2000-2006

• Establishes Japanese joint venture with Human Link Corporation, which is wholly-owned by Mitsubishi Corporation. The new entity, called Hewitt HLC, provides HR outsourcing services to subsidiaries of foreign multinationals in Japan
• Named Human HRO Provider of the Year (HRO Today, 2005)
• Presented with the Outsourcing Excellence "Best Partnership" Award for our partnership with Johnson & Johnson (Outsourcing Center, 2005)
• Named China's Top Benefits and Consulting Firm in 2004 (China Staff, 2004)
• Demonstrates further growth in China with the opening of the Guangdong office in 2002
• Recognized as the Asian HR Consultancy of the Year (Human Resources Magazine's Asian HR Awards 2001)
• Named China HR Consultancy of the Year four years in a row (China Staff, 2002, 2001, 2000 and 1999)
• Hewitt-authored books Leadership in Asia, Leading the Way, and Leadership and Governance from the Inside Out help companies win the battle for leadership talent
• Introduces breakthrough HR measurement methodology, Human Capital Foresight™, giving companies the ability to measure and predict the return on their HR investment
• Merges with HR BPO pioneer Exult, becoming first and only firm to provide human resource benefits process outsourcing (HR BPO) services—benefits, payroll, HR information systems, recruiting, learning, and other HR services—fully integrated with consulting expertise
• Acquires Cyborg Worldwide, Inc., expanding outsourcing capabilities to include payroll services
• Acquires Northern Trust Retirement Consulting, L.L.C. , expanding our portfolio of outsourcing clients
• Transitions from private to public company
• Integrates U.K. and Ireland business with Bacon & Woodrow, a leading retirement and financial management consultancy in the U.K.
• Creates Flexible Spending Account administration services
• Launches Rapid eMerge™ and M&A Management Center ™ to help employers manage HR aspects of merger, acquisition, and spin-off events
• Launches CompensationCenter.com, a Web tool whose data and analysis of pay programs in the global marketplace gives companies a competitive edge
• First to implement IBM eServer z900 Parallel Sysplex clustering solution, enabling near-continuous benefits administration service to more than 12 million participants worldwide
• Launches Hewitt Plan Sponsor Sight, an online benefits management support tool and knowledge network for benefits delivery clients

1990-1999

• Seoul office is established in 1999
• Establishes presence in Bangkok, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, and Manila
• Expands into Mainland China, opening the Shanghai office in 1994 and the Beijing office two years later
• Hong Kong office opens in 1995
• Hewitt establishes JV with Colonial Mutual in Australia in 1995
• Enters the Indian market in 1992 by acquiring a stake in a local company. Eventually acquires the remaining interest in 1998
• First firm to help clients link HR, compensation, and benefit programs to improve business results
• PC Week names Hewitt one of Top Ten Most Technologically Innovative Companies
• First to develop online Summary Plan Descriptions
• First HR consulting firm to establish corporate web site
• Creates HMO Scorecard, a tool for measuring HMO quality, costs, and subscriber satisfaction
• Pioneers HR performance measurement with HRCatalyst™
• Introduces SmartLink, a universal "800" service linking employees to all HR services and providers
• Introduces fully-integrated Total Benefit Administration™ System, a system for total benefit outsourcing utilizing client-server and object-oriented design and programming
• Creates one of the first full-service, outsourced Benefits Centers
• Introduces Defined Contribution Alliance™, a bundled, seamless approach to investment, administration, and communication of defined contribution plans

1980-1989

• Establishes first presence in the Asia-Pacific region in Tokyo in 1987, through the formation of a joint venture
• First wholly-owned regional office opens in Singapore in 1989
• First to provide real-time access to personalized employee data
• Pioneers compensation management concept of broadbanding to help companies respond to changing business needs
• Future$aver™, an interactive retirement plan and simulator, named Best New Human Resources Software of 1989
• Designs first large employer 401(k) plan
• Creates COMP+™, first fully integrated compensation management software
• Develops FlexSystem®, first computer system for flexible benefit and compensation plan administration

1970-1979

• Invents concept of "tax-protected employee choice-making" in employee benefits
• Drafts the enabling legislation that creates a bridge between Sections 125 and 401(k), leading to truly flexible compensation, allowing trade-off among cash, welfare benefits, and deferred compensation
• Creates Total Compensation Measurement™ methodology
• Launches Benefit Index®, the first (and still most widely used) method for measuring the competitive value of benefit plans

1960-1969

• Only consulting firm serving on Federal Interagency Task Force (1964-1968) on the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
• First consultants to tie benefits and compensation to corporate goals and missions, communicating total compensation as part of business plan

1950-1959

• First benefit consulting firm to form a Communication Practice to build employees' understanding and appreciation of benefits
• Invents personalized benefit and compensation statements to help employees realize the value of their total compensation
• First benefit consulting firm to measure ongoing investment performance for defined benefit plans
• Pioneers objective-setting concept in the design of benefit and compensation programs

1940-1949

• Works with Thilmany Paper to create industry-first noncontributory pension and employee savings plan—the first plan of this type to be qualified with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service