Tag Archive For "employee benefits"
What are the advantages to outsourcing employee benefits management for your company?
Outsourcing isn’t the taboo subject it once was. There are, understandably, people who will think of redundancies and work moving offshore but, for many modern businesses constantly searching for flexibility and cost efficiencies, shifting duties to third parties can be a smart way to reduce your company’s investment in an area while boosting its effectiveness. …
What are the top non-monetary benefits for employees?
In a perfect world, your employees would all be super motivated and hardworking top performers. While every business will have its share of top performers the reality is that most employees will be, well, average. The key struggle for many business owners and HR teams is in motivating these employees. In some cases money will …
Things companies should know about offering employee life insurance
Offering company life insurance for employees as part of your benefits package can be a great move. Regardless of career ambitions, many of your staff will be working to provide for their family; parents building a future for their children, or people looking to take care of their elderly parents. Employee life insurance provides people …
How a consultant can help support your comprehensive benefits package
A common phrase used a lot in sales is “Cut out the middleman!”. This is often followed by sentiments like “Go betweens are costly”, and “they add very little benefit to you as a consumer”. That may be true in some industries but, in the world of corporate insurance, the right consultant can really enhance …
What’s the deal with individual vs group health insurance?
We get a lot of questions about health insurance. That’s to be expected; we’re a leading health insurance broker. People, by and large, don’t ever really need to consider the ins and outs of insurance unless they actually need to use it – or find that they should have bought some. Two of the key …
Employee benefits trends to have on your radar in 2018
One of the most essential aspects of operating a business is ensuring that employees are engaged, and providing them with enough incentive to enhance productivity. Health insurance continues to remain a large priority for employers, but with ever-rising premiums, HR teams are faced with the need to contain costs amid growing employee expectations. In addition …
What every employee wants from workplace wellness programs
Whether you are a company owner, manager, or HR staffer, there is a question that you should be asking yourself when it comes to business in 2018: is my company providing the wellness programs and other benefits that its employees want? When it comes to company perks, the luminary enterprises of the corporate world have …
Part time employee benefits: three reasons to extend perks to staff with non-standard hours
One of the key areas in our industry that gets very little attention is that of part time employee benefits. Part time and casual workers have long been features of every developed labor market in the world, and their numbers have been growing in the past decade – often at the expense of full-time employment. …
Key elements of successful global benefits strategies
Having a successful employee benefits package can take a lot of work. They’re not simply “set and forget” measures that magically reduce absenteeism and improve engagement. The most successful international packages are supported by well thought out global benefits strategies which not only seek to improve delivery and take up of your company perks, but …
Employee benefits and third culture kids: What do global citizens want most from employers?
“Where are you from?” is a common ice-breaker-esque question that we’ve all been asked before. While most of us will find it an easy question to answer, the same might not be said for the burgeoning tribe of third culture kids (or TCKs). Have you met someone born in Australia, who grew up in Bahrain, …