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Until recently, encouraging significant numbers of employees to telecommute did not make good business sense for many employers. That was before the arrival of affordable communication technologies such as broadband, Wi-Fi, web cams, cell phones, groupware, and PDAs. Now, there are no longer any compelling reasons why "knowledge workers" and sales professionals, who do most of their work using PCs and phones, cannot do at least some of their work from just about any location in the wired world. Workers Increasingly Decline Employer-Provided Health Benefits Growing numbers of workers are declining an employer’s offer of health insurance largely because they cannot afford to pay their share of premiums, according to a study conducted for the Robert Wood Foundation by the State Health Access Data Assistance Center at the University of Minnesota. U.S. Provides Few Guaranteed Benefits To Working Families Compared with other developed countries, the U.S. relies disproportionately on employers to provide essential benefits to working families and does little to protect the employment rights of younger people, according to a report released by the Project on Global Working Families. Financial Incentives For The Healthy Do Little To reduce Employer Costs Health insurance plans designed to encourage employees to be better consumers of health care are unlikely to result in significant cost savings for plan sponsors unless employers concentrate their efforts on lowering the costs generated by the small group of participants with chronic or catastrophic illnesses, a study by human resources consulting firm Watson Wyatt concluded. |
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