Thomsons Online Benefits is offering employers that provide pensions from Axa and Scottish Widows, the opportunity for staff to join the schemes online. Thomsons' Perquisite platform already provides an online joining process for Aegon Scottish Equitable, Friends Provident, Standard Life and Scottish Life pensions.

Michael Whitfield, chief executive officer of Thomsons Online Benefits, said this will help remove unnecessary paper, cost and data errors from employee benefits administration.