We're PEO people

Care and grow.

Guardian knows how to help you do both for your worksites, with more than 25 years of experience supporting professional employer organizations (PEOs).

It's why we offer robust, personalized benefit solutions, backed by dedicated PEO resources for benefits administration —⁠ from implementation to daily operations. Plus, our benefits technology makes it all hum, by helping you streamline and simplify work.

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Every PEO is different

That's why Guardian builds a customized benefits solution to match the needs of each PEO and its worksites:

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We help PEOs deliver a variety of sought-after benefits

One of the best ways to help worksite employees get the preventive oral care they may need and save on specialty care.

Group vision benefits are designed to help workers easily access quality vision care, choice, and savings — including XP Health, offering unlimited access to the only AI-powered vision benefits platform and customized online store.

Allows worksite employees to provide financial support to the people and causes they care about.

Helps ensure your clients' worksite employees can continue to support their families when they need it most, and receive the care they need to return to work.

Short term disability benefits also include caregiving support services and additional riders that help provide flexibility at every stage of life.

Long term disability benefits include caregiving and cancer support services, access to Peloton fitness and wellness classes, and transportation assistance to doctor visits or rehabilitation treatments through our partnership with Uber.

Accident insurance
Complements health insurance by covering extra expenses a worksite employee might have if injured in an accident.

Critical illness insurance
Offers financial confidence if a worksite employee suffers a covered illness or condition.

Hospital indemnity insurance
Benefit payments for shorter hospital stays (less than 20 hours), maternity claims at 36 weeks, and newborn nursery care.

Cancer insurance
Can be used to help lessen the emotional and financial impact a cancer diagnosis and course of treatment can have on employees.

Spring Health
Personalized mental wellness benefits for all employees and their families.

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Offers confidential services for a variety of important needs – all to support employee well-being and help them think, feel, and perform their best.

Caregiving support services
Guardian is the first benefits carrier to embed caregiving support services into our group disability and hospital indemnity insurance offerings.

Cancer support
Embedded in our group long term disability offerings, employees with a cancer diagnosis have access to empathic, personalized, and confidential support.

Fertility health and family building
Embedded within hospital indemnity insurance, employees can access personalized guidance and comprehensive educational resources curated for their unique individual journey.

Offers employees a personalized and completely confidential way to find the voluntary benefits that will help them and their loved ones most.

Guardian exclusive

Offer benefits to worksite contractors, gig workers, and part-timers

Guardian’s innovative individual benefits add-on is designed for worksite employees who wouldn’t typically be eligible for coverage through your master plan — helping you unlock new revenue streams and increase client retention.

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From the day-to-day, to long-term goals

Our team is dedicated to your success

Our dedicated PEO resources act as an extension of your internal HR team, proactively helping with daily management, responding to questions, and freeing your people to focus on other tasks.

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  • 1 dedicated PEO implementation specialist

    to get you up and running

  • 1 customer setup specialist

    to coordinate with underwriting and claims resources

  • 1 PEO client executive

    who monitors plan performance, reports on financials, and promptly addresses urgent matters

Real support, from start to finish

  • Billing

    We offer flexible billing options, centralized plan access through a single portal, and a proactive approach to prevent billing issues before they arise.

  • Implementation

    Your dedicated PEO implementation manager will help you ensure your benefits get up and running with ease.

  • Day-to-day

    Guardian Anytime® gives PEOs a single platform for simplifying administration, while also giving members easy self-service.

  • Reporting

    Guardian Insights℠, our exclusive benefits reporting tool, helps you see how employees are using benefits, so you can respond quickly, plan with purpose, and design experiences that keep employees loyal and engaged.

We know ben tech and APIs

Cut manual work by 80%, save up to 200 hours per year.¹

That's the power of Guardian's benefits technology. We help PEOs simplify EDI and foster real-time data exchange through custom API connections. This reduces time-consuming tasks and manual errors, creating better benefits experiences for worksites and their employees.

Benefits technology for IT and HRIS managers

Guardian is the first insurance carrier to have an API integration with PrismHR

Guardian and PrismHR clients access real-time data exchange capabilities that more easily transmit member enrollments and increase benefit utilization using these API connections:

  • Policy API

    Automates the submission of plan details and rates to help ensure plans are always up to date, saving time, and reducing errors.

  • Member API

    Enables real-time transferring of member data and changes to benefit elections.

We help PEOs grow

When your worksites and worksite employees understand how their benefits can support their well-being, satisfaction and retention can rise. Scale and increase your base of worksite employees by leveraging our benefits education expertise.

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We focus on getting more people to enroll — and use — the benefits you offer.

  • We train your sales team to help them communicate the value of your benefits offering

  • We provide customized materials and resources to drive worksite employee enrollment

  • We educate worksite employees after enrollment, driving usage and client satisfaction

Guardian is a proud NAPEO partner

We continue to strengthen our commitment to helping PEOs support small and midsize businesses by partnering with the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations (NAPEO).

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1 Based on average time spent on common ben admin setup and ongoing benefits management; Quantum Leap: Real-time connectivity is the next frontier in benefits administration; Guardian 12th Annual Workplace Benefits Study, 2023

Guardian’s Group Insurance products are underwritten and issued by The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, New York, NY. Products are not available in all states.