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Clients utilizing these best practices can springboard long-term success with recruitment, retention, lower absenteeism, reduced costs and employee happiness.

Report shows growing acceptance of the service by employees, who cite its low cost and time savings.

Employers should work to identify and help at-risk employees as early as possible.

While it's uncommon to offer auto enrollment with disability insurance, it can be a valuable asset to an employee's financial security.

Offering too many benefit choices can hurt engagement in programs and lower participation rates. Employers should consider targeted, individual offerings.

Clients need to be ready to offer benefits and workplace perks that match employees most important needs.

Employers need to be ready to offer benefits and workplace perks that match employees most important needs.

Advisers are playing an important role in the rapid growth of the small and mid-sized software solutions industry.

Research points to automation, robotics and advances in safety as contributing factors to a decrease in claims frequency. However, severity is up — and wearables could help.

Employers will find most value and impact when all internal and external stakeholders work as a team instead of independent siloes.