Benefits technology

AI for benefits decision-making: What to do about employee hesitation

A survey found that, despite AI's potential for helping with benefits decision-making, a significant optimism gap exists between leaders and employees.

2025 Top HR Products of the Year: Workday Wellness

Workday Wellness is an AI-powered platform that connects employers with top wellness providers through a seamless global API integration.

2025 Top HR Products of the Year: Chime Workplace

Chime Workplace offers an all-in-one financial wellness suite, plus employer insights linking financial health to retention and productivity.

From complexity to control? How tech can ease leave management

Many HR leaders lack the resources and infrastructure to streamline parental, caregiving and medical employee leave management, this MetLife benefits expert says. There are tools to help.

How digital twin tech can make a big difference in employers’ GLP-1 costs

In 2022, Dayforce adopted digital twin technology to help employees manage diabetes, and it has since expanded the tool to include weight management. This comes as soaring employer costs for GLP-1s continue to concern HR and benefits leaders.

Employee benefits after COVID-19: A five-year transformation

The pandemic significantly shaped how benefits teams conceive of and administer employee benefits programs in a lasting way, experts say.

Data analytics: The key to optimizing self-funded plans?

By embedding analytics into their benefits strategy, organizations can move beyond reactive cost management to proactive plan optimization.

6 hot benefits topics for HR leaders to watch this year

Paul Fronstin of the Employee Benefit Research Institute expects 2025 will bring continued challenges with rising healthcare and pharmacy costs, along with newer concerns with data integration and AI use.

4 tips to increase HSA and FSA adoption and engagement

This open enrollment season, benefits leaders should be proactive about reintroducing employees to their HSA and FSA options, in order to drive adoption, this expert writes.

What’s new and next in core HR and payroll as AI evolves?

Leveraging tech to strengthen the foundation of core HR and payroll can align those two areas, according to HR Technology Online keynoter Pete Tiliakos.

Emergency savings: A ‘gateway drug’ to better retirement savings

Commonwealth’s Nick Maynard shared how organizations like Best Buy, UPS and AutoNation are bolstering emergency savings support to set employees up for long-term retirement success.