Demand soars for Unum’s digital health app
Unum UK has reported a 91 percent surge in registrations for its digital health and wellbeing app Help@hand in the past 12 months compared with the previous year. The...
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Zest sees 20% growth in customer revenue in H1, 2024
Employee benefits platform provider Zest has reported a 20 percent growth in its direct customer revenue in the first half of 2024 as employers invest in new ways to...
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County Council funds first Care England-backed EAP for care workers
Essex County Council is the first to fund a Care England-backed employee assistance programme (EAP) to support its care sector workers. The EAP will be provided by Perkbox Vivup...
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Husky and Swoop partner to ‘transform value’ of SME workplace pensions
Husky Finance (Husky) has partnered with Swoop Funding (Swoop) to raise awareness of the benefits of pension salary exchange for SMEs. Salary exchange is standard practice among larger employers,...
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Pension and savings app Cushon rebrands
Cushon, the pension and saving app, has rebranded to NatWest Cushon, a year after NatWest Group acquired an 85 percent stake in the fintech business. NatWest’s investment has enabled...
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Aviva gives Douglas wider policy remit at ‘pivotal moment’ for pensions
Aviva has reshuffled two senior reward roles just days after the government unveiled a landmark pensions review. The company has created a new wealth policy director role for Emma Douglas...
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Matching becomes biggest pensions dashboard concern for schemes
As calls to roll out pension dashboards sooner rather than later grow louder, pension schemes have said that the ability to successfully match members with pensions via the dashboard...
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Mental health biggest employer concern for remote and hybrid working
Employee mental health is the greatest concern for the majority of employers when asked about hybrid working. This was the key finding from research conducted by Opinium, on behalf...
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Pension dashboards: industry ready to start now, says PSIG
The pensions industry is “prepared enough” to take the first step on implementing pension dashboards, according to the Pensions Scams Industry Group (PSIG). PSIG chair Margaret Snowdon said that...
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Simplyhealth unveils digital skin health service to speed up diagnosis
Health plan provider Simplyhealth has launched an online skin health service that offers support for employees concerned about a skin condition. The service, provided by MySkinDoctor, means health plan...
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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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