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Man Sets Hotel Fire To Avoid His Wedding: A Japanese man tried to get out of his wedding by setting fire to the hotel where the ceremony was supposed to take place. [more]
Birth Order May Affect Career Choices: According to a recent survey by CareerBuilder.com, birth order seems to affect people's career choices. [more]
CNN Beams Up Correspondent: CNN used its new 3-D hologram technology to "beam" correspondent Jessica Yellin from Chicago to Wolf Blitzer's studio in New York during election coverage. [more]
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April Reports of Planned Layoffs Jump 44 Percent: Although US March layoff announcements came in as the lowest in eight months for large corporations, the trend abruptly reversed in April, with reports of planned job cuts rising 44 percent over the previous month. [more]
Company Volunteerism Sells Young Recruits: In an era of fierce competition for talent, organizations that help employees share business skills with nonprofit groups might gain the hiring edge with the altruistic Generation Y. [more]
Employers, Your Workers Don’t Trust Your Health Information: Even though many companies have bumped up their efforts to promote health and wellness among employees, workers rank their employers dead last among a list of most trusted sources of health information. [more]
Better Planning Toward Employee Self-Service: A majority of employees prefer to receive information about their health care and retirement benefits via the Internet, according to a soon-to-be-released survey from consulting firm Watson Wyatt Worldwide. [more]
How To Set Up a Wellness Program: Workforce wellness programs, often working in tandem with consumer-driven health plans, offer companies hope for reducing — or at least containing — health care costs. [more]
Battling for Talent? 4 Musts to Attract and Retain Young CPAs: The sky’s the limit for young CPAs in this tight market for competent finance professionals, so organizations should pay attention to the job attributes most important to these up-and-comers. [more]
Baby Boomer Execs Spurn Retirement for New Professions: The flood of Baby Boomers exiting their jobs as they reach retirement has begun, but some executives are choosing to re-career instead of chipping on the back nine. [more]
Legislation Empowers Shareholders With a Vote on Pay: The House Financial Services Committee passed the "Shareholder Vote on Executive Compensation Act" today, which will allow public company shareholders to vote on executive pay. [more]
Couple Retiring in 2007 Faces $215,000 in Health-Care Costs: Finance executives have been struggling to devise programs that address employees' lack of financial preparedness for retirement, and a recent estimate of health-care costs for the golden years indicates retirees are facing an even greater burden. [more]
Foster Success with Improved Hiring and Training: Investing in hiring and orientation programs can boost both employee engagement and financial performance, according to global consulting firm Watson Wyatt Worldwide. [more]
Consumer-Directed Health Plans On the Rise: The adoption curve for consumer-driven healthcare benefits continues to arc upward -- thirty-eight percent of large companies will offer such a plan this year. [more]
Is Finance Under-Financed?: The finance department is one of the three most critical workforces in organizations bent on high performance, says Accenture research. [more]
Life-Cycle Funds Fall Short: Target-date 401(k) funds are supposed to provide adequate income when an employee reaches retirement age, but the assumptions behind these funds are proving to be overly optimistic, according to a study by J.P. [more]
Boardroom Representation by Women Declines: After years of steadily increasing membership on boards of directors, women suffered a setback in 2006. [more]
US Economy to Perk Up in 2007: The US economy is anticipated to grow by about 3 percent as 2007 continues and the current business cycle ages. [more]
CEOs' Chief Challenge: "On-boarding" Quality Staff: When it comes to finding talent, "on-boarding" -- or recruiting and hiring staff -- is the biggest headache for management executives. [more]
Shortage of Accounting Staff Triggers Rise in F&A Outsourcing: The scarcity of competent accounting professionals is reverberating throughout US companies. [more]
An Rx Tsunami?: Managing the cost of prescription drugs is getting tougher as expensive new biotech drugs gain ground. [more]
No Joy for Ebbers From Supreme Court: The Supreme Court has turned down an appeal by former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers for a review of his 2005 conviction for fraud and conspiracy. [more]
Don't Write Off Defined-Benefit Plans Yet: They are a drag on corporate competitiveness and they're not structured or funded sustainably, but defined-benefit pension plans are going to be around for a while. [more]