Benefits Online

Overview

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Survey topics

The following provides the topics covered under each survey supported by WTW.

Benefits Design Practices* (BDP) HR Policies and Practices* (HRP) Internationally Mobile Employee (IME) survey
• Benefits Flexibility and Choice • Compensation Policies and Practices • General Information, covering IME demographics,
• Retirement • Starting Salaries strategy and benefits offered
• Healthcare • Variable Pay • International Health Plan
• Wellbeing • Company Cars • International Risk Benefits
• Risk Benefits • Guaranteed Payments and Cash Allowances • Business Travel Insurance
• Business Travel Insurance • Sales Compensation Policies and Practices
• Time Off • Attraction, Retention and Termination
• Meal Benefits • Work Arrangements
• Perquisites** • Business Travel and Relocation

* Topics are adapted to the local environment and therefore vary by country
** Topics covered: Day care/child care allowance (EMEA and LATAM), Length of service award, Mobile phones/allowances, Product/service discounts,
Housing (Japan), Housing allowance (Taiwan), Punctuality/attendance (Mexico), Vacation/home leave assistance (MEA countries)

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Benefits Online
Tap into live, comprehensive benchmark survey data — anytime, anywhere.
Benefits Online is our global subscription-based benefit benchmarking platform, designed to help your organization access detailed market
information from our main benchmark surveys covering HR policies and benefits design practices from a single, intuitive application.
Your subscription options for Benefits Online
Standard Custom
Standard subscription:
Option available to Participants and Non-Participants Access and query specific topics, provisions and prevalence results ✓ ✓
Access general industry statistics ✓ ✓
Submit your organization’s survey data and you will be provided a complimentary
Standard subscription for up to a year. Data is refreshed once a year*. Export to Excel ✓ ✓
Design your custom group based on specific criteria (e.g., number of
Custom subscription: ✓
employees, industry and/or revenue) to view results
Option available to Participants only
Compare your organization’s data against your custom group by using
✓
Upgrade to get advanced options, such as creating custom groups and the highlight feature
comparing your organization’s data against market prevalence results. Data is Grant access to multiple users and tailor access by user ✓ ✓
refreshed as often as daily. User interface available in English, Chinese (Simplified),
* BDP North America Standard is updated as often as daily. French (Canada and Europe), German, Japanese, Italian, Polish,
✓ ✓
Portuguese, (Portugal and Brazil) and Spanish (LATAM and Europe),
Russian and Turkish

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How to access Benefits Online
Authentication is done through Single Sign On capabilities exist for certain applications such as Benefits
Insights and the WTW Participation Portal.
OnePlace supports WTW’s applications that are used by
our clients.

You will need to enter your login credentials and select

Benefits Online from the App catalogue.

If you don’t have access to the Benefits Online application,

please contact the Benefits Data Source team at
[email protected]

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Overview
User can select
preferred language.

Where you will see informative dashboards on country database,

subscriptions and other offerings. Once logged in, user needs to select a survey and
a country.
Where you define your peer groups. Only available with
Custom subscription.

Access detailed descriptions of benefit plans by

individual organization. Only available for BDP North America
with Custom subscriptions.

Where you query the database. Peer groups defined in the Filters
section would be available. Standard subscription users would
only see All Participants.

Where users can view and manage their subscriptions by survey

and country.

Where users can access the user guide or report technical issues.

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Prevalence module
Prevalence module provides statistical information, on an aggregate basis, on the characteristics of HR and benefit programs based on data
captured from our survey sources. Users can query individual provisions of interest or can export an entire report.

1 1 Select a survey and country from

the country menu (e.g., BDP –
United Kingdom).
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2 Narrow your search by using the
prevalence filtering capabilities.
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3 Define your search by selecting a

plan type, a section, a subsection
and provision you wish to search.

4 The results will appear on screen.

Additional provisions may be
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queried individually by changing
the plan type, section, subsection
or provision in step 3.

5 Export entire results to Excel by

clicking on the Export Full Report
button.

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Reporting of BDP survey results
Prevalence options

Users will use the Prevalence Filter option to define their search.

Depending on the selections made, each table will include information

on the applicable counts or sample size.

“Unique participant count” refers to the number of organizations

responding to a question.

“Total response count” refers to the number of plans being 3

reported for a given question. Since organizations can provide
information on more than one plan, it is possible to report a higher 1 Employee categories: User can select one or more employee
total response count. categories of interest and view the corresponding results. If blank,
results will show prevalence across all employee categories.
Note: when the employee category and highest enrolled filters are Effective year (applies to all surveys): This filter allows users to
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selected, the total response count will generally be the same as the include data from the current year as well as up to two prior years.
unique participant count. However, there can still be instances where
a slight variation is observed. Such variation would not materially 3 Highest enrolled: This filter allows you to narrow the data to the highest
impact the underlying prevalence results. enrolled (or most representative) plans rather than viewing results based
on all available plans.

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Prevalence options – Provision filters
Ability to drill deeper into the results

Within a benefit topic, users can use the provision filter 1

functionality to narrow the prevalence results based on
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specific response options.
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Example: You are interested in looking at the prevalence
information on Healthcare benefit plans based on 4
supplemental medical plans only.

1 Click “Select A Plan Type.” For this example, select BDP - Healthcare.
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2 Click “Select A Section.” For this example, select Health care coverage.

3 Click “Select A Sub Section.” If a Sub Section is not available, the menu will default to the Section as in this example.

4 Click “Select A Provision” and click on the response option(s) you would like to use as a data filter and then click Add. Up to 3 filters may be
added. For this example, select Types of medical plan and we are interested in only supplemental medical plan response option.

5 Once all filters are added, click on Apply. You will be returned to the prevalence screen to view the prevalence results based on the
applied filter.

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Prevalence of benefits offered

Benefits offered
The information can be found under the
Organization Information topic under the
Local organization benefits section.

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 User permissions
Primary users only
A primary user can manage permissions for other users within their
organization.
1 Enter user email address(es) into the table
2 Click Grant Permissions
The user(s) added will gain access to the same data as the primary
user.
A primary user can add up to 100 users at a time.
Only users with the same email domain as the primary user can be
added. Contact [email protected] if
the user has a different email domain.

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 Features available to Custom
subscribers only

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Filters module
Available to clients with Custom level subscriptions only

Number of organizations defined by your

criteria will be automatically adjusted. You can save filters
for future use.
All saved filters
are accessible from
the Prevalence
Use filters to customize peer groups by industry, module.
headcount and company revenues. The list of
organizations in the peer group cannot be
disclosed in order to maintain confidentiality.
To compare against the entire database, leave all
criteria blank.

The ability to generate peer group cuts by selecting individual companies is NOT available in the Custom subscription,
except for BDP North America. However, requests can be handled on demand. Additional fees apply.

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Highlight feature
Available to clients with Custom level subscriptions only

The highlight feature allows users to highlight their response

data in the prevalence tables for ease of comparison.
The response highlight feature can be found under
Prevalence Options. 1

1 Select the organization to highlight. Only one organization

may be highlighted at a time.
2 Select the employee category to highlight. A category must
be selected in order to use the highlight feature; only one
category may be highlighted for comparison at a time.
The employee category selection is independent of any
employee category selected under response filters.

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Plan Information – BDP North America only
Ability to drill deeper into the results – available to Custom subscribers only

The Plan Information feature allows users to view detailed

plan summaries for other participants, in an Excel format

1 Select from a list of organizations defined in the Filters module or view

All Participants.
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2 Search for an organization by name if preferred.

3 Select the radio button next to the organization name

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4 Select Create Plan Summary Report and an Excel file will be emailed to you. 2

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