Benefit strategies

Recent Mercer acquisition of Thomsons Online Benefits cements broker requirement to be comfortable with technology or be left behind.

With an ever-changing benefits landscape, having an inside look from industry experts is crucial to best strategize how to tackle any oncoming challenges. Over the course of the year, these were some of the top blog contributions received at EBN.

Employers are slowly moving toward the benefit as a millennial attraction tool but a tax treatment is the real boost it needs, experts say.

Goal-oriented plans do not teach fundamental wellbeing, says fitness expert Brendan Weafer.

Employers are slowly moving toward the benefit as a millennial attraction tool, but a tax treatment is the real boost it needs, experts say.

Employers need to be deliberate about what information they send, how they delivered it and provide a reasons why younger workers should care.

As companies evolve to PTO banks, hurdles still remain in getting employees to maximize the benefit

Effective use of well-being advocates in the workplace varies by employer size.

Without an effective retention strategy, the costs of recruiting and re-recruiting top management can be enormous, says consultant Leonard Wilson.

As companies evolve to PTO banks, hurdles still remain in getting workers to maximize the benefit

Goal-oriented plans do not teach fundamental wellbeing, says fitness expert Brendan Weafer.

With its acquisition of LinkedIn, the software giant will attempt to transform how companies recruit talent and manage people.

Uber Technologies Inc. is expanding a partnership with WageWorks Inc. that allows users of the ride-sharing giant's UberPool service to pay for commutes to and from work with pretax funds,

The software giant seeks to improve professional productivity by integrating the LinkedIn social graph with its own Office Graph.

Disengaged employees and remote workers make it difficult for bosses to manage the modern workforce.

The company announced it is significantly bolstering its leave benefits for new parents, as well as increasing its employee benefits for fertility, surrogacy, adoption and lactation.

To keep the momentum going into 2017, advisers should follow five trends encouraging growth in supplemental benefits.

Very public about his anti-regulation stance, Andrew Puzder has said little about how he’ll approach the retirement rule set to go into effect in four months.

Very public about his anti-regulation stance, Andrew Puzder has said little about how he’ll approach the regulation set to go into effect in four months.

: Regardless of policy outcome, employers must continue to apply innovative and creative strategies for employee benefits, says Hodges-Mace’s Eric Helman.