Voluntary

Misty Guinn, director of customer advocacy at Benefitfocus, discusses the current state of employee benefits.

Forty-one percent of parents are not aware of the benefits their employer offers them to help with child care and other family support.

Employees have increasingly been turning to their employers for support managing the stressors in their lives outside of work.

“Pets really have a positive impact on people,” says Melissa Marshall, vice president of people and organization at Banfield Pet Hospital.

The memo calls for Congress to work with the White House to include permanent paid leave in the $3 trillion “Build Back Better” recovery plan the Biden administration is preparing to roll out.

Demand for fertility benefits is rising as more employees delay starting families.

Telehealth benefits are an accessible way to offer benefits to at-risk employee groups.

“There is a sense of tribe that is lost when we’re all staring at each other on Zoom calls,” says Matt Macinnis, chief operating officer at Rippling.

More than one-third of parents, mostly women, have yet to return to jobs they lost largely because there’s no one to look after their kids.

Underrepresented employees are unfairly and unequally burdened by student loan debt.