Anne Patterson

Social Marketing and Communications Strategist at the International Foundation

Favorite Foundation Product: The innovative member survey efforts and results from the research team.

Benefits-Telated Topics That Interest Her Most: Health care, nontraditional wellness initiatives, employee benefit communication.

Personal Insight: It’s all about balance with Anne. She loves to run and enjoys a good culinary adventure. She’ll jump at the chance to travel or to spend fun times with family and friends, but she’ll also take time to catch her breath with an occasional Netflix binge or diving into a classic novel.

The writer has 149 posts

Open Enrollment 2020: Employers Explore New Ways to Communicate Benefits

Anne Patterson
 

As if open enrollment wasn’t already challenging, 2020 is throwing employers and employees for a loop. The latest International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans survey report, Trends in Benefit Open Enrollment and Communication, asked U.S. employers about pandemic-related changes impacting staff communication […]

Open Enrollment Strategies in the Time of COVID-19

Open Enrollment Strategies in the Time of COVID-19

Anne Patterson
 

The International Foundation recently surveyed employers and plan sponsors about benefit communication for an upcoming report (watch for it soon—called Trends in Benefit Open Enrollment and Communication), and tons of responses came in about going virtual for open enrollment this year in […]

Psychological Considerations for Returning to the Workplace

Psychological Considerations for Returning to the Workplace

Anne Patterson
 

My fellow Talking Benefits podcasters and I recently got together for another COVID-19–related episode to discuss an evolving topic—psychological considerations for returning to the workplace. As some employees are getting called back to the workplace, employers need to consider new stressors that workers have […]