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KareHero offers five ways employers can better spot and help those employees under pressure from adult care duties.

At first glance, today’s workforce looks united by shared pressures. Rising living costs, changing care demands, and an evolving world of work are things many employers recognise across their organisation. Scratch just below the surface, though, and a different picture appears. 

Rising living costs, changing care demands, and an evolving world of work are experienced by all employees, but why are the outcomes so different?

To mark Carers Week 2026, content writer Sarah Haselwood takes a look at REBA’s latest roundtable report to explore how employers can support the pension adequacy of working carers. 

Adult care responsibilities can affect employees’ time, finances and emotional wellbeing, and it’s important for employers to make support visible before people reach crisis point.

UK employers absorb the cost of fertility challenges every day. It shows up in unplanned absence, reduced performance, delayed career progression, and loss of talent.

From those remortgaging to prospective buyers, here are some practical steps that can help dissipate the external shockwaves that affect mortgages and how HR teams can support employees through financial education and access to advice.

Life events are where benefits either prove their value or expose their gaps.

Fragmented working lives due to parenting, caring or simple career breaks, are challenging longstanding assumptions about workplace pensions. Laura Stewart Smith, head of pension engagement at Aviva, discusses the impact this is having on savings.

Parents make up a significant proportion of those experiencing mental health challenges in the UK, 68% of women and 57% of men, highlighting the urgent need for tailored support. However, mental health doesn’t exist in isolation, when a parent is struggling, the impact is often felt across the entire family.

Today's workforce stretches across five generations. The youngest and the oldest face very different pressures, and very different health needs. The question every reward leader should be asking is whether your benefits strategy is designed for all.

The value that employees place on support at a time of intense vulnerability is exceptionally high and one that employers may be overlooking.

As of April, changes to statutory sick pay (SSP) have altered how sickness absence is treated in the UK.

Mental health at work is shaped by everyday life, not just what happens at work itself.