HR and accounting professionals have the highest absenteeism rates across all industries, with a Bradford Factor (BF) of 113, research has revealed. Anonymised data from employment and payroll platform...
Read moreDetailsIsio has connected its first pension scheme to the Pensions Dashboards ecosystem. The consultancy and pensions administrator joins a growing number of pension firms that have started linking their...
Read moreDetailsIn the latest podcast from Scottish Widows, Robert Cochran, innovation and engagement specialist at the pension provider, asks: "How digitally able is the UK?" According to the Consumer Digital...
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 moreDetailsDigital-first health and wellbeing provider Telus Health revealed plans to accelerate its global growth and innovation as it unveiled a new partnership with private equity firm GTCR. The union follows...
Read moreDetailsMore than a third (35 percent) of employees say they don’t know, or are unsure of, what their employer’s sick leave policy is, research has found. The knowledge gaps...
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 moreDetailsGovernment proposals to consolidate pensions worth £1,000 or less into authorised default consolidators from 2030 could be a "gamechanger" for employee savers. In the government's ‘Small pots delivery group...
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.
