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With menopause support moving up the workplace agenda, employers have a golden opportunity to take a more proactive approach and keep hold of their best talent.

Hywel Phillips, chief operating officer at Personal Group explores how removing barriers to benefits take-up can create real impact, in his column featured in REBA’s latest report, Removing barriers to access: making benefits work for the lower-paid workforce.

The Budget backed first-time buyers. Now employers can help employees save for a home, and for retirement.

As a CFO at Personal Group, Matt Cohen spends a great deal of time thinking about how businesses manage risk, absorb shocks and prepare for uncertainty.

Pension objectives may vary between employer and employee but a conscious decision and understanding of its outcome is crucial from both sides if a moderate retirement living is to be reached.

Employers are investing heavily in workplace health, but standard delivery models can fail frontline staff. REBA’s content writer Sarah Haselwood explores why, without addressing barriers, expanding benefit offerings will not translate into frontline usage.  

People now stop work at very different ages, and in very different ways. HR and reward teams can make that transition smoother for employees and for the business.

Employees may ask for financial support to cover many different scenarios. Employers need to be able to identify financial resilience when it matters most.

Making benefits available to your dispersed workforce doesn’t always mean they are being used, which can mean some of your workers are left out in the cold.

Financial resilience is being able to withstand and recover from temporary financial hardship due to a sudden fall in income or an unexpected rise in expenditure.

Talk Money Week (2-6 November) is a great time to encourage your employees to talk openly about money and help reduce stress in the process. Everyone can benefit from talking more about money.

Employers can help employees’ retirement preparations by building confidence, improving understanding and earlier engagement with the process.

What is workplace men's health support and what defines a good service?

Cancer is rising among younger people, but is workplace health support keeping up?

HR leaders know that auto-enrolment contributions need to rise, but company budgets are already stretched thin. Steve Watson, Director of Policy and Research at Cushon, argues the answer starts with getting employees more engaged with their pension and paying in more.

Company sick pay tops Ciphr’s latest ranking of the benefits UK employees value most. For HR and reward teams, it raises a bigger question: do you know which benefits employees would find hardest to live without?