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If I gave you 30 seconds to name your company’s 10 top-performing employees, could you do it? If not, you’re not alone — unfortunately. A new survey reveals that more than one-quarter of large organizations make virtually no attempt to identify high-potential employees.

Although I’m ever grateful for all of my benefits and the financial safety net they provide, flexibility is the benefit that has the biggest impact on my day-to-day life. It makes me a better mother, wife, colleague, overall person — I can’t say any of those things about my 401(k) plan.

My family has an iPad at home, but I rarely see it. My kids' Angry Birds marathons don't leave much time left for mom to use it. But if I did use our iPad more often, I’d definitely read EBN on it—now that we’ve launched a new iPad app!

Although TV shows and online games makes light of the fact that U.S. adults struggle with basic elementary school concepts, the serious reality is that the chasm between the skills U.S. workers possess and the skills required for open jobs is wide, getting wider and may be partially to blame for the nation’s high unemployment.

According to a new survey from HighRoads, across employers ranging in size from fewer than 5,000 employees to more than 100,000 employees, 71% of respondents conduct “passive” versus “active” benefits enrollment, thus enabling employees to automatically renew most of their own plans -- not the best strategy, experts say.

Just like I don’t understand people who place sensitivity over salary when it comes to choosing an employer, it’s a mystery to me why anyone would work during a vacation. When I go away on vacation from work, I do just that. I go away. No answering calls, no checking voicemails and if you get an email from me other than my out-of-office reply, it’s either a dire emergency or my inbox has been hacked. …

News today from the Congressional Management Foundation and Society for Human Resource Management reveals that the two organizations next week will launch a new joint research project to better understand the working environment on Capitol Hill — specifically to examine how randomly selected members of Congress juggle their work and home lives and assess congressional staffers’ satisfaction with their workplace.

Recently, I came across a news item from U.S. News & World Report that, based on research from the Society for Human Resource Management, detailed 21 workplace benefits that are rapidly disappearing from view—for a variety of reasons.

Although generally a highly rated and highly valued benefit, one of the most irksome realities of flexible spending accounts is that account holders must drain the funds at the end of every plan year or lose them altogether. However, a bipartisan Senate proposal aims to end the FSA “use it or lose it” rule.

President Ronald Reagan was famously known as the “Great Communicator.” In a commentary for the New York Daily News to mark what would have been Reagan’s 100th birthday, Fred Thompson said Reagan’s reputation as The Great Communicator “boils down to three basic traits: he was simple; he was clear; he was sincere.” …