Employer Strategies

NBGH’s Brian Marcotte and National Alliance’s Mike Thompson sound off on why employers need to embrace mobile communications, offer financial wellness apps and meet their employees where they are.

With an anticipated 5% increase in benefits costs, companies are looking to revamp strategies and encourage programs that empower workers to be savvy healthcare consumers.

Companies like Indiana University Health and VMware offer the perk in an effort to attract and retain talent.

Ascende’s Suzanne McGarey helps clients and their employees navigate the maze of modern insurance while keeping an eye on the quality of services.

Surviving spouses will either receive their own Social Security benefit or the survivor's benefit, whichever is higher. But they also may get pushed to a higher tax bracket, which. in turn, could mean higher taxes on Social Security benefits.

Employers should encourage expectant parents in their workforce to save for their future costs with a 529 plan or a Roth IRA.

The school found deploying the right technology, and tapping employees’ competitive nature, generated a lot of excitement around the program.

James Damore, the Google engineer who wrote the note, confirmed his dismissal in an email, saying that he had been fired for “perpetuating gender stereotypes.”

Insurer worked with Maxwell Health to provide single source of benefits information to clients' employees.

Benefit election variations across leading job sectors point to a need for better education from advisers and employers on product selection.