Tag Archive For "employee benefits"
Raising breast cancer awareness in the workplace
October marks the Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is celebrated across the world to increase attention and support for the prevention, early detection, and treatment of breast cancer. Apart from individual efforts, employers can also promote breast cancer awareness by encouraging your valued employees to participate in early detection. It’s not only about reducing the …
What is an employee benefits market review?
Nowadays, it’s not just a salary that keeps your employees loyal and happy. Other employee benefits such as company medical plans, flexible working hours, and paid time off are now as important, if not more so than pay. HR teams are thus facing a number of new challenges, chief among them being identifying the right …
How do employee benefits reflect your company culture?
Recently, a New Zealand firm trialed a four-day working week and called it an ‘unmitigated success’, stirring up heated discussions and envy over the Internet. In face of the increasingly competitive talent market, it seems that other than the paycheck, employee benefits package is getting more important in recruiting and retaining employees. As such, the …
Renewing employee benefits: Why should you stay with your current provider?
Among all of the annual costs facing businesses these days, compensation and benefits packages remain among one of their largest expenses. Salaries take a significant chunk out of operating budgets and employee benefits will often not be far behind. With benefit plans being annual contracts, companies will be regularly faced with the option of renewing …
Employee benefits solutions engagement: Is your company reaping the rewards?
Offering employee benefits solutions isn’t just to support staff, it should also benefit your company. Having a global employee benefits strategy is simply lip service if you’re not reviewing how your benefits plan is performing. Engagement is one key measure that can tell you how healthy your package is. Are your staff aware of the …
Have you forgotten about Gen X? Revisiting management benefits for senior executives
There’s no denying that workplace demographics are changing. The Baby Boomer’s days as employees are coming to an end as many of the last of that generation reach retirement and a significant amount of focus has been put on the rising talent of the Millennials – but what about Gen X? Many of this generation …
Introducing our new guide on structuring employee benefits
Implementing the right employee benefits package can help you retain your top talent, and attract the crème de la crème. Finding and structuring the best-fitting solutions for your company and staff, however, can be onerous – especially if your HR team is doing it alone without the guidance of an expert benefits broker, like Pacific …
Questions you should ask when weighing up healthcare for small businesses
Earlier this month, we examined employee benefits for small businesses, and why companies might want to offer such perks to their staff. Some do it for talent acquisition purposes; others to reward and support loyal, hardworking staff. Whatever the reasons, securing healthcare for small businesses can seem like a huge task. Asking these key questions …
Employee medical insurance: Why is health insurance important?
With so many flashy, new types of wellness benefits on the rise in the industry, it can be easy to forget about the more common perks like employee medical insurance. Employer provided health coverage has become the standard foundation benefit for the platform of many companies. It could even be true that younger generations won’t …
Does your small business need employee benefits?
No matter where small businesses operate around the world, they will oftentimes have many of the same types of issues to worry about. Sure, every small business will worry about the bottom line and remaining profitable, but there are a number of different aspects of doing business that seem to remain constant across different industries …