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Bianca Walsh· Pinehurst Foods
Regional headquarters of a financial services group in Singapore, about 950 employees here and another 600 across Hong Kong, Malaysia and India. Our group medical plan excludes…
Amara Larsen· Silverline Media
UK food manufacturer, 2,900 employees, around two thirds on shift in production. We are at the statutory minimum for auto-enrolment, 5% employee and 3% employer, and 71% of…
Theo Rasmussen· Steinbach Industrie
Norwegian technology and consulting business with about 1,700 employees, plus 400 in Sweden and Finland. Our group income protection claims have risen about 40% over two years and…
Elif Kowalski· Cardinal Insurance
We are a mid-sized German machinery group, about 4,100 employees, and bought a competitor with 800 staff last year. We run a contribution-based direct insurance arrangement with…
Bianca Okonkwo· Bellwether Consulting
We are a US manufacturer, about 3,100 employees across four states, self-funded with a PPO and a high-deductible option. Our consultants came in with an 8.5% trend assumption for…
Omar Quintero· Cardinal Insurance
Australian retailer with about 5,200 employees, of whom 3,400 are part-time or casual in stores and average under 20 hours a week. Our benefits were designed around the 900 people…
Tom Brennan· Larkspur Manufacturing
Our broker is quoting 8.4% before plan changes, which is the highest we have seen in a decade. Finance is anchored on 6%.
Elena Vasquez· Northfield Society
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Yusuf Jimenez· Beacon Retail Group
US non-profit in education services, 640 employees, about 1,150 covered lives, fully insured. Our renewal this year was 12.5% and the three before it averaged 9%. The broker is…
Bianca Walsh· Pinehurst Foods
UK housing association, about 1,500 staff, a lot of them in care and maintenance roles on modest pay. We launched a financial wellbeing programme 14 months ago: workshops, a…
Omar Quintero· Cardinal Insurance
Sharing a format that has worked for us at a Dutch university medical centre with about 12,000 staff. Our old total reward statement led with one large figure, salary plus the…
Ben Haddad· Tidewater Utilities
UK professional services firm, roughly 1,800 people, mostly in London, Leeds and Bristol. We have had an employee assistance programme for years and added six funded therapy…
Petra Walsh· Larkspur Manufacturing
I look after benefits at a Canadian university with about 6,000 academic and professional staff. A staff survey found 23% have regular caring responsibilities for an adult,…
Victor Pereira· Qasr Holdings
A cautionary tale. Two years ago we surveyed our 3,800 employees at an Australian energy company about which new benefits they wanted. The clear winner, chosen by 64%, was…
Yusuf Jimenez· Beacon Retail Group
I have bought four wellbeing apps in nine years across two employers: meditation, sleep, digital physiotherapy and a general wellbeing hub. I have the usage data for all of them…
Elif Kowalski· Cardinal Insurance
Software company headquartered in Berlin, around 1,400 employees in Germany, the UK, Poland, Spain, the US and India. Statutory entitlements are so different that our current…
Ben Tanaka· Tidewater Utilities
UK care provider, around 4,600 employees, the large majority care workers paid within a pound an hour of the legal minimum. Head office is 280 people. A director has asked us to…
Theo Rasmussen· Steinbach Industrie
We closed our defined benefit scheme to future accrual at the start of last year and moved about 900 remaining active members into the defined contribution plan the rest of the…
Noor Esposito· Steinbach Industrie
Two Nordic logistics companies merged in 2024, one Swedish with 1,900 employees and one Danish with 1,300. I led the benefits harmonisation and we finished in June, so this is a…
Victor Pereira· Qasr Holdings
Insurance company in the Netherlands, around 2,200 employees. We are looking at letting people save up to 100 weeks of leave over time, funded from unused holiday and salary, to…
