger Kyle Lagunas offers 4 keys to get you going in the right direction.

Guest blogger Linda K. Riddell shows how an eye for detail and some simple calculations could prove to be a life-saver for employees that are overusing/abusing narcotic painkillers.

After reading research from the Investment Company Institute concluding that defined contribution plans don't "reduce retirement preparedness," Editor-in-Chief Kelley Butler channeled a "Saturday Night Live" skit to offer her perspective.

In conjunction with this month’s EBN cover story, “Buyer beware,” which examines consumer readiness for purchasing their own health care coverage via public and private exchanges, Dr. Raymond Fabius, chief medical officer at Truven Health Analytics, penned this guest blog post questioning the wisdom of shifting to the exchange-only model.

Even though cash tops employees’ holiday wish lists this year, Michael Levy, president of Online Rewards, says it’s time to re-examine the conventional wisdom regarding the value of year-end bonuses. He offers three bonus secrets that employers need to know.