Technology: benefits dashboards, more than just a pretty interface
For all the investment in employee benefits, too many staff remain in the dark about what's really on offer and where they stand financially, both now and in the...
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Money talks: how financial wellbeing has become an employer imperative
Money-related stress is driving absence, side hustles and despair, but smarter, more personalised financial wellbeing benefits could help turn the tide, writes Claire Churchard For many employees today, financial...
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Poorly managed work travel fuels field-worker resignations
Employers with mobile or field workers, such as non office based engineers, site workers, contractors, and technicians, could be at risk of losing talent as research revealed that poorly...
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Three more big names connect to the pensions dashboard as momentum builds
More organisations have connected to the pensions dashboard programme as Nest, Smart Pension and consultancy firm XPS Group become the latest in the list. Under this first stage of...
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Volunteering disconnect means employers and staff miss out on tangible benefits
More than three quarters (77 percent) of employers offer paid volunteering time to staff as a perk, but close to two fifths (38 percent) of employees never use it,...
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The Benefits Expert Guide to Workplace Pensions 2025
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE BENEFITS EXPERT GUIDE TO WORKPLACE PENSIONS 2025 Younger savers saw an average return of more than 15 percent from their default defined contribution (DC)...
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Heatwave triggers surge in ‘sickness absence’ searches as burnout looms
As the UK basks in another scorching heatwave, Google searches for “sickness absence” have spiked 113 percent in the past 24 hours. Provider YuLife, which first spotted the surge,...
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Employers’ role ‘critical’ as NHS shifts towards preventative healthcare
Employers will have a vital role in ensuring the government’s plan to reinvent the NHS leads to meaningful health improvements across the UK, commentators have said. The aim of...
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Raindrop finds £218m in lost pensions as need for recovery tools set to grow
Pension finding platform Raindrop located £218 million worth of lost pensions in the first six months of 2025. This unclaimed money was sitting across close to 20,000 lost pensions...
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L&G launches one-stop wellbeing app to extend benefits access
Legal & General (L&G) has launched an all-in-one, single sign-in, health and wellbeing app for employers with group protection policies, expanding employee access to a wide range of preventative...
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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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