Benefit management

Employers should offer incentives to get employees to participate, create a healthy culture at work and properly communicate offerings to workers, among other guidelines.

To avoid headaches, clients need to look at and/or provisions and pre-existing conditions, among others.

In order to engage and boost talent, employers should look at newer technologies and be more flexible in an increasingly digital world, experts say.

Employees will be able to ask their personal benefits questions in any way they choose and in real time.

Even when employees do not sue, poor treatment of workers who need time off to care for sick relatives can backfire on owners.

Perhaps the biggest benefits trend young workers are driving is one that has historically been a blind spot for employers: Help with debt.

To avoid headaches, HR professionals need to look at and/or provisions and pre-existing conditions, among others.

Even when employees do not sue, poor treatment of workers who need time off to care for sick relatives can backfire on owners.

Acknowledging the reality of an aging U.S. population, some benefit executives are stepping up efforts to help employees caring for older relatives.

Employers should offer incentives to get employees to participate, create a healthy culture at work and properly communicate offerings to workers, among other guidelines.