"Internet Facilitates Benefits Administrative Solutions for Employers of All Sizes".

• Position: Brief Article

Burzawa, Sue

Employee Benefit Plan Review, March 2000, pp. 32-34.

The Internet is beginning to affect how human resource data is maintained, as small and large employers install Web-based technologies. Businesses are using solutions from human resource (HR) vendors to streamline processes like open enrollment or "life event" changes (i.e., reporting a divorce or birth that would affect benefits). This essentially involves shifting the entry of data about an employee from a clerk to the employee him or herself, who can use Web-based "self service" to provide the employer with updated information. For small businesses, application service providers deliver sophisticated HR tracking software that might have only been available to larger...