Total Rewards & Employee Benefits
Modern Total Rewards Simplified
Newfront works with clients to curate competitive benefit packages that attract, retain, and reward top talent.
Our Approach
From start-up to multinational, we offer total solutions that keep your organization running smoothly and your employees happy.
Expertise Empowered by Data and Technology
Newfront melds real-time insights with industry specialists, enabling us to design custom programs that help companies stay competitive and recruit elite talent.
More Efficient Workflows
An intuitive, mobile-optimized platform serves as a centralized hub to streamline workflows.
A Better Employee Experience
A mobile solution and personalized benefits portal transforms the way employees understand, choose, and engage with their benefits.
A Model that Scales
From point-solutions to global compensation strategy, our flexible solutions scale to meet your needs at every stage of your journey.
The Newfront Difference
Our experts are empowered with purpose-built technology for today’s dynamic world of benefits, enabling us to build offerings that fit your business and your budget.
Expertise
Subject Matter Expertise
We’ve assembled a team of laser-focused specialists dedicated to getting your total rewards experience right.
Our diverse team of payroll, people operations, and benefit administrators lighten your workload
Our technical consultants bring together innovation, data, and management to build powerful yet cost sustainable programs
Our compliance officers and ERISA attorneys keep you current with state, federal, and global law
Expertise
Compliance
Our compliance hub proactively delivers real-time regulatory updates—across state lines and national borders—to keep your policies compliant and your mind at ease.
We deliver clear guidance on Health Care Reform, from affordability analysis to ACA reporting support
Timely seminars, regular blog posts, and more keep your team up to date on new legislation and regulatory updates
Every health and wellness benefit plan has regulatory requirements. We make sure your HR team understands every requirement so you stay compliant and avoid costly penalties
Technology
Newfront Navigator
Newfront Navigator enables people teams to streamline workflows in one intuitive, efficient, and secure platform, saving your clients time—and frustration:
Centralized dashboard with plan documents, carrier contacts, preferred vendors and compliance information all in one platform
Streamline client workflows by enabling them to upload, organize and store files, manage team members’ access, and more
Secure communications, files, and sensitive data on our SOC 2 compliant system
Quick search through point-solution vendors with our preferred partners highlighted
Benji
Newfront’s Benji, a benefits assistant, harnesses generative AI technology to deliver instant answers to employee benefits questions. The chatbot is available 24/7 directly in Slack for both group channels and direct messaging. Read our case study to see how Benji saves HR teams four weeks of work annually.
BenefitsU
Newfront's proprietary benefit portal, BenefitsU, helps your employees better understand their company-offered benefits. Designed to educate your workforce on their health insurance, retirement plans, wellness programs, exclusive perks and more, BenefitsU is intuitive to navigate and aims to increase employee engagement.
Access detailed explanations of all benefits, from health insurance to retirement plans
Navigate through the portal effortlessly with its intuitive design
Find a variety of educational materials, including videos, articles, and glossary, to help make informed decisions about benefits
Services
Retirement
Retirement Services
Exclusively dedicated to 401k and other defined contribution solutions, our Retirement Services team offers a wealth of expertise to help clients navigate the complexities of retirement planning with confidence and ease.
Expert in-house counsel for the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), compliance matters, and financial wellness. We conduct regular compliance checks to safeguard plan sponsors and employee rights in your 401k program
Professional designations including CFA, CFP, CIMA, CRPS, AIF, and JD
We specialize in seamless 401k integrations during mergers and acquisitions, and our dedicated conversion team ensures uninterrupted retirement allocations during corporate transitions
We provide expert guidance on investment strategies, and our recommendations our built on a deep understanding of your corporate risk profile, employee demographics, and other key inputs. We also stay on top of industry trends, fund performance, and asset allocations, ensuring your strategy is in line with the latest market signals
Our focus on your fiduciary health includes regular educational seminars, oversight and audit support, nondiscrimination testing, and more
Services
HR Services
We support clients with our diverse team of payroll, HR, and benefit consultants with a deep and broad expertise in partnering with small to midsize companies.
HR administration: Ideal for organizations without internal HR resources. We help you craft a coordinated strategy for everything from employee onboarding to employee relations, handbook and policy creation, and more
Payroll administration: our expert team of payroll professionals can execute full-cycle payroll. We coordinate multi-state payroll processing, manage tax withholdings, contributions to outside vendors, and much more
Leave administration: We offer a tiered structure of service, from advisory support to full administration, relieving the burden of managing time-off requests
Billing reconciliation: We can automate this manual task, helping improve efficiency and reduce the risk of compliance liabilities
Partners
Partners
Alpine Rewards
We work with clients to construct comprehensive total rewards strategies that align with corporate objectives and stakeholder priorities.
Expertise in executive compensation, including baseline benchmarking, equity strategy, cash incentives, severance plan design, and IPO compensation plans
Expertise in employee rewards, including total rewards strategies, job evaluation and matching, career trajectories, salary structure, and equity strategy
Best-in-class partnerships to ensure expert insight into trending market data, managing pay cycles, analyzing pay equity, and compliance matters
Partners
Newfrontiers
Newfrontiers is the leading point-solutions program in the Total Rewards space, offering a curated collection of vetted providers across a range of categories.
Newfrontiers preferred vendors encompass the full spectrum of modern benefits: from mental and emotional health, financial fitness, family forward solutions, and more.
Newfrontiers vendors are best-in-class and offer pricing discounts for Newfront clients
Newfrontiers creates bespoke point-solutions programs for each client based on a range of client inputs, from employee demographics to recruitment priorities
As companies grow, Newfrontiers helps clients forecast costs over time, support a better informed budgeting process
Compliance—
not Complexity
COBRA, HIPAA, PPACA, ERISA. LOA and Section 125 Cafeteria Plan regulations are all top-of-mind in the HR world. Our in-house ERISA and compliance team address all this and more in quarterly office hours and weekly blogs as well as Compliance alerts explaining recently passed legislation and how it affects your plans.
View Our Areas of Expertise
Latest
from Newfront
2024 Year-End Employee Benefits Compliance Round-Up
Newfront's Karen Hooper covers what compliance action items employers need to keep in mind as we near the start of 2025.
California SDI Benefits Increase in 2025
Newfront’s Karen Hooper discusses the new changes to California State Disability Insurance (SDI) and Paid Family Leave (PFL) for 2025.
401(k)ology – All the Fuss about Forfeitures
ERISA lawsuits spotlight 401(k) forfeiture use, questioning fiduciary decisions. This post covers IRS rules, recent litigation, and best practices to mitigate risk.
