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.