Here’s a great blog post from the Harvard Business Review on deadline extension… check it out!

 

In June, the Obama administration pushed back the deadline for employers with fifty or more workers to provide health insurance for their employees by a full year — until Jan 1, 2015. Admittedly, the implementation of anything as complex as the Affordable Care Act is going to take time, and those involved have been working furiously to try to meet the government’s deadlines. So, at least with respect to this particular part of the ACA, everyone has an additional year to get everything just right. Sounds like a good thing, doesn’t it?

Only — how furiously do you think everyone with this new, extended deadline is working now? Are they still burning the midnight oil… or are they saying to themselves, Let’s take a breather. We’ve got plenty of time.

Read the rest of the article here: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/08/heres_what_really_happens_when.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter