Two providers have teamed up to launch a group income protection (GIP) scheme that uses gamification to combat increasing workplace absenteeism. The partnership, between employee benefits insurer MetLife UK...
Read moreDetailsFor employees, pensions can seem complicated, or stuffy even, so to engage members successfully communications need to be about the message, not just its delivery, says Steve Watson, director...
Read moreDetailsWith people changing jobs more often and the ongoing success of auto-enrolment, the value of lost pension pots in the UK has risen by 60 percent since 2018, representing...
Read moreDetailsPlans to launch a Bitcoin workplace savings scheme have been revealed by pension and investment advisory firm Cartwright. The eponymously named Cartwright Bitcoin Employee Benefits will enable employers to...
Read moreDetailsThe majority (73 percent) of HR leaders agree that private medical insurance (PMI) has become a necessity in the workplace, with 40 percent of employers now offering it, up...
Read moreDetailsPlans for the rollout of pensions dashboards that will help employees find and assess their pension pots have been revised. Pension minister Emma Reynolds confirmed that the government-backed pensions...
Read moreDetailsWith the government’s Employment Rights Bill expected to be published on Thursday (10 October, 2024), businesses are already reviewing their workforce and are reluctant to hire more staff, according...
Read moreDetailsHR leaders are interested in exploring the potential of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), but they are not yet proactively making use of it, according to a poll from Aon....
Read moreDetailsThe way to increase gender equity at work and the number of women in senior roles is to “take away the fences, instead of giving people taller ladders to...
Read moreDetailsOne in four people have been ‘actively job hunting’, due to continuing cost-of-living pressures. A survey of 1,200 UK employees found that 26 percent are looking for a new...
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