Wellbeing | How to ensure your benefits are fit for changing employee needs

By Sarah Lloyd, Strategic Development Director and Roger Fairhead, Group Reward Director at Legal & General

The pandemic has fast-tracked many challenges and opportunities. And, never more so than where employee wellbeing is concerned.

The need for peace of mind protection hasn’t changed – in fact it’s arguably more pronounced in the minds of employees now – but the need to ensure it’s accessible, engaging and personalised is now becoming a hygiene factor. In amongst the everyday challenges of people management and the broad agenda you’re facing in the new world of work, you needn’t feel alone in tackling these issues. Your insurance providers and intermediary consultants are who you should be turning to for help.

It feels like we’re in a state of unfreeze at the moment. A societal shift. The pandemic has forced us all to adapt in ways we never previously imagined. It has helped shift leadership focus squarely onto employee wellbeing. Also, consider Black Lives Matter, climate change. And, now, following the landmark Supreme Court ruling that Uber’s claimant drivers can be classed as ‘workers’ instead of self-employed. We’re a massive step further towards much improved job and salary protections for millions of other ‘gig’ or contract workers.