Employee benefits strategies can play an important role in helping businesses meet their current challenges. Insights from MetLife’s new whitepaper, Small Business Benefits: Cost-effective Strategies for Maximizing ROI, reveal that smaller employers may not be leveraging benefits as effectively as they could be and point to several strategies to maximize the return on their benefits investment without necessarily adding to their overall benefits spend.

Speaker: Georgette Piligian, Senior Vice President, Small Business Strategies and Operations
Unit, MetLife

Connecting with the Women in Your Workforce

Employers who understand the underinsured gap can help communicate more effectively to their female employees about their workplace benefits offerings. This can increase the perceived value of their benefits program, and leads to a more engaged and loyal workforce.

Speaker: Maria Morris, Executive Vice President, Technology & Operations, MetLife

A Path to Financial Security in Higher Education

Compared to employees in other industries, employees who work in the Higher Education industry are significantly more concerned about retirement. Additional findings show they could be underinsured and unprepared to face unexpected financial risks. Employers can play a significant role in helping employees make the most of their benefits programs as the foundation for their personal safety net.

Speaker: Anthony J. Nugent, Executive Vice President, MetLife’s Institutional Business

Maximizing Benefits Investments in Primary & Secondary Schools

Administrative professionals in the K-12 Education industry have not escaped the negative effects of the economic downturn. Facing declining budgets and increased scrutiny on spending, these organizations might consider more effectively leveraging their current benefits dollars. Find out how schools and school districts can positively influence both the employer’s bottom line and the satisfaction that employees feel with the program and the workplace overall.

Speaker: Anthony J. Nugent, Executive Vice President, MetLife’s Institutional Business

The Four Employer Benefits Types for the New Economy

Listen to Dr. Ron Leopold discuss the four key employer profile types at the heart of The Benefits Edge: Honing the Competitive Value of Employee Benefits and how they are relevant more than ever in today’s tight economy.

Rebuilding Retirement Security

With a national savings rate at a historical low, Americans are beginning to turn their attention to savings. At the same time, the number of defined benefit plans has decreased and the prevalence of workplace defined contribution plans has increased. Perhaps most importantly, the reality has emerged for many that the role of their defined contribution plans – once established as supplemental savings plans – has changed.

This episode of MetLife Spotlight

• Explores the emerging disconnect on retirement patterns
• Investigates workplace retirement education
• Discusses the need for guaranteed income

Aligning Benefits in Challenging Times

With an unsteady job market and an economy in flux—U.S. companies and workers are faced with unprecedented challenges. In the midst of these times, employee benefits professionals must continue to balance the benefits choices that best meet both the business objectives of their management—which continue to be employee retention and cost control—with the needs of their employee population.

This episode of MetLife Spotlight

• Discusses employee and employer reactions to current economic conditions
• Delves into emerging employee benefits trends
• Explores opportunities that employers can capitalize to retain top talent

Benefits Strategies for Engagement and Personal Responsibilities

Employees face many distractions - both at work and at home. Distractions may range from concerns about health to personal financesand being able to make ends meet, especially in light of the current financial environment. Although employee benefits are not immune from economic considerations, there is a healthy growing interest in programs that drive employee engagement and personal responsibility. Some might say that benefits may provide employers opportunities in a time of economic crisis.

This episode of MetLife Spotlight

• Examines the growing trend and interest to increase productivity using benefits
• Investigates the advantages of providing work/life and wellness programs
• Discusses the importance of benefits communications