Keeping Good Employees While Trimming Overhead: The Part-Time, Flexible Work Model is Quickly Blossoming Across All Business Sectors (Special Report: Succeeding in Challenging Times) (Survey‪)‬

You would never imagine at while watching the nightly news there are businesses out there that are experiencing continued and measurable growth in today's struggling economy. A major factor in the success of today's U.S. companies, both large and small, is well-designed strategic planning in key profit-consuming departments; with the largest dollar-guzzling sector being that of human resources. Even with salaries aside, according to a recent congressional study, employer-paid benefit packages account for nearly 30 percent of total employee compensation and cost U.S. companies more than $2 trillion a year.