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June 29, 2011 at 08:00 PM
U.S. employers are struggling to keep some expensive, long-cherished benefits in the face of rising health insurance costs and economic uncertainty.
Corporate Synergies Inc., Mount Laurel, N.J., has published figures on that struggle in a summary of results from two surveys conducted with help from the Financial Executive Research Foundation, Washington.
Researchers conducted 11 interviews with financial executives and also conducted an online survey that drew responses from 156 financial executives.
About 38% of the participants said their companies had responded to rising health insurance costs by reducing health benefits, and 21% said they had compensated by reducing or eliminating salary increases or bonuses for employees.
But only 4% of the participants said their companies have shifted to voluntary policies for medical benefits, and just 2% reported eliminating dependent coverage.
