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• ALL NEW – Employee Benefits Benchmarking Tool
  Discover in-depth employee benefits data to help you quickly compare your clients’ benefits perceptions and priorities – as well as their employees’ attitudes – to those of similar companies and employee populations.
  
  
• Small Business Benefits: Cost-effective Strategies for Maximizing ROI
  Especially in this economy, small businesses need creative ways to remain successful and obtain a competitive advantage. Benefits are an often-overlooked strategy and may be a missed opportunity in retaining valued employees and addressing their productivity goals. This paper will provide some insights to help maximize benefits investments to your competitive advantage.
  
  
• Industry Spotlight – Manufacturing
  Employees in the Manufacturing industry are increasingly interested in their benefits as a key component of their personal safety nets. See how Manufacturing employers' benefits strategies address the current needs of their working population and learn how they can adapt their current benefits approaches to better meet the needs of their workforce.
  
  
• Spotlight Podcast - A Path to Financial Security in Higher Education
  Compared to employees in other industries, employees who work in the Higher Education industry are significantly more concerned about retirement. Additional findings show they could be underinsured and unprepared to face unexpected financial risks. Employers can play a significant role in helping employees make the most of their benefits programs as the foundation for their personal safety net.
  
  
• Industry Spotlight – Financial Services
  See how the changing economy has impacted way Financial Services companies look at benefits, and how the Financial Services companies differ from other employers. Use this information and insights into employee attitudes to help evaluate how to effectively meet employees' needs and expectations.
  
  
• Spotlight Podcast - Maximizing Benefits Investments in Primary & Secondary Schools
  Administrative professionals in the K-12 Education industry have not escaped the negative effects of the economic downturn. Facing declining budgets and increased scrutiny on spending, these organizations might consider more effectively leveraging their current benefits dollars. Find out how schools and school districts can positively influence both the employer’s bottom line and the satisfaction that employees feel with the program and the workplace overall.
  
  
• Industry Spotlight – Primary & Secondary Education
  Primary & Secondary school employees place great value on non-medical and retirement benefits and they demonstrate high interest in receiving advice and guidance at the workplace. Explore survey findings and note recommendations for maximizing benefits dollars.
  
  
• Rethinking Dental Benefit Plans – Treatment Protocols
  Our approach to plan design integrates current dental treatment protocols and provides coverage for services that encourage appropriate treatment and/or follow-up care.
  
  
• Rethinking Dental Benefit Plans – Practical Application
  Through our thoughtful, practical, consultative approach to plan design, we can help employers conduct a more holistic review of their dental benefit plans.
  
  
• Elevating the Value of Dental Benefits Through Employee Communications
  The report provides insights into communications best practices that can directly impact the success of a dental benefits plan. By understanding and implementing strategies discussed in the report, you can make changes to dental benefits in a way that helps drive employee satisfaction and retention.
  
  
• Industry Spotlight – Higher Education
  Discover how the benefits perspectives among Higher Education industry organizations differ from the overall employer and employee population, identify perception gaps and review suggestions to help employees in their quest for financial security.
  
  
• MetLife Enrollment Toolbox
  MetLife’s Enrollment Toolbox helps you address the challenges of annual enrollment for your clients - you’ll find resources to help them determine the benefits offerings that fit the needs of their employees and tips to educate employees on their benefits options.
  
  
• Total Absence Management
  MetLife's Total Absence Management^SM solution, now enhanced to include a broader range of absence and leave management types, leverages MetLife's capabilities and technology to deliver an enhanced overall service experience.
  
  
• IDI/LTD Integrated Solution
  An integrated solution enabling you to create a more robust benefit program for executives and highly compensated employees. The IDI/LTD integrated solution has an enhanced collaborative claims process which helps ensure prompt and efficient service.
  
  
• The Benefits Edge: Honing the Competitive Value of Employee Benefits
  Discover new ways to help your clients get the most out of their benefits investments with this compelling new book by industry expert, Dr. Ron Leopold.
  
  
• Podcast: The Four Employer Benefits Types for the New Economy
  Listen to Dr. Ron Leopold discuss the four key employer profile types at the heart of The Benefits Edge: Honing the Competitive Value of Employee Benefits and how they are relevant more than ever in today’s tight economy.
  
  
• Podcast: Benefits Strategies for Engagement and Personal Responsibilities
  Employees face many distractions - both at work and at home. Distractions may range from concerns about health to personal finances and being able to make ends meet, especially in light of the current financial environment. Although employee benefits are not immune from economic considerations, there is a healthy growing interest in programs that drive employee engagement and personal responsibility. Some might say that benefits may provide employers opportunities in a time of economic crisis.
  
  
• The 7th Annual MetLife Study of Employee Benefits Trends
  Access the latest insights on pressing issues facing the U.S. benefits industry to help keep you on the cutting-edge of benefits trends.
  
  
• Podcast: Aligning Benefits in Challenging Times
  With an unsteady job market and an economy in flux—U.S. companies and workers are faced with unprecedented challenges. In the midst of these times, employee benefits professionals must continue to balance the benefits choices that best meet both the business objectives of their management—which continue to be employee retention and cost control—with the needs of their employee population.
  
  
• Video: The Value of Employee Benefits
  For many employers, benefits represent a way to differentiate themselves from their competition. Hear employees at one company speak about the importance of their workplace benefits.
  
  
• MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Past, Present and Future
  The 25th Anniversary edition demonstrates how the perspectives of educators, administrators and students have changed over the years. The Survey looks back to important questions posed in the earliest surveys around teachers, teaching and public education while introducing current topics with future implications.