Originally posted February 2017. In a story starting to seem as old as time, again the Patriots won the Super Bowl, this time against the Atlanta Falcons. Since the arrival of Head Coach Bill Belichick, the franchise has been on that grand stage seven times, with five wins. (There were two appearances at the Super...
Originally posted May 2009. The SHRM article titled “Milestone: Most Fortune 100 Firms Offer Only 401(k)s to Salaried New Hires“, shares that for the first time more than half (that would be 55) of the Fortune 100 companies offer only 401(k) plans to newly hired salaried workers. The only thing that surprises us about this...
A Wall Street Journal News Alert published May 20, 2009 titled “U.S. to Inject More Than $7 Billion Into GMAC, May Become Majority Owner” got me thinking about socialism in America and its history in the arena of employee benefits. Back in the early 1970’s (1974 specifically), the government passed legislation called ERISA (Employee Retirement...
The fourth calendar quarter of the year is busy time for Human Resources. The iterative budget process is coming to a close and the final effort to lobby for funds, justify expenditures and rationalize programs is at full throttle. For those HR leaders who manage a budget, this is the essential occupation; this is their...
National Census Day will be, perhaps ironically, April 1, 2020. It is the day that the US Census Bureau wants all Americans to use “as a point of reference for sending… completed forms back in the mail.” This prompted our Grahall Editorial Board to consider important questions that organizations should be asking themselves to move...
Ok, maybe quite a bit more than 20 years ago today, but over the past 20 or more years there has been a vast evolution in human resources departments. Many HR departments have changed from “personnel departments” (charged with little more than providing employees with a key to the wash room) to become “strategic business...
