Many organisations seem reluctant to offer any type of employee retail discounts package to their employees, for the most part because they perceive that the costs of doing so would be prohibitive. In a year when employees may have suffered some financial hardship due...
If the challenge presented by having to deal with Covid19 wasn’t enough, figures released on 14th January showed that waiting lists for routine treatment had surged to the highest levels ever recorded. This equates to more than 4.5 million people currently on the...
In a world increasingly connected through technology employees are finding it more difficult to separate their work lives from their personal lives. This has been further exacerbated for some by the enforced work from home environment imposed by coronavirus...
An interesting article was recently published in The Sunday Times (29/11/2020), about the charges which are levied on pensions. Essentially, the article compared the pension outcomes of two individuals and the effect the charges had on their respective funds (all...
As the state pension age rises and life expectancy increases, it looks likely that more workers will remain in employment for longer to be able to build up sufficient funds for their retirement years. According to an analysis by Aviva¹, the number of people retiring...
DNA testing for ancestry has become increasingly popular in recent times thanks to improvements in testing technology and the emergence of TV programmes where the process is used to track down long lost relatives. If you have used one of these tests you will be aware...
International Men's Day was commemorated this week and presents an opportunity to recognise the positives that men bring to the world. It is also a good time to remind ourselves that research shows that where health is concerned, men do less well than women. Men have...
Photo by Nao Okawa on Reshot In a week where Prime Minister, Boris Johnson stated his intention to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2030, for your employees driving around in their vehicles powered by combustion engines, how can you as an employer support...
It would be naïve to assume that employees leave their financial worries behind them when they start their working day. According to research by the Institute of Employment Studies in 2009, employees with financial worries were likely to be less productive by around...
With almost 90% of UK households in 2018 owning a computer (Statista 2020), it is understandable that employers have been rushing to replace the traditional Employee Handbook with a benefit package run on a digital platform. Rarely read and often expensively...
