Employee Participation

Employee stock-owned companies saved the federal government more than $37 million in 2010 during high employment, according to an analysis by the National Center for Employee Ownership and the Employee Ownership Foundation.

Fidelity Investments says it plans to open a customer service center that could employ as many as 500 people in the Denver area.

Michigan's Kresge Foundation is helping launch a $100 million fund that seeks to improve health care access and expand housing opportunities in low-income areas.

Companies are increasingly looking at wellness programs to cut rising health care costs.

When an employee struggles, the entire business can suffer, as well. What starts as a single issue impacting one employee can taint the whole department, only to trickle throughout the entire business unit, and managers must be prepared to handle these issues.

Ford says it plans to hire 2,200 engineers, computer programmers and other white-collar workers this year as U.S. demand for new vehicles picks up.