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Best benefit ever? Laura Watkins votes for the 401(k) plan.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 24-SEP-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Best benefit ever? Laura Watkins votes for the 401(k) plan.(Focus: Insurance & Employee Benefits)

Article Excerpt
Although she says she took an odd route to human resources, Laura Sorey Watkins loves working in the profession. The 44-year-old is vice president, human resources, at Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company where she began in January 1986 as a computer programmer.

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"That technology background has helped me in HR," she says. "I just kind of ended up in HR because I helped develop the 401(k) system. It was just getting started and I knew as much about it as anyone else."

In 1989 she switched to the HR department and became administrator of the company's 401(k) plan, a large plan with approximately 4,000 employees in it. It's...

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