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Welcome to "Five Minutes With...," the monthly podcast show brought to you by Employee Benefit News. Each month, you'll find four new podcasts to correspond with articles in the issue.
Current Episodes:

- Turn your website users into tourists
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- The tourism industry can teach employers a thing or two about jazzing up their Web sites aimed at employees, new recruits and potential hires, says Joseph Rotella, chief technical officer at Delphia Consulting, LLC, an Ohio-based company that specializes in HR technology. Rotella sits down with Associate Editor Lydell Bridgeford to discuss the ways employers can turn their site users into tourists.
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- Consumerism, yes. Cash opt-outs ... maybe
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- With every employer eye trained toward health care cost savings, cash opt-outs are "one method that encourages the employee to consider not only how they spend their health care dollars in the coming year but where those dollars will be spent,” Cathy Williams, Manager, Compensation & Benefits of SMART Business Advisory and Consulting, told Associate Editor Kathleen Koster. Williams also breaks down the pros and cons of such opt-out initiatives in her visit to "FMW."
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- Learn more about the 3 Rs -- and no, one isn't "recession"
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- Bob Arnoff, a benefits broker and president of Arnoff and Associates, talks with former EBN Managing Editor Leah Carlson Shepherd about benefit strategies that work in difficult economic times. Arnoff and Shepherd co-authored a book called “The Three Rs of Employee Benefits: Recruiting, Retention and Rewards,” published in September by EBN's parent company SourceMedia. You can find it at ebn.benefitnews.com/3Rsbook.
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- NBGH's Heinen discusses what separates wellness contenders from pretenders
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- LuAnn Heinen, vice president at the National Business Group on Health, talks with Associate Editor Lydell Bridgeford about what separates the “2009 Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles” award winners from other big companies in terms of their health management programs.
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- Stable-value funds as a QDIA? Yes, says MetLife's Cynthia Mallett
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- Stable-value funds have proved their stability over the past 30 years and Metlife hopes to continue that track record for 30 more. Cynthia Mallett, a Metlife vice president of Corporate Benefit Funding, joins "FMW" with Associate Editor Kathleen Koster to explain why these funds should be added as a qualified default investment alternative option.
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