Employee Benefits


Recent Employee Benefits Articles

Keeping Key Players in Place

Jan 1, 1995

For any owner who has decided to put the business on the block, a crucialissue is how to retain key managers before and after the sale. If important emplo...  Read more

Real-Life Seminars

Jan 1, 1995

Looking for a low-cost benefit to offer your employees? Hemmings Motor News, a publisher in Bennington, Vt., holds a seriesof on-site seminars for...  Read more

Give Benefits to Part-Timers

Jan 1, 1995

Howard Schultz, CEO and chairman of Seattle-based Starbucks Coffee, believes that his business couldn't achieve profitablegrowth if it didn't provide comp...  Read more

Junk the Company Car Policy

Jan 1, 1995

Buying company cars for sales and service people is a trap, warns Stephen Albano, founder and president of Offtech, adistributor of office equipment, in W...  Read more

Drucker: The Movie

By George Gendron |  Dec 1, 1994

A comment on the use of Peter Drucker's material by Whit Stillman in his movie "Barcelona."  Read more

Turmoil Today, Jobs Tomorrow

By Paul Reynolds |  Dec 1, 1994

The Coleman Foundation Chair of Entrepreneurial Studies explains the results of studies on regional economies.  Read more

Head of the Class

By Alessandra Bianchi |  Dec 1, 1994

The winner and runners-up of the 1994 entrepreneurship Educator of the Year.  Read more

Time to Upgrade Your Broker?

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Dec 1, 1994

A international insurance broker explains why small businesses need to review their agents each year and how to do it.  Read more

Resources: Quiz Your CPA

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Nov 1, 1994

A quick review of the American Institute of CPA's brochure '101 Question to Ask Your CPA,' and how to order it.  Read more

Executive Education: Inc. Shops the Top Marketing Programs

By Karen E. Carney |  Oct 1, 1994

A list of five sales-and-marketing "executive ed" programs, with information such as tuition, length and phone numbers.  Read more

Seeing Is Believing

By Joline Godfrey |  Sep 1, 1994

An entrepreneurial educator discusses the importance of teaching children about business with a social conscious.  Read more

Start-Up News: Hire Yourself

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Sep 1, 1994

A quick look at some recent research that suggests a little governmental encouragement boosts the rate of start-ups.  Read more

Does California Show How?

By Michael P. Cronin |  May 1, 1994

A California cooperative helps small businesses negotiate better rates from health insurers.  Read more

The Case for Self-Insurance

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  May 1, 1994

Self-insuring makes sense for companies with high costs. Smaller companies can save by auditing claims closely.  Read more

Are You Sure You're Insured?

By Robert A. Mamis |  May 1, 1994

One insurance company is now offering insurance for home offices.  Read more

Buying Coverage as a Team

By Michael P. Cronin |  Apr 1, 1994

CEO of an 18-employee company formed an alliance with other small businesses to bargain with health insurers.  Read more

Special 401(K) !

By Michael P. Cronin |  Mar 1, 1994

One CEO matches his employees' 401(k) contributions two dollars to one.  Read more

The Health-Care Bill, Today

By Michael P. Cronin |  Jan 1, 1994

A look at what small companies now pay for health-benefits programs.  Read more

B-School for Beginners

By Alessandra Bianchi |  Dec 1, 1993

An elementary teacher has developed a curriculum to teach entrepreneurship.  Read more

Smart Self-Funding

By Michael P. Cronin |  Nov 1, 1993

Self-funding for medical benefits is becoming increasingly popular, but small companies should take precautions.  Read more

How to Impress a Banker

By Bruce G. Posner |  Nov 1, 1993

Credit insurance is gaining ground in the U.S., as a way to preserve capital from the danger of uncollectible accounts.  Read more

Not Just Your Ordinary 401(k)

By Michael P. Cronin |  Nov 1, 1993

Company ties the amount of its 401(k) contributions to profitability, and provides finance classes for employees.  Read more

What 24-Hour Care Means

By Michael P. Cronin |  Oct 1, 1993

Explanation of what 24-hour care is and how it could affect small businesses.  Read more

Sign of the Times

By Michael P. Cronin |  Oct 1, 1993

Inc. 500 companies are pioneering alternatives to the traditonal suppliers of health-care services.  Read more

Bonuses Prompt Safety Sense

By Michael P. Cronin |  Sep 1, 1993

Company uses gain-sharing program to encourage employees to reduce workers' compensation costs.  Read more

What Wellness Means

By Inc. staff |  Sep 1, 1993

Chart showing different types of wellness programs and percent of polled companies that offer them.  Read more

Taking Care of Sick Kids

By Michael P. Cronin |  Aug 1, 1993

Company collaborated with other area companies to provide emergency child care for employees.  Read more

Teaching Entrepreneurship

By Inc. staff |  Aug 1, 1993

Chart showing rates of business formation among ethnic groups in the U.S. versus that of NFTE graduates.  Read more

Insurer as Prevention Partner

By Phaedra Hise |  Jul 1, 1993

How a company cut insurance premiums in half by controlling the causes of worker injury.  Read more

Get an Adjustable Life

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jul 1, 1993

Adjustable life-insurance policies make sense for cash-strapped owners of growing companies.  Read more

Best Work and Life: One Life to Live

By Michael P. Cronin |  Jul 1, 1993

How some companies acknowledge and foster their employees' lives outside the office.  Read more

Safe Self-Insurance

By Michael P. Cronin |  Jun 1, 1993

Company reduced insurance costs by reducing coverage, raising the deductible and self-insuring the difference.  Read more

Stock Options for All

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  May 1, 1993

Guidelines for implementing a stock-option plan for all employees.  Read more

Hedging Mother Nature

By Alessandra Bianchi |  Mar 1, 1993

New business indemnifies weather-sensitive events.  Read more

Bonuses for Breaking New Ground

By Susan Greco |  Mar 1, 1993

Sales reps receive bonuses for opening new accounts or selling new products.  Read more