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Are Canadian Employers Focused on Employee Benefits? Survey of Canadian Employers, 2019

Yuliya Babushkina 12/5/2019

Learn about employers' attitudes towards offering employee benefits: what insurance and non insurance benefits Canadian employers currently offer and whether Canadian employers prefer to use a single carrier for all their benefit needs.

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Are Canadian Employers Focused on Employee Benefits? - Survey of Canadian Employers, 2019 (Technical Report)

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Summary

LIMRA surveyed 1,200 Canadian employers to determine the latest trends in penetration rates for employee benefits and retirement and savings plans (e.g., what percentage of employers offer various benefits). The survey focused on private employers with five or more employees that had been in business for more than one year. Respondents were the individuals who made or shared in their firm’s decisions concerning employee benefits. Employers commented on:

  • The insurance, retirement, and non-insurance benefits they offer
  • Which benefits are offered on a basis where the employee pays 100 percent of the cost
  • Their reasons for buying or not buying insurance and retirement benefits from the same insurance carrier
  • How they approach employee benefits strategy

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Meet the Project Director

Yuliya Babushkina
Babushkina joined LIMRA in 2004. Her responsibilities include managing U.S. group dental surveys and various studies in workplace benefits research, such as the Conference Practices Survey, Broker Panel Surveys, and the Dental Metrics Survey. Her current area of concentration is health care reform and its effect on employers, employees, carriers and brokers.

Babushkina received her diploma in history from Moscow State University (Lomonosov’s) (Russia). She has a master’s degree in history from Bowling Green State University and a master’s degree in survey research from the University of Connecticut.

Assistant Research Director, Insurance Research
LIMRA
ybabushkina@limra.com


For more information, please contact ybabushkina@limra.com.

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