Uber loses human resources head in latest high-profile departure
The departure is the latest high-profile executive to depart the ride-hailing giant only just emerging from a year of internal upheaval.
Practice management
Employees want DIY HR tools — but some employers fall short on offerings
Younger workers are driving the need for self-service human resources tools, but smaller companies are slow to adopt them.
Benefits Think Create urgency to close the deal
Advisers can take a page from the auto industry and give employers an incentive to make a timely decision.
Eric Silverman
Voluntary Benefits
Robots will make life grim for the working class
Employers are dreaming of ways to use machine learning to replace a vast array of human tasks, from driving trucks to preparing food.
Benefits Think How benefit advisers can bring their A-game
By designing packages to improve our broken healthcare system, innovative benefits consultants can help clients save thousands of dollars.
Dave Chase
Health Rosetta
Benefits Think Confident leaders take the lead on company communications
If you’re not engaging on Twitter and social media, you're leaving your messaging and ideas in a desk drawer.
Wendy Keneipp
Q4intelligence
Benefits Think When is a ‘bonus’ really a ‘commission’? A reminder to ensure pay plans comply with state laws
A new court decision out of Illinois provides a good reminder that vaguely described policies and restrictive payment rules can expose employers to large liabilities.
Ryan N. Parsons
Foley & Lardner
How a broker eases employees’ healthcare burden
Pancoast Benefits offers clients concierge services to engage and empower workers to take charge of their benefits.
Exclusive Research As open enrollment preparations move ahead, goal setting becomes a key focus for advisers
Working with employers to put the right objectives in place leads to higher plan participation and greater employee satisfaction with the benefits package.
Editor’s Letter: Enticing benefits strategies
It’s a whole new benefits game as advisers come up with creative solution to help their clients self-insure.
Small HR department? Don’t count out big tech changes
Tracie Sponenberg, human resources exec for The Granite Group, explains how she helped her 500-employee company modernize its system capabilities.
Meet EBA’s 2018 Digital Innovators
From founding paid leave platforms and healthcare management apps to creating a virtual personal benefits assistant, these 20 visionaries are disrupting the benefits industry.
Benefit advisers urged to leverage power of personal touch
Million Dollar Round Table leaders share simple methods for taking sales of insurance and financial services to the next level.
NFP venture fund to seed innovative broker-tech partnerships
A $30 million investment aims to connect employers with bleeding-edge products and services across HR, insurance and financial services.
Employers are finally ready to talk about how much they pay
Employers have long discouraged talking about money at work, in part because obscuring salary information keeps compensation costs down. But that attitude is starting to change.
C-suite or bust: Brokerage steps away from typical HR-driven benefits conversation
PSG Washington focuses on executive-level strategic planning to lower health plan costs for clients.
Benefits Think Predicting the future of HR tech
AI, gamification and mobile will become indispensable tools for human resources directors.
Alex Tolbert
BerniePortal
Serving up one financial perk: early access to pay
Why one restaurant chain says giving workers advanced access to their earnings raises morale and increases productivity.
Blockchain: The next HR frontier?
ADP corporate strategist Tashina Charagi explains how the technology can help employers and workers find each other faster and work more efficiently.
U.S. Supreme Court rules against unions on mandatory fees
A divided court said government employees have a constitutional right not to pay union fees
