How — and why — employers should make healthcare benefits interesting

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Employees may be more interested in the intricacies of their PTO policies or gym memberships, but employers need to make healthcare benefits just as appealing if they want to set their employees up for success.

Sixty-eight percent of employees feel confident in how their healthcare plan works, leaving a large group of people at risk of overspending on their coverage, according to data from employee benefits solutions platform Optavise. Meanwhile, that same literacy gap doesn’t necessarily exist when it comes to lifestyle benefits, leaving  the burden on employers to level the playing field. 

Paola Peralta
Associate Editor

Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio


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