Modern menopause support in the workplace: Data, accommodations and benefits
Current statistics, expert advice, and employer examples can empower benefit leaders to help female employees manage this life phase.
Benefits Think Let’s build behavioral health on usage, not headcount
Brokers can incentivize vendor performance by tying portions of their fees to measurable standards such as response times and match-acceptance rates.
How Carrot’s CEO is championing menopause support in the workplace
Tammy Sun saw the need for education and resources that prepare and help women navigate this midlife stage, so she added a virtual clinic to the fertility company’s offerings.
Why open enrollment should be more than a once-a-year campaign
Progyny CHRO Cass Pratt shares practical ways employers can help employees understand their benefits and turn open enrollment into a year-round conversation.
CEOs share advice for HR strategy, employee retention in 2027, part 1
Baystate Health president and CEO Peter Banko discusses employee pain points, rethinking compensation and removing barriers to care.
U.S. retirement outlook worsens as debt, health costs weigh on workers
The U.S. fell three spots to 24th in a global retirement ranking, highlighting growing pressure on employers to help workers save and plan for rising costs.
Benefits Think When star employees are squeezed from both sides
Flexible benefits and a caring culture that recognize the double squeeze of child care and eldercare responsibilities on a culture will help retain sandwich-generation talent.
Rising healthcare costs may force small businesses to cut coverage
Reducing healthcare benefits can provide immediate savings, but it could also stunt retention and recruiting efforts.
Employers need to rethink access to mental health and recovery care
Organizations are seeing more demand for mental health and substance use services. New approaches aim to make care easier to access before employees reach a crisis.
Helping employees select the right healthcare during open enrollment
Employers should educate staff on the nuances of every coverage option, advises Benefitbay CEO, ranging from coinsurance to coverage tiers, networks, “incumbent bias,” and more.
Retirement income is the next challenge for employers
Workers estimate they’ll need over $5K in monthly retirement income, but many have no clear strategy for turning savings and investments into a steady paycheck.
How this AT&T benefit is helping employee navigate stage IV cancer diagnosis
Jose Conde has been working with specialty care support platform Lantern for over a year, receiving aid with everything from oncology specialist connections to claims to empathetic support.
Heightened healthcare costs a top HR challenge
Leading benefits professionals — and EBN Excellence in Benefits award winners — share how they are contending with rising health plan expenses.
Benefits Think The business case for effective multilingual education
When speakers of other languages enroll with confidence, receive support and use plans wisely to contain costs and reduce claims, everybody wins.
When an acute behavioral health crisis hits, employees need better options
The CEO of Connections Health Solutions explains how its crisis receiving centers can provide faster and more cost-efficient access to specialized care.
Benefits Think Tech neck is becoming a workplace health issue. Here’s what HR can do
Education and healthy work routines can help keep employees from experiencing chronic pain and lower productivity.
When determining GLP-1 coverage, keep these considerations in mind
Less expensive options and customized levels of support can help employers make these medications work within their benefits plan.
Benefits Think Why skipping metabolic health is a $100k mistake
When providers rush to high-cost procedures, plan sponsors are left subsidizing a bypass of the underlying metabolic issues that most determine pregnancy success.
Q&A: Texas Civil Rights Project’s Doretha Polite sees benefits getting even more personal
The human resources director discusses HR's biggest trends, challenges, and strategies for success.
To cut healthcare costs, employers are doing their own negotiating
As healthcare costs climb, more large employers are contracting directly with hospitals and health systems to work out prices, improve quality and steer care.
