When the Benefits Strategy Solutions period ends, open enrollment for worksite employees begins soon after, so you’ll want to start planning for open enrollment.

Open Enrollment Toolkit

To help your worksite employees prepare for open enrollment, please click here or on the image below to view the Open Enrollment Toolkit.

Open Enrollment Email Deployment Dates

Leading up to and throughout the open enrollment period, worksite employees will receive email communications from TriNet (noreply@clients.trinet.com). These emails stress the importance of taking action during open enrollment as well as providing resources to help with the decision making process. Within these emails, important dates and deadlines are outlined, in addition to calendar appointment reminders that can be used to ensure submission before the end of open enrollment.

Click here to see a sample worksite employee email and what’s included in Open Enrollment #1-#3.

• Pre-open enrollment
  • Wednesday, July 22, 2026 
• Cobra open enrollment - Only sent to active COBRA participants
  • Wednesday, July 29, 2026
• Open enrollment #1
  • Wednesday, July 29, 2026 
• Open enrollment #2^*
  • Wednesday, August 5, 2026
• Voluntary benefits - Only sent to benefits eligible worksite employees and excludes any K-1s
  • Thursday, August 6, 2026
• Open enrollment #3*
  • Wednesday, August 11, 2026
• Correction period
  • Thursday, September 3, 2026
• Correction period reminder
  • Wednesday, September 9, 2026

^{*After open enrollment email #1 has deployed, if a worksite employee has submitted their benefit elections prior to the report date indicated on the remaining open enrollment emails, they will not receive any further open enrollment emails until the correction period.}