Revisiting 2020’s top benefits professionals

By Alyssa Place, This is my expertise
Published Updated 1 Min Read

Despite the challenges COVID-19 brought to the workplace this year, a few benefit professionals still stood out from the crowd.

Our 2020 Benny Award winners helped employees with child care challenges, offered health and wellness benefits, revamped retirement plans and boosted financial wellness offerings for their workplace populations.

Amidst a year of upheaval and transitions in the world of work, many employees have been left feeling unmoored and unmotivated, searching for a new post-coronavirus paradigm.

Bryan Aycock is not one of those people. As the director of benefits at Zynga, a game developer company, Aycock began the year planning to start programs that supported mental health, family planning and other wellness initiatives. But once the pandemic hit, he shifted gears to offer Zynga’s 2,100 employees support for every challenge the pandemic threw their way. Aycock immediately connected employees with ergonomic assessments, expanded Zynga’s EAP to provide mental health services and waived copays with Aetna through the rest of 2020.

Alyssa Place
Editor-in-chief

Alyssa Place is the editor-in-chief of Employee Benefit News and has been with the team since 2019. Her work covers mental health, DEI, women at work, financial wellness, retirement and workplace … Read full bio


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