How Important Are Retirement Plans For Employees And Businesses?

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How Important Are Retirement Plans For Employees
And Businesses?
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• Retirement plans for employees should certainly
  feature in a companys financial planning
  structure, and recent research has shown that
  workers are becomingly increasingly dependent on
  them, particularly as less of their wealth tends
  to be in home equity and savings accounts, than
  used to be the case.
• However, while the importance of retirement plans
  to employees should be considered and acted upon
  if youre the owner of a business, they do
  pressure you into designing a package that is
  both competitive for you and valuable to your
  staff.

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• Below we discuss in further detail, the benefits
  of such a package to employees and business
  owners
• The importance of retirement plans for employees
  
• Nowadays, more and more Americans are depending
  on plans at their place of work to keep them
  above water financially, when the time comes for
  them to retire. Features of many modern
  retirement plans designed by companies, includes
  automatic enrolment and employer match, which
  make it much easier to build up a retirement nest
  egg.

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• For those employees in a higher wage bracket,
  nonqualified plans have become a vital source of
  savings, particularly when taxes are rising.
• Health savings accounts are also proving popular,
  as Americans fear the rising cost of health care,
  and in general, more employees are becoming
  conscious of the importance of a good retirement
  plan and the need to be financially prepared when
  they are of retirement age.

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• The importance of retirement plans for employers
  
• Many companies, particularly in the current
  climate where health care costs are rising, and
  penalties are featuring more highly, are being
  deterred from taking on new staff, meaning that
  they need to take as best care as they can, of
  their current employees. You will need to keep
  your current workforce content and covered, and
  those who are loyal to your company, deserve a
  retirement plan that benefits them. A good plan
  is a fantastic way of encouraging loyalty and
  even productivity, and its importance should not
  be underestimated.

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• Recruiting, rewarding and retaining, or helping
  to retire
• Recruiting new employees and rewarding them
  sufficiently so that they will be encouraged to
  remain within your workforce, is all well and
  good, but as a business owner, you should also
  think carefully about the importance of helping
  them to retire. While it can of course, be of
  great benefit to your business if employees
  choose to remain working well into their latter
  years, it can increase costs for you, too
• The individuals healthcare costs may be steeper
• Their salary may be higher than for comparable
  positions

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• There is less opportunity for new and fresh
  talent to be developed, or encouraged to work for
  you
• Offering these baby boomers an attractive exit
  plan, helps them while helping you they will be
  more motivated to be productive as a seasoned
  employee, and yet they also see a future while
  not being employed by you.
• Having an attractive and competitive retirement
  plan acts as a fantastic motivator for younger
  employees as well giving them an opportunity to
  grow their wealth while working for you, rather
  than going elsewhere to make their millions!

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