Benefit strategies

Plan sponsors should encourage the use of a vision carrier’s website, explain the connection between vision benefits and FSAs and send multiple reminders about the benefit to workers.

There are both pros and cons for employers who allow their employees to bring their dogs, cats or other furry friends into the office.

There are several critical steps employers need to take when moving human resource applications to a hosted environment.

All U.S. lawyers who are primary caregivers will be eligible for 20 weeks of paid time off; secondary caregivers will receive eight weeks.

Plan sponsors should encourage the use of a vision carrier’s website, explain the connection between vision benefits and flexible spending accounts and send multiple reminders about the benefit to workers.

All U.S. lawyers who are primary caregivers will be eligible for 20 weeks of paid time off; secondary caregivers will receive eight weeks.

Employers in the Bay State will have to provide more frequent breaks, job restructuring and modified work schedules.

Preston Rutledge, who has years of federal government service experience, ‘is not a divisive figure' and is expected to seek bipartisan input on topics such as the fiduciary rule.

The energy management company will give employees paid time off to bond with a new child, to care for a family member and to grieve a death.

Companies must consider network breadth and size and select coverage that offers tools to help employees.

Finding young talent in the advising field can be difficult, as evidenced by the growing median age of advisers, but family firms are enlisting children and grandchildren as eventual successors.

Preston Rutledge, who has years of federal government service experience, ‘is not a divisive figure' and is expected to seek bipartisan input on topics such as the fiduciary rule.

The energy management company will give employees paid time off to bond with a new child, to care for a family member and to grieve a death.

Given the uncertainty surrounding the individual market, intermittent workers will increasingly look to their place of employment for quality, payroll-deducted group benefits.

In a new book, private exchange pioneer Alan Cohen touts advantages of choice in the employer-sponsored healthcare market.

Voluntary benefit consultancy foregoes “one size, fits most” plans to target specific workers and their needs, such as buying a new home.

Employers began leveraging data to personalize social interactions six years ago. Now, it’s seeped into corporate life and drives HR offerings.

Employers began leveraging data to personalize social interactions six years ago. Now, it’s seeped into corporate life and drives HR offerings.

Companies can add a monthly allowance for workers and offer transportation as a commuter benefit.

BetterUp, Shiftgig and TINYpulse are some of the hot tech innovators that are shaking up the industry.