Enrollment Software

Administrating benefits enrollment is one of the most time-intensive HR tasks in many large companies. Employees are understandably quite concerned about their benefits and contact HR departments with related questions far more often than over any other issues. While you need to maintain some staff to deal with benefits enrollment, you can probably cut back significantly by introducing effective enrollment software.

ESS Enrollment Software

Employee self service (or ESS) is a broad concept that encompasses any number of ways employees can be made responsible for their own information in the company's database. ESS can be incorporated into benefits administration to save time and increase accuracy. Even seemingly simple steps like making sure employees are authorized to entire their HR files and change the information about their emergency contact or policy beneficiaries can make operations smoother.

Employees should also be able to use an ESS module to check on the status of various benefits. Company stocks and stock options, mutual funds, and other benefits that may have variable interest rates are good candidates to be posted online and made accessible to employees whenever they need information. That way employees can check in as often as they like without requiring the assistance of full-time HR staff.

Retirees are one of the groups whose benefits can be most complex. The level of benefits may depend on the tenure that they have with your company, on their age, or even on a combination of the two. Software is available that can be tailored to your company's benefits scheme to determine which retirees are eligible, as well as to advise them about the level of benefits to which they are entitled at a given point in time.