We have now been posting on Employee Benefit themes for almost six years on this blog. With such a wealth of data and thoughts behind us it is perhaps inevitable that some topics are important enough to recur time and time again. Two such items are motivation (and productivity) of UK employees, and the rapidly aging workforce. Some useful reading on both of these issues has just crossed my radar, and I thought I would share the links below with our followers who want to read more on these key subjects.

The first document is from Group Income Protection insurer UNUM. Their “How to motivate staff: the ultimate guide for employers” is full of good content and statistics about employee motivation, how to achieve this, and indeed the key mistakes to avoid when doing so. This sits nicely alongside my recent comments around Brexit and the UK’s productivity deficit, and I would recommend UNUM’s report as a useful source of data for HR and Finance departments considering this issue further.

The other link arrived in my Inbox over the weekend from no less a body than the Office for National Statistics (ONS). To mark the International Day of the Older Person, the ONS released 5 facts about older people at work which - despite our regularly covering this topic here and at our seminars - may still come as rather a surprise to many of our audience. The headline message is that in the last ten years the number of over 65’s in the UK workplace has increased dramatically, from 609,000 in 2006 to 1.19 million in 2016. This sharp rise is no doubt partially driven by the abolition of the Default Retirement Age, and introduction of Pension Freedoms, as covered last week in my retirement conversations post).

For more on any of the above topics please speak to your usual Jelf consultant in the first instance.

Happy reading!

Best regards

Steve

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