However, I’m creating a PDF that will explain how we planned the day, and will include a more general checklist. When it’s available, we’ll post it here at GRS.

…checklist?

I’d say there’s enough of this going on right now without a supervisor’s permission, I doubt anyone would knowingly sign off on it at smaller companies.

But I think its a great concept

This comment is not only illogical, it’s also arrogant.

Schools will only be able to do so much, it all needs to start in the home and if the tools aren’t available in the home than an investment should be made to hire an outside source to help.

And if that doesn’t work, there’s always the Personal Finance Club. It’s often the best meeting I attend all month.

They paid so little attention to the administrator’s brochure that they didn’t realize they would not receive matching or profit sharing unless they were signed up for, and contributing to, the plan.

My current employer has brought in various benefits programs which have been relatively well-attended. The employer also allows use of company time & resources to do things like set up 401(k) and HSA contributions, communicate with brokers and insurers, etc.

This company, however, has a reputation for not interfering with its employees or mis-using the personal information it handles during the course of benefits admin. They have a lot of firewalls in place. I suspect there are a lot of employees who don’t trust their employers to do the same.

And of course, there are a lot of employers who don’t offer benefits except to select classes of employees.

No one ever goes to them (including me, I don’t go either). Hundreds of people work in this building and when these things are in session, you’ll walk past the area where it’s being held and three people will be there.

I imagine the motley fool has a higher percentage of employees interested in personal finance than most other places (including here), so maybe it works better for you.

Frankly, I don’t know what I’d expect to learn at one of these things that I haven’t already learned online, and so it seems largely like a waste of time to me, personally.

Actually, our HR department does run a Retirement Planning course, but it is specifically onyl geared to those over 55. Us young oens aren’t allowed in, even if we would like to get a head start on planning this stuff.

I work for a company would never consider giving employees this kind of day (the day the McAffee glitch took down all our comps, we were told to stay at our desks for the rest of the afternoon…5 hours for no reason at all…they even knew that the techs wouldn’t be by until after 6pm), but I think it is a great idea!

Does the Motley Fool have any openings in Houston?

It could be that states just aren’t doing it right.

Any chance of seeing that checklist?