New stock compensation guidance: fixes for volatility and unpredictability
New stock compensation guidance causes more volatility and unpredictability. Compensation design strategies may help.
Human resources
Employee engagement landscape survey
The Employee Engagement Landscape Study provides insight and direction to enable organizations to align employees and drive business outcomes.
Our insights on human resources
Health and well-being touchstone survey
This recorded webcast provides insights and survey highlights related to emerging trends and future benefits strategies as well as benchmark information.
2017 Health and well-being Touchstone survey
Our survey is an industry leader in the study of what US-based employers are doing, and thinking of doing with their benefit programs, strategy and administration.
The American Health Care Act: consideration for employers
The American Health Care Act directly impacts employers, but it does not repeal all ACA employer-focused provisions.
Alliances: Have you considered talent?
Engaging talent during an Alliance or Joint Venture is important to achieving success. What should you consider?
Employee financial wellness survey
The 2017 results highlight how employees define financial wellness and their polarizing views regarding the potential impact of government policies.
Beyond modeling: Taking action on predictive analytics
In this recorded webcast, our People Analytics team look at leading practices for taking action on predictive analytics.
Data science and analytics skills
8 ideas to ramp-up the number of job candidates with data science and analytics skills.
Employee engagement
The Employee Engagement Landscape Study provides insight and direction to enable organizations to align employees and drive business outcomes.
Healthcare repeal, replace or repair − why employers shouldn't wait to shape their strategy
In this recorded webcast, we look beyond proposed ACA modifications into the healthcare industry, and provide insight to employers on how to develop a strategy for attractive, sustainable benefit programs.
In depth: FASB changes the presentation of pension cost
FASB guidance calls for more of pension and postretirement benefit costs to be shown as nonoperating income.
Pension rule changes may improve operating margins
FASB issued standard on presenting net benefit cost. Service cost must be presented separate from other components.
Making the case for predictive attrition risk modeling
As organizations continue to move up the “people analytics maturity curve”, the capability and appeal of using advanced statistical modeling techniques to predict who is likely to leave and why, is becoming more prevalent. However, creating statistical models to predict attrition risk is not enough. Models need to be robust and organizations must actually do something with the results from these models.
Employer considerations as health care legislation moves ahead
House Republicans released legislation that would repeal parts of the ACA, including the employer mandate penalties
Changes finalized for employee benefit plan interests in master trusts
We summarize the FASB’s new improvements to employee benefit plan master trust reporting.
Employers and the future of the Affordable Care Act
Employers and the Future of the Affordable Care Act – Frequent Questions and Answers
Healthcare, higher education, and nonprofit series: Year end review and 2017 outlook
In this recorded webcast our tax specialists discuss key areas impacting healthcare providers including academic medical centers, universities, and other tax-exempt organizations.
2016 year-end employee benefits and compensation planning
Year-end employee benefits and compensation planning in light of possible tax reform
Pharmaceutical and life sciences tax quarterly
In this webcast, our specialists provide legislative and year-end tax accounting updates.
Trends in HR Effectiveness
November 2016 Our Saratoga Human Capital Effectiveness Report findings indicate that HR is currently falling short in its efforts to drive value amid today's significant global change—despite its ability to stay on budget.
The reward of gender pay equity through the lens of data and analytics
Over the past year, you’ve probably heard a lot about the gender pay gap in the news. The topic has dominated headlines and was a point of discussion at the World Economic Forum. Additionally, increased state and federal regulations have brought this issue to the forefront of CEO’s and Chief Human Resources Officer’s minds.
W-2 Handbook
The W-2 Handbook is a comprehensive yet concise reference guide covering U.S. federal payroll withholding and reporting rules on a diverse range of compensation and benefits. This resource is useful to not only the Payroll function within an organization but other groups as well, such as Tax, HR, Accounting, Finance, Legal and Technology.
Pension and other postretirement benefits: 2015-2016 SEC comment letter trends
Pension and OPEB are complex areas that continue to be a focus for the SEC staff.
SEC releases Q&As on CEO pay ratio
The SEC has issued 5 Q&As on CEO pay ratio.
Beth Paul
Pat Durbin
David Schmid
