Sleep Health as a Corporate Benefits Strategy: What Employers Should Know

By Todd Taylor  |  Last updated: May 14, 2026

Sleep is the corporate wellness topic most employers have not yet seriously addressed, and the data suggests it should be moving up the priority list. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that more than one in three U.S. adults regularly fails to get adequate sleep. Major research on workplace impact has consistently shown that sleep-deprived workforces experience measurably worse productivity, higher accident rates, more mental health issues, and meaningfully higher healthcare claims costs than well-rested workforces. The economic Read Full Article Here

EDI and API Integration in Benefits Administration: What Employers Need to Demand From Vendors

By Todd Taylor  |  Last updated: May 14, 2026

The most common source of employee benefits problems in 2026 is not poor plan design or inadequate communication — it is broken data integration between the systems that administer those benefits. When an employee's enrollment doesn't reach the carrier on time, when a dependent is dropped from coverage because a termination wasn't transmitted correctly, when an employee continues to be billed for coverage they elected to drop, or when carrier and benefits administration platform records don't match — the

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How to Build a Benefits Communication Strategy That Actually Gets Employees to Enroll

By Todd Taylor  |  Last updated: May 14, 2026

Most open enrollment communication strategies are built on a flawed assumption: that distributing benefits information is the same as communicating benefits value. The two are not equivalent, and the gap between them produces the most common failure modes in employer benefits programs — passive default elections, low voluntary benefits participation, employees who don't understand their plan choices, and HR teams overwhelmed with questions the communication itself should have answered. The employers who consistently achieve high enrollment quality — measured in

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Total Compensation Statements: How to Use Benefits Data to Win in Talent Acquisition

By Todd Taylor  |  Last updated: May 14, 2026

The benefits package most employers provide is worth substantially more than their employees realize. For a typical employee earning $85,000 in base salary, the employer often spends an additional $20,000 to $30,000 on health insurance, retirement matching, payroll taxes, paid time off, and other benefits — bringing the true cost of employment to $105,000 or more. Yet when that employee compares their job to an outside offer, they almost always compare base salary to base salary. The full Read Full Article Here

EAP Utilization Rates Are at 5%: Fix Your Program Before the Next Renewal

By Todd Taylor  |  Last updated: May 10, 2026

The Employee Assistance Program is one of the most consistently disappointing benefits in the employer-sponsored landscape. Industry-wide utilization data has held remarkably steady for years: most traditional EAPs report engagement rates between 3 and 8 percent of the eligible employee population, with the median sitting at approximately 5 percent. For a benefit specifically designed to address mental health, family stress, financial difficulty, substance abuse, and life crises — needs that affect a substantially larger percentage of any workforce —

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