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226 pages · Updated July 18, 2026
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- “We’re Fighting Against the Tide”
- What does employee health insurance cover?
- The Engagement Trap: Why Companies Spend Billions on Benefits No One Uses
- What Payroll-Ready Benefits Data Actually Looks Like
- Why you should include fertility benefits in your compensation package
- What Benefits Engagement Actually Looks Like When It's Working, and How to Build It
- Why the Busywork Never Went Away For Benefit Leaders
- What Are Fertility Benefits (And How Do They Work)?
- Why Employee Benefits Fail to Land — and What Great Experience Really Looks Like at Scale
- What the 2025 Budget Means for HR, Reward and Benefits Leaders
- What Happens When Benefits Admin Is Actually Automated
- Why HR Keeps Losing the CFO Conversation, and How to Win It
- Why Benefits Implementations Fail (And How to Avoid It)
- What Happens When Benefits Data Is Actually Clean
- Why it’s so important to offer employee benefits to your team
- Why Benefit Leaders Can’t Do the Job They’re Hired For
- Unconscious bias in hiring: how to tackle barriers to diversity
- 3 Reasons Some Employers Don't Offer Healthcare Benefits (and Why They Should)
- 7 Ways Employers Can Support Employees with Caregiving Responsibilities at Home
- What is indirect discrimination at work and how can you prevent it?
- What is an Employer Value Proposition (EVP) and how can you create one?
- The Top 10 Private Medical Insurance (PMI) Providers in the UK
- What is an EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme (And How Does It Work)?
- What AI in Benefits Can Actually Do, and Why Now Is the Moment to Pay Attention
- The future of the workplace: Hybrid Company - Superscript
- The ultimate guide to covid-WFH-socially distanced Christmas
- The Pension Gap Isn’t a “Women’s Issue”. It’s Your Reward Strategy Failing
- What Are Flexible Benefits (and Does Your Team Need Them)?
- Proving Benefits ROI Post-Launch: What Success Really Looks Like
- The Week Before Payroll: What Benefits Teams Actually Do (and What AI Should)
- Why Benefits Management Breaks at Enterprise Scale — And How to Fix It
- What 'Benefits ROI' Actually Means in 2026
- Is work-life integration the new work-life balance?
- The top 7 voluntary benefits and why teams love them
- 4 Reasons Why Employers Should Provide Financial Education as a Benefit
- What should an employee benefits package include?
- What is a private medical trust?
- 6 Types of Salary Sacrifice Benefits for Your Workplace
- Preventative Healthcare Employee Benefits: What Employers Need to Know
- The Top 8 Mental Health Benefit Providers
- The Five Moments That Matter in Benefits Comms
- People Heroes: Ashleigh Hamilton, Head of People at Few&Far
- What Actually Matters in Final-stage Evaluations of Benefits Technology
- The top 7 income protection insurance benefit providers
- Payroll Errors Aren't a Payroll Problem
- How to support an employee returning to work after mental health leave
- Upcoming Regulatory Changes and What They Mean for Employee Benefits
- The safe option is the real risk: What ‘status quo’ benefits platforms cost your business
- The Top 5 Childcare Benefit Providers
- People Heroes: Olya Yakzhina, People Manager at Switchee
- 5 Popular Financial Education Employee Benefit Providers
- The truth about employee benefits
- 5 Benefits Making the Biggest Impact in 2026 (and How to Implement Them Globally)
- The Top 5 Cycle Scheme Benefit Providers
- Top 5 Tips for Managing Financial Wellbeing
- The Top 3 EV Scheme Benefit Providers
- New year, new…BENEFITS! How we’re supporting our team in 2023
- Recognition vs. Rewards: What actually motivates today’s workforce?
- The UK’s new EV grant: up to £3,750 for employees
- Proving benefits impact in 2026: What global leaders told us behind closed doors
- Top 5 productivity tips for lockdown
- Top books and podcasts from Leadership Experts Amelia and Gabi
- Stop flying blind: Turn employee benefits data into bottom-line impact
- The ROI Mirage: Why We’re Measuring Benefits Wrong
- The Top 3 Fertility Benefit Providers
- The Top 4 Tech Scheme Employee Benefit Providers
- Now every worker can access Ben - no work email needed
- Recruitment with Chris Garner from Folded Corner
- People Heroes: Sinead Daly, Culture and Experience at Beamery
- People Heroes: April Hoffbauer, Senior Director of People at Maze
- Simplify global benefits: One platform, every country, zero headaches
- Redefining Employee Benefits for a Disrupted World
- The Tax-Free Childcare Scheme: How Have Childcare Vouchers Changed?
- Navigating Periods & the Menopause at Work
- The Main Four Foundational Employee Benefits
- The Hidden Power of Lower Utilised Employee Benefits
- People Heroes: Emma Knight, Director of People and Development at Nest
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- Payroll reporting for benefits: Clearer, faster, and more accurate
- People Heroes: Jo Crockford, Senior HR Business Partner at Genesis
- Benefits explained (Part 2/3): Remote work allowances and tax breaks due to Covid-19
- Smarter benefits management on mobile
- REBA 2025: Meet the AI agents that never sleep (before everyone else does)
- Ben Raises $27.5m to Fix Employee Benefits for Global Enterprises
- Personalised onboarding and recommendations: Boost day one employee benefits engagement
- New logo. New colours. New app!
- Physical benefits payment cards: The smart solution for your mixed workforce
- The RFP Questions That Actually Test a Benefits Platform
- Mobile search: Making finding benefits easy for every employee
- Workplace worries: What’s giving your employees grief and how you can help
- Forty Years of Benefits Tech — and We Still Haven’t Solved the Real Problem
- War for Talent - Employer Branding with Jessica from Zenew
- Managing a Global Workforce in a World Still Built on Borders
- Intelligent benefits 101: How Ben’s employee benefits platform solves benefits complexity
- The future of the workplace: Remote First - Hotjar
- How to Run a Technical Due Diligence Day with Your Benefits Platform Provider
- Help employees find the benefits that matter with benefit ranking
- Why Benefits Admin Never Went Away
- Global Benefits Round Up: Q4 2025
- Why Gen Z Is Rewriting the Rules of Employee Benefits
- How to Run Global Benefits Without Firefighting
- Make Work From Home work: how to repurpose your office budget
- Making Benefits Design Simple: How Ben Helps You Get It Right
- Mixed workforce, maximum retention: Benefits that engage your frontline employees
- Gen Z and Gen Alpha Work Priorities: Why Flexibility and Happiness Beats Salary
- What India’s New Labour Codes Mean for Global Benefits & Payroll Teams
- How Sigma Connected Built an Award-winning Employee Engagement Strategy and What You Can Learn From It
- Employee Benefits Trends and Data (Updated for 2024)
- The Effort Problem: Why the Easiest Benefits Are Often the Least Used
- FMCG: Why your benefits strategy needs to move as fast as your products
- Tech Didn’t Free Benefits Teams. It Gave Them More Work.
- 4 L&D Benefits to Keep Your Team Skilled and Engaged
- How to support an employee struggling with their mental health
- Your guide to wrapping up 2023 with a Christmas bonus scheme
- Ben's Guide to Maternity and Paternity Leave in the UK
- How to Make Benefit Platform Implementation a Success
- How HR Leaders Can Strategically Improve eNPS Across Global Workforces
- How to Build a Business Case for Benefits That Global Leadership Will Back
- 8 Steps to Implementing Employee Benefits - Your Benefits Roadmap
- How businesses can better support neurodiversity in the workplace
- Leftover L&D budget? Here’s how to fix it.
- Financial Wellbeing is Being Sold to the Wrong Employees
- The Art of the Possible: How to Make the Most of Your Employee Benefits Budget
- From Inclusion to Innovation — How to attract and retain more women in tech
- Your July AI download: Big shifts in talent, access and automation
- Elder care benefits: 5 ways employers can help employees with ageing parents
- The hidden cost of manual recognition: Why companies lose top talent
- 5 Employee Benefits That Accelerate Gender Equality in the Workplace
- How to nurture psychological safety in the workplace
- Global State of Employee Benefits Report 2025: A Benefits Consultant's Take
- Everything you need to know about income protection insurance
- How human-AI collaboration is changing rewards and recognition
- Key Person Insurance — What are the benefits to your business?
- Should You Use an Employee Benefits Broker?
- 10 Flexible Benefit Allowances You Can Offer Your Employees
- Employee Benefits vs Employee Perks: Why the difference matters more than you think
- Gen Z Wants Higher Salaries. But Forward-Thinking Employers Know That’s Only Part of the Answer
- 5 LGBTQ+ Inclusive Employee Benefits That Go Beyond the Basics
- How to create a LGBTQ+ inclusive company culture
- How employee benefits platforms reduce benefits administration
- Four Ways Employers Can Support LGBTQ+ Employees
- How to Maximise Your Employee Benefits Budget (Without Losing Value)
- 7 Inclusive Flexible Employee Benefits
- Everything employers need to know about working time and holiday regulations
- Private Medical Insurance for Employers: How Does It Work?
- Can You Actually Prove Employee Benefits ROI?
- How to Get Your Benefits Certified
- Goodbye, benefits maze: The one-click solution your employees will (literally) love
- Employee Benefits and ESG: How Benefits Can Help Your Company Meet ESG Goals
- How to design a reward strategy that resonates globally
- Intelligent benefits admin: For HR leaders with better things to do
- The Benefits Comms Playbook
- How flexible spending allowances are transforming employee benefits
- The Netflix effect: How AI is transforming employee benefits discovery
- Compensation philosophy — your ultimate guide to setting an awesome pay strategy
- People Heroes: Filipe Martins, People Partner at Funding Circle
- 4 Ways to Make the Most of Hybrid Work: A Guide for Employers
- 4 Ways to Encourage Employees to Take PTO
- How to Leverage Health Data to Enhance Employee Wellbeing
- How international hiring helps your business grow beyond borders
- Employers, this is how to have a without prejudice conversation
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- The future of the workplace: Transitioning to Team First - Capdesk
- How to Measure the Success of Your Employee Benefits Programme
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- Employee benefits platforms: How to get accurate reporting
- Provider spotlight: How gogeta are innovating salary sacrifice benefits
- 5 Essential Benefits to Attract and Retain Women Employees
- Duvet Days: What are they & why you might need one?
- Childcare support: what can employers do to help working parents?
- Could motivation theories be your key to better employee productivity?
- Global workforce, personalised benefits: Making choice work at scale
- 4 ways to care for your remote and furloughed team’s wellbeing
- How to combat the January blues by Head of Wellbeing Ashley Lourens
- Benefits for the AI Age: Ben’s Product Launches in H1 2026
- Compassionate leave: what are the rules for employers?
- Building a relevant employee benefits homepage with AI
- Decluttering Your Benefits Strategy: Why Less Really Is More
- The top 25 SMEs leading the charge in employee benefits
- Implementation Myths vs Reality
- 5 ways to measure the success of your employee benefits package
- 7 Surprising Facts About Workplace Stress (and How to Avoid It)
- Benefits Insights: Turning Benefits Data Into Confident Decisions
- Beyond the buzzwords: The real AI benefits revolution is already here
- A Year of Innovation: See Ben’s Top Product Updates of 2025
- Ben meets Plumm
- A guide for managers: how to prepare for an employee performance appraisal
- Benchmarking Is Not a Strategy: Why benefits innovation starts by looking inward, not sideways
- Changes to Taxation on Benefits in Kind and P11D: A Guide for Employers
- Ben meets Equipsme
- Ben meets [Ben] Tempo
- From Complexity to Clarity: Why Leading Companies are Switching to Ben
- New look. Same Ben.
- What Does the 2024 Autumn Tax Budget Mean for UK Employers?
- 5 steps to building an effective mental health programme
- Ben Starter: Your Employee Benefits Strategy Shortcut
- Benefits tech your team will actually use: New features that increase employee engagement
- Bad Benefits Data Breaks Everything
- Meet your new AI employee benefits expert: Available 24/7
- 5 Ways AI is Shaping the Future of Employee Benefits
- Ben meets Medicash
- 7 benefits of remote working (for you and your employees)
- 4 Benefits Trends Shaping 2026
- 5 Tips for Building HR Policies for Your Company
- 10 Key HR Policies for Your Company
- Ben meets Healthily
- From pawternity leave to e-scooters, alternative ways you can perk up your perks
- Ben meets Oyster
- Benefits Communications is Broken. Here's What Global Enterprise Leaders are Doing About It.
- AI Is Finally Solving a Decade-Old Problem for Enterprises: Employee Benefits
- Ben meets ikigai
- We’re Making Ben More Accessible: Here’s What You Need to Know…
- A new chapter for Ben
- Ben meets Cushon
- AI Agents: How The Future of Employee Benefits is Intelligent
- A guide to life insurance for employers
- 5 ways to use the Ben Card
- Balancing AI with human control in employee benefits categorisation
- 4 ways to improve compensation packages – without increasing salary
- 4 key considerations when hiring remote workers
- 3 Ben customers supporting their team with caregiving benefits
- 6 Ways AI is Transforming HR in 2025: From Admin Assistance to Strategic Advantage
- A homepage for benefits leaders who think like marketers
- Ben is awarded 3rd place in Cord's Gender Diversity Sourcing Awards
- How benefits platforms can improve employee productivity
- Ben's Blog | Useful HR & Benefits resources to support your team