Group Benefits
How to Attract And Retain Employees With Strong Benefit Plans
Employers often wonder how to attract and retain top-notch employees. One way is to offer your employees an optimized benefits package.
High-quality employees can get a good salary and flexible work options anywhere they choose to work. Therefore you need to stand out!
Extensive benefits can be a great way to encourage potential employees to choose your company.
A strong benefits program can help build employee loyalty and ensure your employees know that you value them. These are some of the different kinds of benefits you can offer your employees:
- Group health benefits
- Group retirement plans
Group Health Benefits
You can offer your employees several benefits as part of group health benefits. These are the most common ones:
- Extended health and dental. This includes covering expenses such as prescription drugs, visits to the dentist, eye exams, and glasses.
- Disability. Disability insurance provides your employees with income protection if they are temporarily or permanently disabled and can’t work.
- Life insurance. Life insurance lets your employees know you value them even after they’re gone and that you care about providing their families with financial protection.
- Critical illness coverage provides your employees with a lump-sum payment they can use to cover medical costs or other expenses associated with having a critical illness.
Combined, these benefits help give your employees a strong sense of protection and financial security.
Group Retirement Plans
Pensions are becoming less and less common these days. Offering your employees a pension plan (defined benefit or defined contribution) is a fantastic way to encourage your employees to stay with your company. The longer they are employees, the higher the value of their pension will be.
Your company also benefits as pension contributions are tax-deductible!
