With students heading back to school and open enrollment just around the corner, it’s a great time to realign efforts around benefits education to support your busy employees — especially those who are also juggling school schedules, family costs, and end-of-year planning.
Open enrollment is an excellent opportunity to help employees plug into the valuable support available through your financial benefits programs, but it’s essential to strike the right balance of benefits communication, education, and offerings to help get the right information to the right people at the right time. Mastering this recipe is an ongoing challenge — in fact, 85% of employees believe their company needs to do a better job explaining how to maximize the financial benefits offered, and 96% of HR leaders agree, according to Morgan Stanley at Work’s State of the Workplace 2024 Financial Benefits Study.
