Other top priorities within an expanded strategy include aligning benefit provisions with employee wants and needs, enhancing work policies and incorporating inclusion and diversity into benefit programs. (Photo: Shutterstock)
What's on employers' agendas for their benefit strategies in the coming years?
A more concerted push to promote employee well-being, broader benefit packages and use of new technologies to support employee decision making, according to Willis Towers Watson's 2019 Benefits Trends Survey.
"While controlling costs remains their top challenge, employers are increasingly focused on a broader benefit strategy that goes beyond their core health and retirement offerings," says Jennifer DeMeo, the firm's senior director, retirement. "In addition to the traditional emphasis on plan design and cost management, employers are looking for ways to better connect with employees to meet the benefit needs of a diverse workforce and to get the most value for their benefit spend."
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Katie Kuehner-Hebert
Katie Kuehner-Hebert is a freelance writer based in Running Springs, Calif. She has more than three decades of journalism experience, with particular expertise in employee benefits and other human resource topics.
