Economic factors play a crucial role in the design and implementation of total reward programs. For example, slowing economic growth makes it difficult for organizations to absorb rising healthcare costs and has created a vexing affordability problem. However, the need for creating strategies to address the affordability challenges oftentimes conflicts directly with the need to maintain employee satisfaction and stabilize workforce retention. In this roundtable, learn how to balance the competing pressures to invest in attractive total rewards programs meanwhile limiting spend.