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The pandemic has changed routine working lives for millions. We are no longer fixed to desks five days a week. With this new work-life freedom, many of us have discovered that we can work from almost any location. As a response, the benefits that employers have been offering employees to keep them sweet have changed dramatically. There’s been a huge shift away from office-centric benefits, such as subsidised meals, complimentary drinks, company cars, discounted travel, and in-house creches. Now, we’re seeing more offerings around flexible hours, utility contributions, and technologies, such as apps for encouraging healthy lifestyles, and childcare. The ways that employers are looking to retain and attract talent has turned on its head as they pivot to what’s now more important for employees. Flexibility benefits The pandemic highlighted the need for employee wellbeing strategies. Our recent research shows that two-fifths of employees rank flexibility as one of the most important benefits and three-fifths (60 per cent) would not consider a job that provided less flexibility than they have today. For employers, their strategy to best support employees must be to offer flexibility. Compressed hours or split days are becoming more common. Employers need to offer benefits that support
