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Flexible benefits

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  • Date:
    10 August 2026
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    Employee benefits research 2026

    Our annual employee benefits research explores current benefits provision across UK organisations and the priorities influencing benefits strategy.

  • Date:
    2 June 2025
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    Employee benefits research 2025

    Organisations are focused on building employee engagement with their benefits offering, while making sure that the overall package remains competitive as well as affordable. The range of benefits offered remains wide, aiming to provide something for everyone.

  • Date:
    31 October 2024
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Strategies for a competitive and cost-effective employee benefits package

    Employee benefits have evolved significantly over the past few years, going beyond basic offerings such as health insurance and annual leave. Today, they can range from perks like wellness programmes to complex offerings such as matching contribution pension schemes. But with budgets stretched and costs rising, how do you make your organisation's money go further - and make sure employees really feel the benefit?

  • Date:
    3 October 2024
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    Employee benefits research 2024: a changing picture

    Brightmine research unveils which benefits organisations most commonly offer their employees, as well as the key strategies for developing a competitive reward package.

  • Date:
    11 July 2023
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    HR & Compliance Centre benefits and allowances survey 2023: Strategy and delivery

    XpertHR looks at the changing strategic focus for employee benefits packages, noting which are the most popular and how organisations involve employees in their benefits' choices.

  • Date:
    16 December 2019
    Type:
    Case studies

    How OVO Energy launched a workplace ISA to help its employees get on the housing ladder

    OVO Energy talks to XpertHR about its approach to financial wellbeing and how it is helping its young workforce to save the money they need to buy their first house.

  • Type:
    How to

    How to introduce and manage a flexible benefits scheme

    Updated to reflect the current rate of employer national insurance contributions. 

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