Employee Benefits


Recent Employee Benefits Articles

Health-Care-Cost Headaches

NSBU chart of the percentage increase in health premiums for small business.  Read more

Creating a Wellness Program

Various resources for promoting health programs within the company.  Read more

Cutting Through Insurance Jargon

Insurance terminology some money saving tips.  Read more

How to Read a Claims-Loss Statement

Investigating and verifying claims-loss statements to control insurance costs.  Read more

The Examined Health-Insurance Bill

Reducing health-care costs by analyzing itemized bills, becoming self-insured, soliciting outside bids.  Read more

Mileage-Award Insurance

Airline mileage-award insurance saves frequent fliers from losing their bonuses to defunct airlines.  Read more

On-Site, Low-Cost Day Care

Mothers caring for babies at work.  Read more

Firetrap

Problems recovering insurance money from fire damage.  Read more

Head of the Class

EOY supporter award. Co-partners fund encourage entrepreneurship education.  Read more

Is Your Move Covered?

Strategies for protecting insuring a company move.  Read more

Checking Out Your Insurance Company

Resource that provides reports on the financial health of insurance companies.  Read more

Network: November 1991

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

Shopping for Carriers

Controlling costs by soliciting insurance bids every three years.  Read more

A Strategy for Cost-cutting

Cutting costs on workers' compensation through self-insuring prescreening prospective hires' backgrounds.  Read more

The Growth of 401(k) Plans

Chart of companies with 401K plans.  Read more

Rewarding the Troops

Chart depicting the percentage of companies using various sales rewards.  Read more

Against the Odds

Federal government authorizes state pilot programs to teach entrepreneurship to welfare recipients.  Read more

Treatment to Go

New start-up controls rising healthcare costs by providing day treatment to patients.  Read more

Books That Transform Companies

Profile of a company that promotes teamwork and open communications by sharing books.  Read more

The Rising Cost of Medical Care

Chart illustrating the rising cost of medical care.  Read more

Safety in Numbers

Small companies band together to control rising health insurance costs.  Read more

Steal This Strategy

How one company grows and prospers by taking the best ideas from big companies.  Read more

Network: January 1991

Network reader-to-reader advise.  Read more

MBAs For Hire

Trend towards M.B.A. students seeking small growing businesses to work for.  Read more

A Fresh Look at Insurance

Cutting insurance costs by overhauling insurance coverage.  Read more

What Chief Executives Read

Profiles of successful entrepreneurs, their favorite books, and how reading helps them run their companies.  Read more

CEO in training

CEO's commitment to learning factory operations results in quality improvements.  Read more

Managing as a Performing Art

CEO recommends reading Managing as a Performing Art for a lesson in effective management.  Read more

Barbarians to Bureaucrats

CEO recommends reading Barbarians to Bureaucrats as a guide to diverse personality types within an organization.  Read more

Beyond the 401(k)

The benefits of the state-of-the-art executive compensation plan known as the 401(k) wraparound.  Read more

Two Holes in One

Author of a business best-seller starts a golf camp where executives learn management skills from golf pros.  Read more

The Shop Floor

Company president spends a month on the floor of one of his retail stores to gain a different perspective.  Read more

Health Insurance: Exercises in Futility?

Survey of 300 executives: What have you done to control the cost of health care benefits?  Read more

Keeping in Touch

Company saves money on worker's comp. by bringing injured workers back to work at lighter jobs as soon as possible.  Read more

Hotline

Hotline informational paragraphs for January 1990.  Read more