Posts Tagged ‘benefits’
Sometimes there is such thing as a free lunch
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Small Business — tracks feedback from small-business owners. We run the poll question each Thursday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: MSNBC published an article on employers that provide free lunches as an employee perk. Is that something your business does? There are no [...]
Do you offer benefits that cater to older workers?
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in SmartBrief on Workforce — tracks feedback from leading managers and human resources practitioners. We run the poll question each Thursday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: Do you offer benefits that cater to older workers? No: 82% Yes: 18% As businesses look at retention concerns as the [...]
A split on pay-for-performance
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in Smartbrief on Workforce — tracks feedback from leading managers and HR practitioners. We run the poll question each Thursday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: Are you adding pay-for-performance compensation and rewards plans at your company? Yes — we are adding more people to these plans, 33% [...]
Going social with benefits conversations — a Q-and-A with Jennifer Benz
In the past two years, Jennifer Benz has added 10 employees at her benefits communications firm Benz Communications, where the client roster includes such household names such as Intuit and Brooks Brothers. In a recent conversation with Robert Jones, contributing editor of SmartBrief on Entrepreneurs, Benz shared her views on using social media for communicating [...]
Employees appreciate voluntary benefits, WellPoint survey finds
Workers think more highly of employers that offer voluntary benefits such as vision and pet insurance than those that don’t, a survey by WellPoint found. However, only about half of the 2,500 people surveyed said they were knowledgeable about their employers’ voluntary insurance options were offered, noted Jeff Spahr, staff vice president of Vision and [...]
Employees feeling the health care pinch
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in Smartbrief on Workforce — tracks feedback from leading managers and HR practitioners. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: Are your employees bearing a higher portion of health care costs today than before? Yes — employees cover a higher percentage of [...]
Majority still don’t have same-sex partner medical leave
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in Smartbrief on Workforce — tracks feedback from leading managers and HR practitioners. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: Does your company have family medical-leave benefits for same-sex partners of its employees? No — 68% Yes, the same as for married [...]
This week’s most clicked
The 5 most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Workforce this past week: HRevolution: 6 secrets to getting your way at work Are your workers using their whole brains? HRevolution: How companies mess up employer branding Make your employee-benefits handbook mesmerizing How to keep your PowerPoint presentations on track
