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An Employee Assistance Program is a free benefit that can offer employees (and often household members) significant value in their daily lives, but is often misunderstood. Guest blogger Ed Bray shares his top 5 reasons to remind employees about the complete value of a company’s EAP program (beyond problem resolution) and to promote its use.

Guest blogger and director of Employee Benefits for Hawaiian Airlines, Ed Bray, shares four suggestions for starting a new benefits position on the right foot. Learned over 10 years of experience, he advises HR peers on how to feel welcome, secure, and successful in their first few months.

Benefits get personal as guest blogger Karrie Andes reflects on the reasons health plan renewal decisions are so important.

Plenty, it seems. Antique collectors are cautioned to learn, research, and examine items carefully so they won't be disappointed. The same goes for benefits benchmarking surveys. The data, and how it's collected, can be different for each survey and if you don’t go to great lengths to examine the numbers and the methodology, you could be in for a big disappointment.

Employee assistance program coverage may need to be included in W-2 reporting. Guest blogger Ed Bray offers his thoughts on how to determine the standalone dollar value of your EAP.

Guest blogger Ed Bray shares why benefits professionals should be proactive about involving the finance function in benefits strategy decisions.

Employers who communicate about PPACA's free preventive care for women provision sooner, rather than later, are better poised to manage employee expectations, says guest blogger Ed Bray.

From stuffing envelopes to virtual benefits fair, guest blogger Karrie Andes shares how benefits communication has changed over the course of a decade.

In light of PPACA being upheld by the Supreme Court, grumpy guest blogger Karrie Andes struggles to find the motivation to start working on her company's W-2 reporting.

As EBN Editor-in-Chief Kelley Butler heads out on maternity leave until October, Employee Benefit Views will still be a place to obtain and offer a new perspective on various benefits-related issues — as she introduces not one, but two, guest bloggers for the next 12 weeks.