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LifeCare Assurance, a 150-employee insurance plan administrator in Woodland Hills, Calif., used to make compensationdecisions using a method long favored ... Read more
Employee Benefits
Recent Employee Benefits Articles
Banking Time Off
"We were beginning to grow, and it was always tough when someone came to us and wanted time off," recalls Bill Liebegott,president of Hi-Tech Hose, in New... Read more
Letting Employees Choose Their Holidays
Employees were asking Howard Meditz, president of Marquardt & Roche/Meditz & Hackett, a marketing agency inStamford, Conn., for an additional paid holiday... Read more
Fun and Gains
Once a quarter, Mark Firmani closes his company for the day and takes his 10 employees to the movies. But not becausebusiness is slow. Firmani, president ... Read more
Health Insurance Tips
For Peter Hermann, health insurance is a headache. "Health insurance is a remarkably large expense, even for a 15-personfirm like ours," says Hermann, a g... Read more
To Your Health
Who isn't sick of getting clobbered with huge hikes in health insurance premiums? Since the early 1990s, Highsmith, a FortAtkinson, Wis., supplier of libr... Read more
Gimme a Break
Life at an entrepreneurial company can be stressful. That's why increasing numbers of growing companies are offeringworkers some type of respite. For exam... Read more
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
Want to improve esprit de corps at your company? Try eating together. GeoAccess, based in Overland Park, Kans., providesits workers with some unusual perk... Read more
A Piece of the Action
Think your company is too small for a formal employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)? Maybe not. Bruce Pinsky, presidentof Packaging Consult... Read more
Retire in Style
Here's a shocker: According to a 1997 study by the accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers), themost common executive perk in Americ... Read more
Home with the Kids
Donald Fay, operations manager for the Payne Firm, a Cincinnati environmental consulting firm with 1998 revenues of $4million, has begun to tap an underus... Read more
Making Work Fun
Offbeat workplace celebrations can help maintain a lighthearted atmosphere. Read more
Winter Holiday Rewards
The hectic winter holiday season is the time to show off a well-thought-out reward strategy that helps yourworkforce stay motivated and focused. "H... Read more
Dear Cherished Employee: You May Have Already Won $1 Million!
Record low unemployment has caused growth companies to go into the same business-identifying and retaining workers. Here's how Inc. 500 companies ha... Read more
Big Manager on Campus
Here's how some dorm-room entrepreneurs founded their first company, before they got a first degree. Read more
Recruiting Strategies: Company Profile
A look at how Harry Griendling turned Staffing Solutions Group into an employee friendly company by avoiding the stuff that sucks. Read more
Recruiting Strategies: Motivation
Looking for a new way to motivate employees? Here's a sampling of the perks several Inc. 500 companies are using to lure and retain their hard won staff. Read more
A Company of Their Own
Software provider Shipco Logistics offers employees a special perk: help starting their own companies and becoming SAP certified. Read more
Wellness Programs Can Save Companies Money
Companies that want to save on health care costs have no choice but to invest in wellness programs, says DeeEdington, director of the Health Management Re... Read more
Back to School--Low Cost and Local
Do some of your employees need training that you fear far exceeds your budget? Don't overlook the resources of your local community college, which... Read more
Oh Lord, Won't You Lease Me a BMW
Jim Bernard, CEO of U.S. Energy Corp., inAlpharetta, Ga., named his #1 problem: finding people. He's turning business away for lack of staff.His #2 proble... Read more
The King of Perks
One technique for keeping people is offering great perks, and Gary Quick, president and CEO of Quick Solutions Inc., in Columbus, Ohio, was the Perk King ... Read more
Becoming an Entrepreneur -- When You're 50-Plus
These days, 60% of the clients I work with as a career consultant are 45 or older. That percentage has nearly doubled from eight years ago, when I first b... Read more
The Pentagram Papers
In a time of stifling labor shortages, how can a company get and keep industry superstars? The folks at architectural-design firm Pentagram think they know: ... Read more
It Takes More Than Pay to Keep Good Workers
QUESTION: How can you best reward and motivate long-term employees who are strong performers and are already receiving good salaries and bonuses?<... Read more
Paid Vacations Gain as Recruiting Incentive
A Lincoln Park, MI, company that needed to hire about 50 engineers wanted to set itself apart from itscompetitors. Its solution? Offer four-day, three-nig... Read more
Open-Books Management
Inc. editors handpick five recently published books guaranteed to help you think smarter about your company, your family, and yourself. Read more
The Best Things in Life Are Free
Having a hard time competing with all the perks that well-heeled companies seem to throw around? Here's a benefit with no out-of-pocket costs that will thril... Read more
Quirky Perks
Quirky perks In these days of customized compensation packages, candidates can get very creative with the perks and benefits they wa... Read more
Firms Shift Gears on Relocation Policies
Companies aren' t beefing up their relocation benefits packages to attract and retain employees, even in thetight labor market. In fact, the opposite is t... Read more
Fine-Tuning Your Bonus Plan
How does the bonus committee at Commercial Casework revise the company's annual bonus plan so quickly and efficiently? They simply tweak the answers to th... Read more
The Great Games of Business
The businesspeople you see using digital assistants on airplanes probably aren't doing work. They're playing games. But the games they play are teaching them... Read more
You Don't Ask, You Don't Get
You always hear that to be a good salesperson, you have to overcome rejection, but what you really need to overcome is the fear of asking for what you want Read more
Hire the Best
There's never been a better time to attract senior talent to your growing company. Here's how to recruit highly skilled employees as you never could before. Read more
Redesign Work
Rick Born, the CEO of Born Information Services, designed his company around a single goal--employee retention. Here's why his company looks so different fro... Read more
