How out-of-network costs erode backup care
The traditional backup care credit model can waste employer dollars before they reach families — but several fixes exist.
Workplace
Benefits Think The price variation hiding inside your health plan
Visible hospital pricing is an opportunity for benefit leaders to compare costs for procedures across facilities.
Nearly half of workers fear using disability benefits could cost them
A new survey highlights a disconnect between disability benefits availability and employee confidence in using those benefits when health issues arise.
Benefits Think How AI is reshaping compensation work
As AI makes compensation data more accessible than ever, the future is about interpreting, challenging and using data to drive better decisions.
Jason Walker
Thrive HR Consulting
Instead of ‘chasing every leave,’ take a proactive approach
With leave requests on the rise, combining required and company-specific leave practices into set criteria saves time, avoids liability, and improves culture.
How to successfully recruit and retain Gen Z talent
Organizations are struggling to crack the code on young professionals, but a few changes to their strategy could make all the difference.
As employers expand inclusion efforts to neurodivergent staff, their AI falls short
While companies are increasingly accounting for a neurodiverse workforce, their performance management technology needs to keep pace.
How AI can enhance managers’ leadership skills
Trained technology can offer day-to-day support for administrative tasks and important interactions with team members.
Benefits Think Why leave management is HR’s next AI frontier
Streamlining the leave process, including geographical compliance, accommodations and return to work, takes a large administrative burden off of HR departments.
Middle managers burning out due to AI, other mounting pressures
Worker well-being has declined sharply in two years, as employees race to adapt to rapid change and report waning organizational support.
How HSAs can help organizations stave off $183B in lost productivity
Better benefit plan design and HSAs can support employees as they struggle to afford their medical bills.
Benefits Think The hidden assumption in every benefits strategy
Insurers are financial institutions, not healthcare companies, which has significant implications for how we can fix problems that have been around for years.
Ben Conner
Conner Insurance
Most workers feel resilient, but few are ready for financial shocks
With financial preparedness a continuing challenge, according to a new MetLife survey, employers have the opportunity to better equip their people through emergency savings and financial wellness benefits.
Student loan challenges are mounting. Employer guidance can help
From loan repayment and forgiveness to tuition planning, employers can improve workers' education about how to proceed following July 1 changes to plan options.
Benefits Think How AI helps drive higher benefits ROI
In a world where benefits are only valuable if people can actually use them, guidance has never mattered more as employers increasingly turn to artificial intelligence.
PEPs are a major opportunity for smaller advisers
Despite tepid interest, small businesses — and their advisers — stand to benefit from adding pooled employer plans.
Benefits Think The retirement industry’s dilemma: An existential choice
Alternative retirement options are growing in popularity as employees reject traditional, more rigid, plans.
Caregiving responsibilities could be costing Gen Z their careers
Young professionals are struggling more than their older counterparts to juggle their jobs, debt, and families with aging parents.
eBook The benefits strategy only health systems can use
A guide for HR and benefits leaders at health systems on turning your own network into a benefits asset.
Web Seminar Is paid parental leave on the chopping block? Benefit budgets under pressure
Join us for a discussion on the key questions HR and Benefits leaders should be prepared to address regarding paid parental leave.
