Hewitt Associates

Even as employers push a greater share of rising medical costs on to workers, a growing number of companies also are providing services like free check-ups, screening exams and prescription drugs that potentially can save employees hundreds of dollars a...

Employees looking for savings from their benefits options can consider: The cheaper plan If you're single, in good health and have one offered, take a look at the plan with a high deductible but low monthly premium payments, said Michael Kresh, a...

If it's November, it's open enrollment time at many companies, when employers announce health benefits options for the coming year. With about 30 percent, on average, of total compensation costs devoted to employee perks and benefits, businesses have...

U.S. workers who get health insurance through their employer can expect to shoulder more of the ever-growing financial burden again next year. Many employees are in the midst of reviewing their 2009 medical options during their company's annual "open...

Shares of Hewitt Associates Inc. jumped Friday morning, after the Lincolnshire provider of human resources services turned in fiscal fourth-quarter earnings that matched analyst forecasts and offered upbeat guidance for fiscal 2009. In early New York...

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Your bosses aren't serving you chicken soup just yet, but during this open enrollment season you'll find they're taking other creative steps to make sure you don't get sick. They might bribe you with gift cards or cash so you fill out a questionnaire...

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The Dow Jones industrial average capped its worst week ever yesterday in volatile trading that saw stocks fluctuate in a 1,000-point range for the first time. Bargain hunters snatched up stocks ravaged in recent days and staged a final-hour rally that...

Never got around to signing up for the company retirement plan? The boss may have done it for you. Forty-two percent of employers with 401(k) plans automatically enroll new or existing employees in the plans, nearly double the 23 percent from 2006,...

Seven employees and six former employees of human resources giant Hewitt Associates are accused of bilking the company out of more than $100,000 in a college tuition reimbursement scheme since 2005. Seven employees were fired Tuesday and arrested as...

DEAR JOYCE: I think my job will ride out the financial crisis, but in my office, we have a pool going on the size of raises that we might expect next year, ranging from zero to 5 percent. What do surveys project? -- R.P. DEAR R.P.: You may want to put...