Staff ''less happy'' with employee benefits

Data collected in the Best 100 Companies to Work For survey has shown that staff are not as happy with their employee benefits as they were a year ago.

The survey took an average score over four statements put to respondents to find an overall ''fair deal'' score to try and investigate how workers feel about the employee benefits that are offered to them.

Some 58.2 per cent went along with the statement ''I am happy with the pay and benefits I receive in this job'' down from 62.4 per cent in 2009, Employee Benefits reports.

Carla Cavanagh, research associate at Best Companies, told the magazine: "What is positive is that where scores have gone down, it does not mean people are less engaged, because where companies can do something [on benefits], they are doing something.

"The best companies drive to constantly improve their benefits and make them easily accessible. You can look at companies which offer the same type and number of benefits, but in one company people are happy and in another they are not."

Example of employee benefits include access to subsidised gym memberships and childcare vouchers. Back