The Benefit Network May 2004 Edition

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Contents
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Managing Health Costs: Four Case Studies
U.S. businesses extend domestic-partner health benefits
Five Red Flags For Midwest Technology Hiring Managers
New Books
The Benefit Network In The News
New workplace words for for 2004
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Quote of the Month
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take
your eyes off your goal."

Henry Ford (1863-1947)
American industrialist, inventor

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Managing Health Costs: Four Case Studies
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Some strategies used to manage mounting health-care costs,
including:

Health screening and anti-smoking programs at 47,000-
employee Union Pacific
http://tinyurl.com/3xbpm
The communication effort at 205-employee Fall River
http://tinyurl.com/ysywv
Health screening at 215-employee Highsmith
http://tinyurl.com/2vhjo
Baby boomers becoming consumers at 150-employee Nexen
http://tinyurl.com/2d9qb


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U.S. businesses extend domestic-partner health benefits
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U.S. businesses are continuing to extend domestic-partner
health insurance benefits to gay and lesbian workers, with
an average of 3 employers per day adding such coverage in
2003, according to an analysis from the Human Rights
Campaign Foundation, an advocacy group. (5/13)
http://hr.blr.com/Articlerss.cfm/Nav/5.0.0.0.29780

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Five Red Flags For Midwest Technology Hiring Managers
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Five Red Flags For Midwest Technology Hiring Managers
By Liz Ryan
CHICAGO – If you're a business manager and you have a job
opening to fill, you have a set of things you need to have
done and you need to have them done in the best possible
way. Here are five lesser known but dangerous red flags to
keep an eye out for and avoid when hiring in the Midwest
tech space, writes workplace expert Liz Ryan.

http://tinyurl.com/26x2j
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New Books
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Employee Benefits
Joseph J. Martocch...
New $76.35!

The Work and Family Revolution
Barbara Schwarz
New $22.95!

Employee Benefits
Burton T. Beam Jr....
New $89.82!
Used $32.95!

Check Them Out Here;
http://www.thebenefitnetwork.com/cgi-bin/arp3/arp3-t.pl?l=6

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The Benefit Network In The News
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The Benefit Network had lots of press in April;

1. We released a newsreader product that pulls HR News;
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/4/prwebxml119401.php
2. We partnered with an HR firm to offer an HSA KIT
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/5/prweb120291.htm
3. We developed a tool kit to help HR managers;
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/3/prweb111485.htm
4. We developed an alliance with a guerilla marketing
expert and will be the featured speaker in an upcoming
session on the 18th.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/5/prweb124793.htm

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New workplace words for for 2004
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Essential additions for the workplace vocabulary:

BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why
a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was
responsible.

SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day
swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered
useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from
extensive use.

XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies
from one's workplace.

IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that
are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop
watching them. The O.J. trial was a prime example.

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the
crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web
error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the
requested document could not be located.

GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that
are exactly the same no matter where one is, such
as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions..

OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in
which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.

WOOFYS: Well Off Older Folks.

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