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According to Time to Change, mental health problems affect one in four of us. However, many people feel ashamed to talk about this with a friend or partner, let alone their employer. Time to Talk Day encourages everyone to be more open about their mental health. Choose talk, change lives.

The CIPD Labour Market Outlook has found that 4 in 10 employers have had difficulty in filling vacancies over the last year, with one third stating they have found problems with employee retention. Discover more.

Pensions have not been the most engaging of topics in the past, despite often being cited as the second most valuable benefit behind salary that a business can provide to its employees.

Ensuring that your team is happy and well-cared for is vital to business success. Make sure you implement an effective employee benefits strategy.

Over 43% of businesses have had employees absent from work for more than four weeks due to ill health in the last two years, according to new research by the British Chambers of Commerce and Unum. Find out more.

Would your business suffer if one of your key staff fell seriously ill? Could your business afford to wait whilst your employee waits for treatment on the NHS? Find out more about private medical insurance.

The statistics are scary. More than half of the year's new SMEs will close within three years, and 75% won't last until 2024. That means in five years' time, only 25% of businesses opening this year will still be serving clients and customers

Over time, the working environment changes. With this, so do employee expectations. This goes beyond the way we work, with employees desiring new employee benefits and different reward strategies.

Many SME business owners would love to offer their employees financial support such as life insurance. However, setting up a group scheme may not be the best option, especially if you don't have many employees.