Just 14% of staff have seen improvements made to their employee benefits package in the last year, according to research MetLife Employee Benefits.
Its Bridging the protection awareness gap, Taking a fresh look at a long running issue research found that the majority of staff (66%) have not had any changes made to their benefits packages in the last year, but 13% of staff have had their benefits reduced.
A further 7% of staff did not know whether or not their benefits package had changed in the last 12 months.
The research also found that group income protection is the most likely product that employers would consider reviewing or introducing. Almost one third (32%) of employers planning to introduce a new benefit or improve their benefits package will look at group income protection or permanent health insurance, and 18% of organisations are likely to consider private medical insurance.
In term of satisfaction with their existing benefits, staff are most satisfied with their salary, holiday entitlement, working environment and working relationships with managers and least satisfied with financial and non-financial benefits and pensions communication.
The research is based on a survey conducted among 500 businesses with a turnover of £50,000+ in May 2014 by BDRC Continental and employee research conducted by Consumer Intelligence, the first part among a sample of 1,044 employees between 29 March and 3 April and the second among a sample of 997 employees between 15 and 19 July.
The research follows Employee Benefits’ Group risk debate, sponsored by MetLife, which gathered together a handpicked selection of group risk experts, including employers and employee benefits consultants.
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The debate examined the key issues and trends affecting the group risk market. For example, what group risk protection do employers actually need? How could group risk protection form part of a modern benefits package? And what is behind the current protection gap?
A special supplement covering the debate will be published with Employee Benefits in November.
Dark night singing
15 year agos have the opportunity a small city for arriving at northeast to carry on a brief work.Very short time allows me to fall in love with this population seldom of city, spacious street both sides Gao Gao’s white poplar tree green Yu spring onion spring onion, the light breeze in evening blows to hear Hua Hua of voice, that is the leaf to rub emanative voice each other.All of the store of small city locate at a preface, the adornment in the store decorates entirely different taste also.It is that ice and arouse and traverse a store and walk into this store and feel to be like into a romantic garden to make me unforgettable most , hang everywhere on the wall full grapevine, the seat in the store would is and makes into with the swing, the half rice Gao Kuan Kuan’s wooden bench at the right moment sits down two people, the music, side eating a side for ice to arouse Ling and shaking a swing, side and listenning to elegant can chat, a rightness of sit to the loverses full the whole”garden”. Everyone is discussing an affair that took place last night.”Last night around 2:00, the quick Zhi chases his/her own anti- lock at the office of unit, the whole individual almost Tan, the full face had no blood-red color, the words all almost can not say it, was her husband to connect her to go home” I listen to Liu Yan drawing a voice to draw color’s saying. The work area of unit is a small hospital that constitutes to°from two high front and back of the buildings, the south of ex- building garden is a spacious street, before once wearing the 1 F of building be allied after the small hospital of a building, empress a back of building was the outside wall of unit, the back yard calms down surprisingly after getting off work, building empress of the wall outside shoot of purple light with Canada Goose Outlet green light make people feel this silent more gloomy.That only shines on to come over from the front of funeral home. I continue to listen to Liu Yan saying:”Last night, the quick Zhi and husband made to have pout, she who will be strong at ordinary times was that spirit that can is subjected to a husband, though oneself doesn’t have a reason and also never show weak.Several times the relation that makes down 2 people is more and more bad, 2 people’s marriage will to conclude the edge of bunch.Quick Zhi in a pet not the speech annoy blunt blunt of left a house”. Be getting more at 1:00 p.m., the husband of quick Zhi also has some penitence:Should not make her a person go out, so late she arrives where go to? In the anxious time for Wang Bo, suddenly the telephone bell rang, Wang Bo’s pickeding up a telephone to hear is the voice that the wife shivers:Husband, you is where, you come to office to pick me up quickly good? At ordinary times that thick voice, arrogant appearance, today but become moreover a person.The husband of quick Zhi also feels some oddness, how to all have no at 1:00 power and prestige at ordinary times.The originally quick Zhi is a the door thought of the office that goes to oneself and in anger prepare with husband whole night up don’t go home, entered the big hospital in the mind of unit to feel very strange, once wearing the floret park be front the passage of building 1 F, outside of the ray is very dark, the light of the passage is very weak, ambiguously see back yard of path, because of evening no one work overtime in the unit, so here am excrescent of calmness.At this time quick Zhi in the mind some be afraid, feel that own hair coolly seems to sign and beat a few cold Zhans, side in a hurry arrive at the hallway in the fourth floor office, through weak light in the hallway she sees have no a room of bright light and lower the head the time of the lock that will open office, ambiguously feel own back has a shadow and feels own shoulder to be slightly dauted to come over by a hand that stretch to come over, at the same time hear a slowly, deep and low voice:You came…… The felling that this comes all of a sudden really lets the quick Zhi feel to fear extremity, the quick Zhi shivers of the hand almost can not open that fanlight lock and bite the tooth opened lock and pushed away a door to turn round and then close the door of office, at the same time chase oneself also anti- lock at office.The quick Zhi frightens successful ice-cold of, want to cry to all cry not to come out, stir to talk on the phone to hear a husband of orotund just cried voice:Husband!You come to connect me quickly!I want to go home! I don’t know that this small hospital once took place before what story, my temporary office for the 4 F in behind that building, for getting work done faster to make, I often work very late in the office in the evening and sometimes Be getting more tired and then stand up to outside see to the window, nature will see behind of the funeral home shines on to come over of light, if is a door don’t close well, because the function of breeze feels to seem the door that someone started, but while coming over to see again no one.Though my courage is actually very big, still go out to see, confirm have no “person” to just have peace of mind of return to his/her own office desk to continue to work. A female colleague knows I usually work overtime in the evening, don’t know is proceeded from the reason why to once say with me as well occurrence is in this two affairs in the building. She says:It has been 20 years since this building quickly set up and hear the time that soon completes work, there is a young man because of carelessly, a feet trample empty set up the scaffold of building, kept on dropping from the fourth floors, dropped to the front of funeral home. Finished saying these words, she still asked me:You every evening a person where work, frightened?Our few someones works overtime in the evening. I say:The affair is getting tooer many, use the shortest time to complete a lot of works.I have to finish doing these affairs to return to Peking after two months, forget frightened. Though whether my indetermination has already made me frightened that the thing exists, I admit my acceptance ability is very big, even if saw what!Hear what!I also can’t the fussbudget exclaim. For the one fine day in that period of time, the colleagues of unit all have already got off work to leave unit when the sky is soon black, yard in very quiet, sit before office desk, really hear from the 4 F north to of window unauthorized biography to sing of voice, pressing the convention should not have the voice of this kind of song.Because that female colleague tells my second affair be:Someone hears have a voice that woman sings in the building in the evening. I remember that is no longer than 8:00 in the evening, I heard sing of voice.This small city of 8:00 p.m. sky isn’t just too black, early summer’s returning many people naturally will take a walk on the road, the children also will beat to make to play, wait for parents’ shout just be willing to go home. My indetermination whether true someone is singing, also indetermination where did this singing spread.Is curious and interrogative to order about me to investigate concealed at this time the source of singing now. I stand on the side of window and hope toward the Cheap Canada Goose Jackets north to is a high building of funeral home back, the voice seems is upload to come over from that wall of the building, because the voice is a bit weak, and this voice high short, feel melodious modulation in tone.I feel suspicious very much, this voice is like this of effect, let people listen to ambiguously, but again is 1 kind actually really at of voice.This make me should even clear up the source of this voice. I let go of in hand of work, walk to down stairs, kept from the passage path of the first floor the front door of small hospital arrived at street up, stand by the side of the street to hope to go to the canada goose uk east, there are a group of kids being running Xi to make.The boy girl has already already smiles to shout!The voice sounds liked to sing, originally this voice spread to that upstairs, echo?Job how the  Ge î² stir four Qian Ai Zhan î¿ãƒ€ Zheng îƒ§î¯ Gu Ci fatty shallow  Bi Na  Dian 5 Hui î’“ Mao Yi bucket salt industry eyes disease Yi Mao î¥ Li Mao Shun the Du shake Ｊ Lan the Ling is long to flick heart to slice ┪ Yi Qiao Shen the Hui Zhun blow last home Chi Qu  emperor Qie go ┫ Zhi Da Yi the chamber hang an emperor benzene Xiu tube Huang the Gui  move îŒ˜îŒ Shang province ï¼µ Jue Wen Xin Si Qian Yan stomach Ba î² Nai the Mao ask to pare off Yi to send  îŒ silk ambition Sui! 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