HR Technology
Passing of the Torch
Bill Kutik isn't screaming from the stage, "you kids get off my lawn!" but it does feel as though the unspoken theme of the 17th annual HR Tech conference is the changing of the generational guard. As the highly visible baby boomers prepare for the next phase of their...
Live from Las Vegas, It’s HR Tech!
Coming to this conference always drives home two truths that I struggle to accept, even though I re-experience them every year: 1. How vast this HR Technology industry is and how easy it is to enter as a new vendor with some innovative software 2. How persistent our...
It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
No, it’s not Christmas…It’s time for the biggest HR Technology industry event in the world, the 2013 HR Technology Conference and Expo! This year, the gathering of industry experts and leaders will convene in Sin City. (Hopefully we’ll witness more vendor saints than...
HR Tech Acronyms (the actual list)
After receiving a few requests, here is the HR Tech acronym list mentioned in our previous post. Please leave us a comment if you have some that haven’t made our list. Human Resources Technology Acronyms AA Affirmative Action AAW ...
The Lingo of HR Technology
I was walking back from my usual 11 a.m. coffee run and I noticed something from my team that I hadn’t before. As you know, we assist clients and vendors all over the country with all things HR Technology, and a lot of that work happens over the phone or by online...
What Not To Say
Not everything HR related has to be as serious as Healthcare Reform or the secure transmission of Private Heath information. In our team, we often pass around articles we see of interest from other authors, blogs or magazines – how else are we supposed to continue to...
Can’t Get Enough Health Reform? Neither Can We!
Recently, I wrote about the work our team is doing with regards to the Affordable Care Act and how it will change the way employers manage. With the ever-changing news coming out of Washington DC, it’s important that everyone (not just employers) understand the impact...
Trader Joe’s Trades Benefits for Stipend
One more retailer is making headlines by changing the mix and method of their employee benefits. Total Compensation is what we’re really talking about here and we all know benefits are only one part of that equation – but with the rising cost of healthcare, benefits...
COBRA Decision Support for Exchanges
This post is going to be a little different from our previous posts. I’ve been feeling guilty for the massively long articles we’ve been posting, so I’m going to try to be succinct. FDR had a great thought on this subject which I try to follow: “Be sincere; be brief;...
Exchange Notice Rumors Squashed by DOL Release
This just in from our crack compliance commandos: The U.S. Department of Labor has issued an FAQ confirming an employer won’t be penalized for failing to distribute the exchange notice. By October 1, employers are tasked with providing their current employees with a...
Superhuman HR Technologists: Myth or Reality?
Superman has extreme strength and the ability to take flight. The Flash can run faster than the speed of sound. Lockton’s HR Outsourcing Experts (HeROEs) solve companies’ ever-growing needs in the HR Technology universe. OK, let’s face it, our HeROEs won’t be saving...
IRS DOMA Guidance and Benefits Administration Technology
“You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” Not to be uber-geeky but the quote by Morpheus in the glorious...
HR in the News: Labor Unrest and HRIS
Thankfully, I avoided getting caught up in the fast-food labor protests last Thursday since the folks who come and unchain me from my desk each day were stuck in a drive-through lane somewhere. Watching the news, it looks like last Thursday would have been a bad day...
What is Benefits Administration?
I got a lot of grief as a kid for daydreaming. Teachers would be trying to change the direction of my misguided youth and I’d be totally zoned out in the back of the classroom wondering if Major Tom or Ziggy Stardust were real people. If adults back then were being...
HR Tech Nightmares? We Can Help.
As children, we always wanted our parents to check under our beds, in our closets and under the blankets for the “boogie-man.” Nightmares of some dark presence gave us chills and left us awake in the middle of the night with nothing but silence and a cold sweat. And...