According to a new Aflac survey, 77 percent of employed adults say they would leave their current positions for entrepreneurship opportunities.

Chief financial officers are anticipating more hiring during the fourth quarter of 2011, with 12 percent saying they plan to add full-time accounting and finance employees, according to the Robert Half Financial Hiring.

Fifty-seven percent of employers test all job candidates for drugs, with only 29 percent forgoing drug tests on any job candidates, according to a poll released by the Society for Human Resource Management and the Drug & Alcohol Testing Industry Association.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, more seniors and disabled Americans on Medicare are experiencing lower costs through discounts on brand-name drugs in the Medicare Part D coverage gap as well as free preventive care.

When pension funds were first started in Germany in the mid-19th century, this retirement option made sense, says Amit Mohindra, director of research at the Institute for Corporate Productivity. At the time, employees would typically stay with one employer for their entire careers.

Some employers were surprised to learn the subsidy was coming to an end so soon. Given all of the political posturing and the poor economic environment, those employers could have been under the impression that the subsidy was available for the full 18 months.

The number private-sector employees who are enrolled in a defined benefit plan dropped from 38 percent in 1979 to 15 percent in 2008, according to a EBRI study.

During the upcoming enrollment period, employers will still experience cost shifts to employees, consolidate plan choices, emphasize account-based plans and require more on employees if they are to receive incentives, according to a survey by Towers Watson.