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Research: strategies to deal with employee stress
The recession has raised staff stress levels, but almost two-thirds of employers do not have a strategy to deal with the problem, says Debbie LovewellStress remains a common problem for many employers, often boosting sickness absence rates. Even if employees do remain at work, stress can lead to reduced staff ...
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Research: impact of health and wellbeing benefits on sickness absence
Holidays, work-life balance and flexible working have risen in importance as factors that reduce sickness absence, says Debbie LovewellPreventative perks to boost employees’ overall health and wellbeing continue to be seen as key weapons to control sickness absence levels.But the types of benefits employers believe help to reduce absence have ...
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Research: which healthcare benefits are on offer
An employer’s size has a bearing on whether it offers perks such as private medical insurance to all or only some of its employees, says Debi O’DonovanThis year’s survey delved a little deeper than usual, not only to identify which benefits employers offer to employees, but also find to out ...
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Research: attitudes to health and wellbeing
Most employers are keen to improve staff health and welfare, but are feeling the pressure to keep benefits costs down, says Debbie LovewellOverall, employers believe they have a role to play in looking after employees’ wellbeing. This view has remained fairly consistent over the past decade. In our healthcare research ...
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Healthcare research 2010: Key findings
Our survey, which was carried out in April 2009, received 834 responses from Employee Benefits readers and users of www.employeebenefits.co.ukKey findings54% of respondents will be under more pressure to reduce costs and 44% will have to review providers to get a better deal because of the recession.†Improving staff health and ...
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Employee Benefits/Simplyhealth Healthcare Research 2009
Research: who are the respondents; key findingsResearch: attitudes to health and wellbeingResearch: which healthcare benefits are on offerResearch: impact of health and wellbeing benefits on sickness absenceResearch: strategies to deal with employee stressResearch: healthcare costs and calculating return on investmentResearch: how legislation is affecting workplace health and wellbeingSponsor's comment: Health ...
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Personal accounts will fail, research shows
Personal accounts are likely to be a failure when they are introduced in 2012, according to a survey on the provision of employer sponsored defined contribution (DC) pensions conducted by Punter Southall Financial ManagementThe survey also revealed that around 80% of employers intend to keep their existing pension scheme in ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2009: Employers torn between motivation and cutbacks
Employers are increasingly torn between motivating staff in the recession and needing to cut costs.The Employee Benefits Research 2009 found that 43% of employers intend to seek ways to maintain staff motivation, or have already done so. But 29% have imposed, or are planning, pay freezes, and the same proportion ...
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Research: Towers Perrin's UK corporate health and wellbeing survey
Cost is the most important factor for employers when setting up a health and risk benefits strategy.According to Towers Perrin's UK corporate health and wellbeing survey, price is the greatest influence when implementing a health and risk policy, cited by 45% of respondents, followed by employee satisfaction (29%).Organisations that provide ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2009: core benefits offered
The past five years have seen little change in the top benefits offered in a traditional core package. For many years, training and development was viewed as a human resource strategy separate to benefits strategy. But the growing prominence of total reward strategies has led to more training and development ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2009: how benefits are offered
Although most employers still offer their staff traditional core benefits, the percentage that offer perks by some other means – on a voluntary basis, through a flexible benefits scheme or via salary sacrifice – has risen steadily over the past five years. Back in 2004, for example, 34% of respondents ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2009: responsibility for and communication of benefits
Over the past 10 years, huge advances in technology have transformed the way employers communicate benefits to staff. Back in 1998, when Employee Benefits carried out the Strategic reward research, only a quarter of employers used email to communicate benefits and just 7% had an intranet site. How things have ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2009: Evaluation of and attitudes to benefits
There has been a significant rise in the importance of obtaining, and demonstrating, value for money on benefits over the past five years. When respondents were asked back in 2004 about their perceptions of their benefits package, just 29% said it provided value for money. This year, 79% said the ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2009: benefits strategy
Over the last five years, little seems to have changed in how employers view their benefits strategies. With many compensation and reward professionals coming under increasing pressure to control reward costs and demonstrate that they are obtaining value for their spend, it is encouraging to see that just under two-thirds ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2009: changes to employee benefits
Keeping a benefits package fresh is the only way of making sure it remains interesting and continues to appeal to employees for any length of time.The best way for employers to achieve this is to regularly review and monitor their package, with a view to adding perks that staff are ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2009: flexible benefits
Although the popularity of flexible benefits schemes is increasing, growth in this area has occurred more slowly than for other types of benefits scheme. This may be because myths still persist among employers about the expense of implementing flex and the cost of a scheme’s administration, despite advances in flex ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2009: tax efficient benefits and salary sacrifice
Given the tax and/or national insurance (NI) savings available on tax-efficient benefits offered via a salary sacrifice arrangement, it is no surprise that just under three-quarters (72%) of respondents offer their workforce this type of perk. Those that do not must have heard of these savings, so it is likely ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2009: voluntary benefits
Giving employees access to discounted products through a voluntary benefits scheme is a cheap, cost-effective way to provide benefits, particularly for employers that cannot afford to pay for staff perks. But voluntary schemes are by no means the poor relations of the benefits world. Many employers offer them alongside core ...
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The Employee Benefits Research 2009: contents & key findings
Research: benefits strategyResearch: evaluation of and attitudes to benefitsResearch: responsibility for and communication of benefitsResearch: how benefits are offeredResearch: core benefits offeredResearch: voluntary benefitsResearch: tax-efficient benefits and salary sacrificeResearch: flexible benefitsResearch: changes to employee benefitsBenefits Book 2009: Editor's CommentDownload a PDF version of the Employee Benefits Research 2009Note: the pdf ...
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Employee Benefits/Towers Perrin Flexible Benefits Research 2009
Research: who are the respondents; key findingsResearch: attitudes to flexible benefitsResearch: structure of flexible benefits schemesResearch: how flexible benefits schemes are administeredResearch: salary sacrifice in flexible benefitsResearch: alternatives to flexible benefits plansFeature: pensions within flexible benefits schemesFeature: how to communicate flexible benefitsSponsors Comment: Realise the full value of flexEditor's commentOver ...