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• Resilience: Readiness to Face Adversity
• Open Enrollment Strategies in the Time of COVID-19
• Alternative Investments: A Primer for your Plan
• Impact of the COBRA Extension Interim Final Rule
• Pension and Benefits in the New Future of Work
• Full List of Blog Posts​

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Talking Benefits Podcast

Benefits Bonus: Resilience-Readiness to Face Adversity
Talking Benefits host Julie Stich reads her recent blog post on worker resilience and how employers can help.

Virtual Open Enrollment
It's that time of year again (cue the ominous music)... but this year's open enrollment experience may be a lot different for some organizations. We talk about best practices and tips from our members on taking open enrollment to the digital world.
Read the research report we refer to in this episode: www.ifebp.org/research
Check out the Case Studies in Annual Open Enrollment virtual conference and all other IFEBP virtual conferences: www.ifebp.org/virtualconferences
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Benefits Bonus: CDC Report on Mental Health and COVID-19
Talking Benefits producer Rose Plewa reads her blog post on what mental health professionals are terming "the next pandemic" or the "third wave" of COVID-19. You can read this great blog post and many others at blog.ifebp.org.

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