White paper: Creating Employee Benefits That Drive Engagement

Employers should consider the whole person finds Mercer in its latest paper. It looks at why employers need to personalise to differentiate, mine all available data sources and align user-friendly benefits with user-friendly communication and technology.

Key findings

• Supporting employee health and wellbeing plays a vital role in employee engagement – with a healthy and engaged workforce correlating directly with exceptional company financial performance.
• Employers need to optimise their benefits to enhance health and increase engagement. By applying a ‘design-thinking’ approach and having empathy for employees’ concerns, employers can deliver benefits to support wellbeing and productivity.
• By considering the ‘whole person’ it is clear that employers need to personalise the benefits they offering by providing choice and flexibility.
• Mining data to design health benefits that support employees’ health and drive engagement will enable employers to develop programmes that add value to the employee proposition.
• Finally, employers need to communicate and use technology effectively to create a consumer-grade experience for employees to engage with.

This is the first paper in Mercer’s This is Health series, which aims to bring together the latest health and benefits trends from all around the world.