Short reads on benefits, retention, wellbeing, and the economics of keeping a good team.
Pay gets you hired. Benefits get you to stay. The 2024 Global Benefits Attitudes Survey shows 65% of employees now rate benefits as a top reason they stay with an employer — up from 45% in 2017. Here is what that shift means for the service drive.
A plain-English walkthrough of how Section 125 lifts employee take-home pay 2–5% and cuts the dealership’s payroll tax on the same dollar — without changing your medical carrier, your broker, or your renewal calendar.
Fewer Saturday-morning call-outs. Faster RO turn times. A more predictable Monday. Here is what dealers tell us a high-participation wellbeing benefit actually changes about the week.
An average $1,421 decline in claim cost per participant. Here is the math, the plausible mechanisms, and the questions still worth asking.
Week 1 is the plan document. Week 2–3 is enrollment. Week 4 is your team’s first telemedicine visit. Here is the playbook — and the specific things your GM will not have to do.
Participating dealerships report a 30% drop in workers’ comp and disability claims. We walk through why — and the two lines on your renewal letter where you’ll see it.
We publish one short brief a month — written for owners and GMs, not HR consultants.
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