Benefits for the Workplace of the Future (Pension Research Council Publications) - Hardcover

Pension Reseach Council

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812237080 ISBN 13: 9780812237085

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003

Synopsis

The workforce of the future promises to be very different from that of the past. A generation ago, there were few workers over the age of 65, but in the future we will see many more employees remain on the job longer than ever before. At the same time, as global markets grow more closely integrated, companies are having to reinvent the workplace, which requires more skilled, more reliable, and more flexible employees. Benefits for the Workplace of the Future explores how workforce and workplace changes are reshaping the form and design of employee benefits and what these trends portend for the future of compensation.

An increasingly diverse range of workers and new types of companies are forcing a redefinition of what it means to be an employee, what it means to offer someone a job, and how to compensate workers. These changes are spurring nontraditional benefits, such as child and elder care, flexible medical benefits, employee assistance programs, and investment education. Major developments in the pension and health care arenas provide new opportunities and challenges for rank and file workers as they are asked to take on more responsibility for their own benefits design.

Contributors to the volume—academics, employers, consultants, and policymakers—evaluate these trends and their implications. They chart new methods for developing benefits plans and provide assessments of past trends and clear-eyed forecasts for future benefit challenges. The book will be invaluable to those who seek to structure and benefit from well-designed compensation packages.

About this title

About the Author:

Olivia S. Mitchell is Professor of Insurance and Risk Management and Executive Director of The Pension Research Council at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. David S. Blitzstein is Director of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Michael Gordon is an attorney in Washington, D.C., specializing in labor law. Judith F. Mazo is Senior Vice President and Director of Research for the Segal Company.

Review:

"A rich and multifaceted perspective on crucial longer-term workplace and benefits trends, and their implications to U.S. corporations. Skillfully mixing the insights of practitioners, consultants, industry pundits, researchers, and academics, the editors have compiled a comprehensive and thought-provoking assessment of the shape and challenges of the employer/employee relationship of the future."—PEF

"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. . . . Highly recommended."—Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0812237080
• ISBN 13: 9780812237085
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Mitchell Olivia S., Blitzstein David S., Gordon Michael, Mazo Judith F.