Life event windows open automatically when your HRIS detects a change
Life events are the moments when benefits matter most. A return from parental leave. A promotion. A reduction in hours. These are exactly the moments when an employee should be able to update their benefits — and exactly the moments when most platforms require them to remember to submit a form, find the right place to do it, and provide proof before anything happens.
Most employees don't submit life events. Not because they don't need to — because the process is manual, the trigger is on them, and it happens at the worst possible time. HR teams either chase it or miss it. Either way, the benefit update happens late or not at all.
Life events triggered by your HRIS data, not by employees remembering to submit a form
Ben's configurable rule engine maps HRIS field changes directly to life event types. When a qualifying change arrives — a salary update, a return from leave, a change in hours — Ben detects it, opens the right benefit window automatically, notifies the employee, and logs whether the event was triggered automatically or manually. No form. No proof required. No HR chasing.
For large employers where HRIS data is the system of record for everything, this is a fundamental shift in how benefit administration works. The platform reads the data you already maintain and acts on it — you don't need a parallel process to keep benefits in sync with employment changes.
The foundation for benefit recommendations at the moment they're most relevant
The life events architecture now unblocks benefit recommendations — surfacing relevant benefits to employees at exactly the moment a life change makes them newly relevant. That work is in progress. If you'd like to talk through how data-driven life events could work for your programme, get in touch.
