World at Work These days, the details of a benefits package can be a deal breaker.

Bruce Hentschel, Benefitspro Which generation has become the nation’s largest living generation by population? Baby boomers? Generation X? Nope. The millennials – aka Generation Y – are projected to number more than 75 million this year, according to Pew Research.

Dan Cook, Benefitspro Recruiters are probably secretly anticipating the next recession. Their jobs are just getting too hard. The big bosses won’t loosen up on salaries, so they’re having to turn to juicier benefits packages to land the big fish.

Katie Kuehner-Hebert, Benefitspro Our annual survey of employers, Benefits Selling's 2015 Employer Survey, showed a lot of interesting changes coming in the employee benefits arena, at least from the employer perspective.

Melissa A. Winn, Employee Benefit News Increasing benefit enrollment numbers is often as easy as offering better education about the benefits offered, yet employers continue to struggle with their education strategy.

Nick Otto, Employee Benefit News Whether employees are missing work for a day or two recovering from a cold or away from work an extended period following the birth of a child, employee absence has an economic impact on employers.

Gregory A. Freeman, HealthLeaders Media The right approach can help reluctant physicians embrace value-based payment models.

Marlene Y. Satter, Benefitspro Financial wellness programs: Employees want them – or say they do. But when push comes to shove, employees either say their employers don’t offer financial wellness programs or they aren’t sure if they do.

Chris Carosa, Benefitspro I was at a financial journalist workshop in New York last week and discovered many interesting facts, not the least of which is that everything you always feared about reporters is true – but I digress.

Jack Craver, Benefitspro A new study suggests offering employees free food is an easy way to keep them happy and productive.

Compensation.BLR.com Employee perks are nothing new. Great company perks can even be the deciding factor for a lot of candidates when choosing a place to work.

Lauren Brousell, CIO.com A new survey suggests millennial workers respect their bosses, look to them for motivation and want to become leaders themselves; but salary, workplace perks and high-end technology are more important to them than to older generations.

World at Work When it comes to retirement readiness, employees at the tail end of their careers aren't the only ones stressing out. Their bosses are too.

World at Work There's a gap not only in pay when it comes to women and men, but also with how prepared they are to retire.

Uri Berliner, NPR Comfortable with technology and skeptical of Wall Street, a growing number of young investors have turned to low-fee automated financial advisers for help saving for retirement.

Julie Appleby, NPR As health insurance open season heats up for businesses, many employees will discover that participating in their company's wellness program includes rolling up their sleeves for blood tests.

Lisa Schencker, Modern Healthcare The surgeon was moody. He seemed drowsy at work. He was secretly an alcoholic. The situation could have led to patient harm, the loss of his license and malpractice lawsuits. But none of that happened.

Jack Craver, Benefitspro Maybe sitting isn't the new smoking. Or even the new soft drink. A recent study pushes back on the increasingly popular theory that sitting for hours on end is a significant detriment to one's health.

World at Work Working moms and dads in today's workforce go home hating work and feeling burnt out.

Brian White, WorldatWork In the 1970s, a rocket scientist from NASA was confounded. The agency had just landed a crew on the moon and his superior asked him: Why, with all this engineering achievement, couldn't they do anything about Earth's traffic? His solution? Teleworking.

David Zax, Fast Company When Douglas Merrill founded ZestFinance and began to think about the culture he wanted to install there, he thought back to his years as Google's CIO, from 2003 to 2008.

Carlos Gieseken, Pensacola News Journal Stephanie Duggan, MD, loves to work in emergency medicine. Even though she is the chief medical officer at Sacred Heart Hospital, she still works one shift a week in the emergency room.

The Faas Foundation via PR Newswire In order to explore bullying and wellness in the workplace and to create methods to assess psychological health and eliminate the unnecessary stress factors, the nonprofit Faas Foundation launched the Initiative to Create Psychologically Healthy Workplaces.

Tori Rodriguez, MA, LPC, Psychiatry Advisor With the vast range of therapeutic tools and techniques at our disposal, mental health practitioners often overlook a key resource that has a multitude of mental, emotional and cognitive benefits, is generally accessible to most people and doesn't cost a thing: the great outdoors.

Keith Sorrano, HR.BLR.com More than half of the U.S. population accesses health benefits via employer-provided benefit plans, and employers collectively spend over a trillion dollars providing them.

HealthLeaders Media Without a serious commitment to analytics and risk-related efforts, population health management will not reach its full potential.

Jonathan Bees, HealthLeaders magazine While leaders recognize the value of a new health care model, they are still early in forming strategies and making investments.

World at Work The state of business these days means managing rising health costs. Many companies are rethinking their health strategies to contain it.

Justine Hofherr, Boston.com Thanks to a $30 million funding deal, meditation app "Headspace" could soon join the ranks of innovative workplace wellness perks some companies offer employees.

Ann Wyatt, Benefitspro To attract and retain top talent, research suggests some employers are spending more dollars on richer benefits in lieu of higher salaries.