For the seventh consecutive year, Benz Communications has ranked among the 100 largest women-owned businesses in the Bay Area, as measured by companywide revenue in fiscal 2017.
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September 28, 2018
100 Largest Bay Area Women-Owned Businesses
September 20, 2018
Amazon Ambassadors: Innovative or Unethical?
HR Exec turns to Jen for her perspective on Amazon’s new practice of paying workers to post positive messages about their employment experiences at Amazon.
September 05, 2018
Technology That Benefits Us All
HR leaders should focus and prioritize investments on technology that bring us closer to our goals, our dreams, and most importantly, each other, Jen writes in the latest issue of Workforce.
August 20, 2018
DC Plan Executives Get Serious About Playing Games
Pensions & Investments showcases different ways that companies are using gamification techniques to improve financial literacy and drive participant engagement in defined contribution plans. According to the article, “Retirement plan executives saw an increase in the number of employees taking action in the company’s $1 billion 401(k) plan” after rolling out the retirement plan quiz and raffle we designed for our client, Synopsys.
August 01, 2018
Overcoming 4 Barriers in Communicating High-Value Health Plans to Employees
Changing deeply ingrained behaviors requires persistent nudging and smart design. It takes effort, but by leveraging the following best practices, employers can successfully drive enrollment into high-value health plans. Benz Senior Consultant Lindsay Kohler and Catalyst for Payment Reform Executive Director Suzanne Delbanco explain how in this Workforce article.
July 20, 2018
A New Look at Caregiving
Caring for loved ones is part of real life. It’s time for organizations to rethink their benefits programs to better support caregivers, a population that makes up increasingly more of the workforce, Jen argues in the latest issue of Workforce.
May 16, 2018
A Goal That HR and Benefits Leaders Share: Engagement
Just as we know how to build best practices for designing HR programs, we’ve also developed best practices for driving engagement with benefits—and we’ve codified them in our new ebook series. Any organization that fully embraces our “10 Keys to Employee Engagement” will see results with their benefits, Jen explains in the May issue of Workforce.
May 15, 2018
Benefits Communications Pro Lindsay Kohler Shares Her Best Practices
In this Q&A featured on Amino’s website, Benz Senior Consultant Lindsay Kohler discusses the common themes that emerge in her conversations with employees, the best practices she follows when crafting a benefits communications package, and more.
April 19, 2018
10 Ways to Communicate with Employees About Benefits
This Employee Benefit News article recaps Jen’s recent presentation at MetLife’s 14th Annual Benefits Symposium—Benz’s 10-key framework for communication that engages employees. Ten impactful slides detail how to create both successful benefits communications and a system for ongoing, consistent communication.
March 23, 2018
Ruling might give DOL, others time to focus on retirement income, experts say
Discussing techniques for engaging diverse workforces in retirement readiness at Pension and Investments’ East Coast Defined Contribution Conference, Benz Engagement Strategist Megan Yost offered examples of creative solutions that have had engagement success. Still, she added, there is a “real need for high-touch, one-on-one meetings” across all age groups and demographics.