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Health care consumerism and the move from pensions to 401(k)’s have a lot in common and this research from the Employee Benefit Research Institute should be required reading for anyone in the employee benefits space.
I went to the South Bay Organizational Development Network’s monthly meeting last night in San Jose. The topic was Accessible Dashboards and Employee Recognition and the speaker, Lynn Hunsaker, talked quite a bit about how social media and new media tools are having an impact on employees’ expectations around their own performance evaluations—both in terms of process and communication mediums.
Everyone who knows me knows that I am a huge huge fan of the Taproot Foundation. They exist to ensure that all nonprofits have the infrastructure they need to thrive—enabling them to support our communities. Taproot links professionals who volunteer their expertise with the small community-based nonprofits who need their services.
We’ve been cooking up a new benefits communication solution at Benz Communications and are looking for a small (but amazing!) group of companies to pilot the product this fall.
If you were born after 1980, 62% of the content you read is created by someone you know. Yes, seriously!
I just spent the last two days at eBay in San Jose at the “Corporate Communications and the Social Media Revolution” conference put on by Ragan and eBay.
I’ll be in San Jose at eBay Thursday and Friday for “Corporate Communications and the Social Media Revolution.” I’ll look forward to posting about the conference later this week!
Would you open a letter in a plain white envelope from the “Utilization Management Dept”? I’m guessing that piece of mail would have gone right to the recycle bin for most people. But, knowing that “utilization” is a favorite word of health plans, I decided to open it.
McKinsey study has valuable lessons