Benefit strategies

When I first started covering the benefits industry in 2011, there was plenty to write about, and much of the focus involved gloom and doom forecasts over the newly enacted Affordable Care Act. How times have changed.

Bright Horizons, Discover, Disney and U.S. Xpress are among a growing list of employers offering to pay for employees to get college degrees.

Cristy Gupton, CEO of employee benefits brokerage firm Custom Benefits Solutions, helped her clients fashion health plans designed to reduce employees’ risk of opioid abuse.

This year’s class of top women advisers understands how these virtues can make a positive impact on the benefits industry.

While loyalty and engagement is a complex matter, employers must find the right balance of perks that workers want and will use.

An update on the health insurance marketplace aims to ease the burden of enrollment for small businesses.

Employers are often looking for a benefits consultant to help them navigate healthcare, explains Questige’s John Sbrocco.