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Buyer’s guide to health cash plans
Health cash plans are insurance schemes which enable individuals to claim back the cost of everyday healthcare expenses.
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How can employers support the mental wellbeing of sandwich carers?
The sandwich generation of working carers in the UK face immense health pressure when juggling their home responsibilities with their professional lives.
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How far should employers support staff with broader retirement planning?
It is important to ensure employees are aware of relevant benefits as early as possible so they can prepare for retirement.
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Top tips for communicating share schemes to employees
Employees need to know a share scheme’s structure, aims and how to participate.
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What can employers do to help reduce long-term sickness absence?
Robust absence management systems and line managers trained to support employee health are essential frontline defences in tackling long-term absence.
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Ian McKenna: How are organisations using AI in benefits?
AI looks certain to transform every knowledge-based employment role. HR and employee benefits staff will certainly not be an exception to this.
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Toni Smith: How are organisations using AI in benefits?
Toni Smith looks at how AI can help to streamline benefits administration, personalise offerings, and improving communication.
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How do benefits strategies need to evolve with return-to-office mandates?
A number of employers, largely in the finance and technology industries, have recalled their employees to the office on a full-time basis or for a higher percentage of the time.
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Buyer’s guide to self-invested personal pension schemes
Self-invested personal pensions (Sipps) are a type of retirement plan that gives people more control over how their money is invested.
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Top tips to keep healthcare costs down in 2025
Employee feedback and benefits usage data can determine where employers can create cost savings.
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Buyer’s guide to salary sacrifice car schemes
Salary sacrifice car schemes enable employees to have a new car for a fixed monthly cost and period of time by sacrificing an amount from their gross salary in exchange for a fully maintained and insured car.
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How can employers help boost the retirement savings of unpaid carers?
Caring responsibilities can have a long-term impact on people’s pension provisions and retirement options.
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How employers can support employees experiencing loneliness
Remote and hybrid arrangements have reduced face-to-face interaction and contributed to disconnection.
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How do international tensions impact organisations, their employees and their reward strategies in 2025?
Rising geopolitical pressures are shaping the way organisations operate, affecting everything from supply chains and sales to reward and benefits strategies.
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How can accreditations enhance an employer’s benefits proposition?
Accreditations can send a powerful message to employees and prospective talent that employers understand their needs.
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How to ensure a pension scheme provides the best retirement outcomes
Responsibility for employees’ retirement outcomes is shared between the saver, the employer and the pension scheme.
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Evolving a healthcare strategy in line with employees’ needs
Employers should ensure they regularly review their health strategies so they remain relevant and effective.
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How can benefits support employees with learning disabilities?
The quest for greater diversity and inclusion is helping to create richer, more rewarding workplaces.
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What to include in a fertility and pregnancy support policy
An important starting point is for employers to ask their employees what they need, as no individual or circumstance will be the same.