Most organizations already know employees struggle to use the benefits they're paying for. What's less understood is the price tag on that confusion.
In a new article for The AI Journal, How AI-Powered Benefits Agents Are Reshaping HR, I lay out the real cost of benefits confusion:
- Delayed preventive care driving the majority of healthcare spend
- Avoidable ER visits that cost nearly nine times more than an office visit
- HR teams spending the majority of their time answering the same handful of questions over and over
- Wasted investment in benefits programs that go unused
My argument is that the fix isn't another portal or another point solution. It's what I call a "conversational benefits agent," a layer that sits across an employer's existing systems and responds to employees with the same context and empathy a knowledgeable HR person would, instead of handing back a generic policy link.
In the full article, I walk through side-by-side examples of a traditional chatbot response versus a personalized, next-steps-driven one, and share implementation best practices for HR and IT leaders, including why "rip and replace" is the wrong framing, and why waiting on IT is costing HR leaders time they don't have.
This isn't about buying something new.
Read the full article on The AI Journal
How AI-Powered Benefits Agents Are Reshaping HR
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