I hear a lot about how employee benefits is a boring business.Of course, that's not to imply it's unimportant, just not nearly asengaging as #callmecaitlyn.

It's easy for people to think that benefits are boring. Afterall, no one really pays attention to them until they're at thepharmacy being told their new plan doesn't cover that prescriptionlike the old one did.

On the pages of this very periodical, you've read about whetherZenefits is necessary or evil. I'm not here to debate that, but Iwas struck by something Sue Wakamoto-Lee said in that April issue.Sue is a senior benefits advisor at Zenefits and she said, “I thinkthis is one of those industries that needed to be disrupted. Wehaven't done anything differently in the benefits world fordecades.”

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