One of the most essential strategies for companies to reign in healthcare spending is to improve enrollment into your HDHP and increase employee contributions into their HSAs. Employers pay less in premiums, and they pay less at the point of sale because of adjusted cost sharing while still...
Decision support tools like our PLANselect platform, which guide your employees through their options and predict their spending, help your employees make better health insurance decisions. Want to learn more about decision-support tools and their connection to your healthcare spending? Check...
Improve your year-round benefits communication and education with this easy-to-use calendar of topics. Here’s what you’ll get: A monthly communications theme, 2-3 topics around each theme, each month, A reminder of notable holidays for that month
It’s that time of year again, when many companies roll out new or returning healthcare options to employees. The problem? SHRM observed that employers and employees have different ideas about the best methods for selecting and enrolling in healthcare benefits.
Some years, open enrollment goes smoothly. Other years, it definitely doesn’t. If you’re dealing with an active enrollment year, then you know the importance of having a successful open enrollment. So how can you do that? It starts with understanding the reasons why OE fails.
Last year, we helped conduct 200 open enrollment campaigns to nearly 750,000 employees. What would you want to know if you had access to that type of data set? We dug through all that data with a focus on pulling out actionable insights to help
Open enrollment is exhausting. You spend months preparing for it, selecting benefits providers, pulling together plan documentation, and getting everything ready to maximize your enrollment window. But then you start sending emails and they don’t get read. You have benefits presentations or...
Across nearly 200 benefits-enrollment campaigns in 2020, we saw some of the highest levels of employee engagement ever .
Check out our Open Enrollment 2020 Case Study and Trends Report to see how customized videos, Digital Postcards, decision-support tools, and benefits communications were...
Each year, organizations develop strategies designed to improve the way they communicate with their employees. Part of the focus is on building more personalized content that will be shared across teams and, often, dispersed office locations
Human resource departments spend LOTS of time and money educating employees on core and voluntary benefits offered to them by their employer and ensuring employees sign up on time, or risk losing those benefits until the next sign-up period. Strategies to get employees to sign up include: snail...
Human resource departments spend LOTS of time and money educating employees on core and voluntary benefits offered to them by their employer and ensuring employees sign up on time, or risk losing those benefits until the next sign-up period. Strategies to get employees to sign up include: snail...
Have you ever spent any time on a deserted island? I have. I’ve spent seven long years on the Isle of WFH.
If you’ve done a lot of remote work, you probably felt at times like you were on a deserted island. There are times when remote employees feel isolated and on their own.
And there are...
Quarantine fatigue. I have it, you have it, your employees have it. As we pass the one-year mark of this unprecedented historical shift in the way we as a society conduct both social and professional interactions, it’s impossible to not long for a “return to normalcy.”
From an employee...
Are you concerned about navigating the COVID vaccination cycle? The flu vaccine is simple, but spend ten minutes browsing HR publications and major media sites and you'll realize the COVID vaccine isn't. Employers around the nation are struggling with: How to determine whether they can (and...
Effectively reaching and engaging employees is the key to success for a human resources department. Yet, most HR professionals struggle to deliver crucial messages because employees suffer from email overload or have more pressing concerns.
This past year has taught us the only certainty we...
With the infamous 2020 in the rearview mirror — hopefully along with the unprecedented challenges that accompanied it — HR professionals are hoping for a less chaotic year. One of the side benefits of the tumultuous year was the impressive way we adapted to policy changes and communicated those...
We're past the initial scramble of companies and HR managers desperate to improve training video content, challenged to reach remote workers. Today, organizations have produced more engaging employee training content to help new workers hit the ground running. For those companies in a position...
Managing healthcare costs is a constant challenge for American businesses. Our workforce has a substantial number of older (and often sicker) workers alongside a growing number of younger workers with very different needs, so what’s worked in
the past may not work moving forward. To keep costs...
The Spanish you learned in high school might be enough for you to ask where to find the bathroom or a library, but whatever’s left probably isn’t enough for you to delve into the nitty-gritty details of health insurance and employee benefits with a native speaker. Unless there are fluent or...
To date, the US government has passed three pieces of legislation to address various problems the coronavirus pandemic has caused. The first was a small funding bill (only in Washington is $8 billion small) that was designed to meet immediate needs in terms of testing and lowering treatment...
What if your company doesn’t offer any formal wellness benefits? Fortunately, you don’t need a fancy office gym or sleep pods to encourage and maintain workplace health. Employees know that when employers are aware of everyday stressors in and out of work, they can build their own ‘DIY’ health...
Every year, after annual enrollment season wraps up, we go back through all the work we’ve done to evaluate our products and processes to identify what we can do to better serve our clients’ needs...
This year's federal tax season has been extended to July 15th due to the COVID-19 health crisis. With everyone under
unique and often financial strains, many are examining their finances, searching for ways to save money. Now more than
ever, the different needs and questions employees have...
Take a step back from the statistics for a moment and put yourself in the shoes of a new employee. If your first days on the job are characterized by disorganization, confusion and frustration, how much longer would you work for that company? Businesses lose value and spend far too many...
Effective learning is about engagement. The more engaged and involved a person can be with what they’re learning, the more they’ll retain. But in the business world, resource allocation also comes into play and teaching employees new skills or educating them on subjects like the subtleties of...
This report provides helpful advice for some common problem areas around annual benefits enrollment and what you can do to address those issues as you begin to plan for and communicate about open enrollment to your employees.
We’ve compiled helpful advice for our clients to ensure successful communications campaigns with their employees. It contains tips for the email copy, who should send it, how often it should be sent and more. It’s focused on benefits open enrollment, however, the principles apply to any HR...
