Communications and Engagement

Employee communications and engagement

Choosing the right health and benefits options can be overwhelming for employees, but the results can have a profound impact on an employee’s wellbeing and a company’s overall benefits spending. At Alera Group, we understand that engaging employees in their health and benefits involves personalizing the experience and delivering the information in ways that are easy for employees to access, understand and act on. 

Alera Group’s dedicated Employee Communications practice helps you educate your employees to make informed benefits decisions and deliver strategies to help employees stay engaged during open enrollment and throughout the year. Our experts will work with you to:

  • Engage employees in their health and benefits options through turnkey resources and digital tools
  • Create multi-channel campaigns to reach all employees regardless of location or demographic 
  • Educate employees to make strategic benefits decisions by providing easier access to information and resources 
  • Respond to benefits inquiries and guide employees in benefits selection
  • Provide a consistent onboarding experience to engage employees from the very first day 
  • Extend communications to help spouses, partners and families have access to the information they need from day one
  • Deliver leading-edge tools to guide employees in their benefits decisions.
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Benefits at Your Fingertips

Alera Group’s mobile app was developed to promote and improve employee benefit engagement, utilization and satisfaction by putting the information employees need at their fingertips.

We help you deliver the tools and support your employees need to make the right decisions for themselves and their families.

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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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Employee Benefits

Preparing for Open Enrollment: How to Engage and Educate Your Employees on Their Total Benefits Package

In this session, our experts will share guidance on setting yourself up for success during Open Enrollment.

August 21, 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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Employee Benefits

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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Employee Benefits

Webinar: Is Captive Insurance the Right Solution for Your Business?

Join Alera Group on Thursday, April 17, for "Balancing Cost and Care: Could a Captive solution be the right fit for you?", a webinar on self-insuring to reduce group Medical Insurance costs and other business expense. Our experts will discuss how Captive solutions work and what you need to consider for your own group’s needs.

April 3, 2025

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Employee Benefits

Benchmarking’s Role in Voluntary Benefits Program Design

Alera Group’s Employee Benefits team recognizes that workforce composition varies from business to business, from industry to industry, from region to region. And, at a time when the U.S. workforce is more generationally diverse than ever before, the needs and priorities of one generation can be very different from those of another. This is where voluntary benefits — also known as supplemental, workplace or optional benefits — become so vital to an organization’s offerings strategy. Alera Group’s "Healthcare and Employee Benefits Benchmarking Reports" take an in-depth look at the benefits businesses provide, the options they offer and the strategies they use to manage costs.

March 31, 2025

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