Case studies & interviews

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.

Employers are rethinking their employee value proposition (EVP) and moving towards more harmonised health benefits, said Marc Singh-Jones, head of commercial products and partnerships at Simplyhealth, during REBA's recent webinar.

David Bourne, market development leader at Mercer Marsh Benefits, explores how demographic insight, predictive modelling and targeted prevention can pivot benefits from a cost to an investment. This article is taken from REBA’s Forecasting future health costs: developing sustainable employer-funded health strategies report, which considers how employers can lead through complexity rather than simply trying to contain costs. 

AI-gathered data will both free up reward professionals’ time and enable them to be truly strategic and manage people risks.

Anna Brain, senior policy researcher and project lead for the UK Pensions Framework Project at the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI), explores the critical link between health and wealth.

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.

The key to many financial wellbeing strategies is supporting employees' financial resilience. Watch this video featuring Vicky East, head of client relations at WEALTH at work, as she explores how employers can strengthen financial resilience.

Watch Kate Smith, head of public affairs at Aegon, as she explores the reasons behind pension inequality in the UK.

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.

Tim Goodchild, director, international benefits at video game publisher Take-Two Interactive, spoke to REBA’s content editor Dawn Lewis about how to approach global benefits harmonisation across multiple jurisdictions. Goodchild will be at the REBA Future Forum on 20 November, as part of the ‘meet the case studies’ session. 

“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.

Discover how flexible pension strategies can unlock better outcomes for savers, watch Ruth Persian, associate director at Nest Insight share fresh insights in this video interview.

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. 

The best financial wellbeing strategies are when organisations focus on culture, storytelling and communicating across internal departments, webinar hears.