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        "summary": "The voluntary enrollment process has reflected the diversity in our marketplace since the early days, but there's still farther to go.",
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        "title": "Are employees done with virtual?",
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        "summary": "It's difficult enough to get information about benefits across when people are sitting in an office.",
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        "title": "10 'read-bites' for peak enrollment time",
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        "prettyDate": "October 16, 2020",
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        "summary": "Here are 10 quick insights to help guide best practices in this unprecedented environment.",
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        "prettyDate": "September 22, 2020",
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        "summary": "Employers who have a significant portion of their workforce accessing their system remotely have opened up their data to new risks.",
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        "title": "Pushing the envelope",
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        "prettyDate": "August 10, 2020",
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        "summary": "The demand for new and improved employee benefit products and services is clear, but how are we going to effectively address those needs?",
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        "title": "Successful benefits programs: A fifth player emerges",
        "byline": "Marty Traynor",
        "kicker": "Commentary",
        "prettyDate": "July 09, 2020",
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        "summary": "Employers have increasingly relied on benefit administration systems to relieve their team of burdensome work.",
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        "byline": "Marty Traynor",
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        "prettyDate": "June 19, 2020",
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        "summary": "Across all generations, financial wellness benefits are now more important than ever.",
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        "uri": "/2020/05/15/benefits-in-a-new-world/",
        "title": "Benefits in a new world",
        "byline": "Marty Traynor",
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        "prettyDate": "May 15, 2020",
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        "summary": "Given all this chaos, what are the trends that might emerge in terms of new or reemphasized benefits?",
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        "uri": "/2020/04/16/how-brokers-competitive-edge-has-changed/",
        "title": "How brokers' 'competitive edge' has changed",
        "byline": "Marty Traynor",
        "kicker": "Commentary",
        "prettyDate": "April 16, 2020",
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        "summary": "Columnist Marty Traynor goes back 16 years to revisit some of the timeless themes of his first BenefitsPRO articles.",
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        "uri": "/2020/03/12/the-advantage-of-infinite-thinking/",
        "title": "The advantage of infinite thinking",
        "byline": "Marty Traynor",
        "kicker": "Commentary",
        "prettyDate": "March 12, 2020",
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        "summary": "When short-term objectives define the purpose of a business, the business fails. Don't let this happen to you.",
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