Solutions
Virtual Benefits Fair
The foundation for communicating these changes was a virtual benefits fair. The Studio B team, Businessolver’s employee engagement practice, quickly stood up the experience using an innovative online publication technology. Working closely with engagement to provide the content, Studio B created a themed interactive benefits event that leveraged video from our chief engagement officer as well as explainer videos. It highlighted the changes and plan details in easily digestible bits of information and linked out to Benefitsolver® so Solvers could take instant action to enroll.
With the virtual benefits fair delivery, Businessolver was able to provide an after-hours and family-accessible site while also getting insights about employee engagement throughout the fair period, including unique site visits and time spent in each section.
“What really helped the engagement team was being able to track the engagement for each component of the fair. We were even able to see whether the fair was accessed on a desktop or mobile device. Having this kind of data helped us determine how effective the fair was, and it will help us shape our approach for future benefits communications,” said Sarah Warren, Benefits Manager.
Finally, the biggest time-saver is that Businessolver can continue to use this virtual benefits fair offering as the ongoing benefits guide for new hires. Once all the information is entered, it becomes a much more engaging way to educate new hires and provide an ongoing resource, and the engagement team is relieved of the task of maintaining a massive, static PDF document (that no one really reads). Businessolver became the pilot program for our virtual benefits fair experience that we can now deliver to clients for their AE.
E-Learning for Adults
While group conference call technology certainly isn’t proprietary to Businessolver, in the year of the virtual-everything, it became a critical alternative to the in-person meetings the team had employed in the past. The engagement team held two virtual “learning lounges” in lieu of typical on-site meetings in the larger offices, so interested employees could hear from the chief engagement officer about the details of specific plan changes, learn why the plans were changing and ask questions in a casual format.
Layout Manager
Additionally, the Businessolver engagement team worked with Studio B to “punch up” the look and feel of the employee benefits home page within Benefitsolver. In addition to creating a more appealing and fresh landing page, the engagement team was easily able to make mid-AE messaging changes in response to popular questions. For instance, a frequent source of confusion appeared to be around HSA enrollment timing. Warren was able to update the home page in minutes to change the messaging. Throughout the AE cycle, Warren and her team could generate messages that clarified the deadlines and enrollment information based on employee feedback.
Action Manager
Because of the significant plan changes, Businessolver required an active enrollment for the first time in several years. In order to communicate the importance of making elections to continue coverage, the engagement team used Benefitsolver’s Action Manager communications framework to set up reminders that could be sent on a defined schedule to employees at each stage in their enrollment journey. Not only could they deploy reminders to continue or start the enrollment process, they could also set up the communications with targeted messaging to members of specific plans or with particular benefits. All employees received reminders, and the communications could be instantly updated or amended when needed.
“We leveraged the Action Manager in a greater way this year than we had before,” said Warren, “it really made a difference in getting the right messages out to the right employees based on their specific enrollment needs.”