Workplace benefits can help boost staff moral, lead to higher retention rates, help employees save money and go towards fulfilling an employer’s duty of care.
However it is not always easy to get the offer right, to ensure the benefits have something for everyone and come together as a coherent suite of benefits.
At EnjoyBenefits, we have set up schemes for hundreds of companies of all sizes and in all sectors.
Here are our tips to help you get your workplace benefits spot on.
You can try thinking what each group would welcome, you can ask employees or you can even attempt to draw up personas – the young parent, the fitness fanatic and more.
Whichever approach you take, you need a suite of benefits that is truly for all, not just of use to a select few.
The scheme looks difficult to implement, it has to be a proper partnership between business and nursery and there are annual meetings to be held. On top of that, details have to be kept and maintained for every employee using the scheme and their payments have to come out seamlessly and head into the nursery’s bank account.
It all sounds a lot of hassle, why bother?
However, the reality is that the scheme can largely run itself if set up correctly. It needn’t be burdensome, it can be little more than a quick catch up with the nursery. On top of this, the benefits can be huge – helping parents balance their worklife balance and being a perk that helps keep and entice the very best staff.
Assume nothing, don’t rule out benefits before you’ve even started.
If you have a lot of 20 somethings, there is a good chance that many of them might start families in years to come and so their choice of benefits will change.
You can also consider the employees you will recruit or might wish to have join your team. What type of person do you want to recruit, if it’s graduates straight out of university the benefits you might add will be different from if you were taking on more experienced staff.
There could be a degree of resentment and the creation of a negative attitude towards benefits that it later becomes hard to shift.
When you implement workplace benefits do so in a proper, thorough manner.
This preconception might well be wrong, the benefit may turn out to be much loved. It also doesn’t matter overly if any particular benefit has a low take-up rate. Employees don’t know the take up rate for any benefit so if, theoretically, a benefit had no subscribers it wouldn’t be a problem. The offer would simply sit there, waiting to be used.
If a benefit is worth having, it is worth having – add it and interest will come in time.
At Enjoy Benefits, we have great experience in helping companies of all sizes introduce benefits that are suitable for their workplace.
Benefits are easy to set ups and ongoing administration is then run through a hub, this allowing employees to manage their own benefits while the employer can see which benefits are proving popular and what level of take-up each has had.
If you would like an obligation free chat to discuss which benefits might work for your business and your employees, please contact us by calling 0800 088 7315 or using our Contact Form.