Notes from our expert team.

A benefits broker request for proposal (RFP) can unlock crucial information about the employee benefits marketplace, your own total rewards offering, and the level of support your HR team could receive. But the RFP process can be time-consuming, confusing, and difficult — unless you’re well prepared. Here are four steps to get ready for a smooth RFP process.

As medical insurance costs continue to skyrocket, small and midsize businesses are seeing the highest benefits renewal cost increases of any employer size. Guided by award-winning investigative journalist Marshall Allen and former SVP of Walmart Health Marcus Osborne, here’s your guide to reduce employer healthcare costs without sacrificing quality.

Saving money on healthcare is more than just possible — with the right tools and knowledge, it can be easy. Award-winning investigative journalist Marshall Allen shares his tricks of the trade on how to lower your medical costs, unpacking everything from insurance plan mark-ups, to itemized healthcare bills, to disputing unnecessary claims. Business leaders and HR community, share this with your employees to help them become more informed in navigating healthcare costs.

Employers may need to adopt a new strategy for performance evaluations moving forward. We teamed up with Payscale’s Director of People to help future-proof your approach to these conversations.

Your business deserves a benefits funding strategy to fit your unique goals and needs. Using this infographic, employers can weigh their business goals and employee health needs, and find a recommendation for a new healthcare funding strategy: level funding, gap funding, fully insured, and self insured.

A great financial wellness benefits offering can meet employees through every step of their financial journey — whether they need financial education and coaching, support managing student loans, or budgeting for medical expenses. Here are three financial wellness benefits to help employees build financial resilience (and help your employer level up on hiring and retention.)

Financial wellness benefits can have a huge impact, both on your employees’ budgets and your business’ bottom line. Depending on your employee population and needs, there are a number of financial wellness benefits that small-to-midsize businesses can offer. Here’s how a great financial wellness benefit offering can help your SMB develop resilience, hire (and retain) great people, and boost employee engagement.

Offering mental health benefits is a great step towards investing in your employees’ wellness and engagement. But your workplace culture is another key piece in the mental health puzzle. Based on insights from mental health experts and vendors, here are three signs that your employer culture supports employee mental health.

Offering mental health benefits can be a huge investment, both in your employee wellness and business’ bottom line. But you want to be strategic in how you build and roll out this benefits offering. Based on guidance from experts, here are four steps to creating the mental health benefits offering your employees need.

If there’s ever been a time to prioritize mental health, it’s right now. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions to employees’ work and lives, and accessible mental healthcare is essential for employers navigating these challenging times. Here’s why we think mental health is the most important employee benefit of 2021 and beyond.