Guidance, tips and best practices for benefits managers to reduce their benefit spend while producing competitive benefit packages for employees. With health care representing the biggest percentage of benefit spend, many topics in this area include finding ways to reduce overall costs but also adding supplemental benefits to help employees become healthier, smarter health care consumers. Article topics serve everyone from small businesses to large companies.
Employers, it appears, worked hard to hold down health plan cost increases this year. A Mercer study released Wednesday reported that the increase just 2.1 percent over last year was the lowest in 15 years.
