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Article: Is bigger better? Cars, computers, electronics and appliances can spruce up the worksite market, but price tags pose moral dilemma in rough economy.(Benefits Corner Office)
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- Employee Benefit News
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- April 1, 2009
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Byline: Bruce Shutan
The economy recently hurled a curveball in the direction of Steven Farish, a broker for Purchasing Power, which sells big-ticket items such as computers, electronics and household appliances to employee populations on a voluntary basis.
One of his clients, a manufacturing plant with 1,500 employees in South Carolina whose 8.4% unemployment rate was the nation's third highest at the height of open enrollment in November, decided to shut down for two months, during which there would be no payroll deductions.
"It is going to have to go back to direct billing to each of the carrier providers involved," reports Farish, who's also ...