If you could win the lottery 80% of the time by buying your ticket at a gas station or only 20% of the time by buying your ticket at a convenience store, you would buy from the gas station! If this is such an easy answer, then why are employee benefit agents only focusing on [...]
Clunky, outdated technology not only slows you down — it may be the number one thing frustrating your employees at work! New data shows the majority of employees nationwide are fed up with outdated platforms, slow networks, and cumbersome logins. A recent survey conducted by OnePoll shows that 77% of employees are frustrated with outdated [...]
As a benefit agent, you’ve got your hands full this year: a global pandemic, remote work, reaching your audience virtually, and the looming season of open enrollment. Keeping up with the newest hot topic in the industry shouldn’t be additional stress! We at GRA Benefits Group are constantly taking note of the changes in the [...]
The push to go paperless isn't even a question anymore for agents working with employers in a remote-office environment. But how to go paperless isn't the only question popping up... "We've always had our employee benefit open enrollment meeting in the fall and it's in the lunchroom. Now what do we do?" "Our employees fill out paper [...]
Changes in today’s working environment bring new opportunities — and a host of new challenges. There are obvious benefits to working from home, like time saved during the morning commute. Certainly, there are fewer pileups tying up traffic as you navigate from the bedroom to the home office instead of fighting through traffic on the [...]
What if your competition was doing something that made their process cheaper, easier, and more accessible. Would you want to know the secret ingredient to their sauce in order to level the playing field? After all, why let them gain a competitive advantage if you can help it? Here it is, that secret ingredient, in [...]
Uncertainty is the enemy of a successful business, especially when it comes to your bottom line. The challenges brought on by COVID-19 are changing how employers and their employees move forward in times of trial while maintaining strong communication and efficiency. Companies look to limit the amount of uncertainty through financial projections, future forecasting, and [...]
In a technological world that is constantly evolving, online access and easy-to-use benefit portals are being adopted by brokers and employers more rapidly than ever. Benefits and human resource administration processes are being taken online, for convenience, cost savings, and greater efficiency, stressing the importance of sound, secure, and user-friendly employee benefit portals. The current [...]
Beyond the standard practices, there are numerous benefits to using an HR online benefit administration system. To start, HR benefit administration offers streamlined processes for employers to manage things like onboarding new employees, keeping track of vacation hours, and administering benefits. After your Employee Navigator portal is created by our team, the program is completely [...]
Are you manually enrolling your employees into employee benefits? Does it take you days to process a change, while your inbox fills with other important tasks you wish you could focus on? If this is the process that you are currently using: STOP! I’m going to show you how to process thousands of changes in [...]
