Employee Benefits Buzz: News and Trends for Week of 9/14/2015

Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Wellness News:

What Your Employees Want And Why You Really Should Care

http://www.eremedia.com/tlnt/what-your-employees-want-and-why-you-really-should-care/

3 Lessons on Promoting Work/Life Balance from Vanderbilt

http://healthleadersmedia.com/page-1/HR-320623/3-Lessons-on-Promoting-WorkLife-Balance-from-Vanderbilt

HOLD STEADY: Employers hold off on drastic changes to benefits as they look to cut costs

http://mibiz.com/item/22877-hold-steady-employers-hold-off-on-drastic-changes-to-benefits-as-they-look-to-cut-costs#sthash.te6cYRcc.dpuf

Employee health affects morale — and the bottom line

http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2015/09/10/employee-health-affects-morale-and-bottom-line/71536160/

Broker/Sales News:

Fewer companies are giving out bonuses to lower-paid employees

http://www.columbian.com/news/2015/sep/13/fewer-companies-are-giving-out-bonuses-to-lower-paid-employees/

Another Zenefits rival pops up, with $2.1 million in funding and broker support

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2015/09/easecentral-zenefits-online-hr-payroll-insurance.html

Add this company to your list of would-be Zenefits rivals

http://fortune.com/2015/09/10/easecentral-zenefits-rivals/

Retirement prospects only bright for diligent savers

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/yourmoney/ct-marksjarvis-0913-biz-20150911-column.html

Work/Life and Concierge News:

Peace, Success AND Happiness — You Can Have It All

http://smallbiztrends.com/2015/09/success-and-happiness-work-life-balance.html

Senior employees have worst work-life balance

http://www.wsandb.co.uk/wsb/news/2424995/senior-employees-have-worst-work-life-balance

Business owners struggle to ease work-life imbalance: A survey has found that a quarter of small business owners have fallen ill due to stress and overwork

http://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2015/sep/10/business-owners-work-life-balance-wellbeing-risk

How tech workers are turning to the Japanese practice of ‘forest bathing’ to unplug

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2015/09/14/how-tech-workers-are-turning-to-the-japanese-practice-of-forest-bathing-to-break-their-smartphone-habits/

Men most likely to utilize work-life balance benefits

http://www.benefitspro.com/2015/09/03/men-most-likely-to-utilize-work-life-balance-benef

Student Assistance News

New Tools to Help Students Make Informed Decisions About Higher Education

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/09/14/new-tools-help-students-make-informed-decisions-about-higher-education

Why Higher Ed Needs to Step Up Its IT Security Game

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2015/09/10/why-higher-ed-needs-to-step-up-its-it-security-game.aspx

Where are the college resources for undocumented students?

http://www.reviewjournal.com/life/where-are-the-college-resources-undocumented-students

Obama Steps Up Push for Free

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/09/obama-unveils-new-push-national-free-community-college