As we enter the new year we would like to encourage employers to some new thoughts around both the workplace and Employee Benefits provision. And for the first such idea…

Earlier this week the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) published their latest review document which looks at the success of Pension Auto-Enrolment (AE) to date, and what changes may…

My recent blog post - A change of perspective? - highlighted some interesting trends with regards to employee attitudes to their employers and workplaces, and in my conclusion to the piece I highlighted…

“Work-related stress, depression or anxiety is defined as a harmful reaction people have to undue pressures and demands placed on them at work.”* The last few decades has seen an…

Last week the government published “Improving Lives: The Future of Work, Health and Disability” which sets out an ambitious but welcome plan to get one million more disabled people into the…

As regular readers of this blog will be aware, Tax Free Childcare (TFC) was first mooted by the then Coalition Government as long ago as the 2013 Spring Budget speech. It’s…

Philip Hammond, The Chancellor of the Exchequer, has just sat down after delivering the 2017 Autumn Budget Speech. Owing to the continued uncertainties of the Brexit negotiations – plus of…

A survey of 3,500 employees across organisations in the UK, US, and Canada* recently found that over a third of employees admit that they are productive for less than 30…

In his now famous Budget Speech of 2014, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said; “People who have worked hard and saved hard all their lives, and done…

Last week witnessed the launch of a major new report with implications for all employers across the UK. The Stevenson/ Farmer review of mental health and employers was in response…