Unless you live under a heavily fortified rock, you have likely heard by now of the damage caused by prolonged periods of stress. Seeing as everybody experiences stress (if you don’t, please let me in on your secrets!), it is…
In a word, yes. Let’s face it, all businesses need a measurable return and staff who love their employers, are much more productive. If the answer is no, why would we bother to spend money on employee benefits? A little…
It’s worth knowing the benefits that you can provide to your employees. They help plan for old age and unexpected events (like becoming ill or injured), and can save a bit of money on day-to-day expenses too. Not everyone needs…
On becoming a parent, it soon becomes clear that looking after your children means more than just changing their nappies. The threat of losing your income suddenly seems even scarier when you realise how expensive children can get! If you…
Employee Life Insurance currently protects over 9.8 million people in the UK for death benefits that equates to an eye-watering trillion pounds of cover. Paying out over £1 billion in claims to 10,027 families during 2018 it is one of…
The importance of looking after our mental health is, from an individual point of view, enormous. Many businesses are coming to terms with their responsibility to keep employees healthy, but something they often forget is that supporting employees’ mental health…
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Group Income Protection is becoming a more and more popular benefit, according to data from the ABI. Despite the demand, with only about 17,500 policies in the whole of the UK, most employees have never heard of it…
As many people are aware, when taking individual protection policies such as life cover or income protection, pre-existing medical conditions can be refused (or come with a hefty premium). But, if you or any of your employees have a pre-existing…
When we consider our lifestyle, and how it affects our wellbeing, we often forget that we spend over a third of our waking hours at work. Likewise, many of us tend to ignore the mind-body link that connects our mental…
As more and more businesses invest in employer-paid insurances to attract and retain the best staff, we are seeing a parallel increase in confusion around what these actually are. Searching ‘Employer Paid Life Insurance’ on Google does not provide an…