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During REBA’s November webinar, Travis Perkins’ group benefits manager, Helen McGowan, explained how their new online platform brings their healthcare benefits together across their varied employee base.

Keeping benefits information “fresh” and “live” is essential to keep track of global benefits spend and uptake, explained Lisa Boardman, reward manager at Edrington, during a recent REBA webinar.

Donna Christie, head of HR and reward at Dana Petroleum details how personalised, inclusive and clear communication of existing benefits is underpinning its EVP. This article was originally published in REBA’s Financial Wellbeing Research 2025.

This REBA Acumen case study offers a candid perspective from a head of reward navigating enhanced maternity and paternity policies, employee expectations, and the cultural shifts needed for future progress. Discover how feedback, benchmarking challenges, and business realities collide, and what this means for the future of parental benefits.

With a generous pension contribution structure in place, employee engagement is the next challenge. Oliver Porter, pensions and benefits manager at Clarksons, outlines how it plans to keep pensions relevant in this article taken from REBA’s Financial Wellbeing Research 2025.

“We’re confident that our focus on prevention has already reduced our claims trajectory,” says Jo Mercer, global benefits, senior manager at Freshfields. This article, taken from REBA’s Forecasting future health costs: Developing sustainable employer-funded health strategies report, details how a data-led approach to prevention is moving the dial on employee health.

In October 2024, Royal Mail made history by launching the UK's first Collective Defined Contribution (CDC) pension arrangement, marking a revolutionary shift in workplace pensions.  Natalie Adeoba, senior pensions manager at Royal Mail, explains the ins and outs of CDC and how it is benefiting the organisation and employees alike.

Sarah Underhill, head of reward and benefits at Osborne Clarke, shares insights on how putting user experience at the heart of its flexible benefits implementation transformed employee engagement and simplified benefit management. Underhill will be at the REBA Future Forum on 20 November, as part of the ‘meet the case studies’ session. 

Transitioning to a new pension provider resulted in significant long-term financial benefits for employees and an improved user experience, as Aaron Mudd, group reward lead at VIRTUS Data Centres, told REBA’s content editor Dawn Lewis. 

Taking a strategic approach to financial wellbeing benefits doesn’t have to be complicated, explains Michelle Elsworth, general manager, reward and benefits at Jet2. This article features in REBA’s Financial Wellbeing Research 2025 and considers the need to bring benefits together to create a steady drumbeat.

Alan Becken, global employee benefits director at Salesforce, spoke about its innovative use of an AI-based financial wellbeing coach during REBA’s September webinar.

With a large and dispersed workforce, First Bus moved to introduce Money First Aiders to help colleagues from all backgrounds with their financial wellbeing, as Muntazir Hadadi, head of pensions, explains. This case study is taken from REBA's Financial Wellbeing Research 2025.

Taking a step back, listening to employees and really understanding what matters was central to the benefits changes brought in at Virgin Group. Here REBA’s content editor Dawn Lewis sits down with Rachel Richards, reward and people operations director at Virgin Group, to find out more about their benefits approach and the introduction of its Loved Ones Leave. 

Vicki Twigg, senior reward manager at telecommunications infrastructure provider CityFibre, details how its focus on cohesion and clarity of healthcare pathways is improving the navigation of services. This case study features in REBA’s The health divide: Access and affordability of employer-funded health benefits report, published in association with Mercer Marsh Benefits.

Maria Dowdeswell, global total reward specialist at engineering consultancy firm Haskoning, details how the inclusion of neurodiversity diagnosis in PMI supports a growing proportion of its workforce and their families.  This case study features in REBA’s Health and Wellbeing Research 2025, published in association with AXA Health.

Writing in REBA’s Health and Wellbeing Research 2025, Sharon Midwinter, head of benefits and wellbeing at NatWest, details how simplicity is the key to both engaging colleagues in prevention and facilitating cure with early intervention

Writing in REBA’s Health and Wellbeing Research 2025, Sandra Dyball, director, global health, wellbeing and benefits at Centrica, details how its private healthcare trust brings cost-efficiencies as well as wider productivity benefits.

Lisa Whelpdale, president of total reward at Wood Group, explains how it addresses the challenge of having a consistent approach to recognition in a company with 35,000 employees spread across 60 countries.