An executive perspective on employee benefits: A McKinsey Survey

The vast majority of US executives see employee benefits as important to their company's competitiveness, according to the latest McKinsey Quarterly survey.

Fully 88 percent of the respondents name human-resources concerns—particularly attracting and retaining talent plus meeting responsibilities to employees—as the main reasons for offering benefits.

Despite this motivation, many companies haven't learned what their employees really want from benefit programs, and few actually measure the performance of (or return on investment from) their benefit offerings.

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