Today, GuideSpark announced two new modules for its Benefits Learning Center solution. These modules automate and streamline New Hire Training and benefits communications for Open Enrollment. As companies continue to prioritize doing more with less, many employers are looking for more efficient and effective ways to deal with these resource-intensive processes.
Consider for a moment the staff time and dollars go into facilitating New Hire Training and Open Enrollment each year. Many companies we’ve met with offer half-day New Hire orientations on a near weekly basis. Not to mention the time and effort that goes into the creation of the stacks of paper that employees receive on their first day. Open enrollment presents a similar situation. Each year, HR staff offer a collection of live seminars to explain benefits changes, often preceded by brochures, mailers and the like. Despite all of this effort, nearly 80% of employers believe that their employees do not have a good understanding of their benefits.
Many employers have asked us how they free up their valuable, and in many cases shrinking HR staff to work on strategic projects while improving rates of benefits understanding among employees. In addition, finding ways to communicate effectively has become an even higher priority as employers prepare to make difficult announcements about cutting programs and/or asking employees to take on a greater share of health care costs.
Our answers to such questions naturally start with what we know to be true about today’s employees:
- First, given the trend of increasingly distributed workforces and the importance of family decision makers, on-site seminars fail to provide reach
- Next, given the explosion of web multimedia and sites like YouTube, employees have become accustomed to rich, short-form content. The busy professional of today simply does not have the attention span to thumb through lengthy benefits documents.
GuideSpark’s Benefits Learning Center modules embrace these trends to provide a modern and engaging multimedia solution capable of reaching your distributed workforce and their families. This online solution automates open enrollment and new hire training workflows to free up valuable resources. Employees have on demand access to a library of multimedia benefits presentations, allowing them to direct and personalize their learning experience. In addition, these modules offer custom checklists for open enrollment and new hire on boarding, so that employees can conveniently track their progress.
Please take a look at the New Hire Training and Open Enrollment demonstrations on our site to better understand the power of these new modules.
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