Research & guides

3R Strategy’s 2025-26 Global Salary Planning Report provides a guide to salary budgets and the reward trends shaping the year ahead.

Drawing on insights from industry leaders and Pensions UK’s member survey, this report examines the defining forces reshaping pensions — from adequacy and technology to investment, consolidation and regulation.

For the fifth year running, the life assurance and pensions company has asked 6,000 people from across the UK how they currently feel about their finances, work, and how they are preparing for retirement. 

Hymans Robertson’s latest DC provider report offers a timely review of the master trust and GPP market.

This year’s survey gathers the views of 240 UK professionals in HR, reward, compensation and benefits roles at companies of various sizes and industries.

Based on a survey of 3,600 employees across the UK, US, Canada, Australia, and Singapore, this report finds that recognition runs the risk of disappearing from the workplace. 

Despite ongoing inflationary pressures, slower wage growth and higher employer costs, the underlying economic picture has proved more resilient than headlines suggest, this outlook for Q3 shows.

Now in its 8th year, this annual report highlights what is fuelling workplace disengagement around the world by gathering data from nearly 40,000 employers, leaders, HR practitioners and executives across 23 countries.

This 24th edition of the survey of over 1,100 employers across the UK, highlights the urgent need for organisations to proactively address workforce health. 

This report highlights how forward-thinking organisations are navigating global benefits complexity – from compliance and benchmarking to exponential expectations.

This practical guide is aimed at showing reward and benefits leaders how to fold AI into their benefits strategies in secure, measurable and scalable and cost-efficient ways. 

This guide outlines how employees need seasonal support given the changing energy levels, focus and motivation we experience throughout the year. 

WTW’s Benefits Trends Survey 2025 surveyed 5,538 organizations in over 100 countries, representing over 24 million employees.

A growing number of employees across the UK are turning to side hustles to offset the rising cost of living and reduce their financial stress.