Legal & General has enhanced its employee assistance programme, offering extended access to families and a new smartphone app. This upgrade effectively allows employees’ families to use the telephone support services, offered...
2019 has been a very busy year for Broadstone, with four acquisitions so far. Will we see as many deals next year? It is a bit like London buses. We didn’t expect...
Robo adviser OpenMoney has purchased employee benefits platform Jargonfree Benefits (JFB). The Manchester-based digital advice firm says this was part of plans to move into the workplace sector and extend access to...
Senior staff have a critical role to play in addressing issues of mental health in the workplace and need to be more open about issues they’ve faced, according to new research. RedArc...
Workplaces need to do more to support employees coping with bereavment, according to new research from MetLife UK. The group risk insurer found that this issue impacted significant numbers of employees, with...
Consultancy firm Benefits Advisory Services has joined the trade body, Group Risk Development (Grid). Grid is an industry-wide body that includes insurers, reinsurers and intermediaries. It works with government, regulators and employers...
Nick McMenemy is Mercer Marsh Benefits new consulting leader for London and the South East, and will head up the company’s large corporate clients consulting teams for the region. McMenemy has worked...
With stigmas around mental health evaporating, more employees feel comfortable talking about their own problems in the workplace. While this is a major step forward, there’s still plenty of uncertainty around how...
Improving employee wellbeing is the top benefits priority for UK employers, ahead of work policies and inclusion policies, according to research from Willis Towers Watson. The consultancy’s 2019 Benefits Trends Survey found...
Discussions about how to jump-start group risk and expand with new-to-market business have being going on for decades, but experts are now demonstrating much greater unanimity of thought. One point on which there...
