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Thought leaders: Academic insights: Get the right mix of positive and negative
Thought leaders: Academic insights: All eyes are on Brussels and Frankfurt
Thought leaders: Academic insights: Get retirement planning message across
Thought leaders: Academic insights: A greater understanding of reward value
Thought leaders: Academic insights: Financial knowledge is an essential skill
Thought leaders: Academic insights: Flex can incentivise staff cost-effectively
Thought leaders: Academic insights: Employee health needs a proper strategy
Thought leaders: Academic insights: Unemployment can harm your health
Thought leaders: Academic insights: Austerity may hit equality programme
Thought leaders: Academic insights: True value of benefits must be made clear
Thought leaders: Academic insights: Share schemes boost staff productivity
Thought leaders: Academic insights: Show staff trust and they will respond
Thought leaders: Academic insights: Renting cars by the day can save money
Thought leaders: Academic insights: Technology helps achieve more with less
Thought leaders: Academic insights: Is your pay system working against you?
Thought leaders: Academic insights: A new stance on reward after the recession
Thought leaders: Academic insights: Flexibility is the key to reducing absence
Thought leaders: Academic insights: Factors that decide who escapes redundancy
Thought leaders: Academic insights: New ideas
EDITOR’S COMMENT
Currently, there is frenetic activity around benefits across the industry. Employers are working hard to ensure schemes can cope with the tax, national insurance and legislation changes coming into play during 2011.
Dealing with pensions tax changes for high earners, the increase in national insurance and the removal of the default retirement age for those retiring from October are top priorities this year, while strategies to cope with pensions auto-enrolment and changes to minimum contribution rates need to be in place post-October 2012.
Alongside this, many in the adviser market are trying to write as much business as possible before the Retail Distribution Review, which will stop provider-paid commission payments from 2013. The land grab for this employer business is well under way before everyone has to move to fee charging.
In among all this, it may be hard to take a step back and look at the bigger picture on reward. Yet taking time to contemplate some forward thinking is important in a time of such dramatic change.
Therefore, we have gathered together leading academics from business schools across the UK to put forward their newest insights into benefits and reward issues.
We hope you find this collection of academic insights, set alongside leading ideas from key providers and consultants in our market, inspiring.
Debi O’Donovan
Editor, Employee Benefits