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    EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE

    Improve the employee benefits experience with answers your HR team can trust.

    Benefits questions are among the most common your HR service desk receives, and the slowest and hardest to answer well. Origin™ provides one verified record to work from.
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    The hidden cost of today's employee benefits experience

    Without one structured, current record, neither your team nor your tools can answer benefits questions with confidence.
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    Benefits questions at the HR service desk

    The same benefits questions are asked week on week , and each answer means an expert searching policy documents country by country.

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    Benefits knowledge articles

    You write knowledge articles for every country, and plan terms change at renewal before the work is finished.

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    AI assistants and benefits answers

    A general AI assistant over disparate data gives a different answer to the same benefits question. Employees soon stop trusting it, and the ticket comes back to HR.

    79%

    of employees seek HR help at least once a month, but only 26% go to an HR system or portal first (Applaud with Censuswide, State of HR Service, 2026).

    36%

    of employees wait at least a full day for an answer to an HR request. Only 6% get help instantly through AI or chat (Applaud with Censuswide, State of HR Service, 2026).

    How an employee benefits question is answered today, and with Origin
    An employee asks

    “Does my dental cover include orthodontics?”

    Today

    1. EmployeeAn employee asks whether their dental cover includes orthodontics. They email HR, raise a ticket or ask a colleague.
    2. HR service deskThe HR service desk searches plan documents and broker summaries for that country.
    3. Benefits specialistThe question goes to a benefits specialist, who may need to check with the broker or insurer.
    4. EmployeeThe employee waits, often a day or more, and may get a different answer next time.
    A day or more, and the answer can vary

    With Origin

    1. HR or shared servicesThe same question reaches your HR or shared services team.
    2. HR teamThe team asks Ask Cuido™ in plain language.
    3. CuidoCuido answers from your verified benefits record, with a short summary first.
    4. HR teamThe team replies with the answer, and routine questions no longer need a benefits specialist.
    One answer, from your verified benefits record

    See how your team could answer employee benefits questions with Origin.
    VISIBILITY · SEE IT

    Verified benefits information across your countries

    Your team answers from one structured record, not from documents that disagree with each other.
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    Global benefits inventory

    Coverage, eligibility, exclusions and provider for every plan in one place, so answers start from facts, not searches.

    Statutory benefits
    Vendor and benefit contacts
    Document translation
    INTELLIGENCE · UNDERSTAND IT

    Fast answers to benefits and leave questions

    HR and shared services teams resolve routine questions themselves, without waiting for a benefits specialist.
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    Ask Cuido™
    Ask about coverage, eligibility and vendors in plain language, so routine benefits questions don't wait for a specialist.
    HR policy questions
    Country documents
    Answer summaries
    GOVERNANCE · RUN IT

    Benefits answers that stay current and controlled

    Plan changes are recorded as they happen, so the record is up to date.
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    Benefit history
    Every term of a plan on one timeline, so answers reflect the current terms.
    Published data first
    Scoped access
    Audit feed
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    Benefits answers inside the tools your employees already use

    Origin works alongside the platforms your people already use, so every benefits answer comes from one verified source, wherever they ask.

    It starts with ServiceNow. When an employee asks a benefits question in the ServiceNow Employee Center, Now Assist routes it to Cuido, which answers from your organization’s verified Origin data.

    Built on open standards, Origin is designed so the same verified answers can follow your people into your HCM platform and other HR tools over time.
     
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    Get an accurate inventory of all your benefits 

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    Understand and manage true costs, fees, and commissions

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    Handle benefit queries at speed with "Ask Cuido" 

    What this looks like in practice

    How HR and benefits teams use Origin today to answer benefits questions. 
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    AI ASSISTANTS AND BENEFITS ANSWERS

    Four different answers became one correct answer 

    At a large pharmaceutical company, colleagues asked a general-purpose AI assistant the same benefits question and got four different answers. They then asked Ask Cuido. Everyone got the same answer, and it was the correct one.

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    BENEFITS QUESTIONS AT THE SERVICE DESK

    Three data sources became one quick query

    A global healthcare company's reward team once checked three internal sources to learn whether dental cover sat inside one country's medical plan. With its plans in Origin, the same question now takes seconds.

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    REGIONAL HR AND BENEFITS TEAMS

    A new regional hire skipped policy-by-policy research

    A benefits specialist at a global pharma company was new to the countries she covered. To complete market surveys, she asked Ask Cuido about entitlements such as annual leave, instead of reading each country's policies one by one.

    See how Origin supports your employee benefits experience.

    Start with one priority, such as a shared services team, a single country or your most-asked leave questions, and build from there.
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    FAQs
    What is the employee benefits experience?

    The employee benefits experience is how employees understand, access and use their benefits, from asking what a plan covers to making a claim. It depends on accurate answers. Benefits questions are among the most common and hardest in HR, so the experience is only as good as the benefits data behind the people and tools that answer them.

    Does Origin replace our HR service desk?
    Is Origin an employee benefits portal or chatbot?
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