By on May 20, 2015 in Employee Benefits |

Employees care about benefits, and the package you offer can make the difference between maintaining a top-notch staff and losing your best workers to the competition. While federal law mandates some perks, including time off to vote and serve jury duty, others are purely voluntary offerings intended to improve the health, happiness and productivity of your...

By on May 7, 2015 in Employee Benefits |

Workplace wellness programs are benefits that employers offer voluntarily or mandatorily to their employees to promote wellness and fitness.  Employees benefit from these programs that encourage employees to quit their unhealthy habits such as drinking and smoking and take up exercise. The benefits of the workplace wellness programs can be helpful for both the...

By on Apr 29, 2015 in Employee Benefits |

As anyone with more than a handful of employees knows, enrollment and management of employee benefits is a frequently tedious, time consuming process. Between the constant fight to remain in compliance with HIPAA and other federal and state laws, open-enrollment periods that can keep HR professionals tied up for weeks at a time, and the usual demands of hires, fires...

By on Apr 16, 2015 in Employee Benefits |

According to a 2013 employer survey conducted by Accelir, a human resource strategy advisory firm, 91 percent of companies include a service rewards program as part of their employee benefits package. In addition to traditional milestone awards for five, 10 and 20 years of employment, many of these companies are beginning to recognize employees after as little as...

By on Mar 31, 2015 in Employee Benefits |

Should employers concern themselves with the wellness of their workers? If employers want to spend less for health care costs, the answer is yes. This claim is based on many studies on big companies that adopt a wellness plan. Doctors Richard Milani and Carl Lavie studied how a wellness program helps lessen the medical costs in a certain company with 185 workers....

By on Mar 18, 2015 in Employee Benefits |

It’s no secret that America’s workers are busy. Between family obligations (like sick kids or ailing parents) and necessary errands (like annual physicals and renewing driver’s licenses at the DMV), few can dedicate paid days off to real vacation time. Fortunately, some companies have found a way to remedy this situation. They call their solution “unlimited PTO,”...