A round-up of some of October's stand-out facts and figures relating to employee benefits:
- 1%: Eligible Royal Mail employees were gifted a 1% share in the organisation as the government completes the sale of its 13% stake.
- 29% of jobs for women in the UK paid less than the living wage in 2014 (Source: Office for National Statistics).
- 75% of respondents aged 18-34 have little or no awareness of the pension reforms, which came into effect in April 2015 (Source: Towers Watson).
- £1.2 million was spent by Facebook UK on contributions to its defined contribution pension scheme last year, according to its annual report for the year ending 31 December 2014.
- 64% of employee respondents say a company car is an important factor in their job decisions (Source: Lex Autolease).
- 41% of employers have seen an increase in reported mental health problems over the last year (Source: the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development).
Tynan Barton is a business journalist and has been writing in the employee benefits and HR field for over 15 years. She joined Employee Benefits in 2010 as reporter, and has been features editor since 2011.View full profile
