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There’s not a day that goes by where you can’t log into Twitter or LinkedIn and see a new article about the hot trend in employee benefits or commuting.

What matters most is what trends stick around. Earlier this year, the Society for Human Resource Management published its 2018 Employee Benefits survey with HR professionals. It benchmarks the prevalence of 300-plus benefits over a five-year period. 

About 285,000 human resources professionals were asked what benefits they had offered, and what they planned to offer over the next year. The results were compared to previous surveys to see benefits are increasing, and which are on the decline. 

Here is a look at the survey’s results:

In California, the San Francisco Bay Area is serious about its commuter benefits. There’s one regional law, three municipal laws and the San Francisco airport has its own regulations.

California commuter benefits laws stem from a desire to help protect the environment and reduce congestion on the roadways. Here is an overview of how these California commuter benefits programs work.

Commuting was once ranked last as people’s favorite activity. It’s doubtful much has changed.
In six US cities, the average commute now is more than 30 minutes (New York, Long Island, Washington D.C., Newark, N.J., Chicago and Boston… we feel your pain!).
However, commuting has some upsides, too. Here’s a look at the good, the bad and the ugly trends in commuting.

Do you offer your employees paid time off to volunteer? Smaller “nooks” in the office so your team can gather quickly to collaborate? Remote working opportunities, even if you live right down the street from work?

Do you mumble to yourself every time you have to fill up your gas tank or agonize over what a public transportation fare hike means to your budget?

You know you have to offer the best benefits to attract and retain quality employees for your business. And you know one way to do that is to offer excellent commuter benefits to your employees.
Since your organization is unique, however, your commuter benefits program will be too. To make the process as easy as possible, it’s best to work with a trusted and reliable provider.
Select the right provider and they’ll help you find a plan that’s simple for you to administer and one that will make the most sense for your employees’ transportation habits.
To help you get started, here are 5 key questions to ask when you start researching benefit providers.

If your company employs 20 or more full time, non-union employees in any of the five boroughs of New York City, offering a pretax transit benefit is the law. And it’s been a little over two years since “Local Law 53”, New York City’s Commuter Benefits Law, went into effect.
But, it’s not too late to comply with this transit ordinance and avoid any penalty that can hurt your company’s budget.  In this article we answered the most frequently asked questions about complying with the NYC Transit Ordinance.