Flexible benefits
Discover a flexible benefits platform that makes a wide range of flexible benefits schemes easy for employees to choose from. Increasingly, employees expect to be able to tailor their employee benefits to suit their needs through their employee benefits platform.
Capture your existing benefits, integrate with HR and introduce a true one-stop-shop flexible benefits platform that’s simple to manage, drives greater NIC savings from salary sacrifice and boosts your flexible benefits ROI.
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Benefits as flexible as your business
With flexible benefits, it’s not just the employer that has choice, employees have it too. Our flexible benefits platform gives staff more choice and flexibility over their employee benefits.
More and more businesses are adopting flexible benefits platforms and technology to cater to increasing employee expectations for a more personalised employee benefits experience.
Flexible benefits come with many advantages for both the employer and the employee, and helps you provide the employee benefits that matter most to your team, easily and flexibly.
Employee benefits
- A greater choice of benefits for employees to access
- Employees get to tailor their benefits to better suit them and their family
- Staff feel more valued and in control
- Employees get more value and benefit from their employee benefits
- Employees can easily adjust scheme contributions to suit their financial and health and wellbeing goals
- Effortlessly self-serve with vital scheme information and applications all in one place
Employer benefits
- Increase employee engagement
- Higher scheme take-up
- Improve NIC savings from salary sacrifice schemes
- Support recruitment and staff retention and elevates the EVP
- Reward employees more effectively
- Reduce admin and improved reporting through a one-stop-shop flexible benefits platform
How does our flexible benefits platform work?
We’ve built our flexible benefits platform to be easy to use for you and your employees, so you and your team can really make the most of flexible benefits.
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Meet
Meet with the Access team to see how we can support you with your flexible benefits objectives.
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Create
We will create your very own flexible benefits platform, built to fit your requirements.
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Launch
Your platform and flexible benefits schemes will be released for your employees to enjoy!
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Engage
Dedicated, personal support for you and your employees will ensure maximum engagement!
Features of flexible benefits
Promotional material
As standard we provide all the benefits communications you need to educate employees about their flexible benefits and cut through the noise effectively.
A wide range of flexible benefits
Create your ultimate flexible benefits platform. Choose from a wide range of flexible benefits schemes and incorporate your own too. We’ll even source additional benefits for you and host absolutely everything in one place.
Dedicated helpdesk support
No AI chatbots, just real people providing personal and prompt support to answer any queries from you or your employees about your flexible benefits platform, allowing you to do your best work.
Full customisation
Our flexible benefits platform allows you to set rules for different employee cohorts, allowing you the ultimate flexibility when designing your benefits packages.
Advanced integration
As with all of our benefit platform options, flexible benefits will integrate seamlessly with your wider benefit processes and HR software.
Simple and easy to manage
Our flexible benefits platform is designed to be quick and easy to navigate for both employers and employees. Manage and access every single benefit in one centralised place.
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Case Study: Blenheim & Pye
Discover how we created Blenheim & Pye’s new internal brand and benefits platform for their 320+ diverse team spread across their historic 12,000 acre estate, complete with hand drawings and harmonised benefits.
“Our people wanted a better benefits platform, and in four weeks we had a 60% sign-up rate, which tells us how well Access’s Salary Extras platform is going down with our employees. We’ve got everything from the EAP to retail discounts, hotel discounts to financial advice. Having Access’s Salary Extras app too means our employees can access their benefits on the go, 24/7. With benefits systems we’ve had before, employees don’t think about it once they’ve left work. But with Access, it’s a one-stop-shop.”
“The development team at Access are real experts at what they do and have been working with us for many years to build our complex benefits, workwear ordering and car fleet management platform. They are very proactive and provide significant security enhancements, so we know we’re always in safe hands.”
“I have been given feedback on how informative and fun the platform is and how bespoke to us it feels. Staff love the great deals and are excited about using the platform to make use of the great offers and discounts. We have wanted a platform like this for ages and wish we had done it sooner!”
"The service from the Access Engage team has been wonderful. Working with Georgia from implementation to now has been great. She is very patient with us and always immediate with her actions, this has helped us to have the platform up and running in no time!"
"We were looking for a benefits and engagement partner who could help us do this and share our values of putting people first and being driven by excellence. Access' employee benefits platform and service offering help us deliver a consistently excellent reward and recognition service to our employees, wherever they are."
Providing a tailored solution
No two companies are the same, and what works for one business won’t necessarily work for another.
We’ve developed bespoke solutions for many of the 2,000 businesses we provide employee benefits for internationally, across not just flexible benefits but reward and recognition, employee recognition and employee rewards just to name a few.
Whatever your requirements, get in touch to find out how we can develop a tailored flexible benefits solution for your business and your employees.
Flexible benefits FAQs
What are flexible benefits and how do they work?
Flexible benefits are a type of employee benefit that allow employees to tailor their employee benefits to their needs. Employees are presented with a range of benefits and can take advantage of the ones that suit them and their families the most.
For more, read our guide on how flexible benefits work.
Why are flexible benefits important?
Flexible benefits are particularly important because now more than ever employees rightly expect an employee benefits package that meets their needs.
With a diverse workforce with a range of different wants and needs, flexible benefits offer employers a way to provide something for everyone and ensure employees get the most from the benefit schemes on offer.
A more tailored and valuable employee benefits package could be just what your business needs to win the war for talent and to retain a strong team.
With a diverse workforce with a range of different wants and needs, flexible benefits offer employers a way to provide something for everyone and ensure employees get the most from the benefit schemes on offer.
A more tailored and valuable employee benefits package could be just what your business needs to win the war for talent and to retain a strong team.
What should I include in my flexible benefits plan?
There’s no surprise that flexible benefits can be flexible not only for the employee but the employer too, with a wide range of flexible benefits schemes that can be incorporated into a flexible benefits plan.
Our flexible benefits plan includes health benefits like Occupational Health, Dental Cover and Eyecare Vouchers. Salary sacrifice schemes are also very common such as Bike to Work schemes and Holiday Trading schemes. Further cover including schemes like Critical Illness Cover and Travel Insurance can also be incorporated.
This just scratches the surface as there are many flexible benefit schemes that can be incorporated. For more information, get in touch and we’ll provide guidance on building the perfect flexible benefits plan for your business.
Get in touch to learn more about our flexible benefits plan.
How do flexible benefits motivate employees?
Flexible benefits can help solve problems for employees that may be inhibiting motivation.
For example, employees could have health worries or financial worries that are affecting their overall wellbeing and thus they’re feeling less motivated.
There are many ways flexible benefits can do this. For more information, read our article on How flexible benefits can motivate employees.
What is a flexible benefits allowance?
A flexible benefits allowance is a monetary allowance employees are allocated which the employee themselves can then allocate towards the benefits they wish to take advantage of as part of their flexible benefits plan.
You can find out more about how this works in our article What should your flexible benefits allowance be?
Are flexible benefits taxable?
The tax treatment of flexible benefits can be complex and can depend on the specific flexible benefits scheme provided.
For more detailed information on this, get in touch and we’ll run through how your flexible benefits plan could work in regards to tax.
How do I set up a flexible benefits scheme?
Simply get in touch and we’ll handle the whole process for you, including setup, implementation and a whole host of other services to make the whole process as smooth as possible.
Latest flexible benefits resources
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