All Research news articles – Page 47
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Axa research: Financial worries prompt stress related absence
A high proportion of UK employees suffer physical and mental stress over financial worries, according to a new report from Axa.The Money sickness syndrome report found that as many as nine out of ten adults suffer symptoms arising from stress, one of the most common causes of workplace absence.The study ...
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Research: Health cash plan market grows
The health cash plan market generated £570 million in 2009, according to new research from Datamonitor.The UK Healthcare Cash Plans 2010 report showed the market demonstrated strong resilience in the recession with the sector witnessing a 1.2% increase.Mahreen Hussein, analyst at Datamonitor and author of the report, credited the rise ...
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Employee Benefits/HSF Health Plan Healthcare Research 2010
Download a PDF of the Employee Benefits/HSF Health Plan Healthcare Research 2010Research: who are the respondents; key findingsResearch: attitudes to employee health and wellbeingResearch: which employee healthcare benefits are on offerResearch: international healthcare benefitsResearch: impact of health and wellbeing benefits on sickness absenceResearch: strategies to deal with employee stressResearch: employee ...
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Healthcare Research 2010: Employee healthcare costs and calculating return on investment
Employers are keen to get value for money from healthcare benefits, but more than one-third do not know how much they spend on these perks, says Nicola SullivanCost is still a top priority for employers when it comes to healthcare benefits and most organisations opt to use an intermediary or ...
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Healthcare Research 2010: Strategies to deal with employee stress
The economic climate has receded as a reason for employers to implement a stress-management strategy and most still do not have one in place, says Nicola SullivanDespite the pressures piled on staff last year, there has not been a significant rise in the proportion of employers actively tackling stress. More ...
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Healthcare Research 2010: International healthcare benefits
Private medical insurance is the top benefit offered to expatriate employees, but few employers use multinational pooling arrangements, says Jennifer PatersonJust over one-third of respondents have operations or divisions outside the UK, so many of them will be managing benefits for both expatriates and local staff in various countries.Benefits commonly ...
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Healthcare Research 2010: Package - which employee healthcare benefits are on offer
Wellbeing initiatives such as workstation health audits and EAPs are still the top two core benefits, while perks for dependants prove popular, says Jennifer PatersonThe most commonly-offered core healthcare benefits have changed little over time. In recent years, however, the proportion of employers that provide these as core has increased, ...
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Healthcare Research 2010: Attitudes to employee health and wellbeing
A growing number of employers feel they have a role to play in promoting employee wellness, and there are good business reasons for doing so, says Nicola SullivanThe introduction of Dame Carol Black's system of fit notes and fit-for-work services is likely to shake up or prompt a review of ...
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Healthcare Research 2010: Key findings and respondents
Our survey was carried out in April 2010, with analysis based on 642 responses from Employee Benefits readers and users of www.employeebenefits.co.ukKEY FINDINGS36% of employers have no idea how much is spent on healthcare benefits, compared with 28% in 2009.64% cite improving the health and wellbeing of staff as their ...
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Research: Employers' budget pressures continue
Although nearly half (43%) of reward professionals predict a period of growth in 2010 and are upbeat about their organisation's future (48%), a large majority (93%) still feel pressure to minimise costs and improve return on investment.Despite this, 70% do not know how much they spend on benefits, according to ...
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Ifs Proshare research: Increase in employees saving through share ownership
There has been a significant increase in the number of employees contributing to share ownership schemes, according to the ifs ProShare annual survey.The survey found that the vast majority of the approximately two million employees currently participating in some form of employee share scheme do so via a share incentive ...
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Aviva research: Half of employers offer at least one group risk benefit
Around half of employers (51%) offer one or more group risk benefits to staff despite pressures to cut costs in the challenging economic environment..Of the 200 employers that responded to Aviva's annual Health of the Workplace survey, almost a third (31%) said they offered private medical insurance.Around 29% offer life ...
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Aviva research: Majority of UK adults to work beyond retirement age
Almost 70% of UK workers plan to stay in employment past their current standard retirement age but few are financially prepared for when they do leave work.Aviva’s Real Retirement Report research reveals that that those on a countdown to retirement (aged 55 to 64) have falling household incomes and low ...
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Research: Music in the workplace boosts staff morale
Research this week showed that playing music in the workplace is a cost efficient way to improve staff morale.A survey of 1,200 workers conducted by the MusicWorks campaign, which aims to encourage businesses to play more music, found that 71% of employees wanted music played in the workplace. It also ...
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PPF research: Pension schemes fall back into deficit
The deficit of the UK’s largest defined benefit (DB) pension schemes worsened in April 2010 after being in surplus in the previous month, according to research from the Pension Protection Fund (PPF).The aggregate funding (total assets minus total liabilities) of almost 7,400 DB schemes has swung from a surplus of ...
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Benefits Research 2010: Responsibility for and communication of benefits
The past few years have seen the increasing development of reward, compensation and benefits into recognised HR specialisms. As the profession has risen in importance and status, there has been a corresponding rise in the responsibility compensation and benefits or reward directors and managers have for benefits decisions in their ...
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Benefits Research 2010: Employers' attitudes to and evaluation of benefits
With finance directors increasingly putting every area of an organisation's expenditure under the microscope, it is perhaps not surprising that this year has seen a substantial rise in the percentage of employers that evaluate the effectiveness of their benefits strategy. More than half (52%) say they now do so, compared ...
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Benefits Research 2010: Strategies used by employers
The economic difficulties of the past few years have focused employers' minds firmly on getting the best possible return on any investment they make.When it comes to investing in reward and benefits for staff, organisations have taken a number of steps to reduce or control costs, including freezing pay, reviewing ...
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Benefits Research 2010: who are the respondents; key findings
The aim of this study was to find out which benefits UK employers offer their staff and how these are delivered. We wanted to find out the impact of the benefits strategies employers use and the issues that shape them, such as what employers have done to weather the recession ...
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The Employee Benefits/Alexander Forbes Benefits Research 2010
Research: Who are the respondents; key findingsResearch: Benefits strategiesResearch: Employers’ attitudes to and evaluation of benefits strategiesResearch: Responsibility for and communication of benefitsResearch: How employers offer benefitsResearch: Core benefits provisionResearch: Voluntary benefits provisionResearch: Benefits offered through salary sacrificeResearch: Flexible benefits provisionResearch: Changes employers have made to their benefits packagesSponsor’s comment: ...