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Employee Rewards Watch 2013 Technology Sector

Find out how with huge industry growth, increasing benefits costs, and the growing issue of demand outstripping supply, Tech companies are trying to compete for ever demanding talent and engage staff at all levels.

Employee Rewards Watch 2013 Legal Sector

In the context of a shifting commercial landscape, with the Legal Services Act, structural challenges, pressures on costs and regulatory reform, find out how Legal firms are coping (or not) with the latest challenges.

Employee Rewards Watch 2013 Financial Services Sector

Find out how in the face of regulatory change, changing investor relations and public scrutiny, Financial Services companies are dealing with the age-old challenge of engaging employees at all levels to out-perform their rivals.

Thomsons Infographic: ERW 2013 Pension Findings

From the challenge companies are facing with auto-enrolment, to the struggles over pension spend and employee engagement, this infographic highlights the key findings on pensions to emerge from the Employee Rewards Watch 2013 survey.

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Employee Rewards Watch 2013

Designed for HR, Reward and Finance professionals, ERW is the UK's most authoritative annual benchmark of employee reward and benefits trends and industry practice. Find out why companies cite basic pay as their biggest issue, and why, with auto-enrolment looming, so many organisations are concerned about their pension spend. Includes key statistics and insights on all aspects of benefits and reward.

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Thomsons Infographic: ERW 2013 Key Findings

From how organisations feel about the economic outlook, to the biggest challenges they currently face with their benefits and reward programmes, this infographic highlights some of the main findings from the Employee Rewards Watch 2013 survey.

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Thomsons White Paper - The Holy Grail of Employee Engagement

For most of us, engagement is what we aspire to achieve with our employees, whether or not we can define what it is or, indeed, measure the attributes that prove we have achieved it. To that end, it remains a mythical creature - we've heard about it, but we've never seen it and we certainly couldn't describe what it looks like. This white paper will discuss what engagement really is, how we can measure, and the role reward plays.

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3 Ways to Engage Your Workforce!

How engaged are your staff? This flipbook features 3 great examples of how HR and benefits projects have enabled clients to increase employee engagement, encourage employee action and impact their bottom line.

Thomsons Technical Update - Budget Briefing 20th March 2013

This afternoon the Chancellor George Osborne announced what he called his "budget for an aspiration nation." Along with the changes to childcare vouchers that we announced yesterday, download our technical update to see an outline of the main changes affecting UK employers.

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Thomsons Technical Update - Changes to childcare provision

In March 2013, the government announced changes to the way in which employees will obtain financial support for childcare from 2015. Download this document to understand what these changes entail and what impact they can have on your scheme.

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Ensuring your default fund is fit for purpose

With the introduction of auto-enrolment, it has never been more important that default funds are fit for purpose. Here are 5 areas for you to bear in mind when evaluating your default fund, from putting an effective framework for decision-making in place, to making sure your your default fund is suitable for the majority of scheme members, taking into account those who may have limited financial experience.

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How to support your employees when planning for their retirement

How can you help your employees plan for their retirement? This snapshot has 5 ways to support your employees, from the use of language to educate and empower them, to visual tools to get them engaged in their retirement planning and offering services to help get the most from their retirement income.

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Thomsons Infographic: The Technology Talent Ticking Time Bomb

Why is talent such an issue in the Technology Sector? How do generation Y employees differ from previous generations in their attitude towards benefits and what is important to them? This infographic highlights some of the discrepancies and opportunities around which benefits are provided and which are actually in demand.

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Thomsons Infographic: Presenteeism & Stress

With presenteeism and stress taking a key place at the top of the HR agenda, this info-graphic takes a snapshot look at some of the latest statistics and what they mean for HR professionals.

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Budget December 2012 Briefing

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, delivered his Autumn Statement on 5th December 2012. This document analyses the main headlines.

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Thomsons Technical Update - The movable feast that is maternity and paternity leave

With the introduction of Additional Paternity Leave, parents are now faced with some new choices – not only for how long they want to take parental leave, but also who takes it. Working out the best scenario for parents is up to them and will depend on many factors including whether they receive Occupational Maternity or Paternity Pay and whether they can afford to have any period of unpaid leave.

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Thomsons Technical Update - The EU Gender Directive - Opportunities with Annuity Purchase

You may be aware of the forthcoming introduction of the EU Gender Directive, which will mean that, as of 21 December 2012, insurers cannot use gender as a factor when setting rates and premiums. The media has made much of the impact that this is expected to have on car insurance rates, however, just as important are the changes to annuity rates which are inevitable and will be of importance to anyone looking to purchase an annuity.

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AE Solution Checklist

Want to check the capability of your AE solution? Use this simple one-page checklist to see what key needs it will deliver against

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Thomsons Automatic Enrolment Solution

The focus on many employers when tackling auto-enrolment is naturally on compliance and administration. We firmly believe that although a major change, the auto-enrolment challenge must be addressed as part of a company's ongoing reward strategy. Find out how Thomsons solution can support you.

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Thomsons White Paper: Flexible Benefits & Auto-Enrolment - Two Birds, One Stone

How do you successfully implement auto-enrolment (AE) when you want to retain value in your pension scheme? Recent research into where companies find themselves in preparing for auto-enrolment showed how early people still are in their thinking. With everyone from payroll companies to pension providers claiming to have the solution for managing this challenge, employers were asked what they thought they would do. Thomsons' new white paper explores how auto-enrolment and flex can work together to engage employees and go beyond.

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Pensions & Engagement - 5 Key Facts

How many employers are actually engaging with their employees around retirement? For those that do how much is it valued? Download this 1 page infographic to get a snapshot of the latest statistics

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Thomsons Whitepaper - Employee Benefits Harmonisation: The Whys & Wherefores

Having multiple sets of terms and conditions of employment can be a burden on any employer that has made acquisitions or been part of a merger of companies. In the current economic climate, the need is even greater to make cost savings or efficiency gains across the entire organisation; from the way you do business, to the way in which you reward staff. Find out more about more about the advantages of harmonisation and what it involves.

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Thomsons White Paper - Flexible Benefits - The Basics

Flexible benefits are still growing in popularity in the UK, as more employers recognise the value in allowing employees to elect their own benefits package. Our research suggests that over 40% of employers now have some form of flexible benefits in place and a further 12% are looking to implement the initiative in 2012. Download the full whitepaper for an introduction to flexible benefits.

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Thomsons White Paper - Implementing Flexible Benefits

The process for implementing flex depends largely on the business drivers for its implementation and the strength of the business case you need to prove in order to receive the required backing to launch the scheme. This white paper covers everything from how to ascertain if flexible benefits are right for you, what's involved in a flex project and how to evaluate its effectiveness.

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