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Benefits Expert Summit 2025: Focus on output key to flexible working success
Flexible working is now a core feature of modern employment, but its success depends on trust, consulting employees and a...
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Luke McClaran: prevention pays, why employer health checks matter
With low uptake of NHS health checks, employers are stepping into the gap, says Luke McClaran, chief people officer at...
From ‘boat people’ to boardrooms: HR can help reshape migration mindsets
The story of Vietnamese refugee Trinh Tu, who rose to become an MD at Ipsos, underlines how migrants, when given...
Why marketing will define tomorrow’s reward leaders
Employers invest heavily in benefits but if the story doesn’t land with employees the spend is wasted. Reward teams need...
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BENEFITS UNBOXED PODCAST
Benefits Unboxed
The podcast from Benefits Expert, the title for HR, reward and benefits professionals.
Seasoned professionals examine the challenges and innovations in today’s employee benefits, reward and HR sector. Every episode, they will unbox a key issue and unpack what it really means for employers and how they can tackle it.
The regulars are Claire Churchard, editor of Benefits Expert; Carole Goldsmith, HR director at the Royal Horticultural Society, and Steve Herbert, consultant and rewards & benefits veteran.
Benefits Unboxed – Hybrid work: reality versus rhetoric
Return-to-office mandates are a topic that’s generating plenty of heat in the media, but how closely do the headlines match workplace reality?
In this episode, one of a three-part series of 10-minute podcasts, hosts Claire Churchard and Steve Herbert discuss data that shows remote or home working is on the rise.
We look at what this means for HR, from balancing employee flexibility with business needs, to ensuring benefits packages remain fair and accessible. We discuss the pinch points, and the opportunities, in building the new normal of work.
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PENSIONS
Nest launches Aardman campaign to boost pension engagement
Pension provider Nest has partnered with award-winning animation studio Aardman to launch a new advertising campaign designed to make pensions...
Pension dashboards edge closer to rollout, connecting millions of scheme memberships
The long-awaited pensions dashboards are making steady progress towards launch, with more than 50 million scheme memberships already linked to...
Pensions trump perks as employees eye retirement security
Close to four in ten UK employees would prefer higher pension contributions from employers over popular workplace perks such as...
Over-50s cling to work as data shows health, gender and qualifications shape prospects
Government data shows that older workers are staying in the labour market for longer, but many still face barriers linked...
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HEALTH & WELLBEING
More than a quarter (26 percent) of UK employees believe their employer is responsible for their wellbeing, but just 29 percent feel their employer actually cares. Research from Reward Gateway, conducted with 4,002 UK employees, has found that in spite of growing awareness of wellbeing at work, many employers are...
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Fewer than half of UK employers (45 percent) currently have a menopause policy in place, despite new legislation that is expected to make them mandatory from 2027. Research from workplace intelligence firm Brightmine reveals that many employers are unprepared for changes that will require them to have a menopause-friendly workplace...
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Almost nine in ten employers (88 percent) offer preventative health and wellbeing support to staff, with mental health initiatives emerging as the most beneficial. This was the main finding of a survey of 500 HR decision-makers and 1,250 UK employees conducted on behalf of Grid, the industry body for the...
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