Enhanced Enrollment Experience Employee Toolkit
Fidelity’s enhanced enrollment experience is designed to help your employees maximize their benefits offered through their workplace savings plan to support their financial goals and total well-being. Our dynamic enrollment experience meets employees where they are, with a digital first approach leveraging targeted messages in both email and on NetBenefits®, as well as using a QR code and SMS text messaging on post-cards.
We believe a coordinated approach will help drive the most employee engagement. Below we've provided you some of the Enhanced Enrollment Experience's features to leverage through your internal channels with employees as appropriate.
Enhanced Enrollment Email Campaign
- Multi-touch email campaign, with post-card back up if there is no email address on file
- Each email contains a button at the top to allow participants to view a Spanish translated version of the email in their web browser
- Replaces any previous enrollment guides, multi-touch enrollment campaign, and EasyEnroll communications
Who will receive this campaign?
- Employees who are newly eligible to enroll
- The targeted enrollment communications stop as soon as an employee:
- Enrolls through any method
- Is within six days of being auto-enrolled
- Opts out of auto-enroll
- Is for any other reason no longer eligible to enroll
What is the call to action?
Targeted messaging based on your employee’s needs and your plan design to provide education and setup expectations for enrolling, including:
- Enrollment links that send employees to either standard enroll or EasyEnroll
- Callout for those who will be auto-enrolled
- Expectations for those who need to register as a new user in NetBenefits
- Setting up your savings, including consideration for company match and Easy Enroll (if applicable)
- Setting up your investments, including consideration for company stock (if applicable)
- Links that send employees to the digital plan highlights page in NetBenefits
- Touch 1 is designed to help plan sponsors meet their ERISA regulatory obligations, and includes a statement that the plan intends to be a 404(c) plan
How are the communications delivered?
- Employee-provided email (if provided consent to send legally required information electronically), employer-provided emails flagged as safe harbor, print back-up if applicable.
Timing
Touch 1: Eligible to enroll | Touch 2: Reminder to enroll | Touch 3: Reminder to enroll | Abandoner touch | ||
Timing | Sent 0-3 days after receiving participant information | Two weeks after touch 1 | Two weeks after touch 2 | Sent to employees the day after someone who starts the online/EasyEnroll enrollment and leaves before completing | |
Delivery Format | Email with post-card backup | Email only | Email with post-card backup | Email only |
Campaign content:
Please Note: Each email contains a button at the top to allow participants to view a Spanish translated version of the email in their web browser. Below are communication samples, including the Spanish translations.
- Sample Touch 1 Email
- Sample Touch 1 Email (Spanish)
- Sample Touch 1 Postcard
- Sample Touch 2 Email
- Sample Touch 2 Email (Spanish)
- Sample Touch 3 Email
- Sample Touch 3 Email (Spanish)
- Sample Touch 3 Postcard
- Sample Abandoner Email
- Sample Abandoner (Spanish)
Other enrollment content/resources:
- Help employees understand the value of a 401k/403b with this video:
- Fidelity.com/401kRecipe
- Fidelity.com/recipe (Tax Exempt Plan version)
- EasyEnroll & Standard Online Enrollment access via keyword texting or direct link
- Poster/ Digital Signage/ 1-Page Flyer/Handout with QR code and keyword texting
- Poster/Digital Signage/1-Page Flyer/Handout: EasyEnroll
- Poster/Digital Signage/1-Page Flyer/Handout: Standard Enroll
- Article: What is a 401k/403b, anyways?
- This article includes reasons why it makes sense to start participating in the plan as soon as possible
- This would be a great addition to a new hire guide or employee newsletter