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Amara Larsen· Silverline Media
UK food manufacturer, 2,900 employees, around two thirds on shift in production. We are at the statutory minimum for auto-enrolment, 5% employee and 3% employer, and 71% of…
Elif Kowalski· Cardinal Insurance
We are a mid-sized German machinery group, about 4,100 employees, and bought a competitor with 800 staff last year. We run a contribution-based direct insurance arrangement with…
Bianca Okonkwo· Bellwether Consulting
We are a US manufacturer, about 3,100 employees across four states, self-funded with a PPO and a high-deductible option. Our consultants came in with an 8.5% trend assumption for…
Omar Quintero· Cardinal Insurance
Australian retailer with about 5,200 employees, of whom 3,400 are part-time or casual in stores and average under 20 hours a week. Our benefits were designed around the 900 people…
Tom Brennan· Larkspur Manufacturing
Our broker is quoting 8.4% before plan changes, which is the highest we have seen in a decade. Finance is anchored on 6%.
Yusuf Jimenez· Beacon Retail Group
US non-profit in education services, 640 employees, about 1,150 covered lives, fully insured. Our renewal this year was 12.5% and the three before it averaged 9%. The broker is…
Ben Tanaka· Tidewater Utilities
UK care provider, around 4,600 employees, the large majority care workers paid within a pound an hour of the legal minimum. Head office is 280 people. A director has asked us to…
Camille Quintero· Cardinal Insurance
US university, about 9,500 benefits-eligible faculty and staff. For a decade our open enrolment was passive: do nothing and last year's elections roll over. This year we required…
Adrian Moreau· Ravenna Chemicals
Canadian software company, about 620 employees, mostly Toronto and Vancouver with a remote group in the Maritimes. Each person has a 750 dollar annual wellbeing allowance, claimed…
Daniel Larsen· Nordvik Energy
We are a fully distributed software business. 260 people, 19 countries, entities in only four of them and the rest employed through an employer-of-record arrangement. Staff in our…
Colin Esposito· Vantage Telecom
I can never find real take-up figures, so here are ours. UK retailer, about 11,000 employees, 70% store-based and hourly. All of these are employee-paid through payroll, on a…
Camille Oyelaran· Kestrel Aerospace
Professional services firm, 3,500 employees in the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands. Our flexible benefits platform contract ends in fourteen months and we are going to market. The…
Mateo Yilmaz· Northwind Logistics
I run benefits for a hospital group in the US Midwest, about 7,800 employees across five sites. For years our open enrolment completion among clinical staff on nights and weekends…
Bianca Eriksen· Halcyon Financial Group
We are an Australian professional services firm, about 340 people, running a four-day week pilot at full pay for 120 of them since March. Hours went from 38 to 32 with no pay…
