Prudential shares the top tools to help employees reach retirement
“The pandemic has laid bare the widening gap between the financially secure and insecure in this country,” says Yanela Frias, president of Prudential Retirement.
Employee benefits
5 companies that boosted their employee benefits for working parents
Your guide on how employers can best support working parents from Employee Benefit News’ top stories of 2020.
‘I can’t lose this job.’ Why employees aren’t taking PTO this holiday season
More than 60% of employees plan to work during the holidays because of COVID-19 anxieties, which will lead to burnout.
Benefits Think As COVID worries continue, employers shouldn’t forget the student debt crisis
Employees are more likely to remain with their current employer if they offer a student loan benefit.
Snezana Zlatar
TIAA
Benefits Think Healing racial trauma in the workplace
During times of social change, there is the potential for people to be exposed to events that register in a person’s brain and body as trauma. The negative affects can accumulate and have an impact on a person's work and well-being.
Jennifer Sumiec
Empathia
It always pays to take sabbaticals and vacations
The average American full-time employee earned 23 paid days off a year, but only used 17 of them. That’s six days of PTO left on the table — the equivalent of handing a week’s salary back to your employer.
6 ways technology changed the workplace in 2020
The pandemic forced many companies to allow employees to work from home, which created new challenges for employers and their workforce.
The top tool for retaining your working parent population
The pandemic has highlighted how a permanent or semi-permanent work from home model can still produce a productive workforce, especially among working parents.
Year-end portfolio tweaks for an unusual year
In addition to maxing out your 401(k) and 529 savings plans, add to your health savings account and make year-end charitable donations.
Free food in the office is still a popular remote perk
Corporate catering provider ZeroCater launched a new personalized digital cafeteria to provide healthy meal options for remote employees and other essential workers.
Benefits Think Can your employees turn to you for sound financial advice?
The majority of American workers are facing meaningful financial challenges and are at significant risk for making financial decisions they are likely to regret.
Kelly O’Donnell
Edelman Financial Engines
8 health and wellness programs for a thriving workforce
From nutritional programs to maternity care and transgender benefits, employers and benefit providers got creative with one of the most essential benefit offerings.
Nationwide employer mandate could dramatically boost retirement savings
If the federal government embraced the model of states like California and Oregon, as many as 40 million more workers might start saving, researchers say.
Benefits Think 3 tips for taking your mental health and well-being benefits to the next level
Fortunately, there’s a silver lining to this year’s unprecedented demand for mental healthcare: increased awareness and acceptance of mental health issues, even in the workplace. But, there’s more we can do.
Alexis Holdcroft
Corporate Synergies
Citigroup offers sabbaticals to combat work-from-home fatigue
Even the cutthroat world of banking is starting to recognize the potential advantages of giving people a break, whether that’s someone trying to juggle family commitments or someone who just feels burned out.
Bank of America extends pandemic benefits for caregivers through March
Through the end of the first quarter, workers will be reimbursed $75 or $100 a day to pay caregivers, depending on the employee’s compensation.
Revisiting 2020’s top benefits professionals
2020 was a difficult year for benefits professionals, but Employee Benefit News’ Benny Award winners stood out with their support for employee mental health, financial wellness and overall well-being this year.
Recapping 2020: Check out EBN’s top 20 stories from this year
Scroll through our list to see some of the best coverage from 2020 on addressing racial trauma in the workplace, the COVID-19 crisis, and suicide rates among veterinarians.
6 companies that launched innovative mental health benefits this year
EAPs, yoga and meditation classes and access to free therapy are all ways to help your employees combat stress and anxiety from the on-going pandemic.
Benefits Think How concierge services can help ease the burden on employee caregivers
Employers must provide care options that are safe and reliable as families are dealing with more stressors than usual including at home learning, closed elder care centers, working remotely while supporting both child and elderly dependents.
Anita Darden Gardyne
Onēva