From Heartbreak Hotel to Home Sweet Home

Challenge

The hospitality industry is known for its high-touch and personalized service. “But, when the local HR director must sit down and personally enroll every single employee in the benefit plan, that’s not the high-touch we want to do,” said Vice President of Total Rewards & HR Systems Chad Moon. Their HRIS benefits module required Chad and his team to complete several manual processes—from new hires to life events to COBRA, and everything in between.

Administrative processes aside, Chad says Two Roads employees were also frustrated. Their young and multi-lingual population of workers wanted to enroll and manage their benefits on their own time, with their own device, and in their own language. Unfortunately, Two Roads’ benefits module didn’t support that.

Results

Shortly after implementing the Benefitsolver system, Chad’s team began to experience several efficiencies—good news for a small team tasked with managing 85 properties and a steady stream of acquisitions.

“The new system has streamlined and automated our benefit administration process, making it manageable and painless,” said Benefits and Wellbeing Manager Claudia Florat. “Our HR and Payroll teams would agree, as it has eliminated a lot of manual processes.”

Although Two Roads’ main goal was to find an automated system that was interconnected to multiple disparate systems, Chad and his team soon discovered some additional functionalities they weren’t expecting. 

“Communications was our big ‘ah-ha!’ moment,” Chad said. “Suddenly, we had a great opportunity to brand our benefits and have one platform in which to store and drive our content. We could customize our portal to drive employee behaviors such as using telemedicine services or enrolling in their 401k.”

The employee experience also improved, both in terms of enrollment and the support they receive for making the right benefits decisions. 

“Our employees can enroll using their preferred language
and they receive invaluable insight on picking the right plans
for them with the MyChoice^TM tool,” said Benefits Administrator Julie Appleford.
 

The new system has streamlined and automated our benefit administration process, making it manageable and painless.
 

Our employees can enroll using their preferred language and they receive invaluable insight on picking the right plans for them with the MyChoice tool.