Employee Benefits

An up date on all things employee benefits, covering the latest developments impacting you and your employees.

New thoughts for a new year?

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…

Auto-Enrolment: Maintaining the Momentum

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…

Our first event of 2018 - Booking now!

Please note: This event is now fully booked. We are however operating a reserve listing in case of cancellations, so please feel free to request a place on that list,…

How the best companies attract and retain their staff

The best companies to work for are likely to be more productive because their staff are really engaged and happy at work. Lists of the best companies are created each…

The Changing Workplace…

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…

It’s alarm bells not jingle bells for retired renters

Just after the Chancellor announced a series of measures in his Autumn 2017 Budget to tackle the growing and widely recognised problem of getting the younger generation onto the property…

Work-related stress: 2017 statistics

“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…

Does your workplace culture negatively impact employee wellbeing?

More and more businesses are becoming aware of the impact employee wellbeing can have on their productivity. And research has found that companies that prioritise employee wellbeing have actually outperformed…

Improving Lives

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…

Attracting, engaging and retaining Millennials with CSR

You now have to do more than ever to attract and retain the best talent, and the expectations of younger employees are higher than the generations before them. Millennial employees…