Voluntary benefits

Couldn't make it to the Benefits Forum & Expo? Find out how benefits professionals from Facebook, Activision Blizzard, Purdue University and Optanix are not only shaping their respective companies — they’re reinventing the industry.

The nation’s biggest private employer asked hourly workers to rate potential incentives, including a sign-on bonus, child-care services, tutoring, pet care and gym memberships.

Sure, a ping pong table in the break room is nice. But the new generation of employees is looking for serious offerings when considering an employer.

New technology that allows workers to access wages between pay periods have frightening similarities to payday loans.

The HR provider platform is partnering with Guardian and Transamerica to include several new offerings to its package.

Hurricane Florence is bound to raise questions about a firm’s obligation to provide time off under laws such as the FMLA. Here’s what employers need to know.

New technology that allows workers to access wages between pay periods have frightening similarities to payday loans.

A ping pong table in the break room is nice but the new generation of employees is looking for serious offerings when considering an employer.

EBN’s 2018 Benefits Professional of the Year, Renee Albert, has led the social media giant in ramping up paid parental, bereavement and caregiving leave — along with a slew of other enviable benefits. But her most game-changing initiative is calling on other employers to do the same.

The HR provider platform is partnering with Guardian and Transamerica to include several new offerings to its package.

Hurricane Florence is bound to raise questions about a firm’s obligation to provide time off under laws such as the FMLA. Here’s what employers need to know.

EBA’s Advisers of the Year stand out for their work in retirement planning, voluntary benefits, wellness and technology.

EBA’s Voluntary Adviser of the Year explains why guiding employees through the murky waters of purchasing voluntary benefits is so satisfying.

What impresses me most about EBN’s Benefits Professional of the Year isn’t just what she’s done at Facebook, but what she’s trying to do to move the entire industry.

EBN’s 2018 Benefits Professional of the Year, Renee Albert, has led the social media giant in ramping up paid parental, bereavement and caregiving leave — along with a slew of other enviable benefits. But her most game-changing initiative is calling on other employers to do the same.

First offered by large Silicon Valley companies, time-saving benefits are now spreading to employers and industries of all kinds.

A surge of new transportation apps, such as Hytch, aim to address a modern workplace conundrum: long, expensive commutes.

Most brokers make the mistake of simply asking employers about their interest in “voluntary” benefits and then wonder why most clients are not interested.

A surge of new transportation apps, such as Hytch, aim to address a modern workplace conundrum: long, expensive commutes.