Katie Kuehner-Hebert is a freelance writer based in Running Springs, Calif. She has more than three decades of journalism experience, with particular expertise in employee benefits and other human resource topics.
More and more employers this year will begin offering voluntary employee benefits to their workers in preparation for the real game changer in 2014the further implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Every broker knows that cross-selling additional employee benefits can be lucrative. But sometimes it makes more business sensefor both the client and the brokerif certain benefits are sometimes sold separately.
Every broker knows that cross-selling additional employee benefits can be lucrative. But sometimes it makes more business sensefor both the client and the brokerif certain benefits are sometimes sold separately.
The recessions impact on companies human resource budgets coupled with continued uncertainty over health care reform has spawned a whole new slew of objections that benefits professionals must overcome to get new businessor stop existing clients from inappropriately scaling back services.
As the competitive landscape for benefits brokers gets tougher, effectively communicating benefits strategies with clientsand helping them better communicate those strategies with their employees becomes even more critical.
As the competitive landscape for benefits brokers gets tougher, effectively communicating benefits strategies with clientsand helping them better communicate those strategies with their employees becomes even more critical.