Health and wellness

Taking the temperature of your corporate culture can pay big dividends, according to Rogue Credit Union.

Dread the annual performance review? At Consumers CU, they do it a minimum of four times a year. The result: stronger employee engagement.

Focusing on talent development and staff engagement paying dividends at the $775 million credit union.

Executives' pastry-fueled walkabouts give employees opportunity to ask questions, share observations with top leaders.

The Connecticut bank's president, John Ciulla, will succeed longtime CEO Jim Smith, who is retiring after three decades on the job.

New mothers were bailing out from the Cincinnati bank at twice the rate of other women employees, so it decided to offer a maternity concierge service that would help them with stressful chores.

The credit union will partner with the YMCA of Northwest North Carolina on a two-year health and well-being research study funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Strong gains in low-cost health savings account balances helped fuel loan growth at the Waterbury, Conn., company.

Creative growth strategies are helping banks with $10B to $50B of assets — including Webster and TCF — improve profitability. These ‘tweeners’ deal with tougher regulations than smaller competitors without the scale larger ones have to absorb the expense.

Financial institutions of all sizes are overhauling benefits policies and promoting work-life balance to better compete for millennial recruits with the hipper tech sector. The big changes include longer periods of paid time off for new parents.