A minority but growing number of employers give employees bonuses and raises based on this year's tax windfall; Visa leads the way with huge 401(k) boost.
Following this week's elections, CFOs are again in the dark about the outlook for the cost, delivery, and quality of company-sponsored health care.
For all the good the PPA has done for plan participants, there are some unfortunate unintended consequences of the law.
Innovative ways to engage employees offer hope for bringing health care spending under control.
With many pension plans too low-funded to justify aggressive fixed-income investment, lump-sum buyouts and annuities are popular derisking strategies.
With PBGC premiums soaring, sponsors face more pressure to fund up their plans. General Motors' response: do it with debt-issuance proceeds.
Thorny issues muddy the outlook for companies to expand what they publicly report about their workforce.
Costs for large companies rose just 3.2% this year, according to Aon Hewitt.
Mercer, perhaps a bellwether for growth in the private exchange space, will have 31% more active-employee exchange clients in 2016.
Companies are allocating more of their payroll budgets to compensation vehicles that don't add fixed, ongoing costs.
It may be counterintuitive, but combinations like Aetna's planned purchase of Humana could lead to lower pricing from medical providers.
Aon Hewitt says the rise in costs is due primarily to price inflation for brand and specialty prescription drugs.
