Financial education

Employee Benefits - Financial Education

Financial education helps employees to understand the value of benefits such as pensions and share schemes. Employers can help staff make wise decisions about money and investments through workplace workshops or seminars and information. Tools such as benefits modellers, meanwhile, can help staff to calculate the impact of decisions they make around particular perks, for example, when setting pension contribution levels or selecting which options to take in a flexible benefits scheme.  Some companies include the added perk of personal debt management, which can help to reduce employees' stress levels and so indirectly contribute to improved performance.

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Case Studies

Case study: Marks and Spencer sets store by education

Marks and Spencer (M&S) offers financial education to all staff. It targets its 60,000-plus store staff through seminars and leaflets in association with the Financial Services Authority's 'Money matters' programme.

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01 Feb Case study: Blaenau Gwent County Council

01 Feb Case study: Axa

01 Feb Case Study: Simply Health Group

01 Feb Case Study: Abbey

01 Nov Case Study: Certegy rationalises pension arrangements

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Research

Employees' financial worries affect performance at work

More than a quarter of workers do not feel in control of their finances and believe their financial worries are affecting their performance at work.

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07 Jul Axa research: Financial worries prompt stress related absence

02 Feb Financial Education Supplement

15 Sep Financial education needed to encourage staff to save

01 Sep EAP use rises in downturn

04 Jul Employers likely to help staff with finances

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