Benefits and Compensation

Annual Benefits Sign-Up Is Less Popular than Tax Season

Let’s just say it’s not most people’s favorite thing to do. Known in human resources offices as “Open Enrollment,” the annual ritual of choosing your medical plan, opting in or out of dental and vision coverage, and deciding how much money to put in your flexible spending account is, as they say, “part of growing up.”

On the surface it’s just another HR transaction. Below the surface, though, the process prompts us to take mental stock of our physical health, the security of our employment, the state of our economy, and the scariest thing of all: Our future.

VSP Vision Care is preparing for its own annual rite of encouraging people to keep vision care top of mind during Open Enrollment. It conducted a national survey to raise awareness of how people feel and behave when it comes to Open Enrollment — and to encourage people to “check the box” when it comes to vision care.

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