Most employers recognize the critical role that benefits play in employee recruitment and retention. They’ve responded to the ever-growing benefits demand by bolstering offerings and ensuring access to the best options.

That means employees now have more benefit opportunities at their fingertips than ever before. While that’s great news, it creates a big challenge for HR professionals. 

How do you educate and guide employees to make the best decisions for their unique life situations?

FSAs can do some heavy lifting for your benefits plan – they allow employees to save pretax dollars for healthcare costs without the price tag of other financial wellness initiatives.

A Standing Ovation is a special reward program at benefitexpress that honors two employees who have gone above and beyond in fulfilling our Community Pillars. Each quarter, nominations are tallied, read, and carefully considered before being awarded at our company “Town Hall” all-staff meetings where the final nominations are read aloud to highlight just how much the winners have done to deserve the award. Aside from the recognition, each winner also receives a check for $2,500.

In 2017, over 50,000 merger and acquisition deals were announced globally, and first quarter of 2018 showed record-breaking M&A activity. The sizes and shapes of these organizations vary, but the challenge for many HR teams remains the same: After the dust of the M&A settles, how do we effectively consolidate disparate benefit management processes while maintaining a consistent, effortless experience for employees?

We would like to give a big thank-you to everyone involved in last week’s Benefits Tech Connect event in Chicago! Brought to you by benefitexpress, Benefits Tech Connect is designed to bring together leading benefits insurance professionals for idea exchange and networking opportunities.

With annual enrollment quickly approaching, you've probably been hard at work drafting and finalizing plan design, but have you taken time to review and set your enrollment communication strategy (ECS) goals?

If you have ever compared benefits administration software vendors, you’ve likely heard the acronyms EDI and API presented as carrier integration offerings. At the core, both transmit data from one platform to another, but what is the difference between the two? And, most importantly, why should you (and your clients) care?

With four distinct generations operating in today's workplace, benefit advisers and consultants are wise to build strategies that can best advise employers on how to craft a benefits enrollment experience that feels personalized and intuitive to their multi-generational population. But with many human resource departments strapped for time and resources, which generation should they focus their efforts on first in order to receive maximum employee satisfaction and engagement throughout the open enrollment period?

For HR professionals, if your organization offers a high-deductible health plan (HDHP), chances are you've experienced a variety of conversations with confused employees who eagerly signed up for the HDHP in hopes of reducing costs, but were not prepared for the reality of out-of-pocket expenses they are now facing.

Leaving the organization isn't the end of the benefits cycle for employees. This webinar focuses on how to avoid one of the most common compliance pitfalls in benefits ... COBRA administration.