A new book, “Pharmacy Benefits: Plan Design and Management,” walks HR professionals through the intricacies of pharmacy benefits and gives guidance and advice on a benefits practitioner's day to day duties.
A new survey suggests employers are looking to employees to help cut rising health care costs, some offering incentives to encourage healthier behavior, or in an opposite defense, implementing penalties if goals are not met.
Employees are stressed out. Not just from work, but from financial concerns too, which take a physical toll on workers, contributing to health-related costs and a decreases in productivity.
Employers are becoming more comfortable with employees using social media sites on the job, as long as it is business-related, according to a new Robert Half Technology survey.
Social media: the digital water cooler. And what your employees say about you or your company online might be protected speech, as has been shown in some of the headline-making cases that follow.
Despite lingering high unemployment rates, 52 percent of U.S. employers say they are having trouble filling critical positions within their companies, according to the Manpower Group’s Talent Shortage Survey.
As an employer, are you doing all you can to protect your company from the impact of workers’ compensation claims? Injuries will happen, but here are some of the dynamics you should know about, as well as solutions from workers compensation experts.
A Robert Half Legal survey shows that after a few years of salary freezes and layoffs, employees in the legal field may once again be awarded bonuses and raises.
Travel is an often necessary—and often stressful—part of business. But these days, missed flights, jet lag and hotel problems are the least of employees’ worries.
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