Nonprofit organization 3in4 Need More launched its summer-long bus tour Thursday to raise awareness about long-term care planning.

I’m going to stray from the playbook this week. I’m going to talk about health insurance.

Firms in the United States are targeting 4.9 percent growth in 2011, and a new study from Hay Group finds they're going to demand an increase in work force productivity to meet that goal.

Although employer spending on employee benefits remained stable, the amount of HR professionals reporting that the economy negatively affected benefits ticked up 5 percent this year, according to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).

Except for medical insurance, workers spend no time reviewing their benefits options.

Employers are remodeling their benefits plans to give employees more power to manage their health care costs, retirement, financial security, and leave, according to a 2011 Employee Benefits Study from the Society for Human Resource Management.

Three-quarters of American workers will be taking a "workation" this year.

Four in 10 employers expect to devote more time addressing retirement plan governance issues over the next two years.