Employee Participation

Enrollment season will be here before any of us know it, but way too many employees remain woefullyif not embarrassinglyin the dark about their benefit offerings. And its certainly not for a lack of information.

Only 38 percent of millennials agree U.S. political leaders represent their interests, and 76 percent of millennials plan to vote in the presidential election, according to a new poll by Generation Opportunity, a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that focuses on engaging young Americans in economic issues.

The U.S. economic recovery hasn't felt like one even for people who managed to find new jobs after being laid off. Most of them have had to settle for less pay.

In todays corporate world, many U.S. employers are becoming less involved in performance management, but this could lead to workplace setbacks.

Generation Y workers are not employed in large numbers at some of the biggest companies as they say they prefer small employers.

As U.S. employers continue to practice outdated employee performance management policies, other countries are engaging in policies that are more highly related to market performance, according to a new study by the Institute for Corporate Productivity.