In honour of Benefits Canada’s 35th anniversary, we took the opportunity to go back to the source to explore why employers offer employee benefits programs. Our research looks at the past, present and future of employee benefits—and shows how much senior business leaders value them. Cost concerns and the desire to more directly connect investment […]
Most organizations will see mental disorders as one of the top two categories on their drug utilization reports, and those conditions tend to be trending upwards, said Leanne MacFarlane, senior director, business development, with MHCSI, as part of a mental health panel at the conference.
While senior decision-makers agree that health benefits and retirement plans play a significant role in keeping employees happy and engaged, there is a disconnect when it comes to understanding the ROI.
Perhaps not surprisingly, cost is the main driver for senior decision-makers when it comes to their pension and benefits plans.
Investor sentiment in Canada continued to slide through the first half of 2012, according to the latest Manulife Financial Investor Sentiment Index.
Benefits Canada’s sixth annual Survey of CAP Members held some surprising results, especially around newer communication channels such as social media and mobile apps.
Bill Wilkerson’s career has been a series of accidents, he says, starting with the day he was expelled from high school for starting a water balloon fight during his senior year, in 1962.
People don’t consciously control a lot of their behaviour. For plan sponsors, this is frustrating, because getting employees engaged in benefits and retirement plans is all about behaviour change.
Growing drug plan costs are putting pressure on benefits plan sponsors to move to managed formularies—but industry stakeholders must first work together to change the drug evaluation process to ensure coverage decisions deliver the best value.
Workplaces today are filled with a generational jumble of four different age groups: veterans, baby boomers, generation X and generation Y. And the different dynamics of these groups have employers scrambling to find tactics to engage and inform them all.