Cost-Effective and Compliant Absence Management Programs
Alera Group offers clients of all sizes and industries access to leading insights, tools and expertise to help you manage your entire workforce, including:
- Focus on four key areas of impact: Total Health & Productivity Management, Absence Management, Return-to-Work and ADA Accommodations and Integrated Disability Management
- Manage multiple touch points across disability, leave and Workers’ Compensation
- Understand and address regulations and requirements to ensure compliance
- Streamline administration and improve record keeping and reporting
- Enhance employee engagement to attract and retain a competitive workforce
- Improve return-to-work rates and decrease employee absences
- Provide access to meaningful data, benchmarking and outcome reporting
- Increase productivity and improve overall workforce health.
The Impact of Absence Management
Potential Implications for Stakeholders.

Employee Communication & Absence Management
EXPERT EDUCATION
Events and Webinars
Employee Benefits
2025 Healthcare and Employee Benefits Benchmarking Report: How Does Your Benefits Program Stack Up?
In this session, our experts will dive into the results of our annual, market-leading benchmarking survey.
June 26, 2025 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual
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Employee Benefits
Dynamic Data: Strategies for Success
Join us for this session, as our experts will share how to utilize your organization’s data to create advanced and innovative strategies for success.
July 17, 2025 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual
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Building Resilient Workplaces: Strategies for Integrating Absence Management and Enhancing Employee Wellbeing
Join us for an insightful webinar on the crucial intersection of absence management and employee wellbeing.
October 16, 2025 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual
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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Insights
Employee Benefits
A Challenge for Mental Health Awareness Month: Make It Enjoyable
Achieving and maintaining wellbeing takes work, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be enjoyable and even fun. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and with that comes Alera Group’s annual Mental Health Awareness Toolkit, this year featuring something we believe employers and their entire organizations will really enjoy: the 31-Day Challenge for Positive Wellbeing.
April 29, 2025
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Deadline for San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance is approaching
The annual San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance (SF HCSO) reporting by employers that have employees who work in the City of or County of San Francisco is due by May 2, 2025. Employers should be aware of the upcoming deadline even if they are not located in San Francisco.
The SF HCSO requires large and medium-sized employers to provide covered employees with benefits equal to or greater than the expenditure rate. Covered employees are those who have been employed for more than 90 days and who regularly work at least eight hours per week within the City of and County of San Francisco.
April 14, 2025
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"Leave Report": An Innovative Resource for Informing Your Employee Benefits Plan Design
Based on a survey of more than 1,040 organizations across the U.S., Alera Group’s 2024 Healthcare and Employee Benefits Leave Report provides insights into how businesses of different sizes, industries and regions are addressing employee leave, including holidays, vacation time, sick leave and other paid leave for common life events.
August 8, 2024
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Legal Alert: IRS Adjusts Health Flexible Spending Account and Other Benefit Limits for 2024
On November 9, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Revenue Procedure 2023-34, which increases the health flexible spending account (FSA) salary reduction contribution limit to $3,200
November 10, 2023
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