By: Angel M

Angel M — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:28:13 +0000

Unfortunately many employees do not know the true value of their benefits until they lose them.

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:28:47 +0000

The deficiency most often comes from the amount of information given to an employee at one time, whether during new hire orientation or annual open enrollments. Human good attention span is 15 minutes. The majority of people do not like to read lengthy material save the analytical type personalities – and hopefully you have a good blend of personaliy types at work. Therefore, a helpful way to get the attention is to provide employees with a Benefits Summary in a more concise way a few times a year. Emails have been efficient to distribute the summaries more than posting in the website. After that you start getting calls with inquiries and can explain to the person in simpler ways. Based on the questions and inquiries you get you can also prepare some newsletter with Q&As for all. But you will still get the one or the other who will say he did not know what was available. Sigh, smile, and do the due diligence as the HR knight anyway.

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:03:07 +0000

Whose fault is it? The employees for not paying attention in benefit meetings – or not reading the SPD, or the HR rep who presents the info?

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By: Angel M

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