Preparing for Renewal Season: Key Strategies to Strengthen Your Negotiating Position

Preparing for Renewal Season: Key Strategies to Strengthen Your Negotiating Position

For many employers, benefits renewal season arrives with a familiar sense of urgency. Carriers present proposed increases, budgets come under pressure, and organizations are forced to make important decisions within compressed timelines. The challenge is that...
Benefits as a Tool for Employee Retention in 2026

Benefits as a Tool for Employee Retention in 2026

As organizations move deeper into 2026, many employers are taking a closer look at their workforce data after the traditional first-quarter wave of job changes. While the “Great Resignation” headlines have softened, turnover remains a persistent challenge across many...
Designing Benefits for a Multigenerational Workforce

Designing Benefits for a Multigenerational Workforce

Today’s workforce looks very different from the one most employee benefit plans were originally built to support. For the first time in history, five generations (Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z) can be found working side by side. Their...
What Employers Can Learn from Failed Benefits Strategies

What Employers Can Learn from Failed Benefits Strategies

In the realm of employee benefits, success isn’t measured solely by the absence of complaints. In fact, some of the most important learning comes from when things go wrong. For many organizations, benefit renewals bring a focus on cost, carriers, and compliance, but...