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In my entire career, I’ve never booked business class travel — ever. So I’ll freely admit that Energizer Battery Company’s travel rebate program, which incents employees to book coach over business class when traveling, is completely foreign to me.

Of course, everyone is fighting tooth and nail to retain grandfathered status for their health plans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and rightly so.

Kaiser Permanente has launched a new online nutrition program, called “Mix It Up,” designed for employers to help their employees improve their daily eating habits by including more fruits and vegetables. Do we really need a separate program for that?

A YouTube video shows 25 things the video’s creator has learned from HR. What has the HR/benefits profession taught you that you would add to this list?

After years of recession-fueled gloom, it seems the clouds are beginning to part when it comes to employee optimism as new poll from Randstad reveals that U.S. workers are feeling more secure in their jobs and positive about the future.

On the one hand, there is the Zappos approach to interviewing — a lengthy, weeks-long process that involves not one, but several interviews. On the other, is the MediConnect Global approach, where candidates' formal interviews last just one minute. Which yields the best results?

In his book, “Why Nobody Believes the Numbers: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction in Population Health Management,” Al Lewis takes a wry look at the numbers wellness/disease management consultants and vendors use to calculate cost savings. He debunks their “undetected claims costs” and “non-chronic trend” using fifth grade math and common sense.

After watching all the political jabs being thrown between President Obama and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney regarding the “war on women,” it seems that on many benefits and compensation issues — including pay, retirement savings, health insurance premiums and life insurance coverage — women come up on the short end of the financial stick.

UnitedHealth Group, Target, Kraft and other leading employers have created a new outlet for employee altruism called “micro-volunteering” that allows individuals to give back to their community just 15 minutes at a time.

The American Board of Internal Medicine, Consumer Reports magazine and 17 medical professional societies recently banded together to launch “Choosing Wisely,” a public awareness campaign to reduce unnecessary medical tests and treatments.