According to a recent piece from Benefits Pro, the average employee spends less than 20 minutes per year evaluating and choosing from among the various employee benefit package offerings available. 

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As a result, employees often don’t have a particularly thorough or complete understanding of the benefits they do have let alone a full picture of the many other options and variations that may have gone unnoticed, neglected, or otherwise ‘passed’ on. 

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To those ends, the authors have put together a list of ideas that employers, benefits advisors, brokers and employees themselves can improve employee benefit comprehension and adoption rates, which include increasing vendor engagement in regular intervals throughout the year as well as timely communications through multiple media formats that link benefits to happenings in the workplace and in the world outside, expanding benefits education in the on-boarding process for new hires, and utilizing employee status changes as an opportunity to check-in and make updates if necessary.

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You can find that piece here.