Open Enrollment Is Squeezing Small Businesses. Nearly 70 Percent Want Outside Help

As benefit plans grow more expensive and complex, small business owners are turning to outside experts to preserve and expand coverage for their workers.

BY BRUCE CRUMLEY @BRUCEC_INC

With businesses now overseeing open enrollment for their workers, many employers admit they’re struggling to find ways to finance and organize increasingly complex benefit plans. Yet rather than decide to simply cut those programs as too costly and laborious to continue, a majority of small business owners are considering turning to outside experts help to make them more effective.

Employers’ commitment to benefits, and accompanying awareness their plans are getting too........

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