Human Resources: Vision

Single Provider HR Outsourcing Solution Solving Executives' Pain
HR partnership enables focus on strategic HR, hiring top talent. Although more than half of small businesses outsource to multiple providers, the majority (70 percent) would actually prefer to outsource to a single provider, according to a recent research report by TriNet, "An Executive Guide to 2006 HR Trends." This latest research report by TriNet offers business owners, executives and HR professionals information on current industry trends, best practices and techniques for attracting top talent, reducing costs and effectively competing in their industry.

What´s on your Industry Radar? - RSS Driven Portal for the "Real Time" Business of HR and Employee Benefits Launches
For those in the human resources, healthcare insurance or employee benefits industries the answer to the question above is the free thought leader news portal - The Industry Radar (www.theindustryradar.com) which launched today designed to keep your "radar" attuned to all the latest industry trends and news.

Internet Tools Can Encourage Appropriate Health Care Decisions, Watson Wyatt Says
Companies that are best at controlling healthcare costs are more likely than their poorer performing counterparts tooffer multifaceted Internet tools that help employees model health careoptions, a study by Watson Wyatt and the National Business Group on Healthhas found.

Buck Consultants Announces Total Rewards InSight Communication Tool
Buck Consultants announced today the launch of Total Rewards InSight, an enhanced total rewards communication solution that provides unique information views and human resource management tools for all key stakeholders.

Buck Consultants announced today that it has been selected by the Milwaukee County Retirement System to provide actuarial and retirement consulting services.
Buck Consultants to Provide Milwaukee County With Retirement Plan Services

Workscape Closes First Quarter of 2006 with Record- Breaking Sales and Accomplishments
- Leading Provider of Outsourced Benefits and Workforce Management Solutions Generates Sales Momentum from New Client Wins and Expanded Client Relationships -

Forty-Five Percent Believe Employers Should be Required to Provide Employee Health Care Benefits
What role should employers play in ensuring that their employee's lives are covered? What role should employees play in taking their turn at the oars? That is exactly what Success Performance Solutions readers of its weekly newsletter The Total View during the month of April.

Child Abduction, Home Invasion Insurance Added to Group-Benefits Package
"With FBI reports of an American victimized by burglary every 15 seconds and countless child abduction stories circulating through the media, family protection and security are very real concerns for many Americans," said James Hamilton, senior vice president, Chubb & Son, and North American manager for Chubb Accident & Health.

Kelly McClain Joins EBMC, Will Focus on New Business Development
Addition of industry veteran to bolster sales team for benefit management company.

Patricia Zingheim, Jay Schuster Receive Top WorldatWork Award
Keystone Award Presented at Total Rewards Conference& Exhibition in Anaheim, Calif.

Buck Consultants announced today that it has been selected by FormTech Industries LLC to provide an array of employee benefit services.
Buck Consultants to Provide Employee Benefit Services for FormTech Industries

HRAmerica releases "Top HR Trends in 2006" Report
Survey-based research provides best practices, competitive information on HR outsourcing.

EMPLOYEASE CLOSES FISCAL Q3 2006 WITH 55% YEAR OVER YEAR REVENUE GROWTH
Achieves 34th Consecutive Quarter of Revenue Growth

Travis Software Corp., announced a 99.9% Service Level Agreement to its WebCOBRA.com customers.
Few, if any, on-demand COBRA software vendors guarantee uptime or provide any Service Level Agreements (SLA) for their customers.

Watson WyattWorldwide is warning that a new policy announced yesterday by theDepartment of Energy (DOE) undermines government contractors' ability to provide guaranteed retirement benefits to their workers.
According to a press release published by DOE on April 27, the agency willno longer reimburse the expenses associated with defined benefit pensioncoverage "for new contractor employees."

EMPLOYERS TAKE A PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT APPROACH TO HEALTH CARE BENEFITS
Asparity Decision Solutions announces the release of SimHR, an online suite of market research tools that enables companies to design and price health plan offerings that fulfill employee personal and financial needs, while controlling corporate health care costs.

ASPARITY ANNOUNCES ACQUISITION OF OPERATIONAL RISK TECHNOLOGY
Asparity has delivered decision support and data solutions for employee benefits to some of the largest organizations in the world since 1999.

Employease Partners with Google to Offer Google OneBox for Enterprise Module
Module Enables Fast and Secure Access to Real-Time Employee Information from the Familiar Google Search Box

HighRoads Launches Benefits Lifecycle Management 2006
New Features Ease Management of Employee Benefits Plans, Lowering CostsWhile Sustaining Quality

Premium, Billing Enhancements Mark Travis Software Release WebCOBRA.com's February '06 Upgrade
Personalized web pages, premium disbursement process and client invoicing among more than 100 updates to new version.

HighRoads Announces $8 Million in Series-B Financing
Round Reflects Market Imperative for Solutions and Services that Lower Employee Health & Welfare Costs