A Tampa health tech company will expand its downtown headquarters and add 100 jobs

After going remote during the pandemic, a Tampa health technology company is returning to the office — and expanding its workforce in the process.

BeniComp, which aims to reduce employer health insurance costs through wellness and employee incentive programs, will add 100 jobs to the Tampa Group by 2025, according to the Tampa Bay Economic Development Council. To make room, the company leased a new 3,000-square-foot space in downtown Tampa City Center.

“I would definitely say we will fill this office space by the end of the year,” said Bennicomp President Steve Press.

The company is primarily looking for software developers and preventive health care consultants, but will have new positions in accounting, customer service and project management, according to the press.

“We hired less outside of Tampa during the outbreak,” he said. “We’re really trying to focus our energy in the Tampa Bay area, which is a very collaborative, creative environment because of the desire to have people. We’ve got a lot of great employees in the Tampa Bay area.

In the year Founded in 1962, Bennycomp moved its headquarters from Fort Wayne, Ind., to Tampa in 2016, where it still maintains its operations office. It has a global workforce of about 70, including 25 to 30 in Tampa, which Prester calls a “creative office.” In the year Until early 2020, it will be housed in another downtown building in a 2,000 square meter space.

“There was a lot of energy – beans, standing desks, writing all over the walls,” he said. “Then the pandemic hit, and everyone immediately dispersed, and it was too much trouble so we decided to work from home. Someone would sneeze and we would close the office.

The new location should help BeniComp become more aggressive in the Tampa Bay market. The company primarily worked with businesses with 100 employees or more; At that point, it dropped to 25 or so to attract a wider range of customers who fund their own health insurance.

“We like to own our backyard,” Presser said. “Creating public health management not just for employer groups, but for a whole bunch of employer groups in the Tampa Bay area would be amazing. It’s in our best interest to have our preventive health specialists simply drive around the city and go out and work with employees. We want to be more interactive and personal.”