Few CFOs today can avoid grappling with the rising cost of benefits. Mounting health- and retirement-plan costs present tough choices, but outsourcing and technology often create as many problems as solutions. We asked 295 senior finance executives from a diverse range of companies to share their views on the challenge and tell us how they are responding. As the numbers on the following pages show, these executives face a dilemma: how to trim expenses without undercutting their human-capital investments.
Uncertain Benefits: The 2005 CFO Human-Capital Survey
What finance executives say about cost control, choices, and concerns.
Don Durfee - CFO Magazine
February 22, 2005
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Inside the Human Capital Special Issue
Cover Story
- Taking on the Benefits Burden
Features
- 2005 CFO Human-Capital Survey
- Corporate Wellness Programs Advance
- Consumer-Driven Health Plans Increase
- Companies Rethink Prescription Plans
- Employers Cut Retiree Health Benefits
- A Tougher Pension-Accounting Environment
- Some Companies Retreat on 401(k) Matches
- Pensions: The New S&Ls?
- How IT Helps Manage Human Capital
- Portals Help HR Departments Shed Paper
- HR Outsourcing Moves Beyond Cost Cutting
- Voluntary Benefits Offer Way to Cut Cost
- Child-Care Bench Strength Curbs Absences
Also Inside
- From the Editor, Human Capital Issue
- Take-Away, Special Human Capital Issue
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