A rise in what employees expect from their workplace benefits has prompted 79 percent of employers to increase spending over the past 12 months, research has found. However, a...
Read moreDetailsEmployees can now get ‘hyper-personalised’ health and wellbeing recommendations through YuLife's new preventative AI-driven technology, launched today. The firm works with a number of group risk and healthcare insurers...
Read moreDetailsBusinesses need to open their minds to flexible working if the UK is to tackle entrenched unemployment and meet ambitious government targets to 'Get Britain working', Alison McGovern, minister...
Read moreDetailsUnum UK has unveiled a new Health Network within its Help@hand app, in collaboration with mental health charity YoungMinds, to further support the health and wellbeing of employees and...
Read moreDetailsA major UK workplace trial has found that a gamified health app, powered by behavioural science, can dramatically improve employee wellbeing. Results from the trial show it has cut...
Read moreDetailsEmployers admit that too few employees fully understand their workplace benefits, according to research from Towergate Employee Benefits. The research, with 500 HR decision makers, showed that just 39...
Read moreDetailsSeven in ten employers say they have a responsibility to support employee mental health, but only 65 percent of HR managers say their workplace offers this kind of support....
Read moreDetailsWith the recent slew of cyber attacks on household names, M&S, Co-Op and Harrods, attention has refocused on narrowing the UK’s digital skills gap. The government’s strategy to achieve...
Read moreDetailsPension dashboards continue to move closer to reality as two major pension providers have connected to the Pensions Dashboard Programme (PDP) ecosystem in line with the Department of Work...
Read moreDetailsBenefits provider Unum UK has reported that it paid £516 million in group protection claims in 2024, which is almost equivalent to £10 million of claims paid each week....
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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.
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.
