If your workforce is overloaded with disengaged employees, you might as well give them a streamlined benefits package that includes the very basics: paid time off, decent base pay, health insurance and pension plan.

But if you’re seeking to build an engaged workforce, you’ll have to do better than that.

So says a study from Aon Hewitt, which surveyed a range of employees about their benefits package preferences. The result was that engaged employees tend to work for employers who offer than a rich and balanced benefits package, a package that is well explained to them and that is competitive in the marketplace.

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Dan Cook

Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.