Open enrollment strategies

In today's tight labor market, enhancing your employee benefit offerings and providing consumer-grade digital tools can help your organization stand out, retain employees, and deliver a winning employee experience. Deploying thoughtful and creative communication strategies will also help ensure that your employees understand the value of their total rewards package. 

 

Here are the top changes that companies made last year for open enrollment: 

 

  • Use different media and communication channels
  • Create new messaging to help employees consider their benefit choices
  • Implement a virtual benefits fair

Watch our video on open enrollment to learn more.

Watch the video: Open enrollment in a virtual world of work.

Webinar replay

Tips to Reflect on Open Enrollment

Hear from Mercer’s experts on how to analyze data from your most recent open enrollment to enhance your benefits strategy and set the stage for a successful year. Listen to the replay of our webinar held on February 2, 2022.

https://www.mercer.us/events/webcasts/tips-to-reflect-on-open-enrollment.html Listen now
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Mastering Open Enrollment Communications

The way we live, work, and consume information will never be the same. Each year, open enrollment season brings unique challenges, requiring employers to communicate with employees in new and different ways.

https://www.mercer.us/our-thinking/career/open-enrollment-communication-in-a-virtual-world.html Read more
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Retention Levers in Benefits

Employee attraction and retention are two of the highest priorities on HR leaders’ minds right now. Employers are looking for opportunities to reduce turnover now and in the future. Here are a few ideas to get started.

https://www.mercer.us/our-thinking/healthcare/retention-levers-in-benefits.html Read now
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Top Tips for Open Enrollment

Our experts explore how to approach open enrollment decisions this year, including the overall employee experience, benefits, and employee communications.

https://www.mercer.us/events/webcasts/top-tips-for-open-enrollment-in-a-changed-world.html Listen to replay
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Transform Your Digital Employee Experience

Create consumer-grade digital experiences to form meaningful interactions with employees about your company’s HR programs, rewards, and benefits.

https://www.mercer.us/events/webcasts/tech-spotlight-transforming-the-digital-employee-experience.html Listen to replay
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Engaging Communications

Explore ideas from our experts for planning your open enrollment media mix and channels, as well as messaging, timing, and the look/feel of employee benefits communications.

https://www.mercer.us/our-thinking/healthcare/open-enrollment-communications-reaching-and-engaging-employees-during-COVID19.html Read more

 

Solution spotlight: Virtual Benefits Fair

 

In these times of social distancing and reduced business travel, a self-paced, interactive virtual benefits fair experience centralizes your company messaging and important resources – on any device, at any time. Employees can visit virtual booths to learn about their benefits and communicate with vendor representatives. Our Virtual Benefits Fair tool is simple to use, implement, and maintain. 

Watch video: learn how Mercer Virtual Benefits Fair engages employees in their benefits.

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