Benz Communications is turning 3 years old this month! Even as I write this line, I almost can’t believe it myself. The last few years have flown by—it seems like just yesterday that I was walking into San Francisco’s City Hall to get our business license.
Big pharma helping the little guy? And, communicating well in the process? Can it be?
Have you ever forwarded one of those chain emails about politics, without checking to see if the facts were true?
My most recent post on Benefits Buzz, called Discounted Health Care for Buying Local Veggies? Is this Heaven, talks about a new program in Madison, WI where people receive rebates on their health care coverage for buying locally grown fruits and vegetables. What a great idea!
I presented this morning on a California Employer Advisor teleseminar Benefits Communication: How to Teach Your Workers the Value of Their Benefits and Increase Utilization.
If you scroll down and look at my last blog post, it was about a month ago. That’s an eternity in blogging timeframes and I’m a bit embarrassed to be pointing out that little fact.
This week is National Volunteer week and my good friends at The Taproot Foundation have just put out a children’s book about the value of pro bono work.
MetLife’s 7th Annual Study of Employee Benefit Trends shows that health, retirement and other insurance benefits are incredibly important factors in employee loyalty, much more so that the previous year. At the same time, advancement opportunities and company culture have decreased in importance from the previous year.
My latest post on Benefits Buzz takes a look at the Twitter, the trendy micro-blogging platform that only gives you 140 characters per post.
My first post is up on Benefits Buzz.