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Benefits Think Overheard @: The latest in DM stats
This month, EBN spent "Five Minutes With …" Tracey Moorhead, president of DMAA. Moorhead spoke with Associate Editor Lydell Bridgeford on new trends and best practices in disease management programs, based on the organization´s latest research. Read Bridgeford´s article, "Sharper image: Economic…
Benefits Think Tip of the Day: Send in your speaker proposals for BFE ’09
Attention all aspiring presenters! Topic and speaker proposals now are being accepted for EBN's 2009 Benefits Forum & Expo, to be held Sept. 13-15 in Atlanta. All suggested sessions must include the name of an actual benefits practitioner. Benefit product and service providers also are invited to…
Benefits Think News You Can Use: Have meeting, won’t travel
Could the silver lining to the recession be fewer meetings? No, we're not that lucky. However, employers are looking at ways to meet smarter, if not less frequently.
Benefits Think Long-term care doubles in popularity over past decade
The percentage of workers with long-term care insurance provided by employers has doubled since 1999, from 6% to 12%. In larger companies with 100 or more employees, 20% of workers have access to long-term care, according to the 2008 National Compensation Survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor's…
Benefits Think Tip of the Day: ‘Step up to the plate’
A recent Society for Human Resource Management panel discussion, China Miner Gorman, the association's chief operating officer said that amid the economic recession, "The expectation for HR to step up to the plate with strategic business solutions is increasing, and HR is looked to more and more for…
Benefits Think News You Can Use: HR pros play futurist
Although most HR professionals are used to asking prospective employees, "Where do you see yourself in 10 years?" execs and thought-leaders turned the question on themselves as part of a recent report for Workforce Management.
Benefits Think Tip of the Day: Pass along Fidelity’s retirement resolutions
Fidelity has released new year´s retirement savings resolutions for people in three different age brackets- 25-35, 36-54 and those 55 and older, reports EBN sister title Money Management Executive.
Benefits Think News You Can Use: Specialty drugs driving Rx cost increases
A report from Haldy McIntosh and Associates for Medco finds 60% of plan sponsors believe that specialty medications are the leading driver of spending growth. This is a sharp increase over last year's survey, where only 25% of respondents shared this view.
Benefits Think Tip of the Day: Make ‘SMART’ new year’s resolutions
People typically have well-meaning aspirations when it comes to setting their New Year´s resolutions. Actually sticking to those resolutions is of course more difficult. The personal health coaches at Gordian Health Solutions are sharing their tips for keeping 10 common new year´s resolutions. According…
Benefits Think News You Can Use: Recession to affect workers more deeply
The ongoing recession already has affected employees, as the number of employers implementing layoffs and hiring and salary freezes has risen sharply in the last two months, according to a new survey from Watson Wyatt, and the cuts likely will continue into next year, the consulting firm finds.
Benefits Think Tip of the Day: Get those SSNs to CMS
Effective Jan. 1, employers will be required to submit to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Social Security numbers for covered workers and dependents to comply with a new federal mandate. You've been hearing about this for months, but if you're like us, there's no time like the last minute!…
Benefits Think Thanks for reading and for the compliments, Susan!…
Thanks for reading and for the compliments, Susan!
Benefits Think News You Can Use: Employers make revamping reitree medical a resolution for 2009
A new survey from ISCEBS and Towers Perrin indicates that employers are considering bold changes in 2009 to rein in retiree medical costs.
Benefits Think Unemployment statistics are irrelevant as Kelley B…
Unemployment statistics are irrelevant as Kelley Butler said (and considering that various nations measure the statistic differently). More meaningful is "at-will" employment in the States that isn't replicated in other countries. More telling is the larger relative severance given to U.S. top execs…
Benefits Think Programming note: Daily Diversion takes holiday hiatus
The Daily Diversion will take a much-needed holiday break Dec. 22-Dec. 26. New posts will resume Monday, Dec. 29. The EBN/DD staff wishes all readers a safe and happy holiday season.
Benefits Think I recently came across your blog and have been rea…
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Benefits Think Wish You Were Here: Make your company stand out to new grads
Research from TMP Worldwide has tapped into what new grads want from a job. Despite the recession and a corporate environment where layoffs abound, "just lucky to have a job" is not an attitude young workers appear willing to take. On new grads' list of "never, ever will I ever" job points, according…
Benefits Think Tip of the Day: Do due diligence on outsourcing locations
New research from Black Book Research and Brown-Wilson Group ranked the safest and most dangerous offshore locations, Workforce Management reports. Employers with international operations and looking to outsource jobs or entire business units will want to do their homework to make sure the location they…