Benefits Technology: What Your Broker Should Be Providing (For Free)

A lot of HR professionals are still managing benefits with spreadsheets, email, and paper enrollment forms. Not because they prefer it that way. Because nobody told them their broker should be providing a better system at no extra charge.

Here's what modern benefits administration actually looks like - and what it should be costing you.

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Open Enrollment Planning Timeline: When to Start (and What to Do at Each Stage)

Most HR professionals start planning open enrollment 30 days out. That's about 60 days too late.

By the time you're at 30 days, your options are already shrinking. Carriers that take time to underwrite are out of the picture. Benefit guides and portals aren't built. And you're going to spend the next four weeks in a full sprint with no margin for anything to go wrong.

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