As data breaches thrive, ID protection becomes popular offering on employer’s private benefit exchanges. With the recent Target breach, and identity theft constantly on the rise, companies are trying to be smarter about themselves and their employees. Mercer Marketplace is now offering identity theft protection to it’s employees as a voluntary benefit. It takes time and money to fix identity theft and by protecting its employees with InfoArmor, Mercer Marketplace is saving both.

“Similarly, more than 300 employer groups have signed up to use InfoAmor, which offers financial identity protections such as cyber monitoring of all electronic credentials, recovery protection and credit checks. ‘We see huge problems with workplace productivity when folks deal with identity and privacy financial fraud,” says Drew Smith, founder and CEO of InfoArmor. “Since day one, we really had a focus on identity protection as an employee benefit.’”

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