Your alarm goes off and the day-to-day drudgery beings. Hurray. It’s often tough to get excited about the daily events, and some days are more challenging than others to get motivated, yet there are a few simple things everyone can do to inject a littl…
With apologies to the band R.E.M., this article is not about their music, nor their album, but about how automatic enrollment has significantly helped people.
The summer is upon us and that means warmer weather, lots of sunshine, and plenty of opportunities to have some fun outdoor activities. It’s too bad that your office job requires you to be indoors all day, or does it?
If you haven’t heard of the "five-second rule," it’s the myth that it’s okay to eat a piece of food dropped on the floor if it’s picked up within five seconds.
UBA has created a flow chart with decision trees to help employers ascertain which rules apply to their wellness program as a result of its design.
With apologies to Buster Poindexter, it’s never good if you’re feeling hot, hot, hot. Heat-related deaths while on the job can happen to anyone, and are completely preventable, but who do you think it happens to most often?
Do you have a collection? Some people collect baseball cards, Barbie® dolls, or comic books. Others collect PCs, laptops, tablets, smartphones, and wearable technology. And those with mobile devices often collect apps.
Work. Work. Work. People work long hours at their jobs only to be rewarded by working long hours when they’re home.
As the saying goes, an oral agreement is as good as the paper it’s written on. However, once it’s in writing, it might as well be written in stone. Such is the case with labor contracts.
Stress eating, sometimes called emotional eating, is where a person feels the need to eat (usually in large amounts) some type of “junk” or “comfort food” in response to an emotional situation rather than due to feelings of being hungry.
And like that song from 1969, it appears that most employees really don’t know cloud computing at all.
Today, most new full-time hires expect a company to offer certain standard benefits – health, dental, vision, and life insurance, paid vacation and sick days, and a 401(k) or pension.
Nobody wants to be audited–especially by the Department of Labor. Audits usually either arise from a complaint (which leads to an investigation) or are totally random.
Eighty-nine percent of job seekers with student loan debt said they believe companies should offer student loan repayment as an employee benefit, according to a survey by Beyond.com.
The terms "wellness" and "well-being" are often used interchangeably; however, they mean very different things when applied to workplace health promotion.
The program enables the IRS, Social Security Administration, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to share information about whether Medicare beneficiaries or their spouses are working.
Eighty-one percent of employees have elected vision benefits in 2016, up from 78 percent last year, according to Transitions.
After a long wait, the Department of Labor has released the revisions to the white collar overtime exemption rules in the Fair Labor Standards Act. The new rule becomes effective on December 1, 2016.
Corporate disaster plans used to be just weather-related, but in today’s world these plans should include acts of terrorism.
An often heard excuse for people not exercising is that they don’t have time to do it. We all have time for something, it just depends on whether we want to make time for it.
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