Thornton & Associates, a Human Resource Management Consulting Firm, located in Scarborough, ME, announces the availability of an exciting new advance in online employee benefits enrollment and benefits communication with an Internet based service for employers.

Thornton & Associates' new service, totally re-defines online enrollment by taking the self-service potential to its desired conclusion. The service not only handles benefits enrollment, but also provides employees with personalized employee benefit statements. When the benefits enrollment is ended, the employees are encouraged to come back often to their own personal Website to view a summary of all their benefits and interact with the system using any one of the many included self-service features.

The Online service also allows the employer to store all of their HR and other company related forms online. This gives employees the ability to notify their employers of changes in personal information such as their address or phone and allows the employee to easily add or change beneficiaries and dependents. The service also allows employees to fill out vacation requests and other HR forms over the Internet from the comfort of their homes as well as from work at any time of the day or night -- even on weekends.

Unlike other online enrollment services that end when the employee has completed his or her enrollment, our new service shows the employee the total value of the benefits package paid for by the employer.

The Online service includes a powerful administration center that allows HR/Benefits people to quickly and easily generate a variety of insightful online reports regarding employee data. These reports can be viewed or printed online as well as downloaded to the employers local PC or uploaded to the company HR or payroll system. The benefits broker and carrier can also easily import data from the system. HR/Benefits people can additionally create employee surveys to be distributed online, as well as collected, tabulated, and set up for reports online. Other features include online calculators so those employees can see the value of enrolling in 401(k) and 125 plans.