To Lure Workers, Companies Are Giving New Employees Their First Weeks Off, Speeding Up Retirement Plan Access — And Piling On The Cash

<p>In a tight labor market where candidates hold much more power, companies are increasingly pulling out all the stops, trying new time-off programs, investing more in wages and benefits and adding more or bigger sign-on bonuses for positions from the very top of the organization all the way down to the front lines.</p>