An overemphasis on cycle time creates incentives for IRS employees to take actions quickly, even where doing so produces inaccurate results or delays the final resolution of problems.

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It gives the supermarket chain's employees financial incentives for taking responsibility for their own health, decreasing Safeway's insurance costs significantly while improving participants' well-being.

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As a result, many companies have balked at offering contingent incentives, for fear of antagonizing employees, most of whom, as noted above, are too unhealthy to meet the standards.

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These rules provide incentives for plan sponsors to find innovative ways of encouraging saving by their employees.

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While it would certainly be preferable for major shifts in health care to be the result of thoughtful and well-researched strategy, there are potential unintended positive results of new ACA policies that align incentives such that it no longer makes sense for employers to purchase expensive insurance plans on behalf of employees.

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For all of these reasons, employers have considerable incentives to try to pay independent contractors rather than employees.

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The company will be pushing for the flexibility to move workers around service areas but is also focused on creating new incentives to keep employees producing.

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