Here are five key takeaways you can use to design benefits that further engage your employees in their health and wealth and possibly shift their scores higher.

Offer a modern portfolio of healthcare benefits plans and services that meet employee needs. These benefits should promote preventive care and wellness; provide easy access to mental healthcare; offer convenient services such as telehealth; and feature tax-favored account such as HSAs, FSAs, RRAs and other products that help manage healthcare and lifestyle costs.
Familiarize yourself with employee tools, services and support available through your healthcare providers and other benefits vendors. Hold a summit — either in person or virtual — with these providers and vendors to see what and how they promote to employees.
Identify your different benefits audiences within your organization. In lieu of solely company wide communications, consider employees such as such as recruits, new hires, new parents and those nearing retirement who may benefit from targeted messages and engagement efforts throughout the year.
Offer employees easy access to decision support tools and lifestyle-focused content that can support their needs. Showcase convenient tools such as a healthcare cost calculator to help them plan expenses, and sleep and meditation apps that promote physical and emotional well-being.
Tie it together with an integrated, year-round benefits engagement strategy. Benefits communication outreach isn't simply an annual effort to support open enrollment. It's a year-round commitment. Take time to develop a strategy that focuses on health and wealth benefits awareness, choices and decisions; healthcare cost savings and planning; mental healthcare and preventive care; life events such as getting married, having a baby and nearing retirement; and generation-based needs.

While the pandemic continues to impact how we live and work, the 2022 Health & Wealth Index reveals that people are still moderately engaged in their personal health and wealth, valuing the many benefits that support them and their families. However, the survey indicated that they are not only willing to take action, but also value the positive impacts that can come through higher engagement in their physical and financial wellbeing. The report also highlights the continuing need for employers to increase employee awareness, understanding and confidence in their physical, mental and financial well-being. This remains a high priority and timely opportunity for you as you seek out new ways to attract and retain employees.

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