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A significant part of helping employees achieve retirement readiness is providing a 401(k) plan with features that guide participants down the path to retirement readiness.

For managers and benefits professionals to effectively address stress in the workplace, it's important to understand how stress affects employee productivity, and whether it affects men and women differently.

By now, you’ve likely heard about the controversy surrounding the ouster of Shirley Sherrod, a former senior-level official at the Department of Agriculture.

In real estate, it’s all about location, location, location. In benefits, it’s all about communication, communication, communication.

The latest Issue Brief from the Employee Benefit Research Institute offers good news and bad news. The good news: We’re all living longer! The bad news: We’ll all run out of retirement savings long before we die.

Like Santa, I imagine you’ll be making a list and checking it twice (20 times?) to make sure you have all your talking points in order so you can communicate effectively to employees how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will affect their benefits enrollment options.

According to the Treasury Department, employers have added some 4.5 million workers since the HIRE Act — which lets employers off the hook from 6.2% Social Security taxes if they hire people who have been unemployed for at least 60 days — was implemented in March.

First, Towers Perrin and Watson Wyatt walked off into the sunset, becoming Towers Watson. Now, there’s the news that Aon and Hewitt are becoming a mash-up as well, to be named Aon Hewitt.

I don’t know about you, but all of these studies that show how disengaged people are in their jobs is making me a little depressed.

Clearly, employees love Twitter and Facebook — stats from both social media sites show the number of registered users is growing by the thousands every month. And, employees say they want more benefits communication.