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Cornerstone Benefits pioneered the use of customized communications and online technology to help empower employees to access the benefit-plan information they need electronically, freeing up time that HR staff previously spent answering questions or sending forms.

Online Access
At no charge to you, Cornerstone creates an online site containing all the descriptions, forms, deductibles information and other benefit-related data that employees repeatedly seek from the HR department. Through this customized Web site, employees can find everything they want about their own specific benefit plans, with access 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from anywhere in the world. Among the materials available for review and download electronically are:

Benefit descriptions
Enrollment forms
Claim forms
Plan certificates
Employee manuals

With heavier reliance on the Web site, employees consume less time talking with HR by phone or appointment. All forms can be downloaded from the Internet right to the employee’s desktop or home printer. Furthermore, when plan information changes, the information can be updated instantly in one location accessible to the entire workforce, without delays in distribution or the expense of reprinting.

Benefits Statements
Cornerstone provides personalized, company-branded statements for every employee that reflect the quality that your company demands in all its communications. With colorful pie charts and simple tables, these statements demonstrate the value of the company’s contributions to each employee’s economic well-being, including:

Salary
Benefits
Vacation time/PTO

By illustrating the “hidden” paycheck that adds considerable value to every job, the company can reduce turnover and the expenses associated with training new employees.

Customized Benefits Binders
Cornerstone has eliminated all the various shapes, sizes, configurations and confusing language of conventional benefit brochures and documents. In their place, Cornerstone creates a customized binder for each employee that consolidates and simplifies all the benefit information that he or she looks for most often.

The user-friendly binders advise the employee of exactly what they can expect to pay in deductibles at the pharmacy, at the doctor’s office and at the hospital. All information from all carriers is organized in succinct fashion with clear, easy-to-understand tables that answer the great majority of employee questions that generally are directed to HR staff. Moreover, Cornerstone can publish individual binders in any of a number of languages, including English, Spanish, Arabic and others that correspond to the languages spoken by specific employees in the client’s company.

High-Tech Employee Presentation
In addition to providing new employees with benefits binders, Cornerstone Benefits also gives them a Flash-technology orientation to their benefits that they can review on their desktop computers. The orientation visually demonstrates how to access information on the company’s benefits Web site, how to download forms and how to find clear and extensive details within their benefit plans.

Wellness Initiatives
Many employers participate in wellness initiatives to reduce the incidence of such conditions as high blood pressure, contagious diseases and diabetes. Cornerstone Benefits provides literature in support of these “live well, work well” initiatives that in clear fashion outline steps that employees can take to maintain their health and avoid developing serious illnesses. .