employees

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  Employees favor benefits insulated from market gyrations

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  January 28, 2013

  U.S. workers would accept a smaller salary increase for a retirement benefit that doesn't change with market performance.

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  OneAmerica: Most plan participants learn about finances from parents

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  January 22, 2013

  Fifty-six percent of respondents reported learning about finances from their parents, choosing from a list that also included books, a teacher or other family members. Younger adults between the ages of 20 and 30 were even more likely (71 percent) to have learned from parents, the report states.

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  Aon Hewitt Survey Shows Marginal Rise in Salary Increases in 2012

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  August 13, 2012

  The survey finds that base pay increases for salaried exempt workers were 2.8% in 2012, up marginally from 2.7% in 2011. Salaries have inched upwards year-over-year since 2009 when pay increases reached an all-time low of 1.8%.

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  Aon Hewett: Encouraging Employees to Reduce Health Risks Is Top Challenge of Employers

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  August 8, 2012

  Sixty-five percent of the surveyed companies say that motivating employee participants to adopt measures that reduce health risk factors is their top challenge. Smaller percentages of the surveyed companies cite other factors as top challenges.

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  Transamerica: More than Three-Quarters of Workers Fund an Employer-Sponsored Retirement Plan

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  May 16, 2012

  Despite the Great Recession, workers remain committed to saving for retirement in company-sponsored 401(k) plans and similar arrangements, according to a recent survey by Transamerica.

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  Sun Life: More than One-Third of Workers Decline DI Coverage from Employers

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  May 14, 2012

  The report reveals that more than one-third (38%) of workers whose employers offered them the option to pay for group long-term disability income insurance declined to buy it.

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  ComPsych Survey: Nearly Half of Employees Suffer Workplace Stress

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  March 29, 2012

  When asked to rate their current level of stress on a scale of one to five, 17.3% of surveyed employees answered “five” (high) and 35.5% answered “four.” Smaller percentages pegged their stress level at “three” (30.3%), “two” (13.4%) and “one” (3.5%)