About Jennifer Centrone
Jennifer Centrone, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of Arch Capital Services LLC, discussed the company's approach to employee benefits and wellness on the Insurance Coffee House Podcast in September 2024. Centrone stated that Arch Capital conducted a global conjoint survey in the three countries with the largest employee presence to ask employees what matters most to them regarding benefits and wellness. She said the survey revealed that employees want flexibility, as they are at different life stages and need different things to feel able to bring their best selves to work.
Cenrtone described how employee priorities shift across life stages, with those in their 20s and 30s concerned about paying bills, starting a family, and mental health; those in their 40s focused on retirement savings and college tuition; and those in their 50s and 60s worried about retirement timing and physical health. She noted that Arch Capital brought in a positive psychologist several times to provide webinars teaching employees tangible ways to balance stress. Centrone said the company is using the survey input to design a wellness strategy aimed at helping employees manage stress and bring their best selves to work.
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Every single one of our employees has their own life, right? They're trying to juggle their own life, and they're working hard and smart for Arch, but then they have to find that balance. So we want employees to know, and I think based on our results, I believe they feel this way, that we care about them as a whole person. So we recently asked them what matters to you the most around benefits and wellness and the things that matter. We did a global survey in the three countries that we have the biggest employee presence in. It was a conjoint survey, so we were asking them, would you want this or would you want this? It kind of walks you through a whole process on that. What ultimately came out of that for employees is that they want a level of flexibility. People are at different seasons in life, and they need different things to feel like they can come to work and show up with their best self. So in your 20s and 30s, they're worried about paying your bills. You just got out of college, you're starting your life, you're trying to buy a house or starting a family. And mental health has been huge, a ton of burnout and stress for people in their lives, especially in their 20s and 30s when they're juggling all of those multiple priorities. Then in their 40s, people are really starting to think about retirement savings, how do I get ready for that? I might be starting to pay for college tuition if I have a family. And then 50s and 60s, it's all about, am I going to be able to retire when I said I wanted to retire? And I'm worried about my physical health too. On the mental health front, because that hits so many employees in our population at different stages of their lives, we've done something really cool. We had a positive psychologist come in several points over the last few years when we looked around the world and said, you know what, things are stressful out there. She's come in and done some webinars for employees, and she's talked about how to balance stress, but how to do it in a really tangible way. So employees are walking away from those calls with actual things they can do in their day-to-day lives to balance stress. So anyway, that's just one example of some things that we're doing here. But as a result of the conjoint survey, we're taking all that input and we're trying to think about going forward. We still have time to design this and think about what's the best wellness strategy for our employees so that they can show up and really bring their best selves to work and leave hopefully some of that stress behind or learn how to manage the stress that they're dealing with day-to-day in a better way.
