Sydney Little

Most employer benefit guides treat HSAs as a checkbox — offer the high-deductible plan, open the account, call it a win. The organizations that do it well know it is more complicated than that. The ones that do it poorly end up with a cost-shifting mechanism their employees distrust and underuse, and a renewal conversation that looks exactly the same as the year before. The math on HSAs is genuinely compelling. But the math only works if the structure is right, the eligibility is clean, and...

Communication ranks as the lowest-scoring factor in employee satisfaction surveys, and turnover in assisted living hovers around 40%. Those two facts are not a coincidence. For CFOs and HR directors at nonprofits and assisted living facilities across the Southeast, the connection between what staff understand about their benefits and whether they stay is direct and measurable. Yet most organizations still treat benefits communication as a one-time onboarding task rather than an ongoing...

Communication ranks as the lowest-scoring factor in employee satisfaction surveys, and turnover in assisted living hovers around 40%. Those two facts are not a coincidence. For CFOs and HR directors at nonprofits and assisted living facilities across the Southeast, the connection between what staff understand about their benefits and whether they stay is direct and measurable. Yet most organizations still treat benefits communication as a one-time onboarding task rather than an ongoing...