Unum Dental launches employee enrolment portal

‘Fast, simple, online access’

Adam Saville
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Research finds 30% of employees would pay for cover if they had access to it

Unum Dental has opened an online portal which allows employees to opt-in to their workplace dental cover. The ‘streamlined' paperless process is likely to be beneficial to medium and large employers without access to a flexible benefits platform, the employee benefits provider said. The announcement comes alongside findings of a recent survey of 2001 employees by Unum which found that 30% said they would pay for dental cover if their employer had a scheme in place. Accessed via a smartphone, Unum has suggested the portal is potentially a ‘cost-effective' way of offering employee ac...

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