Carriers, brokers, employers and workers all like the increased flexibility and opportunities for cost control that voluntary benefits bring to benefits packages. Here's what we might see in 2017.

The presidential election might still be a month away, but benefits brokers are emerging as the key winners in the BenefitsPRO employer survey.

Although the presidential race is ongoing, the polls have closed for BenefitsPRO's 2016 Employer Survey and benefits brokers who listen to what their customers are telling them and deliver cost-effective solutions in a fast-changing business environment will be the clear-cut winners.

More than 83 million millennials are taking the place of boomers in the workplace. This group accounted for 25 percent of the population last year, making it the largest demographic age group; it also means one of every three potential life insurance customers in the workplace is a millennial.

Disruption may be one of the most overused buzzwords in business today. However, with 10,000 baby boomers turning 65 every single day, there may not be a more appropriate way to describe the demographic changes that life insurance brokers must address.

A new survey quantifies the quality of benefits, not simply their availability, by industry.

The annual health care survey gets brokers to share their thoughts on everything from ACA to voluntary benefits, the election to technology, and more.

The people spoke, their responses are tabulated, and the results are official