REBA opinion

Last week’s consultation launch into England’s mental health strategy feels a little familiar, as REBA’s director and co-founder Debi O’Donovan explains.

The flexible benefits platform market is going through a period of significant change, with new disruptors coming on the scene, mergers and acquisitions, and a host of innovations. REBA’s director and co-founder Debi O’Donovan takes a closer look at how the platform market is evolving.

Reward and benefits practitioners are swimming in data, and until now systems have not always been able to deliver real insights. REBA’s director and co-founder Debi O’Donovan looks at why that might be about to change.

Health and wellbeing strategies need to move from an operational necessity to a strategic differentiator which can forge resilience.  Writing in REBA’s Forecasting future health costs: developing sustainable employer-funded health strategies report, Jo Gallacher, content director at REBA, delves into the complex nature of health strategies and how employers need to adapt to deliver value across diverse employee needs.

Writing in REBA’s Future of Pensions Research 2025, REBA’s director and co-founder Debi O’Donovan outlines how legislative changes and new bodies and tools are set to address mounting pensions inadequacy.

Employers have a vital role to play in creating a resilient workforce that is prepared for both retirement and rainy days.  In this article taken from REBA’s Financial Wellbeing Research 2025, in partnership with WEALTH at work, co-founder and director at REBA, Debi O’Donovan, details the need for effective, equitable initiatives to support financial wellbeing.

Health benefits need to be data-driven, preventative, and built to last argues REBA’s content director, Jo Gallacher, in her article which features in REBA’s UK Health Gap report one – Benefits governance for employers: Navigating the evolving employer-funded health benefits landscape.

The need to analyse people risks, as well as people insights, will become vital to demonstrate the business need to invest in workforce health and wellbeing today, says REBA’s director Debi O’Donovan, in her column featured in REBA’s Health and Wellbeing Research 2025, published together with AXA Health.

REBA’s content director Jo Gallacher explains why employers need to move beyond traditional wellbeing strategies to meet modern workforce health needs. This article is taken from REBA’s latest report, The health divide: Access and affordability of employer-funded health benefits, in partnership with Mercer Marsh Benefits.

A retirement spent in poverty is the potential reality for more than a third of the workforce. Here REBA’s director and co-founder Debi O’Donovan considers the tools employers have at their disposal that can help to make a difference.

As part of Mediaplanet's Talent Economy campaign within the Guardian, REBA's content editor Dawn Lewis, explains how employers are prioritising preventative health benefits to support employees and attract talent.