Culture and care | Providing an accessible and affordable benefits package for you and your employees

If you’re asking yourself whether you should invest more or less in benefits or, if you don’t have anything beyond an auto-enrolment pension, whether you can even afford to invest at all, ask yourself this; can you afford not to? You only need look at recruitment websites, such as Glassdoor, to see that employee benefits matter to people; benefits even get their own review tab. And if you read a few of these reviews, you start to piece together a useful picture of an organisation’s culture, purpose and values. Benefits represent an important part of the Employee Value Proposition (EVP); in other words, everything the employer is offering to help attract and retain employees. But don’t just take our word for it. Nearly 9 in 10 (88.7%) students said they would be more likely to apply to an organisation that is open about its commitment to supporting the mental health of its employees.* It’s a culture thing Benefits represent a crucial part of your wellbeing offering to employees. Not only when it comes to recruitment, but also in a wider organisational wellbeing and culture sense. People want to know that their employer cares and trust is the new employer-employee contract;