To Reduce Fraud, Set the Right Example
Between 70% and 90% of your workforce could be open to committing acts of dishonesty, according to research experiments and expert estimates. So how do you, as employers and plan… Read more >
About Robbie Hartman, CEBS
Editor, Publications for the International Foundation
Favorite Foundation Product: Face-to-face conferences—For the education, the speakers, the networking, the buzz of excitement, the buzz from the coffee stations and a buzz-illion other reasons, it’s hard to top our conferences.
Favorite Conference Moment: Book signings with Captain Mike Abrashoff and attitude provocateur Alvin Law. It’s reaffirming to watch people command the stage and then earn even greater respect with the way they take time to interact and connect with individual audience members at book signings.
Favorite Benefits Topics: Wellness, communication, work/life balance.
Personal Insight: Robbie values time with family and friends. Traveling to a new region is a bonus, but skipping rocks in the neighborhood creek will also do just nicely. He may be many things, and has been called most of them, but he is not a sitter and will gladly find a reason to get up from his desk.
Eight Steps to Enhance Your Plan’s Cybersecurity
Criminals want what benefit plans have: personal identifiable information that can be sold for great value on the dark web. Pension and benefit plans, administrators and affiliated trade unions of… Read more >
June 3, 2019 Cybersecurity, Employee Benefits, Fraud Read more >
In a Benefits Plan Far, Far Away
In honor of tomorrow’s “May the Fourth” holiday,we are re-running one of our favorite posts from 2018. Enjoy! Every year since 2011, May 4 has skyrocketed in popularity as Star… Read more >
May 3, 2019 Disability Benefits, Employee Benefits, Health Care, Insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO) Read more >
Use Your Pension Plan Powers to Locate Missing Members!
If only the pension world had its own version of a Bat-Signal, sending a lighted symbol high into the sky to let missing plan members know to reach out and… Read more >
April 25, 2019 Canada, Employee Benefits, Pensions, Retirement Read more >
National Employee Benefits Day: Ten Ways to Celebrate!
Happy National Employee Benefits Day! There’s no wrong way to celebrate every benefits professional’s favorite holiday. With all you do to improve the lives of your plan participants and beneficiaries,… Read more >
April 2, 2019 Employee Benefits, National Employee Benefits Day Read more >
Steps to Increase Retirement Plan Participation
I don’t have the money to start saving. These investment choices are so complicated. It’s too late to sock away money for retirement. I dropped my 401(k) in a puddle… Read more >
March 4, 2019 Employee Benefits, Financial Education, Financial Wellness, Retirement Read more >
Creating Healthy, Long-Lasting Habits in the Workplace
It’s a month into the new year and, by now, employees should be well on their way to eating healthier, exercising daily, saving more, spending less, taking up parasailing, speaking… Read more >
January 31, 2019 Behavioral Decision Making, Employee Benefits, Mental Health, Wellness Read more >
Snack Attack: Workplace Strategies for Healthier Food Options
It’s 2:57 in the afternoon, and your boss is about to put the cherry on top of a very important meeting. Suddenly, she morphs into a human-sized churro, her presentation… Read more >
December 6, 2018 Behavioral Decision Making, Employee Benefits, Wellness Read more >
5 Steps for Building an Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Program
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a form of psychosocial intervention in which negative thought patterns are challenged in hopes of altering unwanted behavior patterns, is increasingly being offered online. The online… Read more >
November 1, 2018 Employee Benefits, Mental Health Read more >
How Technology Can Transform the Future of Health Care
“Information is growing faster than we can handle and analyze efficiently, and medical data is expected to double every 73 days by 2020,” says Nathalie Le Prohon, vice president, health… Read more >
September 19, 2018 Canada, Employee Benefits, Health Care Read more >