Benefits for the workplace of the future /

Twenty contributors, an eclectic group of academics, employers, consultants, and policy makers, explore how workforce and workplace changes influence the design of future employee benefits in the US. Workforce trends include an older, more educated workforce that is more diverse and mobile. The number of temporary workers, part-timers, consultants, and contract employees is increasing faster than regular full-time employees. Workplace trends include changes in government regulations, global threats, social norms, and economic volatility. Considering these trends, each contributor makes predictions about benefits. Changes include a shift from defined-benefit to defined-contribution pension plans, more flexible staffing to reduce benefits, especially health, increasing communication to defined-contribution plan participants, additional on-site child care, flexible work schedules, eldercare, and greater use of multiemployer models for benefit delivery and outsourcing of benefits. Most chapters include a significant literature review and statistical tables. Special chapters focus on benefits for contingent workers, multinational companies, and single-employer companies. See also Employee Benefit Research Institute and WorldAtWork for more annual trends in benefits. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. Benefits practitioners and academic collections, upper-division undergraduate through faculty. G. E. Kaupins Boise State University