Voluntary benefits

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Workers trying to conceive can experience as much stress as cancer patients. But with company help, productivity and loyalty can soar.

Providing perks such as accident insurance and purchasing programs will help companies recruit and retain more of these valuable employees.

HR managers should explore voluntary benefits, revisit employee policies and provide guidance on password protection.

Rethink delivers consultation and training to employees who have special needs kids as a new workplace perk.

Advisers need to stay up-to-date on these trends or risks becoming irrelevant to millennial clients.

Employers can drive down high premium cost by self-funding and treating oral care the same as major medical, experts say.

Benefit pros need to think beyond the printed benefit guidebook and consider online access to summaries, on-demand webinars and social media.

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Demonstrating demand, laying out the benefits and focusing on plan integration will help advisers to avoid selling clients short on voluntary.

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The coverage, which helps with out-of-pocket exposure, doesn’t work well as a stand-alone voluntary sale, explains Peggy Hayes of American Public Life.

Carriers are becoming more progressive in building eye health into overall wellness initiatives with an aim to cut down on healthcare costs.

A shifting workforce is putting a greater influence on how employers look at benefit offerings.

Millennials famously eschew the corporate perks that cultivated loyalty among their predecessors, but they clamor for education and development.