Ask any owner and operator what keeps them up at night, and staffing is near the top. Attracting people is hard. Keeping them is harder.
Here's the bind. The benefit that would actually help, real health coverage, feels impossible for a gym or a childcare center to offer. Group insurance is expensive and a headache to administer.
So most operators offer nothing, and hope pay alone holds people. It usually doesn't.
Why a small benefit punches above its weight
Your staff aren't expecting a Fortune 500 package. A lot of them have no easy way to see a provider at all.
Give them one, and you've done something their last three jobs didn't. That's the kind of thing people remember when a competitor dangles an extra dollar an hour.
What this looks like without group insurance
You don't have to stand up a health plan to give people care. A flat-price telehealth benefit does the heavy lifting.
- $29 a month, flat, for 24/7 access to licensed providers. No per-visit fees.
- No group insurance to set up, administer, or renew.
- It reaches your part-timers and seasonal staff too, the people traditional benefits usually leave out.
For a director watching every line of the budget, that math is easy to say yes to.
The pitch to your team
You're not promising to fix their healthcare. You're handing them a real, useful thing. When they or their kid wakes up sick, they can talk to a licensed provider without a clinic bill.
For a few dollars a head, you look like an employer who actually invested in them. In a labor market this tight, that's worth more than the line item.
If you want to give your people something valuable without blowing the budget, that's what we built Bivvy for.
Bivvy is not a substitute for emergency services. Providers are licensed. Subscription terms apply.
Care when you need it, for $39/month.
No insurance required. No per-visit fee.
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