Most employees report not receiving sufficient enrollment information regarding their benefit plans, according to the 2012 Open Enrollment Survey by Aflac.

In fact, 52 percent of respondents say their employers have failed to distribute any communication outlining the upcoming open enrollment periods, and 39 percent of respondents say they're only somewhat prepared for open enrollments. Twenty-six percent of respondents report feeling unprepared or very unprepared.

These findings provide a different outlook to employers' assessments of their benefits communications strategies' effectiveness from a separate survey in April when 49 percent of respondents said their benefits communications were very or extremely effective.

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