Benefit management

Clients should sharpen their communication skills when talking to employees about healthcare in 2018.

Human resources technology is undergoing a wave of reinvention and innovation and managers need to prepare for the future, says Deloitte’s Josh Bersin.

Leading advisers are able to reduce the cost of employee healthcare by taking a vested interest in the quality and expense of medical treatment.

The new tool, which integrates with the company’s HCM system, takes information from older systems and stores it on the cloud.

Advisers can expect participation to continue growing thanks to employee demand and the use of better data and online enrollment, according to Eastbridge Consulting research.

Amazon, American Express and Ikea are among the employers offering enviable perks to employees.

HR professionals should sharpen their communication skills when talking to employees about healthcare in 2018.

Student loan aid, critical illness, ID theft protection and pet insurance will continue to grow in popularity in 2018, with some employers even paying for them.

Over the course of one afternoon, the NLRB recently issued two decisions that together overturned several of the Obama administration’s most polemic legal positions under the NLRA.

Employers should communicate with employees about flexible spending account deadlines and how they can spend their dollars before the clock runs out.