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Take a peek: helping employees avoid debt into retirement
As 1 in 5 UK employees aged 55 plus approach retirement with debt, employers can pinpoint three ways to decrease anxiety and increase money confidence.
Neurodiversity: 5 ways to support a neurodiverse workplace
Debbie Bullock, Aviva’s Head of DEI and Wellbeing Lead, on how to create an inclusive neurodiverse wellbeing strategy.
The second act: supporting your over 50s employees
As our Working Lives report finds more businesses supporting their older workers, we look behind the curtain to find the benefits.
Pension power can work wonders
Your workers look after your business. You want to look after them. And all of us want to protect the planet.
It takes the right workplace pension to help do all this. That’s pension power.
Embracing flexi-retirement: four ways to support employees
Whether it’s a lifestyle choice or because they need to keep some cash coming in, more and more employees are now exploring the possibility of flexi-retirement.
Take a peek: helping employees avoid debt into retirement
As 1 in 5 UK employees aged 55 plus approach retirement with debt, employers can pinpoint three ways to decrease anxiety and increase money confidence.
How technology can help make pensions click
Helping your employees with their pension may be about recognising their emotional barriers and finding the right technology to make a difference.
From first to final payslip: helping employees to retirement
Helping employees with their retirement plans isn’t only about explaining their savings options but building knowledge and confidence at all stages.
How long do we have? Piecing together employees’ retirement
Pieces of our life puzzle may not all be in place yet, but businesses can help employees plan for retirement by exploring life expectancy and flexible pension options.
6 ways to keep employees engaged with their pension
Give your employees a helping hand with their retirement plans.
What’s driving the move to master trust?
What's the attraction?
Why it’s a man’s world for pensions – and how you can help change this
The gender pay gap isn’t a surprise to anyone these days, and government, institutions and businesses are taking steps to address it. But do you know about the gender pension gap?
Pension pot puzzles: 9 ways to support employees
Helping employees take control of their retirement savings may not only reduce their anxiety about the future, but it may help them focus on the ‘now’ at work.
Finding lost pensions: Help your employees find their forgotten savings
Putting aside a little time to track down old pensions could be an investment that’s well worth making.
ESG and ethical investing: what’s in a name?
In recent years, ESG and ethical investing have become part of mainstream investing.
How driving auto enrolment into next gear may benefit employees
Dale Critchley celebrates the tenth anniversary of auto enrolment and explores the changes that could help make the next ten years a race to the finish line for employee retirement.
Compliance or consolidation – the choice facing trustees
With more rules coming in, how can advisers support trustees as they weigh up the pros and cons of how to handle their pension schemes?
Five points for trustees considering consolidation
With trustees of smaller occupational schemes being urged to consolidate, Dale Critchley looks at what they should be thinking about.
Flick on the light: make ESG pension action a ‘no brainer’
Closing gaps in knowledge, values and technology around ESG pensions may help you build a legacy of sustainability through empowered employees.
5 ways to take the bite out of pension regret
With pension regret a reality faced by some over 50s, early financial education and meeting employees’ needs may help turn the tables.
Wellbeing in the workplace
Your employees are the backbone of your business, so keeping them in shape is a must.
Insight from health professionals and wellbeing specialists to help your people live their best lives… in the workplace and outside it.
Six ways employers can tackle burnout
As employees and employers find their balance in ever shifting working patterns, burnout may be a reality for some. Recognising and easing the pressures can build a healthier workforce.
More than a pinkie promise: building an age diverse workforce
The Age-friendly Employer Pledge could help put age diversity goals in action.
Chats with my daughter: talking money, building confidence
Emma Douglas, Director of Workplace Savings and Retirement, shares three ways employers can build their future workforce by supporting women’s financial knowledge.
How to help when someone is not okay
What do you do if someone tells you they are not okay? It’s not easy to know what to say, but we have some tips to help you.
How to spot if your employees are burning out
Aviva’s Dr Doug Wright looks at how to spot the signs of burn-out and what you and your employees can do to prevent it.
Neurodiversity: 5 ways to support a neurodiverse workplace
Debbie Bullock, Aviva’s Head of DEI and Wellbeing Lead, on how to create an inclusive neurodiverse wellbeing strategy.
World Mental Health (Every) Day
Debbie Bullock, Aviva’s wellbeing lead, looks at how we would all benefit from thinking of every day as a mental health day.
Group Life: helping employees in life, not just death
Finding protection that cares for employees through life’s high and low notes, and supports their family in the unthinkable, may build a stronger workforce.
Tip up your workplace wellbeing scales
Whether an SME or large business, you may feel wobbly balancing employee wellbeing. Find your footing with advice on supporting their health, wealth, and self.
Turn down the sound: how to muffle workplace ‘hustle culture’
Achieving higher employee retention, job satisfaction and business growth may be about recognising and challenging ‘hustle culture’ mentality.
How ‘quiet quitting’ may be a generation’s response to hustle culture
Employers who recognise signs of ‘quiet quitting’ may help their employees and business limit its impact.
3 ways to help employees gallop past the ‘Sunday blues’
As the ‘Sunday blues’ may involve more than anxiety about the fast-approaching workweek, employers can help lift more than their employees’ spirits.
Wellbeing and business risk: what can’t be left to chance
Debbie Bullock, Aviva’s Wellbeing Lead, on why wellbeing is a business risk that needs to be taken seriously.
Checkmate: why guiding employees to master money helps your business
Our latest report explores how employers can help employees out of financial stalemates, toward clarity and confidence.
Jump through the taboo: financial wellbeing and your employees
Knowing whether a taboo, an issue of trust or lack of knowledge keeps employees from talking money to employers may keep them from jumping the pond.
Why supporting menopause in the workplace is important
Deborah Garlick, Director at Henpicked: Menopause in the Workplace, explains why introducing menopause support at work makes sense for savvy organisations.
Investing in everyone’s future
It takes ethical investing and action on climate change to help build a future that all of us can look forward to.
You and your employees can play your part… while looking after your own happy ever after.
ESG and ethical investing: what’s in a name?
In recent years, ESG and ethical investing have become part of mainstream investing.
Putting ESG at the heart of My Future Focus
With more advisers and trustees considering ESG concerns, we outline how we’re going the extra mile to embed ESG in our My Future Focus solution.
How driving auto enrolment into next gear may benefit employees
Dale Critchley celebrates the tenth anniversary of auto enrolment and explores the changes that could help make the next ten years a race to the finish line for employee retirement.
Hot to handle? Why Net Zero and carbon offsetting matter
What’s the important distinction between Net Zero and carbon offsetting? Here’s an overview of Aviva’s approach to these challenging climate-related issues.
Transitioning to Net Zero: how Aviva is walking the walk
Actions speak louder than words. Here we outline how Aviva is currently tackling its Net Zero goals to help in the fight against climate change.
Flick on the light: make ESG pension action a ‘no brainer’
Closing gaps in knowledge, values and technology around ESG pensions may help you build a legacy of sustainability through empowered employees.
What workplace benefits uncover about workforce sustainability
Knowing which workplace benefits nurture your current employees and cultivate the next generation may help your business flourish.
Tune in, drop out disengagement: 5 ways to connect on ESG pensions
If members could watch their pension as a TV show, would they change the channel or have their nose to the screen?
It’s time to help SMEs adopt sustainability measures
We delve into the environmental ambitions of the UK’s small and medium-sized business community.
Pension power: our best defence against climate change?
Shane O’Brien shows how we can all do our bit to help turn villains into heroes on climate change.
Investing to improve the world we live in
Laura Stewart-Smith explains how providers and pension schemes can keep members aware and engaged with ESG investing.
Why protecting your business from climate change is essential
Extreme weather is putting British businesses at risk due to a lack of awareness and support according to our latest research, Building Future Communities.
Shaping the climate debate in Earth’s critical year
Steve Waygood examines why 2021 could become a milestone year for collective action on climate change, backed by corporate and governmental policy.
Why pensions and passions can go hand in hand
Zelda Bentham, Group Head of Sustainability looks at how helping people to invest sustainably through their pension can be a good move.
ESG funds: it’s all a matter of choice
Zelda Bentham, explains the role of ESG funds in giving employees a sense of choice and control over their pensions.
5 reasons responsible investing is good for your employees
Investing for environmental, social and governance reasons creates a feel-good factor around your business as well as your people.
Practical support
Business sense: quick wins and bright ideas to help you succeed
The second act: supporting your over 50s employees
As our Working Lives report finds more businesses supporting their older workers, we look behind the curtain to find the benefits.
UK businesses on a tricky tightrope: Risk Insight report
Our annual risk report reveals UK businesses are walking a fine line in their confidence of the economy, supply chain concerns, and labour shortages.
When it comes to wellbeing, are we really all in the same boat?
No two employees are alike… so to make personalised wellbeing work, we need to look harder at personality.
The top five risks troubling UK businesses
In our second annual Aviva Risk Insights Report, we asked business leaders what keeps them awake at night.
What’s more personal… than personality?
In this age of ambiguity and change, there’s a lot of talk about the importance of personalisation when it comes to maximising workplace experience for employees – their health, their engagement, their performance.
Mars and Venus: the gender perspective on working patterns
Aviva’s research exposes the gender divisions behind many people’s pandemic experience – and attitudes towards hybrid working.
Family-friendly business policy: 5 ways to make it work for you
Anthony Fitzpatrick, Employee Relations and Global Policy Lead, shows how family-friendly policies really can lead to a stronger workforce.
March 2021 Budget
What’s the impact on employee benefits?
As SMEs plan to recoup lost trading time - Lockdown gives them time to plan
Chris Andrews looks at what businesses need to consider if they're making up for lost November trading hours by maximising the run up to Christmas.
Financial education: giving the right message at the right time
Laura Stewart-Smith looks at how to handle communicating with your employees during the pandemic.
Keeping employees motivated: what you can and can’t do
Rachel Fenoughty, of Aviva’s Learning & Development team, asks how employers can motivate employees in times like these – and concludes that they can’t…
Why businesses should talk more about employees caring duties
Jonathan Briggs, Group Head Talent Acquisition at Aviva, looks at why businesses should talk about flexible working for carers.
Why it’s good to keep your employees volunteering
With all the new guidelines surrounding coronavirus, traditional approaches to volunteering have had to change.
How to help your employees spot scams
Fraudsters rarely take a day off, even in the middle of a global pandemic.
Business resilience: the 6 factors
We all know what resilience means, but what does it mean for business? We’ve identified six crucial factors…
Business Continuity Planning: Where do we start?
Pete Holmes, Aviva Risk Consultant, answers everyone’s first question on how to plan for the unexpected.
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