Human Resources: Employees Benefit communication; administration, cost controls
First Part of Discussion: Benefits Communication
1-Does your current (or previous) organization have a strategy in place to communicate its benefits plan to employees?
2-If so, how effective is it, and what can be done to improve it?
3-If not, what are your thoughts on putting a benefits communication plan in place?
4-Would it be beneficial?
Companies today must have benefits that compete to draw in and retain top talent. Unfortunately, the way they communicate the message is often less than desirable.
5-Evaluate how your employers communicate their benefit plans.
6-What are your thoughts on the communications that they utilize?
7-What is a best practice?
8-What could be improved?
Second Part of Discussion: Benefit Administration and Cost Controls:
Insurance providers and employers alike are searching for techniques and strategies to help control their benefit costs.
9- Has your organization been able to find ways to improve your benefit program or add new benefits without adding a heavy cost burden to your department or your employees?
10- Will your organization's budget for employee benefits be growing, staying the same, or potentially shrinking over the coming year?
This issues seems to be a concern to us all every year with the increasing cost increases in medical care. Insurance providers and employers look at different ways to control benefit costs.
11-Which ways do you feel are most effective?
12- How do these work to control cost and provide the best benefit possible at the most reasonable cost?