Employer-Paid

The HR organization hopes to help employer do a better job of retaining older workers who can give them a competitive edge.

By going cheap on labor expenses, the old Borders bookstores made it hard to act on a strategic opportunity.

Shares of Paychex Inc. are poised to outpace the broader market as the prospect of higher interest rates and more job creation will buoy the payroll-service provider.

Public awareness of workplace bullying has never been higher, but none of the more than two dozen states that have taken up the issue has actually passed any legislation to tackle the problem.

Nearly a third of today's workers are doing some or all of their work remotely, and that number is only going to grow as worker bees decide it is their right to work from wherever suits them.

Expect to see spikes in the employer-sponsored market in the second half of 2014.