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HR professionals: 7 tips to get attention from C-Suite

For many human-resources professionals, getting buy-in from the C-suite can be a challenge when top-level executives are strapped for time. Further, HR and C-suite representatives communicate in fundamentally different ways. In a CareerBuilder article, Beverly Flaxington, a certified professional behavioral analyst, shares her tried-and-true tips for HR professionals to effectively communicate with executives and gain leverage to achieve their goals. [Images: Shutterstock]

3 Things You Need to Know

This feature will start your week with three important facts, changes or conversations from recent events. Want to keep on top of developments in benefits, health care, finance and employment? Then these are Things You Need to Know. This week: IRS changes to retirement plan corrections go into effect today, a rise in a largely uncovered mental diagnosis and crucial shifts in talent workforce management.

By Editorial Staff

Making a great plan greater

Intersil implements a comprehensive financial wellness program, despite higher-than-average employee participation and deferral rates in the 401(k) plan.

Andrea Davis
By Andrea Davis
Editor-in-Chief
Employee Benefit News

Top 10 questions asked by HR professionals

The Employers Resource Association receives more than 8,000 calls each year to its human resources hotline. For the third consecutive year, ERA data show, the highest demand for phone-in expertise was not about health care reform or retirement plans, but HR “staples” like performance management, fair labor issues and immigration. On ERA’s top 10 list of most-questioned topics, the Family and Medical Leave Act remains No. 1.

Benefits Think Employees partly to blame for work-life imbalance, experts say

For years, the mandates for more work-life flexibility were directed at organizations and management, but workplace and academic experts say the boss or company are no longer the ones to solely blame for flexibility failure. However, two workplace experts now say the challenge is for employees to focus less on sweeping transformative change and instead make small, everyday shifts in work style.

5 work-life winners

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer may have banned working from home for her company but winners of this year’s Work-Life Rising Star recognition awards prove that teleworking and other flexible work programs are alive and well.

3 Things You Need to Know

Start your week with three important facts, changes or conversations from recent events. Want to keep on top of developments in benefits, health care, finance and employment? Then these are Things You Need to Know.

By Editorial Staff

4 DOMA-related do’s and don’ts

The Supreme Court in March hears oral arguments on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act and the validity of California’s Proposition 8. In advance of an anticipated summer SCOTUS ruling on these same-sex marriage issues, Rich Stover, a principal at Buck Consultants offers four tips to help employers discern what they should be doing right now to prepare for same-sex marriage developments. [Images: Shutterstock]

Top 10 drugs to watch

Drug spending declined 1.5% last year, according to Express Scripts’ most recent drug trend report, fueled in part by the release of many lower-cost generic drugs. The cost of generic medications dropped last year by 24%, while the cost of the most-used brand name drugs increased by 12.5%, the widest disparity in the past five years, according to the pharmacy benefit manager. Here are 10 of the top brand-name drugs that lost their patents in 2012. [Images: Shutterstock]

3 Things You Need to Know

Start your week with three important facts, changes or conversations from recent events. Want to keep on top of developments in benefits, health care, finance and employment? Then these are Things You Need to Know.

By Editorial Staff

The truth behind 6 wellness myths

Pressure is high on HR/benefits managers to keep health costs in line, and wellness program vendors promise to relieve that pressure — too many of them through “get well quick” schemes like the 6 outlined here. Knowledge is power, as the saying goes, and knowing the truth behind these common wellness myths could be the key to unlocking untold health cost savings. (Compiled by Linda K. Riddell, frequent EBN guest blogger and principal of Health Economy LLC.)

The best of the 401(k) Summit

More than 1,400 retirement plan advisers enjoyed three days of insights from their colleagues and leading retirement plan providers at the 2013 National Association of Plan Advisors/American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries 401(k) Summit.

The best of the 401(k) Summit

More than 1,400 retirement plan advisers enjoyed three days of insights from their colleagues and leading retirement plan providers at the 2013 National Association of Plan Advisors/American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries 401(k) Summit. Here are some highlights. [Photos: © James Tkatch, 2013]

7 wealth-destroying management styles

Whether running a small business or a giant corporation, leaders — and even trained MBAs — are making major mistakes when it comes to their management styles, says corporate turnaround executive Kathleen Brush, author of The Power of One. Brush provides the top seven mistakes managers make. [Images: Thinkstock]

3 Things You Need to Know

Start your week with three important facts, changes or conversations from recent events. Want to keep on top of developments in benefits, health care, finance and employment? Then these are Things You Need to Know.

By Editorial Staff

9 ways office food fuels employee satisfaction and productivity

Food can play an important role in motivating employees to spend more time in the office, work more effectively while there and generally view their workplace more positively, finds a nationwide survey of nearly 1,100 full-time professionals across more than a dozen different industries. The survey by Seamless, the leading service for ordering delivery and takeout from restaurants in the U.S. and U.K., also reveals the importance of food as a means for building and fostering relationships with clients. Since the average employee works more than 40 hours a week, “food remains a relatively untapped perk that companies can use to measurably improve employee retention and happiness and show their appreciation, while separating themselves from competitors. Free food all the time is unrealistic for most companies, but the occasional pizza party or afternoon treat goes a long way,” says Nick Worswick, vice president and general manager of corporate at Seamless.

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