If you have ever seen me talk at a financial wellbeing event, or read any of my previous blogs, you will know how strongly I feel about workplace financial wellbeing. And, as I put pen to paper to write this blog, I have just read the CIPD’s nineteenth annual [..]
As a keen advocate of financial wellbeing in the workplace, for many years I’ve been working together with employers to help improve their employees’ financial wellbeing. During this time, I have not found many who have implemented a solution to help employees [..]
Uncertainty and the unknowns of the economic, political and social spheres have been the concern of firms for some time. However, the support, and potentially the protection, of employees in uncertain times is often forgotten and rarely thought [..]
Darren Laverty, Partner at Secondsight, has written a blog post in Pensions Expert discussing what makes a successful financial wellbeing strategy. It is fair to say employers have been thinking about financial wellbeing for years – even before auto-enrolment [..]
The 4 main reasons employers are not tackling financial stress in the workplace. Taken from the findings of the Workplace Financial Wellbeing LinkedIn Group’s July Conference, part one of the blog looked at why people do not have time, budget or resource to [..]
The 4 main reasons employers are not tackling financial stress in the workplace In this two-part blog, Darren Laverty presents findings from the Workplace Financial Wellbeing LinkedIn Groups July conference. Darren, founder of the group, and speaker at the event [..]
We are delighted to learn that we have been recognised and shortlisted in the category Best Corporate Adviser at this year’s Money Marketing awards. This builds on our success from last year, where we were crowned winners in the same category. When announcing [..]
Employees’ financial issues are becoming a prominent issue for employers, and the numbers offering workplace loans as an employee benefit has increased. Employers that offer a workplace loan scheme enable their employees to apply for a loan through the [..]
It’s that time of the year again, where we all set out to make our New Year’s resolutions. These however are the resolutions that invariably, most of us end up breaking! A poll of 2,000 British people, published by Bupa last year found, that of those making [..]
Those who attend Employee Benefits Connect 2016 can gain insight into how employee benefits could potentially harm employee’s financial wellbeing, as well as the measures that can be taken to address this, in a session led by Darren Laverty, Partner at [..]
Group risk benefits help to protect employees' financial, physical and mental wellbeing. Mark Bingham comments on the importance of educating employees so they can make more informed decisions when it comes to their flexible benefits and levels of life assurance [..]
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Caroline Stevens, Director, Crowell & Moring
The ideas and connections Secondsight have brought to Epson, and our local HR team, have been invaluable and meant we have set new financial benefits and wellbeing solutions in place that we would simply not have done before.
Stuart Chalmers, HR Manager UK, Ireland and Nordics, Epson Europe
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Alison Field, Group HR Director, Briggs Equipment
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Rick Hewitt, Finance Director and Board member at Ricoh
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Secondsight were very knowledgeable and supportive for staff throughout the process of discussions around the TPS, providing clear information and one to one support for staff that required further detail.
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Director of Finance and Operations/Clerk to the Governors, Shrewsbury House School Trust Limited
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