Communication portals for employees have been the mainstay of benefits communication for the past decade. Increasingly though, brokers are finding that communication solutions focused on benefits alone are being subsumed by corporate intranets.
An intranet is a private network that can only be accessed by employees or members of a given organization. Modeled on the Internet, intranets allow companies to create a secure, virtual environment – essentially a private version of the World Wide Web inside their corporate firewall.