Benefits for the Workplace of the Future

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 global markets grow more closely integrated, 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 pensate workers. These changes are spurring elder care, flexible medical benefits, employee assistance programs, and investment education. Major developments in the pensions and health care arenas provide new opportunities and challenges for rank and file workers as they are asked 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.

Contents

• The Future Workplace and Implications for Benefit Coverage and Design
• Emerging Challenges to Benefits and Compensation Design
• Sector Studies