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Discover six activities to engage employees and promote benefits to boost awareness, participation, satisfaction, and retention.
Employee benefits are one of the strongest tools organizations have to attract, engage, and retain top talent. Yet many employees are unaware of the full range of benefits available to them or how to take advantage of these offerings. Bridging this gap with creative engagement activities can significantly boost awareness, participation, and satisfaction.
Implementing dynamic and interactive methods to promote company benefits does more than inform—it energizes your workforce, fosters loyalty, and drives better utilization rates. Here are six employee engagement activities designed to promote your company's benefits in ways that are memorable and effective.
Hosting an on-site or virtual benefits fair allows employees to explore all available benefits in a relaxed, open environment. Each booth can focus on a different offering, such as healthcare, dental insurance, retirement plans, wellness programs, or tuition reimbursement.
Make the event engaging by including games, raffles, or giveaways at each booth. For example, employees who visit all booths could be entered into a prize drawing. This encourages full participation and provides multiple touchpoints for benefit education.
Tip: Invite vendors and benefits providers to staff the booths, giving employees direct access to experts who can answer their questions on the spot.
People are more receptive when they are comfortable—and nothing draws a crowd like a free lunch. A "Lunch and Learn" series offers an informal setting where employees can gain in-depth knowledge about different benefits while enjoying a meal.
Schedule monthly or quarterly sessions, each spotlighting a specific benefit, such as understanding HSA accounts, maximizing 401(k) contributions, or utilizing mental health resources. Keep the presentations brief and interactive, leaving time for employee questions.
Tip: Consider recording the sessions for employees who are remote or unable to attend in real time.
One of the most powerful ways to promote benefits is through the voices of employees who have directly benefited from them. Host testimonial panels where employees share their personal stories—such as how the company's healthcare plan helped during a medical emergency or how an educational assistance program supported a career advancement.
These real-world examples make the value of benefits tangible and relatable, building trust and encouraging others to explore their options.
Tip: Ensure diversity in the panel to showcase the broad applicability of company benefits across different life stages and needs.
By adding a competitive edge, benefits education becomes an opportunity for employees to learn and have fun at the same time. Create quizzes, digital scavenger hunts, or mobile app-based challenges that test employees' knowledge of company benefits.
Offer incentives like badges, leaderboards, or small rewards such as gift cards for top performers. This fosters a spirit of friendly competition while reinforcing key benefits information in an interactive way.
Tip: Keep the challenges short and focused to maintain interest and ensure information retention.
A benefits-themed Bingo card or scavenger hunt is a fun way to motivate employees to learn about their options. Each square or item on the list can represent a different aspect of your benefits program.
For example, squares might include "Schedule a free financial consultation," "Attend a wellness seminar," or "Download the benefits app." Participants who complete a line or the entire card could be entered to win prizes.
Tip: Make it a team-based challenge to encourage collaboration and conversation about benefits among employees.
With remote and hybrid work becoming more common, it is important to ensure that virtual employees also receive engaging benefits education. Host a live virtual event or create a library of short, easily digestible videos explaining each benefit.
Consider adding interactive elements like Q&A sessions, polls, or breakout rooms to maintain high engagement during live events. Make sure recordings are accessible afterward to maximize reach.
Tip: Keep videos under 5 minutes when possible and use a conversational tone to keep employees interested.
Regular, creative engagement around company benefits is not just a nice-to-have—it is an investment in your workforce's wellbeing and your organization's success. When employees fully understand and use their benefits, satisfaction, retention, and productivity all improve.
By incorporating a mix of live, virtual, and gamified activities, companies can ensure ongoing education that meets employees where they are. Make benefits education a consistent part of your employee engagement strategy to foster a happier, healthier, and more informed workforce.
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You can engage employees by hosting interactive activities like benefits fairs, "Lunch and Learn" sessions, gamified quizzes, and real-life testimonial panels that make learning fun and relatable.
A benefits fair is an opportunity for employees to explore different benefit options offered by their company through information booths, presentations, and interactive activities, often supported by vendors and benefits providers.
Creative ways include organizing benefits-themed scavenger hunts, play-based learning activities, virtual showcases for remote teams, and using real-life employee testimonials to personalize benefits communication.
Promoting employee benefits ensures that employees are aware of and can fully utilize the resources available to them, which can lead to higher satisfaction, better retention rates, and increased overall wellbeing.
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There is study after study showing that employee recognition leads to increased engagement. This in return creates an environment where employees are happier and more motivated which increase productivity and reduces voluntary turnover significantly. In order to filled critical roles, companies tend to spend nearly twice the value of an annual salary. Assembly is an investment in your employees that supports your bottom line.
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Great question! You can customize your core values to match your organization's to boost and track alignment. You can change your currency from the 🏆 emoji (our default) to any emoji of your choice. You can swap our logo for your own. You can also set up company culture rewards such as, "Lunch with the CEO," "Buy a book on us," and so much more!
While we recommend a peer to peer set up where anyone in your organization can give or receive recognition, you can set up Assembly however you want. If you need to limit the people who can give or receive recognition, that's perfectly fine and can be done from your Admin, here.
Assembly connects to the tools your employees use every day to offer an easy, seamless experience with minimal change management.
Assembly has integrations with HCM/HRIS systems like ADP, Google, Office 365, and Slack. We also integrate with communication tools like Slack and Teams so you and your employees can access Assembly wherever they work now.
That depends on the company's permissions set up. That said, over 90% of the employees on Assembly's platform are recognized on a monthly basis. That means nearly every employee across all of our customers are receiving regular recognition from their peers, managers, or leadership. We're extremely proud of this.
They are not required. You can use Assembly without having rewards set up. However, we don't recommend it if you intend to have a high adoption and usage rate. You can always keep the costs down by offering internal culture rewards that are fulfilled by you internally.
No, you can remove allowances from anyone or everyone. It's up to you but we do recommend using points whether they're worth a real dollar value or not. Companies that use points have a much higher engagement rate even if those points don't exchange for real dollars.
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