With many employees still working from home as the pandemic rages on, organizations need to rethink how they communicate with their workforce—now and in the future. In this podcast, Jen discusses what to include in your benefits communications strategy to ensure you’re reaching your people where they are.
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November 13, 2020
Structuring a Year-Round Benefits Communications Plan for Your Clients
November 02, 2020
Driving Results Through Effective and Impactful Employee Benefits Communications
In this podcast, Jen discusses how COVID-19 has impacted employee benefits and communication. You’ll learn how the most successful companies are aligning benefits communication with business goals to increase engagement and results, and how leveraging behavioral science and design can make employee benefits communication and engagement more consistent and easier for employees to understand.
October 20, 2020
Commuter Benefits Can Pile Up, Converting to Cash Is Difficult
Because employers expect fewer workers to take advantage of transportation-related benefits this open enrollment season, they’re focusing on other ways to rev up a remote workforce. In this article, Jen talks about different opt-in benefits that employers are offering to support employees working from home.
September 01, 2020
Communication Is Key to Annual Enrollment Success in the Year of COVID-19
This year’s annual benefits enrollment process presents new challenges for benefits professionals. In this IFEBP article, Jen explains how planning, frequent communication—and empathy—can go a long way toward making open enrollment a good experience for employees and a success for benefit pros.
August 18, 2020
Employers Can Provide Rich, Valuable Open Enrollment Experience Despite Being Pushed Online Due to COVID-19, Expert Says
Due to the global coronavirus pandemic, this year’s open enrollment will likely look and feel different for most companies without in-person benefits fairs or face-to-face meetings with HR. However, with some planning, companies can provide employees with a rich, valuable online open enrollment experience. In this article, Jen spoke with Wolters Kluwer about how to effectively communicate and implement a virtual open enrollment.
August 13, 2020
Hello, Goodbye: This Year’s Open Enrollment Offers New Opportunities for Brokers
This open enrollment season will be unlike any other, coupling an unstable economy with a national health crisis and an unprecedented reliance on digital technology. In this article, Jen talks about how to communicate last-minute benefit decisions and employ new strategies to grab people’s attention.
July 30, 2020
The Health Care Blog Gang, Episode 20
In this podcast, Jen joins the gang at The Health Care Blog to discuss how employers and health plans need to build trust to improve engagement and the ways health consumers are changing how they interact with health care. (Also available on iTunes and Spotify.)
May 27, 2020
An Inclusive Approach to Setting (or Resetting) a Financial Wellness Program
The COVID-19 pandemic is shining a spotlight on an issue that has long been common knowledge in the financial industry—Americans are not saving enough for either near-term emergencies or for retirement. In addition, near-term shocks affect longer-term savings as workers seek to withdraw or take loans from their defined contribution (DC) retirement plan accounts to address emergency expenses. In this article, our guide, 6 Steps to Bring Financial Wellness to the Workplace, is highlighted as a resource for plan sponsors looking to promote financial wellness programs during these difficult times.
May 19, 2020
2020 Top 100 HR Tech Influencers
This is a difficult time for employees, and now more than ever leaders are needed who can see our workforces through the challenges coming down the pike. In this article, Jen is recognized as one of the top 100 HR tech influencers by Human Resource Executive® and the HR Technology Conference & Exposition®.
May 04, 2020
Terri Zandhuis Makes Human Resources Even Sweeter
In this profile of Krispy Kreme’s Chief People Officer Terri Zandhuis, Jen comments on how effective communication is key to bringing HR programs to life and to drive action.