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Mercer Marsh Benefits

Darwin

You invest heavily in employee benefits, so you need a benefits platform that helps you get the most from your spend. Our Darwin employee benefits software helps you streamline benefit administration, control cost, reduce risk and boost employee engagement.

Take your employee value proposition and benefits to a whole new level

Successful benefits programs align with organizations’ wider business and people strategies and deliver employee benefits that your workforce really value.

Mercer Marsh Benefits’ (MMB) Darwin technology gives employers powerful analytics to understand return on investment while offering employees a consumer-grade benefits experience.

  • Flexibility, cost control and risk reduction – all from a single platform.
  • Accessible benefits that employees can connect to at any time, from any device, anywhere in the world.
  • Our approach is to help you ensure that your benefits and the platform that deliver them are fit for purpose in supporting employees during the moments that matter.

Explore how Darwin employee benefits management software helps you increase engagement, control costs, streamline administration and reduce risk, making sure you get the most from your benefit spend.

Why Darwin?

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Minimize your exposure to unnecessary risk by eliminating outdated processes and manual data handling.

  • Minimizing human data handling - Data breaches come at a huge cost, damaging relationship with clients, partners, employees and prospective joiners. Darwin automates your processes and transfers, eliminating human handling of data and giving full oversight and audit tracking for strong governance.
  • Enterprise-grade security - Some of the most security-conscious organizations in the world trust Darwin with their employees’ sensitive data. Our enterprise-grade data security ensures your compliance requirements are met and that information stays safe, protecting you and your people.
  • Mind the gap - There’s an increasing focus on gender equality in businesses. Darwin analytics can help you find and fix any potential gender gaps in your benefits offering, ensuring you’re doing the right thing for all your people and removing the risk of reputational damage.

For most businesses, benefits are a major outgoing, comprising around 20% of total payroll costs. Maximize your return on this investment with increased benefit take-up, greater benefit administration efficiency and global visibility of costs.

  • Make the invisible visible - Employees often underestimate – and underuse – their reward packages. Darwin keeps your employees engaged, continually reinforcing your employee value proposition, and highlighting your investment in your people. This keeps take-up high and increases employees’ perception of the value of your offering.
  • Do more with less - HR departments are under increasing pressure to deliver more, often with flat or shrinking budgets. Darwin helps busy benefit teams do more with less by automating manual administration processes, enabling teams to focus on value-add work.
  • Right first time, every time - Unreliable, inaccurate data costs businesses money. Instant automated transfers minimize the risk of errors creeping into your data, ensuring your employees have the right cover at the right time - and you only pay for employees who should be covered.
  • Secure your benefits budget - By uncovering previously inaccessible information across your global benefit schemes, Darwin Analytics Center enables you to see where benefits and providers can be standardized, reducing the complexity of your benefit offering and delivering greater cost efficiency.

Manually managing benefits is time-consuming and resource intensive. Darwin’s automated, software-driven administration means reward and benefits teams can concentrate on delivering strategic value to your business. 

  • Simplicity from complexity - Complicated rules, manual processes, diverse carriers, and multiple systems make benefit administration a difficult and time-consuming task. We help you achieve extensive efficiencies by streamlining, digitizing and automating your administration processes, no matter how complex your benefits are.
  • No more data headaches - Most HR teams use lots of different HCM applications – but the systems don’t really speak to each other. Darwin sits at the center of your HCM ecosystem, swiftly and seamlessly transferring data between your HR, payroll and third-party provider systems minimizing time and resources spent manipulating data.
  • Putting you in control - Most benefit platforms are offered on a “managed service-only” basis. Darwin is different. It gives you complete control and full visibility of process, empowering you to manage every aspect of your schemes – from administration and reporting to content editing and communications.
  • Darwin works how you work - Multinational companies are increasingly centralizing their HR operations. Darwin’s powerful Control Center gives you the flexibility to include benefits administration as part of an HR shared service model, enabling you to realize major efficiencies.

Minimize your exposure to unnecessary risk by eliminating outdated processes and manual data handling.

  • Minimizing human data handling - Data breaches come at a huge cost, damaging relationship with clients, partners, employees and prospective joiners. Darwin automates your processes and transfers, eliminating human handling of data and giving full oversight and audit tracking for strong governance.
  • Enterprise-grade security - Some of the most security-conscious organizations in the world trust Darwin with their employees’ sensitive data. Our enterprise-grade data security ensures your compliance requirements are met and that information stays safe, protecting you and your people.
  • Mind the gap - There’s an increasing focus on gender equality in businesses. Darwin analytics can help you find and fix any potential gender gaps in your benefits offering, ensuring you’re doing the right thing for all your people and removing the risk of reputational damage.

A consumer-grade benefits platform for employees

Darwin makes employee benefits management simple, supercharging employee engagement, increasing benefit take up and maximizing the return on your investment. As a single consumer-grade benefits platform, it lets your employees to do everything they need, no matter where they are in the world.

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How Darwin works

Darwin comprises three centres, each targeted at a specific audience in your business: employees, administrators, and decision makers.

Reward center

Reward Center is where your employees access, enroll in, and manage their benefits. Its intuitive interface keeps engagement and satisfaction rates high.

Control Center

Control Center uses automation to free administrators from transactional tasks, improving efficiency and enabling them to deliver strategic value.

Analytics Center

Analytics Center gives decision makers usable data-driven insights that enable them to use benefits to meet their people and organisational goals.

Local solutions powered by Darwin

Although Darwin is the number one global benefits platform, that doesn't mean you have to miss out if you’re not a multinational company. We have worked with our in-country benefits experts around the globe to build Darwin-powered solutions tailored to the specific needs of local companies.

Darwin and Benefits You App

As core solutions within Mercer Marsh Benefits’ Digital Ecosystem, Darwin connects seamlessly with Benefits You App. Benefits You App acts as a digital front door to your health and benefits offering, with easy access to Darwin and third-party providers, connecting employees to a broader range of well-being benefits at their fingertips.

As a native mobile app, Benefits You and Darwin puts your health plan, well-being tools and resources, and key company announcements in the palm of your employees’ hands, making it easier for you to reinforce and enhance your employee value proposition through a tech experience that feels just like the apps they use every day.

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Darwin is changing benefits

2m+

Users

4m+

Lives supported

103

Countries

43

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Learn more about how Darwin can help you improve the health and well-being of your employees.

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