Last year, Horizons Workforce Consulting's Andrea Wicks Bowles made some interesting observations about employees and benefits usage.
It was called coaching the workforce on employee benefits and, in short, it asked the question of whether the kind of advising used to help people become better employees could be used to help people become more effective benefits users.
"Providing employees with financial benefits has great potential," she observed, using as an example the known drag of money worries on productivity. "But wouldn't these programs have better outcomes if employees were not just educated on the subjects but also coached on behavior to successfully meet a specific financial goal or need?"
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