Employee Benefits

UK - As life expectancy rises and birth rates decline, an increase in the retirement age will inevitably rise, according to Mercer.

UK - Management must make more effort to communicate the value of employee benefits or risk low productivity among staff, Towers Perrin claims.

UK - Company moves to cut unplanned absences through the non-payment of sick pay could backfire, Mercer Human Resource Consulting warns.

UK - Fund management software provider DST has launched a fixed income attribution solution which analyses the performance of bond funds.

UK - Young workers are suffering from stress, relationship problems and loss of friends because they have limited access to flexible working practices, a new study shows.

UK - Employers who rely solely on technology to promote their benefit schemes will suffer very low take-up rates, John Scott & Partners warns.

UK - Over half of FTSE350 firms have plans to integrate company pension schemes into a wider flexible benefits programme, a new survey shows.

UK - Employers must focus on long-term absence rather than cracking down on unplanned sick days, new research suggests.

UK - Only one in five employees understand the value of their benefit packages, according to research conducted by the independent financial adviser Origen.

UK - Orbit Benefits is taking over benefit administration for the Carphone Warehouse's 5000 UK employees.