Employee Benefits


Recent Employee Benefits Articles

Motherhood, Apple Pie Stock Options

By Edward O. Welles |  Feb 1, 1998

Although stock options are widely used to attract quality employees, they can have negative effects on your company if employees misunderstand them of if the...  Read more

CEO's Notebook: Stock Options Equity

By Inc. staff |  Feb 1, 1998

Tips and resources on offering stock options, sharing equity, teaching employees about their stock, and discouraging them from selling stock to start their o...  Read more

Virtual You

By Joshua D. Macht |  Jan 1, 1998

Virtual universities have become increasingly popular with business owners who want more education, but who need a flexible study schedule. A look at these "...  Read more

The Antihero's Guide to the New Economy

By Michael S. Hopkins |  Jan 1, 1998

Doug Mellinger, founder of PRT Group, is hailed as an entrepreneurial antihero. Read how he created a wildly successful software design company that isn't ce...  Read more

...and a PC in Every Home

Jan 1, 1998

Employees who use computers off the job are more likely to use their computers efficiently at work. At least that was the thinking at Multiplex, in Ballwi...  Read more

Graphic Demonstration

Jan 1, 1998

John Westrum's home-building company in Fort Washington, Pa., was growing like mad: From 1991 to 1994, its revenues skyrocketed 700% to $28 million. Parad...  Read more

Dear Diary

Jan 1, 1998

Once a company has a history of sales, it may need a database to track them. But as Jane Wesman discovered, a simple notebook may do the trick for trackin...  Read more

Can You Achieve High Impact with a Low-Cost Perk?

By Christopher Caggiano |  Jan 1, 1998

How about allowing employees to redistribute something that you're already giving them--such as vacation time? Kevin Harper, president of Autumn-Har...  Read more

Bookmarks

By Michelle Keyo |  Dec 15, 1997

You're setting up a home business and need E-mail. The obvious thing to do is call your local ISP, where you can get TCP/IP to send your data packets over...  Read more

What They Do (and Don't) Teach You in Business School

By Hal Plotkin |  Dec 1, 1997

An M.B.A. will help you run an established business, but it can't provide the real-world experience needed to run a start-up. A look at when an M.B.A. comes ...  Read more

State-of-the-Art Training

By Karen Carney |  Dec 1, 1997

Maritz: the Multimedia, High-Involvement Classroom The Midwest region of Maritz Travel Co. runs business literacy training classes...  Read more

Perks You Can Afford

By Christopher Caggiano |  Nov 1, 1997

You don't necessarily need to pay more to keep good employees. A look at some unique employee benefits that can help you create an environment your workers w...  Read more

Managing: Treating Temporary Work as a Permanent Fixture

By Jerry Useem |  Sep 1, 1997

Here is a start-up non-profit that just may do for temp work what the labor unions did for employees in the 1930s.  Read more

The Learning Executive

By Jim Collins |  Aug 1, 1997

A leading management guru tells why you need to put learning objectives before performance.  Read more

New Recruitment Strategy: Ask Your Best Employees to Leave

By Phaedra Hise |  Jul 1, 1997

A look at how large companies are tapping into the entrepreneurial urges of their employees.  Read more

Working Fathers

By T. Pittinsky |  Jul 1, 1997

A reprint from a current book called Working Fathers: New Strategies for Balancing Work and Family.  Read more

More Show, Less Tell

By Jeffrey Epstein |  Jun 15, 1997

A company president finds a new presentation software package provides too much text and not enough action.  Read more

'You Can't Fire Me, I'm an Owner!'

By Stephanie L Gruner |  Jun 1, 1997

Experts warn that once you give an employee stock in your company, your relationship changes forever.  Read more

Nine Habits of Highly Effective Salespeople

Jun 1, 1997

Top Salespeople... 1. Spend 60% to 70% of a sales call letting the customer talk. 2. Are better than others at recognizing ...  Read more

My employees want another holiday. What should I do?

By Mike Hofman |  Jun 1, 1997

Employees were asking Howard Meditz, president of Marquardt & Roche/Meditz & Hackett, a marketing agency in Stamford, Conn., for an additional paid ...  Read more

Out of Business

By Susan Beck |  May 1, 1997

A top-notch CEO discovered that some innovation could only happen after he left the company he founded.  Read more

Who Benefits?

By Ken Terry |  Feb 1, 1997

The editor of Medical Economics magazine gives the lowdown on tax-exempt medical savings accounts.  Read more

Look Before You Lease

By Jay Finegan |  Feb 1, 1997

One of Inc.'s senior writers explains that employee leasing can be a dream come true or a real nightmare.  Read more

Pay 'Em to Play

Jan 1, 1997

Knowledgeable employees give the best service. Tuition reimbursement promotes continuing education, but not all employees want to sit in class after a ful...  Read more

Tips for Planning Employee Recognition Events

Jan 1, 1997

Microtest, a $50-million computer and LAN products supplier, celebrates National Customer Service Week each year. The Phoenix-based company designs a seri...  Read more

Featured First Person: Timothy S. Cohen

By Timothy S. Cohen |  Dec 17, 1996

As long as you view business, and life itself, as a learning process, you cannot lose; whatever happens, you will learn from it and keep growing and enric...  Read more

A Holiday-Bonus Alternative

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Dec 1, 1996

A CEO explains how she can give herself an alternative holiday bonus despite tight profit margins.  Read more

Forget the Organization, Says Management Guru

By Mike Hofman |  Nov 1, 1996

Noted business author Nancy Austin explains what's new in upcoming titles from the business-book press.  Read more

Too Cool For School?

By Jay Finegan |  Oct 1, 1996

After years of loathing M.B.A. programs, here's why today's savvy entrepreneurs are now seeking these degrees.  Read more

From Peace Corps to Entrepreneurial Hardcore

By Wendy Marx |  Sep 3, 1996

Jude Carter's home a...  Read more

Therapist to the New Economy

By David Whitford |  Sep 1, 1996

Profiles of various businesspeople who have embraced the teaching of Stephen Covey, and why.  Read more

What's the Net Present Value of a Harvard M.B.A.?

By George Gendron |  Aug 1, 1996

A quick look at how valuable a Havard M.B.A. is to entrepreneurs interested in owning a business.  Read more

Student Uprising

By Hal Plotkin |  Aug 1, 1996

A look at why, faced with poor job prospects, university students today are starting companies in record numbers.  Read more

Workplace: Managing Generation X

By Donna Fenn |  Aug 1, 1996

An overview of how a marketing and communications firm is attracting and motivating young employees.  Read more

Book Reviews: Enough Is Enough

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Jul 2, 1996

In 1991, Bob Goudzwaard and Harry de Lange tell us, more than "2 million more Americans found themselves in poverty than in 1990, bringing the total figur...  Read more