Best Practices

The key to maximizing your benefits offering is to actively engage with, and listen to, the needs of your employees, offer them flexibility and education, and don't be afraid to make changes.

Be sure to monitor the utilization of new benefits over time and consider feedback from your employees so you can pivot your plan accordingly.

With people leaders joining forces as a catalyst for change, together we can create a workforce that's not only people-centric but also representative of the diversity of our world.

Giving women employees the resources to manage everyday health can go a long way toward preventing the onset of these conditions.

Since 2012, every state except Alabama has either enacted or introduced legislation that would establish state-facilitated retirement savings programs, and 10 states already have fully operating auto-IRAs.

While access to mental health services is a problem for just about everyone, everywhere, the LGBTQ+ community is facing a dangerous trifecta — cultural and political volatility, an accelerating mental health crisis, and an inequitable healthcare system — that needs immediate and sustained action.

Most employees would prefer financial benefits such as a company stock plan, and a broad-based plan tied to payroll such as employee stock purchase plans may be a good fit, as more employees will be able to participate.

As a benefits professional, you want to be part of the solution, not part of the problem when your cash-strapped business-owning client find themselves in a difficult situation, facing reorganization and layoffs.