3 Solutions for Employers’ COVID Enrollment Challenges
With so many employees still working from home this enrollment season, it’s harder for companies to engage with workers about their benefits programs. Employers can no longer benefit from informal channels like word of mouth. Email isn’t ideal for communicating complex topics, and with 62% …
How to Prepare for an Uncertain Future
COVID-19 drove an unprecedented number of workers into home offices, leading some prognosticators to pronounce the end of the office as we know it. The level of uncertainty around returning to work would seem to belie that claim, as over a third of companies say …
Business Is Personal in Times of Crisis
COVID-19 changed the way people work and, consequently, how they communicate. In the weeks following the start of the pandemic, companies raced to find ways to keep their employees working remotely, and in-person connections gave way to emails and Zoom calls. Artemis Health found that employers …
4 Strategies to Help Employees Make Better Healthcare Decisions
High-deductible health plans were intended to make workers more responsible healthcare consumers by switching more of the costs to them, but getting accurate pricing information to consumers — or even agreeing on what “price” means — has been difficult. When it is available, roughly one …
Employers lose 9 hours a week answering benefits questions: Study
HR professionals spend an average of nine hours a week answering questions from members about benefits, according to a survey by HealthJoy. What would you do with an extra day in your week? …