Savings schemes for employees such as Isas and pensions should be more straightforward to encourage greater participation, an expert has suggested.

Businesses can save money and recruit from a wider area by allowing homeworking as part of flexible benefits packages, an expert has said.

Pensions will have to adapt and become more flexible in order to meet employees'' needs, an expert has predicted.

Many staff in the UK feel overworked and fail to take a lunch break, which should serve as a warning to businesses, according to one expert.

Offering a good pension scheme as part of an employee benefits package could help those who are too reliant on their home as a way of saving for retirement.

Attempting to reduce HR admin burden by failing to give job candidates feedback could be a costly mistake.

The key to offering flexible benefits is to tailor them to individual needs, it has been suggested.

Unilever has argued the results of its employee benefits scheme are valuable.

Flexible benefits such as personally-tailored schedules could be the antidote to staff phoning in sick during the World Cup.

Flexible benefits and working practices suit small businesses and can help with retention of staff.