Doron Levy

Companies Looking to Cut Healthcare Costs

March 12, 2010

FROM RETAILWIRE:
No surprise; employers are looking to cut healthcare costs. That's the finding of CVS Caremark's annual survey of employers' priorities for pharmacy benefit management services in 2010. Is it within the power of businesses to cut their healthcare costs without cutting benefits to employees?      [more...]

Force retail associates take their breaks. I've seen too many run-down employees because they are constantly bogged down with duties that they self sacrifice their own break time to get the job done. When I was a manager, I would love that and reward employees accordingly.

Unfortunately the long term effect on productivity is apparent. There is a reason we only work 40 hours a week with a lunch break during the day. Retail is a hard game to fight and there has to be that rest period for associates to recuperate and re-energize. Now I tell management to schedule breaks and force employees to go on rest periods when they should. Got vending machines at your place of work? Time to replace the Ho-Ho's with bananas and turkey on whole wheat. Pop machines should be taken out back and exploded.