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Resumes, jobs, benefit and tax forms, drug testing ‘will be 100% automated,’ says WorldatWork CEO
HR chatbots are coming and “every single organization today would be wise to begin thinking and acting on the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” he says.
Benefits Think Tech companies have stepped up with solutions. Now it’s clients’ turn
For digital solutions to truly work and have the potential to change employees’ lives, benefits professionals must get behind them.
Kathryn Mayer
Employee Benefit News
Benefits Think The hidden costs of free benefits administration
Though it may sound appealing, these solutions are often difficult to integrate into existing HR systems and do little to improve processes.
Anne Burkett
USI Insurance Services
Zombie-themed wellness program gives new meaning to ‘Walking Dead’
Employers are using a game called the Outbreak to encourage their employees to increase their step count — and have fun in the process.
Deep learning offers lessons for healthcare
A subset of machine learning and AI vastly improves predictive modeling capabilities for early intervention strategies, better outcomes and lower costs.
New software models benefits packages based on worker feedback
Employers including investment bank Goldman Sachs are using the tool from Qualtrics.
Benefits Think Concerned about cybersecurity? Here’s how to protect 401(k) plans
Consolidating retirement accounts using auto-portability can protect data.
Spencer Williams
Portability Services Network and Retirement Clearinghouse
Bank of America adds digital HSA tool
The investment bank, which provides health savings accounts for 900,000 employees, has digitized its experience to help make the vehicle easier to use.
Do your workers Google symptoms? This app wants to change that
Flex is using HealthTap, which allows users to get their health question in front of 140,000 doctors instead of searching for random answers online.
Benefits Think Tech companies have stepped up with solutions. Now it’s employers’ turn
For digital solutions to truly work and have the potential to change employees’ lives, HR professionals must get behind them.
Kathryn Mayer
Employee Benefit News
Autozone drives employee engagement with benefits, HR app
After struggling with communication, the retailer partnered with Green Circle Life to create a mobile tool. The result? Rapid growth.
Benefits Think Teched out
With constant communication, news feeds and 24/7 texting, never has the modern employee been so informed, so productive — and also so stressed out.
Walden Siew
Arizent
Benefits Think Concerned about cybersecurity? Here’s how to protect 401(k) plans
Consolidating retirement accounts using auto-portability can protect data.
Spencer Williams
Portability Services Network and Retirement Clearinghouse
Autozone drives employee engagement with benefits, HR app
After struggling with communication, the retailer partnered with Green Circle Life to create a mobile tool. The result? Rapid growth.
Workers are going mobile. Their access to analytics needs to follow
The business world is increasingly mobile, and if organizations don’t provide easy access to data analytics capabilities for mobile users, they might be missing out on huge opportunities.
Benefits Think Why humans still hold the advantage in decision automation
While machines can and will magnify our thinking and apply it to data faster and more accurately than we can, they still can’t think for us.
Chuck Densinger
Elicit
Benefits Think Are your employees ‘future proof?’
With automation on the rise, now is the time for HR professionals to make sure their workforce is trained and ready for what’s next on the job.
John Figueroa
Genoa Healthcare
How 60 of the nation’s biggest employers are uniting to fight the benefits status quo
A group called the Employer Health Innovation Roundtable, representing more than 8 million workers, is partnering with health startups to transform employee care — and change the industry in the process.
Benefit pros on the move: MetLife, Springbuk, AmerisourceBergen
Employers are hiring and promoting executives in the insurance, digital health and advising industries.