Authoria's Annual Enrollment Solution Streamlines Communication During Annual Benefits Sign Up Period

Authoria, Inc., the world leader in personalized, Web-based human resource communication, today announced the general availability of the Authoria Annual Enrollment solution that streamlines the employee benefits annual enrollment process for Global 2000 companies. Authoria is introducing its Annual Enrollment solution at a time when employee health benefit costs are continuing to skyrocket, taking up a growing portion of many companies' annual operating budgets. As health costs continue to rise, companies are looking to automate the annual enrollment process to help reduce their transactional costs while delivering more options and better service to employees. Once deployed, the Authoria Annual Enrollment solution is designed to deliver a faster and more effective enrollment experience for employees.

"The difficulty in manually administering an annual enrollment period is that the more choices companies offer their employees, the more communications challenges are created for the employer," said Tod Loofbourrow, president and CEO of Authoria. "The Authoria Annual Enrollment solution will give Global 2000 corporations the tools they need to better manage the communication of employee benefit options and bring order to this historically unwieldy process."

Traditionally the annual enrollment period, which occurs between October and December each year, is one of the most stressful, challenging and costly times for HR professionals. Organizations often begin planning for the upcoming period immediately after the previous one has been completed. During this time, it is not uncommon for large organizations to distribute information about hundreds of different benefit plans to dozens of different employee groups. This often becomes both unmanageable for the employer and overwhelming for the employee. By contrast, the Authoria Annual Enrollment solution will provide employees with a fast and secure self-service solution, delivered through their existing HR or corporate portal. The employees' benefit options are personalized, organized and delivered in the clear, easy-to-understand language that Authoria integrates into all of its products. Specific features of the Authoria Annual Enrollment solution include: