Employee Benefits


Recent Employee Benefits Articles

Setting a Global Table

By Elizabeth Newberry |  Feb 4, 2000

Judy Wicks sees her restaurant, the White Dog Cafe in Philadelphia, as an experiment in bringing business and social responsibility together. Besides serv...  Read more

Finding Your Soul at Work

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Feb 1, 2000

Work life The Soul at Work by Roger Lewin and Birute Regine (Simon & Schuster, 2000) The Wor...  Read more

Avoiding Insurance-Related Traps

By Barbara Weltman |  Feb 1, 2000

As a small business owner you may be operating under some false assumptions you need to clear up: Trap: Believing that ...  Read more

Coalitions Aim to Cut Health Costs, Improve Quality

Jan 15, 2000

Companies are joining coalitions and purchasing groups not just to cut health care costs but to improve quality fortheir employees. Executives of c...  Read more

Fighting Flu Season with Flexible Leave Policy

Jan 15, 2000

To keep the bottom line healthy, a company needs a sick leave policy that works -- that means a flexible policy thatallows employees to take responsibilit...  Read more

When Employees Share Stock Pain, Not Gain

Jan 15, 2000

More employees are sharing in company gains through stock option plans, but what happens when the pricedrops and it comes time to share the pain? M...  Read more

Rewarding Teams along the Way

By Bob Nelson |  Jan 10, 2000

Today many employees work in group settings. Working successfully as a team requires hard work, as individuals with different personalities, skills, and a...  Read more

Everything They Know Is Wrong

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Jan 1, 2000

Reviews of four new business books -- one on distinguishing good management advice from bad, one on taking your company public, and two self-help prescriptio...  Read more

The Other Bottom Line

By Joan Friedman |  Jan 1, 2000

How are you supposed to have the time or energy to keep your body in shape while growing a company? Here's why taking the time to take care of your health ma...  Read more

A Better Bonus

Jan 1, 2000

Low employee turnover leads to satisfied customers and repeat business. Dan Austin, director of Backcountry, an adventure vacation company, based in Bozem...  Read more

Why Business Schools Are a Bust

Jan 1, 2000

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What Does It Mean to Be an Owner?

By Corey Rosen |  Jan 1, 2000

Your company sets up an employee stock ownership plan and tells you -- loudly and repeatedly -- that now you too are an owner. But you look at your accoun...  Read more

Stock Option Plans

Jan 1, 2000

Attracting and retaining employees is particularly challenging for a small start-up company. Many such businesses will not have the cash for competitive s...  Read more

21st Century Presents Familiar HR Challenges

Dec 15, 1999

For HR professionals, the new century will take up where the old one left off - with the struggle to recruit andretain a trained, satisfied workforce. ...  Read more

State-of-the-Art Human Resources

By Karen Carney |  Dec 11, 1999

Human resource pros have come up with a host of methods for integrating HR functions with the participative-management approach. Check out the following t...  Read more

How Small Is Too Small for an ESOP?

By Corey Rosen |  Dec 1, 1999

One question frequently asked by company leaders on the topic of employee ownership is Are we too small to have an employee stock ownership plan? ...  Read more

Tax Implications of Recognition Rewards

By Bob Nelson |  Dec 1, 1999

Please note that this information is just a highlight of the guidelines from the tax code regarding employee awards. Taxabl...  Read more

Do You Have the " Right Stuff" to Be Your Own Boss?

Nov 30, 1999

If you are fed up with working for someone else, you have likely considered becoming your own boss and controlling your career's destiny. Starting a busin...  Read more

Taking the Ethical Route to Business Success

Nov 9, 1999

A Better Way to Think about Business by Robert C. Solomon Oxford University Press, 1999, 240 pages, $23.50 Bu...  Read more

Hot Tip: Options Program

By Anne Marie Borrego |  Nov 1, 1999

In the midst of the labor-market crunch, TMP Worldwide Inc. is keeping perk-hungry employees happy with an options program that works something like team ...  Read more

Hot Tip: A Perk for You and Your Child

By Anne Marie Borrego |  Nov 1, 1999

Although Gen-X employees may prefer such perks as free food and stock options, workers with kids in college need something else -- cash. To help out with ...  Read more

Ethics Earns Big Profits for London-Based Ad Agency

By Marjorie Kelly |  Nov 1, 1999

Talk about a dream coming true: St. Luke' s ad agency in London began as a kind ofdreaming, abstract exercise in imagining the advertising agency of the f...  Read more

No Train, No Gain

Oct 21, 1999

Some busy CEOs regard employee training the same way many of us regard exercise - it's a great idea, and it's essential to our well-being, but who has the...  Read more

Look before You Lease

Oct 21, 1999

Mark Pahmer, president of 22-employee Graphics for Industry, in New York City, is a big fan of employee leasing. That's because employee...  Read more

No Casual References

Oct 21, 1999

Many companies offer "referral bonuses" to employees for recommending job candidates who ultimately join the company.But some companies have discovered Read more

Company Campus

Oct 21, 1999

Your business doesn't have to be big to have an in-house "university" training program. And having one doesn't mean youhave an institutional ego bent on m...  Read more

Field Trips

Oct 21, 1999

When Lisa Lorimer's company, Vermont Bread, in Brattleboro, Vt., went through a growth spurt several years ago, salesdoubled in just two years. To help pr...  Read more

The Making of a President

Oct 21, 1999

In 1997, Dennis Brozak passed the day-to-day operation of his company, Design Basics, which had revenues of $4 million,to a new president, Linda Reimer. W...  Read more

Custom Packaging for Paychecks

Oct 21, 1999

Stock options. Lucrative bonuses. High starting salaries. Flextime. What kind of compensation matters most to experienced managers? There's no universal a...  Read more

Raise the Bar Gradually

Oct 21, 1999

Like many management ideas, John Westrum's bonus plan had its origins in a problem. In the mid-1990s, the home building company was growing like mad. From...  Read more

The End of the Annual Raise?

Oct 21, 1999

Instead of annual raises, this company set up two bonus pools linked to monthly and quarterly profitability.  Read more

A Dip in the Pool

Oct 21, 1999

If your workforce understands your business goals, you're more likely to achieve them. And if you give employees an easy way to track how well the busines...  Read more

Knowing The Options

Oct 21, 1999

Why give stock options rather than stock? Federal Document Clearing House (FDCH), an electronic publisher of news and information, found out by trial and ...  Read more

Avoid Being Stuck by Stock Grants

Oct 21, 1999

Francesco Pompei, president of Exergen, in Watertown, Mass., thought he was just dismissing a worker when he fired anemployee who had been granted company...  Read more

Phantom Stock

Oct 21, 1999

John Lucey faced a challenge that's a perennial quandary among owners of family businesses and other closely heldcompanies: How to compensate fairly and m...  Read more