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​The GBD team is excited to announce our new partnership with KELLY, one of the nation’s largest employee benefit administrators, brokers, payroll providers and consultants. KELLY delivers high quality, cost-effective, integrated corporate benefit and payroll services, as well as workforce management solutions through a team of exceptional professionals and efficient processes, tools and technology.

Like GBD, KELLY began as a small family business and has grown to be an industry leading company focused on providing benefits solutions for employers of all sizes. Starting out as independent brokers, the KELLY team understands benefit administration issues that employers face and have excelled at developing exceptional solutions to those issues.

We are thrilled that through our partnership with KELLY, GBD clients will gain access to innovative benefit administration technology and simplified billing. We are confident that this partnership will be a huge benefit for our clients and will help GBD achieve great success in the years to come. 

Check out our KELLY Partnership page to learn more about the various tools and resources now available to GBD clients! 

A comprehensive benefit package not only serves to attract and retain high quality employees, it can keep employee morale high and positively impact productivity. According to MetLife’s most recent U.S. Employee Benefit Trends Study (conducted fall of 2016), employees feel that the benefits they receive from work result in less worrying with 74% sharing that having insurance/benefits give them “peace of mind.” This peace of mind allows them to focus on work rather then spend time at work worrying.

The study also found that employees (58%) desire the ability to customize their benefits to meet their needs and employees (52%) are willing to bear more of benefit costs for this customization. Employers can capitalize on this by offering voluntary employee benefits, giving employees easy access to products they want. It’s a win win situation.

If you’d like to learn more about voluntary benefits give us a call or send us an email!

If you want to learn more about MetLife’s U.S. Employee Benefit Trends Study, please visit Benefittrends.metlife.com
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Today we stumbled upon the term “Lexophile," and the office has been filled with laughter! "Lexophile" describes those who have a love for words, displayed in phrases such as "You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish" or "To write with a broken pencil is pointless.” We are trying to come up with a fun one related to insurance. In the meantime, we thought we’d share some of our favorites with you. We hope they brighten you day as they have brightened ours! 

He had a photographic memory but it was never fully developed.
When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
A boiled egg is hard to beat.
When you’ve seen one shopping center you’ve seen a mall.
Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. 
Police were called to a day care, where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
Thieves who steal corn from a garden could be charged with stalking.
When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.
The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
A thief who stole a calendar… got twelve months.
A thief fell and broke his leg in wet cement. He became a hardened criminal.
Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.
A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired!

Have a great day everyone! 

GBD would like to wish all of our clients, friends and followers a wonderful day full of joy and happiness. Whether your Valentine is a friend, a spouse or a beloved pet, we hope that everyone feels the love today! We thought we'd share a super simple recipe for a tasty treat for your (human) Valentine's that we found at TheFrugalGirls.com. 

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! 

Valentine Pretzel Treats (only 3 ingredients!) 
Author: The Frugal Girls
Prep time:  15 mins Cook time:  4 mins Total time:  19 mins
Serves: 70 cookies
 
Ingredients
1 bag square Pretzels
1 bag Valentine M&M’s {red/pink mix}, 11.4 oz.
1 bag Hershey’s Hugs {12 oz.}
Instructions
Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
Line a large cookie sheet with Pachment Paper.
Place pretzels in rows on cookie sheet. I did 10 rows of 7… or is that 7 rows of 10? {I had 73 hugs in my bag, so I made 70 little cookies.}
Place 1 unwrapped Hershey’s Hug on the center of each pretzel.
Bake for 4 minutes.
Remove from oven, and immediately {and carefully} press 1 M&M gently down on top of the center of each Hug.
Cool for 30 minutes and allow the hugs to harden back up. {or pop your cookie sheet in the fridge for 10 minutes to speed up the process}. ENJOY!