Delivering the benefits employees want now

through comprehensive benefits enabled a quarter of employees to view their pandemic experience as positive, compared to just 11% of those with no benefits. This supports the role of benefits for boosting the resilience of employees.

will be valued by the eight out of ten employees who want to use digital health solutions, such as video calls to their doctor and well-being apps that help them to find healthcare support and self-manage conditions.

will be essential to eliminating disparities, such as lower-earners who are less able to access benefits. Overall, 24% of employees report they are not confident they can afford the healthcare they need.

made those employees with access to the most varied well-being resources 35 percentage points less likely to move elsewhere, 27 points more confident they can get the healthcare they need and 11 points more energized.

is seen as extremely or very important by one in two employees (50%). A quarter (24%) of employees say they are worse off than before the pandemic and one in five (20%) say they feel more isolated.