Friends with Benefits

The One With Christina from Cohesity: How Benchmarking Broke Benefits (and Why Flexibility Can Fix Them)

29 Oct 2025

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What happens when benchmarking becomes a comfort blanket — and the industry forgets what flexibility really means? In this episode, Christina Alliak, Director of Benefits at Cohesity, joins Carl and David to explore how the industry got tangled up in comparison reports and legacy systems, and what it’ll take to build something better. Together, they dig into the messy middle between aspiration and reality — from flexible benefits dreams and ancient insurer tech to admin overload, prevention vs. intervention, and the one mistake that taught Christina her biggest lesson about communication.Episode Breakdown:00:00 — Intro03:30 — AI Everywhere (and the Boring Stuff It Should Fix)05:00 — The Catch: How Do You Learn Without the Boring Work?08:00 — Benchmarking Is Overrated10:00 — The Dream of Open Data13:00 — The Trap of Ease and Expectation14:30 — Medical Inflation and the Benchmark Box18:00 — Prevention Beats Intervention20:00 — Flexibility: The Holy Grail23:00 — The Dream Model27:00 — The Marketplace Vision29:00 — HR Tech, Product Thinking, and Delight31:00 — The Hidden Cost of Admin34:00 — Standards, APIs, and Stalemate41:00 — What AI Needs to Work43:00 — The Future (and AI Burnout)Be the first to know when new episodes drop! Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thanksben/

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3ª PARTE | 17 DIC 2025 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

01 Jan 1970

El Partidazo de COPE

13:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

01 Jan 1970

Fin de Semana

12:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

01 Jan 1970

Fin de Semana

10:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

01 Jan 1970

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13:00H | 20 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

01 Jan 1970

Fin de Semana

12:00H | 20 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

01 Jan 1970

Fin de Semana

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The One With Christina from Cohesity: How Benchmarking Broke Benefits (and Why Flexibility Can Fix Them)

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3ª PARTE | 17 DIC 2025 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

13:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

12:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

10:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

13:00H | 20 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

12:00H | 20 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

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