The amount of workers enrolling online for their employee benefits has doubled since just a few years ago. Research from Guardian Life Insurance Company of America shows 62 percent of workers now enroll online, compared to 29 percent in 2005.

In the past year alone, the use of online benefits enrollment increased by 8 percentage points, representing a significant shift in how employees learn about, evaluate and interact with their benefits programs.

The study also offers generational insights regarding employee preferences related to benefit platforms. Though millennials are generally perceived as the generation that would overwhelmingly prefer to evaluate benefit offerings through online platforms, in effect, a majority of all workers (54 percent) indicated that a consolidated web portal would help employees appreciate the value of available benefits more effectively.