The State of the Benefits Market

PPACA, employee retention, benefits communications we asked HR professionals and benefits brokers for their biggest challenges today. Heres what they had to say.

By BenefitsPro staff | April 14, 2016 at 08:00 AM

When it comes to addressing your own challenges as a benefits broker, it helps to know how the other side feels, as well. In this video, we talked to several employee benefits brokers and HR professionals to find out what keeps them up at night – and how you might start a conversation to uncover and begin working on these challenges.

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