Employers are experimenting with the type of benefits on offer post-pandemic, moving away from focusing only on flexible working or mental health.

Let me start with the good news, which is that 87% of organisations have recognition programmes. Fantastic. So, if you do the maths, this should equate to an equally high percentage of employees...

A sandwich generation of employees – those supporting both young children and elderly parents – are being neglected by their employers.

The lowest paid employees are the least likely to have access to a strong benefits package, despite being the group that could use them the most.

Shift work may not be as flexible as advertised, as many workers are given little notice to plan their lives.

A third of UK employers feel LGBT+ employees aren't properly supported by employee benefits.

Women in the UK work on average almost 2 hours (1.7 hours) more overtime per week than men.

UK employers are advertising pensions, sick pay and training as job perks despite them being obliged to offer them by law.

The unprecedented stop-start to life caused by Covid-19 has had a huge impact on workforces, particularly among diverse communities according to research by McKinsey, and it might be many more years...

Millions of British households are set to face crippling rises in their electricity and gas bills next winter, with the latest projections suggesting the energy price cap will nearly double to £2,400...

Millions of British households are set to face crippling rises in their electricity and gas bills next winter, with the latest projections suggesting the energy price cap will nearly double to £2,400...

In a time characterised by uncertainty, it’s hard to see what’s ahead. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try, however, as Dominic Bernard reports.